Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed said on Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari made the best choices in the recent appointment of Service Chiefs. The Minister said in Abuja that the choice of appointment of service chiefs is the exclusive right of the President who has information about their competences and capabilities. “Based on available […]
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Celebrated writer and a former member of the Editorial Board of Ondo State Government newspaper, The Hope, Mr Taoheed Ajao, has passed on. Already, sympathisers who crossed his path while he was in the flesh, have taken to his Facebook wall to mourn his passage while speaking glowingly of their various experiences with him. As […]
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Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai The Kaduna State Government has announced Monday, 1st February 2021 as the resumption date for SS3, JSS3, and JSS1 for public and private schools. It said the decision for partial resumption was taken after extensive appraisal of the second wave of the COVID-19 and a series of consultations with relevant […]
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A fresh lockdown could be on the way in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna and other major cities in the country on account of the rising number of Covid-19 cases, the National Incident Manager of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Mukhtar Muhammad, hinted on Friday. Muhammad, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, described the […]
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Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has warned the Nigeria Police Force not to arrest popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho. “I urge the police not to venture to arrest Mr Sunday Igboho because in this same country, when others issued quit notices to other nationalities in the past, […]
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A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed on Igangan communities as part of efforts to curtail the likelihood of reprisal attacks over the eviction of herders penultimate Friday. The decision was arrived at by residents and indigenes, including, the traditional ruler, community leaders and youth groups. They also demanded an investigative committee to look into allegations […]
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Benue State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Comrade Victoria Asher, has passed on. She is the second Benue NUJ chairman to die in office. Her predecessor, David Ukuma, was in office for less than six months before he died. A statement by the Secretary of NUJ Benue Council, Mr. Moses Akaahan, stated […]
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In Rivers State, criminality is high in rural areas due to thick forests, especially in Gokona, Etche, Emuoha, Ikwere, Khana, Tai and Ogugbolo Councils. As many forests across the country remain under-utilised and under-secured. They have equally become safe haven to criminals, including bandits, kidnappers, robbers, cattle rustlers and ritualists. In Rivers State, criminality is […]
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reveals how Obasanjo truncated Tinubu’s ambition to become Buhari’s VP how Saraki, Amosun, others pressurised Obasanjo to back Buhari knocks APC for reneging on restructuring Nigeria APC not missing you, ruling party tells ex-Osun governor A former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo truncated the ambition of […]
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slams Oyo, Ondo governors for going to Abuja to beg Buhari Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has lambasted Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; and his Ondo State counterpart, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, for visiting President Muhammadu Buhari in a bid to find lasting solution to the herdsmen crisis rocking the two South-West […]
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