Kaduna has approved Monday, January 25, 2021, as the resumption date for all tertiary institutions in the State. It also said assessment on COVID-19 for all secondary and primary schools are ongoing while resumption will be announced once the exercise is approved. Read also: 340 female students of Providence High School, Enugu, locked up by AMCON A statement on Sunday evening …
Fire Chief, Engr. Martin Agbili has recorded 8 fire outbreak in less than 24 hours in various parts of Anambra state. Agbili, who confirmed the incidents in a statement, attributed majority of the inferno to the carelessness of the victims, including indiscriminate bush burning. He enumerated the affected areas to include Awka, Nnewi, Onitsha, Awka, Ogidi, Nise and Enugwu-Agidi. Martin …
Sunday Igboho has stated that he was fired with bullets by Fulani Herdsmen but didn’t penetrate. This Oodua Republic agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, explained how bullets were fired at him at the home of the Seriki of Fulani in Ibarapa, Oyo State, and did not hot him. Igboho added that suspected Fulani herdsmen killing and …
The All Progressives Congress membership registration/ validation exercise expected to commence tomorrow ( Monday) may be shelved again. Nigerian Tribune investigation revealed that some of the items to be used in conducting the exercise are still stockpiled at the party national secretariat in Abuja and are yet to be moved to the state chapters. If aborted tomorrow (Monday), it would …
The National Assembly has postponed its resumption till Tuesday, February 9, 2020. Both Chambers on December 21st, 2020 adjourned plenary till January 26, 2021, to enable members to observe the Christmas and New Year festivities. Clerk to the National Assembly, Arc. Ojo Amos disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. He said the deferment of resumption was to enable lawmakers, …
Innocent Nwachukwu, a foremost Entrepreneur and acute chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has canvassed support for Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led administration developmental agenda in Abia State. The PDP chieftain called on the people of the State to continue to sustain their support to the government’s quest to transform Abia in terms of infrastructures. Nwachukwu who made the call during …
A veteran Nollywood actress, Idowu Phillips is popularly known as Mama Rainbow has penned a glowing tribute to her late husband, Ayanfemi Phillips, who died 37 years ago. She took to her Instagram page to celebrate her late husband with a series of tributes. Mama Rainbow narrated how her late husband passed away not long after they marked their 10th …
Ogun chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Governor Seyi Makinde to first redeem the crisis-ridden Oyo PDP before dabbling into unnecessarily into offshore political counselling. Ogun PDP accused Makinde of seeking to import unnecessary crisis into its rank. Governor Makinde on Wednesday visited the Sagamu country home of former Governor Gbenga Daniel with some delegates in a …
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has charged Civil servants in the state not to see retirement from civil service as a route to death or terminal point but a new beginning of life to greatness. Masari, who gave the counsel while swearing-in six Permanent Secretaries into the state’s civil service at Government House Katsina, also noted that the …
It was a fateful evening of April 24, 2018. Mr. and Mrs. Sirajo Ladan were at home somewhere in the sprawling city of Sokoto, and the holy month of Ramadan, a period when adult Muslims are expected to fast for a month, had just kicked off. The husband, Malam Sirajo, had just returned home. His struggles to get paid some debts …
Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. At the inauguration ceremony Wednesday in Washington, D.C., it was a celebration of the return of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party. With the absence of outgoing President Donald Trump, the image of the Republican Party at the end of Mr Trump’s turbulent tenure was …
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, ordered medical doctors to consider malaria-like signs as COVID-19 infection except confirmed. Sanwo-Olu urged residents with such signs to go to any public health facility or laboratory get examined without spending a dime. He spoke at a press briefing on COVID-19 at the Lagos House, Ikeja. Sanwo-Olu expressed concern in regards to …
Anambra Governor ballot holds November 6 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Anambra governorship election for November 6. Details shortly…
The Presidency has condemned Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s ultimatum to herdsmen to vacate Ondo forest reserves. In a press release on Tuesday, Garba Shehu, stated the presidency has been keenly monitoring events occurring in Ondo State. The special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari mentioned what’s emerging is an absence of consistency in messaging which in flip results in numerous contradictions relating to accuracy …
The Abia State Social Funding Programme has disclosed that the Federal Government released 93.47 million Naira through the Abia State Cash Transfer Unit for payment to about 10,000 benefitting Households in the state. This is coming after the initial payment of 540 million Naira paid out last year to the same benefiting households. However, in a press release signed by …
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 …
