The immediate-past Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has reviewed his stewardship under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, and disclosed that his home state of Edo benefitted from multi-billion Naira projects and other significant interventions, which he facilitated. Agba said his over-three-year tenure as a member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) was productive and beneficial both at the national and state levels. He said the projects that he facilitated were clear evidence of his commitment and contributions to better the lives of Edo people and Nigerians as a whole even as he urged…
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Nigeria’s delegation to Sunday’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying duel with Sierra Leone arrived in the Liberian capital, Monrovia on Saturday morning, aboard a chartered Air Peace airline Embraer 195. The aircraft conveying the contingent of 23 players, technical and administrative staff and a few other officials led by President of NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, landed at the Roberts International Airport at 11.08am local time (12.08pm in Nigeria), and was received by the Ambassador of Nigeria to Liberia, His Excellency Godfrey A. E. Odudigbo, the Head of Chancery, Ms Stella Ahumibe and a few other mission staff. There…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP), has arrested two suspects in Abuja over alleged human trafficking. The suspects are Awulonu Franklin and Joseph Ukaluo. The Director-General (DG) of the agency, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, disclosed on Friday that officers of the agency bursted the trafficking syndicate on Friday, June 9, at about 11:00 hours. She said that the suspects are part of the syndicate that specializes in moving young female Nigerians, between the ages of 16 to 26, to India for sexual exploitation and possible organ harvesting. Waziri-Azi said that a sting operation was conducted after…
The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi has expressed profound sadness at the news of the death of Chief George Akosile, a leading member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from Ekiti State. Dr. Fayemi described the demise of the elder statesman and leading progressive politician as a significant loss to Ekiti State and the entire country. In a condolence message issued by Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, the head of the Fayemi Media Office, the former governor stated: ‘’The news of the death of Chief George Akosile was unexpected and…
Some anti-corruption crusaders have urged Nigerians to reject the bill passed by the Senate to whittle down the power of the Chairman of ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye. They also urged President Bola Tinubu to withhold assent on the amended bill. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the senate had on June 4, passed a bill to amend the law establishing the ICPC, which steeply cuts down on the power of the commission’s chairperson. Speaking in separate interviews, with NAN, they posited that signing the bill into law would undermine the war against corruption in the country. An anti-corruption…
For over two decades, the issue of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) has been a major concern for the Africa as assets and funds running into billions of dollars continue to find its way out of the continent as a result of corrupt public servants and multinational corporations. Their destination is the Western and European countries. Though stakeholders including the African Union Member-States have played significant roles in the international efforts to combat these opaque and destabilizing transfers of capital, such efforts have not yielded the desired goal. Tackling corruption, particularly IFFs, has become a matter of survival for Africa’s development…
The Police Command in Gombe State says it has arrested three suspects believed to be part of a syndicate stealing goats in Malam Inna and Wuro Kesa communities of Gombe Local Government Area, Gombe State. ASP Mahid Abubakar, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, stated this in a press statement issued to journalists on Friday in Gombe. Abubakar said the suspects had been using tricycles to steal goats from the communities which they eventually sell to make money. According to him, luck ran out of them when operatives of the Gombe Division, acting on intelligence report, arrested…
“Occasionally these days, when I see a fine babe swinging her waist, I ask myself, is she still whole or she has been used?”
The Adamawa Government, in collaboration with Malaria elimination partners concluded plans to distribute no fewer than 3.2 million insecticide treated nets to residents. The Manager State Malaria Elimination Programme, Mr Benjamin Nashon, disclose this in an interviewwith the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Friday. Nashon said the distribution would commence on July 1, to end on July 12, adding that it would be a house-to-house exercise. He also said that each net would be for two persons with maximum of four nets per household. He added that the target beneficiaries were more than five million, cutting across…
Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, the factional Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has advised officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), to be professional in the discharge of their constitutional duties. Abdullahi gave the advice shortly after he decorated his orderly, Mr Abdullahi Adamu, alongside his colleague, Mr Yusuf Shuiabu, with their new ranks on Friday in Lafia. Adamu and Shuiabu were recently elevated from the ranks of sergeants to inspectors in the Police force. The embattled speaker tasked the duo on hard work, commitment and operate within the tenets of their profession. ” I want to…