Dayo Johnson – Akure ONDO State government has announced September 14 as the new date for resumption for Junior Secondary School JSS 3 students in the state. It says the move was to enable students in the category to prepare for their certification examination. Chairman of the State Interministerial Committee on COVID-19 and the Vice-Chancellor, University of Medical …
New British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos The UK Government says it has appointed Llewellyn-Jones, Order of the British Empire (OBE ) as the new British Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) in Lagos, Nigeria. Ndidiamaka Eze, Press and Public Affairs Officer, British Deputy High Commission, Lagos, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday. Eze said that Llewellyn-Jones was an experienced diplomat, who had …
By Nwafor Sunday Reactions have continued to trail the arrest and death of the most wanted criminal in Benue state, Terwase Akwaza, alias ‘Gana’. According to the Commander, 4 Special Forces Command, Doma, Nasarawa state, Moundhey Ali, Gana was killed on Tuesday at a roadblock mounted by the army along Gbese-Gboko-Makurdi road following exchange of gunfire. Recall that …
Offenders should be visited with the strictest possible consequences Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has rejected the notion that victims or potential victims of sexual harassment are architects of their fate especially by their attitude, dressing or willingness to be in a compromising place with their violators is wrong and should be resisted in every situation. The victim must …
By Esther Onyegbula A 27-year old auxiliary nurse, Agum Blessing, is currently cooling off in one of the cells at the State Criminal and Investigation Department (SCID) Yaba for allegedly stabbing her roommate’s lover in Ikotun area of Lagos. The incident, it was learned, happened at 23, Adekola Street off Arida bus stops Ikotun about 10pm last Sunday. …
By Nwafor Sunday Federal Government Wednesday asked the Management officials of federal tertiary hospitals across the country to replace striking doctors with Corps Members. This is to help fight coronavirus that has bedeviled human kind. Disclosing this in a statement, Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, said its high time well-meaning medical professionals should close ranks and confront the …
The People Democratic Party (PDP), National Working Committee (NWC), has urged the Federal Government to allow the private sectors to drive the country’s economy. The PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, gave the advice while receiving a delegation of the party’s women to the party’s campaign office, Legacy House, to protest against the state of the economy. According …
By Dirisu Yakubu The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA has imposed a fine of $3,500 each on flying passengers to Nigeria who do not have a negative COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR test as the federal government intensifies measures to rid the country of the ugly virus. This was made known in an All Operators Letter, AOL marked …
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) extended losing streak on Wednesday for the third consecutive days with the market capitalisation declining further by N38 billion. The market capitalisation dipped N38 billion to close lower at N13.263 trillion compared with N13.301 trillion on Tuesday. Also, NSE All-Share Index shed 72.41 points or 0.28 per cent to close at 25,424.91 points. …
The minister of state for health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has dispelled rumor making the rounds that Federal Government was not committed to the welfare of health workers in the country. Speaking when he appeared on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television, Mamor, said: “We have been able to disburse close to N20 billion and I repeat close to N20 …
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus and President Muhammadu Buhari By Dirisu Yakubu The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken exception to the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to his ministers to commence immediate propagation of the achievements of the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government. This is even as the party asked the President …
By Dirisu Yakubu Fresh crisis hits the Niger state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as aggrieved members stormed the Legacy House, Presidential campaign headquarters of the party in protest, demanding the removal of a member of the National Working Committee, NWC, the national financial secretary, Abdullahi Hussaini Maibasira. The protesters numbering over three hundred stormed the party …
By Emma Amaize DEPUTY Governor of Delta State, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, Wednesday, visited Ugborodo Community, Warri South-West Local Government Area, where women and youths protested, Tuesday, against Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, over alleged abandonment, appealing for calm, as government has intervened in the dispute. The protesters complained that the company was not adhering to the Memorandum of Understanding …
By Ibrahim HassanWuyo The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions has expressed concern over the campaign against the presidential assent to the recently passed Bank and other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA) 2020 by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG). Chairman of the Committee, Senator Uba Sani in a statement on Wednesday, stated that the NESG, which …
…says Nigerians do not deserve to be overburdened By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Renowned Islamic scholar, Sheihk Ahmad Mahmud Gumi has attributed the high price of commodities in the country to the continued closure of borders by the Buhari led Federal Government. He said in an interview with the BBC Hausa, that economic problems in a country could cause serious hardship, …
File: Shell, Eni By Peter Egwuatu The Federal Government, Wednesday, asked a court in Milan, Italy, to order Royal Dutch Shell and Eni to pay the sum of $1.092 billion as an immediate advance payment for damages in the Malabu oil scandal, one of the oil industry’s biggest-ever corruption scandals. During the hearing of the corruption allegation linked to …
Director-General DMO, Ms. Patience Oniha By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The Debt Management Office (DMO), Wednesday, put the nation’s total public debt stock at N31.009 trillion or $85.897 billion, as at June 31, 2020, representing 8.3 percent rise from N28.628 trillion in March 2020. The figure comprised the debt stock of the federal government, the 36 state governments …
By Davies Iheamnachor, Port-Harcourt Youths and women of Oyigbo Local Government Area Rivers State, have occupied the Afam Power Plant in protest over the failure of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, to restore electricity in their area. It will be recalled that the community had earlier issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the company to restore electricity in …
The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested twin brothers: Kehinde Adebayo and Taiye Adebayo over their alleged involvement in offences bordering on internet fraud. They were arrested at their hideout in Ilorin, Kwara State on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, following intelligence received by the Commission on their activities. ALSO READ: Pay …
By Henry Umoru, Abuja Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Senator Gabriel Suswam, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Benue North East has condemned in very strong terms, the Tuesday killing of repentant Militia Leader in Benue State , Terwase Agwaza alias Gana, by men of the Nigerian Army in Gboko. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, Suswam, a former governor of …
