Tesla Inc TSLA.O on Thursday launched its own brand of tequila on the electric car maker’s website, making good on a promise by CEO Elon Musk with a $250-per-bottle experience that was unavailable within hours of the product’s lift-off. Pictures of “Tesla Tequila” here on the website revealed a sleek, lightning-shaped bottle, a bit different from …
Chief Ayo Adebanjo By Dapo Akinrefon CHIEF Ayo Adebanjo is a staunch Awosit and a chieftain of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere. In this interview, Adebanjo takes a swipe at the Northern governors over their call for social media censorship and the north’s refusal to support restructuring. What is your take on the Northern governors’ call …
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozvUon-hJ7o?rel=0] Major Stories for Analysis. 1.3billion proposed for state house clinic, 1.3 billion not enough Federal govt says. On EndSARS, Buhari says federal govt is fishing out rogue elements in police plus other interesting news for analysis. Also read: We know where our palliatives are kept, share them now or… — Niger youths Vanguard News The post Newspaper Analysis: …
Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has proposed N205 billion as capital budget for 2021 to enable the ministry to make significant progress on all its ongoing projects. Amaechi made this known in a statement to newsmen during his presentation before the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives …
By Peter Duru The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, has said it was wrong for Nigerians to lump local Fulani herders with those illegally finding their way into the country and causing crises. Secretary-General of MACBAN, Alhaji Baba Gadzama, said this at the event marking the third year anniversary of the Open Grazing Prohibition …
By Emeka Obasi Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa saw it coming. In 1962, Emmanuel Adu Olawaiye, led a team of five policemen comprising three officers and two other ranks to Malaya. The Nigerian government sent the cops on a course that culminated in the birth of the Police Mobile Force (PMF). The PMF came in to …
A file image of the #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate, before the gunfire. By Magnus onyibe Nothing illustrates the constructive and equally destructive capacity of our youths more than the fall outs of the #EndSARS protests. And education makes the difference between the creatively and positively charged ones and the destructively and the negatively charged ones. Allow …
The Pennsylvania Republican Party asked the US Supreme Court Friday to halt the counting of late-arriving ballots in the state, as Democrat Joe Biden took a lead in the tally and was poised to defeat President Donald Trump. If Biden wins Pennsylvania he wins the presidency. The last-ditch appeal for an emergency injunction asked the …
By Fr Geroge Adimike In humanity’s groping for intelligibility, direction and truth, universities are supposed to function as lighthouses that illuminate her pathways and waterways. In actuality, good universities liberate the benighted world from constraints, contradictions and paradoxes that register their presence through different forms of pseudo-freedom and reign of terror. A good university serves as …
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, on Friday, inaugurated a 27-man steering committee to formulate a 20-year development plan for the state. Speaking at the inauguration of the committee in Ibadan, Makinde said the initiative was conceived to address developmental challenges in all aspects of the state economy within a stipulated timeframe. According to him, …
A map of Nigeria Capt Umar advises Nigeria to seek help in fighting terror By Dirisu Yakubu Retired military officer, Capt. Aliyu Umar has said the continental and global respect enjoyed by the Nigerian military is now waning owing largely to what he called the absence of craftsmanship across the leadership spectrum of the country. …
…as coronation’s scheduled for 9th of Nov Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Moves to stop the coronation of the 19th emir of Zazzau suffered set back as a Kaduna state High Court sitting in Zaria dismissed the application brought before it by one Bashir Aminu, the Iyan Zazzau. This came as arrangements were on …
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday in Abuja made virtual and public presentation of its `Report of the 2019 General Election’. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission also made public presentation of the ` Review of the 2019 General Election: Report of the Commission’s Retreats and Stakeholder Engagements’’. INEC …
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja A policy group called Africa’s New Dawn, a public policy advocacy organization, yesterday, disclosed of honouring 46 public officer holders with ‘Next Level’ Achievers Award 2020 on December 3, 2020. This was contained in a statement signed by Coordinator, Planning Committee, Ike Chukwu Chima, for the organizers, where it explained …
Democrat Joe Biden was on the brink of winning the US presidency on Friday, as he took the lead in the key battleground states Georgia and Pennsylvania, but President Donald Trump vowed to keep fighting. Biden has overturned what initially appeared to be a substantial lead for Trump in Pennsylvania, opening a lead of some …
Cameroon map Thursday morning saw a dark cloud of tragedy hang over the Regional Hospital of Kumba, Cameroon as many gathered to mourn seven students shot in cold blood by armed men at the College St Mother Francisca a week ago. This funeral comes only 24 hours after an attack on a school in Limbe that …
Professor Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Health Commissioner. Lagos State Government says it has confirmed more positive COVID-19 cases in another secondary boarding school in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed the new infections in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Abayomi said that a staff of the school fell ill, …
Mr. Yemi Adefisan, By Olasunkanmi Akoni CFS Asset Management Limited, a subsidiary of pan-African financial and investment conglomerate, Cititrust Holdings Plc, has been granted a fund management license by the Kenyan government. The approval was conveyed in a letter addressed to the company’s chairman by the Capital Markets Authority, Kenya. The letter reads in …
By Peter Duru The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, and Benue State Monitoring Committee have asked the federal and state governments to create incentives that will encourage herders to embrace ranching. They also suggested that the government prohibit the free movement of foreigners and livestock into the country and rescind the policy of issuing …
…urges victims of police brutality to present case before judicial panel A file image of the #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate, before the gunfire. Organisers of the End SARS protest in the State of Osun on Friday alerted security agencies in the State as well as drew the attention of the public to the impersonation of …
