Tag: News - Page 406 - African News Today

Opinion: Osinbajo Takes His Lying Spree to America – Reno Omokri

25Jun

By admin1 Comment

News, Nigeria

Opinion: Osinbajo Takes His Lying Spree to America – Reno Omokri

My attention has been drawn to statements by the so called Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, the deputy to General Muhammadu Buhari, in New York where, as usual, he made false statements to the media in an effort to explain away his non performance in office. Speaking in New York yesterday, Osinbajo said as follows: "As at 2010, Nigeria had about 112.7million people living in extreme poverty. Nothing in place, there was no Social Investment Programme, there was no social security, no way of taking people out of poverty." The above statement is a lie and it is very easy to disprove Mr. Osinbajo's fallacious assertions. According to the United Nations and the World Poverty Clock, Nigeria overtook India as the world headquarters for extreme poverty on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, when her populati...

Opinion: It’s Time for INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, to Resign – Femi Aribisala

25Jun

By adminNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Opinion: It’s Time for INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, to Resign – Femi Aribisala

This is no longer a question of nullifying the election. The only option left is to declare Atiku Abubakar outright as the elected president of Nigeria. The logic is simple. The 2019 presidential election in Nigeria cannot be, by all accounts, the worst election in the history of Nigeria without the corresponding INEC chairman being, at the same time, the worst INEC chairman in the history of Nigeria. INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, presided over an atrocious and fraudulent election that is now being fiercely contested in the courts. He can no longer remain as INEC chairman. INEC is supposed to be an impartial umpire in elections in Nigeria. However, it is now obvious that Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC operated essentially as an arm of the ruling APC. The evidence is overwhelming that Ya...

Nigeria: Osinbajo Expresses Satisfaction on Apapa Road Clearance

22Jun

By Debo Omilani1 Comment

Environment, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Osinbajo Expresses Satisfaction on Apapa Road Clearance

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday expressed satisfaction at the level of Truck clearance achieved in the Apapa axis, saying the Federal Government was committed to building more ports across the country to decongest the gridlock in and out of the Apapa ports. Osinbajo made this known in an interview with newsmen after inspecting the Lily pond transit truck park, Creek Road and other network of roads leading to the Apapa port. The vice president was accompanied on the tour by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Hadiza Bala Usman, among others. “We need to understand that this is a port that was designed to take 34 million metric tonnes daily but it is currently taking over 80 million metric tonnes. “With...

Opinion: INEC Server – The Trap that Caught Baba, INEC and APC

20Jun

By admin1 Comment

Justice, News, Nigeria

Opinion: INEC Server – The Trap that Caught Baba, INEC and APC

This INEC hide & seek game has become nothing but comical... Stage 1: INEC discovered late that they didn't cover their dirty tracks very well and that Atiku has already gotten some reliable and damaging info from insiders and supporting evidence too. APC saw this and immediately petitioned the police alleging that Atiku had hacked their Server. But they couldn't substantiate anything or implicate Atiku. They knew that the entire manipulations have been found out by the opposition who are ready to hit them hard at the Tribunal. So they needed to act fast, and off to work they went. Stage 2: Emissaries, friends, some members of the National Peace Committee, some Northern elites and powers that are close to Atiku were sent to dissuade him from challenging the 2019 sham of electio...

Nigeria: Mele Kyari Takes Over From Baru As NNPC GMD

20Jun

By adminNo Comments

Economy, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Mele Kyari Takes Over From Baru As NNPC GMD

7 others take on replace previous chief operating officers. In a statement released by Ndu Ughamadu, the spokesperson of NNPC on Thursday morning, President Muhammodu Buhari has appointed Mele Kyari as the group's GMD while also replacing 7 chief operating officers with new ones. Details of the appointment are contained in the official statement published below: "President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mele Kolo Kyari as the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). "Until his new appointment, Kyari, a geologist, was Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division of NNPC and also doubled, since 13th May, 2018, as Nigeria’s National Representative to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. "President Buhari h...

Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu Denies Promising to Fix Apapa Grid-Lock in 60 days

19Jun

By adminNo Comments

Environment, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu Denies Promising to Fix Apapa Grid-Lock in 60 days

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has made a U-turn, insisting that he never promised to solve the Apapa gridlock crisis in 60 days. The governor said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. Sanwo-Olu, who was still governor-elect on May 18, 2019 had during an interactive session with his classmates at the Executive Master of Business Administration class, University of Lagos, 1998/2000 set, said that he would end the protracted gridlock in Apapa area of the state within the first 60 days of his administration. He said not minding the politics involved, he would rid the area of all the trailers whose operations have been responsible for the intractable gridlock. Sanwo-Olu had said, “The Apapa trailer issue; it’s a campaign issu...

Nigeria: Lagos Pipeline Explosion Attributed to Acts of Vandalism

19Jun

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Crime, Environment, News, Nigeria, Security

Nigeria: Lagos Pipeline Explosion Attributed to Acts of Vandalism

.....nolmacy now restored to the community A fresh pipeline explosion which occurred on Monday at Gloryland Community in Isheri – Olofin, Egbe – Idimu LCDA of Lagos state has been linked to the activities of vandals This is coming two days after a similar incident which occurred on Friday was put out. Speaking on behalf of Gloryland Community, the General Secretary of Gloryland CDA, Mr. Olarenwaju Jimoh called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and Lagos State Government to save their lives and property from vandals operating in the area. Noting that the Community had been experiencing the incident for over two years, the community leader appealed to the authorities of NNPC and State Government to provide a twenty- four hour security surveillance on the pipelin...

Nigeria: Foundation Urges Humanitarian Agencies on Africa Child Right’s Promotion

18Jun

By Debo Omilani1 Comment

Africa, Human Rights, News, Nigeria, Press Statement

Nigeria: Foundation Urges Humanitarian Agencies on Africa Child Right’s Promotion

STAND Foundation has urged humanitarian agencies in the Africa continent to keep working to promote, protect and enforce the rights of children, creating a conducive environment for their future. In a statement released by the Executive Director of the foundation, Ms Olusayo Adeleyein in commemoration of the African Child, with the theme “Humanitarian Action in Africa; Children's Rights First" According to her, Whenever humanitarian crises occur, they leave tears, turmoil and destruction in their wake. When communities are affected in this manner, it is the children, who are most vulnerable that are most affected. From Uganda to Sudan to North East Nigeria, the story of hopelessness and despondency is the same. "Humanitarian crises often result in the violation of the rights of th...

Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu Promises to Revamp Lagos State’s Security Architecture

17Jun

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Environment, News, Nigeria, Security

Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu Promises to Revamp Lagos State’s Security Architecture

Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday promised to address the emerging security challenges facing the state through an overhaul of the state's security architecture. He disclosed this while addressing journalists after an emergency security meeting with chiefs of security agencies in his office at Alausa, Ikeja. According to him, the aim is to address the emerging security challenges facing the state, noting that a re-organisation of the state’s security template was necessary in order to make the state safe for business and living. Sanwo-Olu stated that security agencies had been placed on alert in preparation for the development. He added that the reform would lead to a new operational template for security operatives and help in achieving efficiency in combating ...

Nigeria: Lagos Commences Second Phase of Polio Vaccination Campaign

17Jun

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Lagos Commences Second Phase of Polio Vaccination Campaign

The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commenced the second phase of the 2019 Polio Vaccination Campaign which was preceded by a sensitisation training for health reporters and journalists, ahead of the statewide polio vaccine administration. Speaking at the training exercise on Monday, the Permanent Secretary Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Tayo Lawal, disclosed the level of progress that had been made to eradicate polio and drastically reduce the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases. According to him, the objectives of the campaign are aimed at halting the spread of the polio virus in Lagos State, increasing the coverage of immunised children against vaccine-preventable diseases, reducing the number of unimmunised chil...