By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Peace and Good Governance Advocates (PEGA), has advised the new Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda, to avoid what it called the banana peels while in the office. PEGA, a non-partisan social group through its National Coordinator Mani Immam, gave the advice on Wednesday in Abuja in their congratulatory message to the minister on his appointment. Immam advised the minister to be mindful of the circumstances that led to the sacking of the immediate past minister. “We are pleased to applaud President Bola Tinubu on the appointment of Dr Nentawe Yilwatda as the Minister…
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By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Federal Government says it is determined to reverse the country’s negative assets liability which stands at N39 trillion. The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Madein disclosed this on Tuesday at a one-day sensitization workshop on National Assets Register and the Strategic Importance of Legacy Asset Rendition in the Implementation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) Accrual basis Accounting in Nigeria held in Abuja. The workshop with the theme: “Legacy Assets Rendition and Preparation of Stand-Alone Financial Statements by MDAs was organised by the OAGF for directors of finance, internal audit…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has declared that its Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Mallam Mele Kyari, is not responsible for the hike in the prices of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol. Some protesters have earlier stormed the headquarters of the oil giant in Abuja, demanding the resignation of Kyari over the increase in the prices of petrol nationwide. Reacting to the development, spokesman for the NNPCL, Olufemi Soneye, said that the protesters were not well informed about the true state of things in Nigeria’s fuel supply chain. Soneye, in a chat with this…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, struck out the treason charge preferred against the minors who participated in the August #EndBadGovernance protest following its withdrawal by the Federal Government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu struck out the charge after the application for the discontinuance was moved by Mr Mohammed Abubakar, coinsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN. Abubakar,, who is the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF), premised his application on provisions of Sections 174(1), (b) and (c) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and 108 of the Administration of…
The unpredictable and razor-close U.S. presidential election culminates on Tuesday with voters across the deeply divided country deciding whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump should be sent to the White House in January. Harris, the sitting Democratic vice president, and Trump, the Republican former president who is seeking a second four-year term, spent the final frenetic weeks of the campaign making their case to voters in the seven critical states that are likely to decide the winner. Pollsters say neither of the candidates in the battleground states – Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona – has a…
President Tinubu has nominated a lawyer, Saseyi Feyijimi Ibiyemi, as a resident electoral commissioner representing Ondo State. If cleared by the Senate, Ibiyemi will replace another lawyer, ‘Niyi Ijalaye, who died in August while serving as the resident electoral commissioner in Ogun State. Ibiyemi, 58, who hails from Ilaje in Ondo State, is currently the Administrative Secretary of INEC in Lagos State. She graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University in 1987 and was called to the bar in 1988. She also went to Bingham University in Nasarawa state and bagged a Masters in Election Management. President Tinubu has also nominated Abdulrazak Yusuf Tukur as a National Commissioner for the Independent…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The One Rivers Initiative (ORI), a Pan Rivers Group, has cautioned the Federal Government against withholding allocation to Rivers saying doing so would aggravate poverty in the state. The Coordinator of the Group, Chief Victor Gurubo, gave the warning at a press conference in Abuja, in reaction to recent development in the state including court rulings. Prompt News recalls that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, last week barred the Federal Government from releasing further monthly allocations to Rivers State. The judgement followed a suit: FHC/ABJ/CS/984/24, which was brought before the court by the Hon.…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former governor of Delta, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged N1. 3 trillion fraud. A credible sources within the anti-graft agency confirmed that the vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections was arrested in Port Harcourt, when he reported at the Port Harcourt Directorate of the EFCC. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okowa, was arrested for allegedly diverting N1.3 trillion being proceeds of 13 per cent derivation fund that accrued to the state during his tenure. He was alleged to have diverted the fund from…
An Investigating Police Officer (IPO) Insp. Elizabeth Osikolu, on Monday, told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a housewife, Omolara Alashe, allegedly forced a 19-year-old lady to sleep with her husband, to bear a child. Omolara and her husband, Ramoni Lateef, are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, rape and sexual assault. The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty. The witness, while being led in evidence by the State Lead Counsel, Mr Babajide Boye, told the court that the alleged incident happened sometime in 2022, in Lagos. Osikolu told the court that the mother of the victim died…
Today I formally announce the publication of my book, titled: Soyinka’s Metamorphosis: Echoes from “The People’s Mandate,” a copy of which I have just received on arrival from the UK where it was published. It is a direct response to the book: Baiting Igbophobia, The Sunny Igboanugo Thesis, authored by Prof. Wole Soyinka and released sometime in January this year. This 2024 marks my 33 years of practice as a journalist, starting from my debut with The Guardian in 1991 to joining Daily Independent in 2001 as pioneer staff and now Publisher of Whirlwindnews, an online newspaper. My career, like those of many of my colleagues, has been…