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Votes will count in 2023, Buhari promises

11Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Votes will count in 2023, Buhari promises

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday assured Nigerians and the global community of his administration’s resolve to strengthen all necessary mechanisms that will ensure another peaceful transfer of power. The President, who spoke at a virtual summit for democracy organised by President Joe Biden of the United States, assured that the 2023 general elections will be free and fair. According to a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, President Buhari also told participants that Nigeria will continue to support democratisation processes in West Africa, as well as the whole of the African continent. “As we countdown to our next general elections in 2023, we remain committed to putting in place and strengthening all necessary mechanisms to ensur...

Osun Lotto Operator Commits Suicide Over Debts

11Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Economy, News, Nigeria, Youths

Osun Lotto Operator Commits Suicide Over Debts

An operator of a gambling house resident in Ikire, Osun State, simply identified as Seyi, has reportedly committed suicide by setting himself ablaze. It was gathered that the deceased, whose kiosk is located in the Centre area of Ikire, locked himself up in his gambling kiosk and set himself on fire. It was further learnt that before residents could realise what had happened, he had been badly burnt. A resident of the area where the incident happened told City Round that smoke coming out of the kiosk alerted people, who initially did not know Seyi was in the shop. He said, “We saw smoke coming out of the kiosk. We didn’t initially know Seyi was there. He just went into the shop, locked the doors and windows and set himself ablaze. “He was a lotto operator. I even learnt he g...

Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Assassinated

10Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Assassinated

Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr Rabe Nasir, has been assassinated. It was gathered that he was gunned down at his residence in Fatima Shema Estate in Katsina metropolis. A source who confirmed to newsmen the incident said, “Late Nasir was shot after Asr prayer in his residence here in Fatima Shema Estate.” Late Nasir was the Special Advisor to Governor Masari on Science and Technology before he was eventually appointed a commissioner. Dr Nasir was educated at the University of Abuja, University of Kansas Lawrence, Bayero University Kano, and Government Secondary School Giwa, Kaduna State. See Also: Kogi State Commissioner for Environment Escapes Kidnap Attempt He worked with the Department of State Security (DSS) and Economic and Financial Crimes Com...

FG Begging For Strike – ASUU, Nsukka Zone

10Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

FG Begging For Strike – ASUU, Nsukka Zone

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Nsukka zone (ASUU – Nsukka zone) has declared that the Federal Government (FG) is begging for nationwide strike action by the way it was handling the Memorandum of Action (MOA) entered into with the Union in December, 2020. While ASUU stated that the MoA has suffered a setback because some persons were benefiting from the non-implementation of the action plan, he called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the FG to implement the agreements it entered into with ASUU a year ago. The Zonal Coordinator, ASUU-Nsukka zone, Raphael Amokaha who disclosed this at a press conference held at the Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi on Thursday observed that if the situation was not properly handled, it may lead to another ASUU strike. See Also: Bu...

EFCC Charges Kenneth Minimah, Others With ₦13 Billion Fraud

9Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Corruption, News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

EFCC Charges Kenneth Minimah, Others With ₦13 Billion Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged Kenneth Minimah, a former Chief of Army Staff, with fraud involving alleged misappropriation of N13 billion meant for arms purchase. Mr Minimah was charged alongside an erstwhile Chief of Accounts and Budget of the Nigerian Army, A. O. Adetayo, a major-general, and the former Director, Finance and Accounts of the Nigerian Army, R. I. Odi, a brigadier-general, at the Federal Capital Territory High in Abuja. It would be recalled that a former Chief of Air Staff, Alex Badeh, a former Chief of Air Staff, who rose to become the Chief of Defence Staff, was charged with money laundering. He was on trial until he was killed in an ambush in December 2018. Report of investigation The EFCC said it had received a report by ...

Omicron: Sanwo-Olu Shelves Lagos Peace Walk

9Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Uncategorized

Omicron: Sanwo-Olu Shelves Lagos Peace Walk

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has shelved the Lagos peace walk planned for December 2021. The Governor, in an address on November 30, 2021, had invited some known faces of the EndSARS protest in the state in October 2020 to a peace walk for “the healing of Lagos” later this month. But in a press statement on Thursday, November 9, 2021, Sanwo-Olu said he is “constrained to stand down all preparations for the Walk for Peace” so as not to “endanger the life of any Lagosian” amid the outbreak of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. He said, “Between Tuesday 30, November 2021 that I made my address and now, we have seen a significant rise in cases associated with the Omicron variant of this pandemic. See Also: Why We Didn’t Stop Ramaphosa From Entering Nigeria – FG “Given th...

Why We Didn’t Stop Ramaphosa From Entering Nigeria – FG

8Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Covid-19, Nigeria, Press Statement, South Africa

Why We Didn’t Stop Ramaphosa From Entering Nigeria – FG

The Federal Government on Monday demanded that Britain rescind the ban imposed on Nigerian travellers over Omicron variant of COVID-19, saying that putting the country on the red list is “unjust, unfair, divisive, indefensible and discriminatory.” Addressing a press conference in his office in Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, wondered why residents who travel to Britain will be allowed into the country to quarantine and test while Nigerians are not allowed the same treatment. He said it is wrong to impose such punishment on a population of 200 million people because of a few cases of Omicron variant that did not originate in the country. While leaving the decision on whether to respond in kind to the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Moham...

Buhari Reacts As Trailer Kills Ojodu Grammar School Students In Lagos

8Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Buhari Reacts As Trailer Kills Ojodu Grammar School Students In Lagos

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the killing of students of Ojodu Grammar School in Lagos State. Buhari commiserated with the parents, relatives, and friends of the students killed by a trailer in an accident at Isheri Road in Ojodu, Lagos State, on Tuesday. In a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, the president described the incident as sad and painful. The statement reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari commiserates with parents, relations and friends of Ojodu Grammar School students who lost their lives in an accident on Tuesday, along Isheri Road, Ojodu, in Lagos State. See Also: Don Davis: Deeper Life School Principal, Others Remanded In Prison “President Buhari condoles with Government and people of Lagos State and the authorities of Ojodu Grammar School over...

KWASU Dismisses Lecturer Over Sexual Harassment

7Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Youths

KWASU Dismisses Lecturer Over Sexual Harassment

Kwara State University, Malete, has dismissed a member of its academic staff, Pelumi Adewale, over the alleged sexual harassment of one Tosin Adegunsoye, a student of the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences of the school. KWASU Vice-Chancellor, Mustapha Akanbi, made the revelation in Ilorin on Monday, while addressing a news conference to herald the eighth and ninth convocation ceremonies of the institution. Akanbi said that Adewale had ceased to be a staff the school for bringing the institution into disrepute. “The security agency has taken up the case and it is in court already, but I am informing you officially that the man is now an ex-staff member of the institution. He is a disgrace to our great institution and we won’t condone such acts,” the VC said. See Also: Don Da...

Nnamdi Kanu Starving In DSS Facility – Brother

7Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, Human Rights, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Nnamdi Kanu Starving In DSS Facility – Brother

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that he is being denied food in the facility of the Department of State Service (DSS). Kanu is currently detained in the facility of the DSS on the order of Justice Binta Murtala Nyako-led Federal High Court in Abuja on the treasonable felony charges preferred against him by the federal government of Nigeria. However, disclosing the alleged ill-treatment by the Department of the State Service in a terse statement forwarded to DAILY POST on Monday, the younger brother to the secessionist leader, Prince Kanu Meme, also claimed that the Nigeria’s secret police has denied him his medical report after taking his blood for more than 21 times. Prince Kanu Meme was on a routine visit to the detained separatist ...