The Jigawa state governor, Alhaji Mohammad Badaru Abubakar has sacked his Special Assistant on the environment, Mr. Hamza Aliyu Kantoga. This was contained in a press statement issued signed and made available to our reporter in Dutse the state capital. The statement said the dismissal was signed by the Secretary to the Government of Jigawa State, Alhaji Adamu Abdulkadir Fanini. …
The Defence Headquarters, on Friday, said terror group, Boko Haram, has been ‘weakened’ in Borno State and other parts of Nigeria. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, John Enenche, said terrorists no longer have stronghold or ‘constituted authority’ over the North-East like it was the situation before May 2015 when the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) came into office. He …
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, led Nigerians to pay tributes to fallen heroes at this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day. The president reminded Nigerians of the need to guard jealously the unity of the nation which was won at great cost. Buhari made the call when he layed wreath at the National Memorial Arcade. The event marked the climax of …
A High Court in Rivers State has moved to sequester the assets of the country’s premier lender First Bank of Nigeria Limited in an effort to recover the damages oil major Royal Dutch Shell owed the Ejama Ebubu community of Rivers State in a legal contest spanning many decades, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Police operatives and court officials arrived the bank’s …
POLITICS is one area of social life in which shared accountability is critically required but is embarrassingly missing. The social contract theory justifies the state based on this idea of shared accountability between the state and the individual. The individual foregoes absolute freedom and the state assures him or her of security and welfare. Do your part and I do …
There is palpable tension in Kano as the local government election in the state, scheduled for Saturday, looms. The Chairman, State Independent Electoral Commission KANSAIC, Professor Ibrahim Garba Sheka, had worried that elections in the state was like a war, with chaos and uncertainty trailing it. It is on record that hundreds of Kano citizens lost their lives, following violent …
Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of the nation and the economic pride of Nigeria remains the pillar for economic sustainability of the country. A melting pot for all tribes and faith and land of opportunities for all sundry. This smallest geographic space in Nigeria ironically accounts for over 70 per cent of its economic activities. It’s unarguably the powerhouse of …
Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board has released the names of 600 newly-recruited primary school teachers. Director of Social Mobilization and Media, Ekiti SUBEB, Ado-Ekiti, Tope Babalola, made this known on Tuesday, titled, ‘Ekiti SUBEB releases a list of the first batch of newly-recruited teachers on state website’. The statement quoted SUBEB Chairman, Prof. Femi Akinwumi, as saying that “the …
he National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Oyo State Governor, Mr. Seyi Makinde and former Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose to table their differences before the party’s National Peace and Reconciliation Committee, chaired by former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. Makinde and Fayose have in the past few months, locked horns in what party …
The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Ekiti State has urged residents of the state to go about their normal activities without any fear of threat to their lives or property. Reacting to a statement credited to the opposition People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) that people are no longer safe in the state under the present administration of Dr Kayode Fayemi, the …
The Yobe State Police Command has announced that family members of Elaine’s police officers who died during the battle with Boko Haram between 2013 and 2014 should come for the payment of deceased burial expenses which was released today by the police authorities. A statement from the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Dungus, on Tuesday said, the affected families are …
Soldiers attached to Operation Safe Haven in Plateau State went wild on Saturday in Dengi in the Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State, shooting dead a polytechnic student, Muhammed Mado, and injuring three other relatives heading for a wedding. It was learnt that the soldiers placed an illegal checkpoint at Kyamsagi village and when Mado, a student of Abubakar …
There was palpable fear at Ota-Efun area, Osogbo on Tuesday morning as suspected thugs went on a rampage to revenge the death of their leader. It was gathered that one Ismail Daduro, popularly known as “Jumong” was said to have given up the ghost following a protracted strange illness. It was learnt that the deceased was taken to different places …
Gunmen have shot dead a councillorship candidate in the forthcoming local government elections, in Delta State, Mr. Elliot Offa. The gunmen also abducted two others who were with the deceased at the time of the incident. The incident occurred along the Jesse/Oben road, a boundary between Delta and Edo States, It was announced. It was learnt that the deceased and …
he Oyo State Commissioners for Justice and Attorney General, Professor Oyelowo Oyewo has been discharged from the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) Isolation Center at Yaba Lagos. He is currently at home, observing treatment in isolation for the next fourteen days. Making the disclosure in a statement, Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun on Tuesday recounted …
The framework of electricity generation, transmission and distribution reflects the subordination of the superstructure of the state to cronyism/state capitalism… The best solution is to take electricity off the exclusive into the residual list and let a thousand flowers blossom. Break up the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and the national grid into eight to 10 independent zonal grids. Half …
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has denied reports that its Chairman, retired Col. Muhammad Abdallah has been sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Jonah Achema, the spokesperson for NDLEA, made the clarifications during an interview with newsmen on Tuesday, in Abuja, I was stated. Achema, a Deputy Commander of Narcotics (DCN), said, however, that the tenure of Abdallah …
The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, mentioned on Sunday Nigeria has a scarcity of 277, 537 teachers on the primary level. Bobboyi, who disclosed this in an announcement issued by the fee’s Head of Public Relations and Protocol, Mr. David Apeh, mentioned the determine was the end result of a National Personnel Audit …
The Ekiti State Government has imposed a curfew from 8pm to 6am within the state. The federal government additionally banned all gatherings of greater than 20 people within the state till further notice The restrictions take impact from Monday, January eleven, 2021. Details later… Read also: #EndSARS: Fayemi imposes 24-hour curfew on Ekiti
20 people have been reportedly died while two others sustained serious injuries in a fatal auto accident at Tirwun village, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis along Bauchi-Maiduguri expressway. The accident occurred on Sunday between a Toyota 18-passenger bus in its way to Maiduguri from Jos and a Gulf taxi approaching Bauchi. The two vehicles, according to eyewitnesses were involved in …
