The Nigeria Football Federation has reached out to Super Eagles’ forward, Victor Osimhen who lost his father on Saturday evening, expressing grief and a groundswell of sorrow among the Nigerian Football family over the passing of the patriarch of the Osimhen family.Reports said Mr. Patrick Osimhen, 80, died in Lagos on Saturday night after a brief illness.President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick was the first to reach out to the player following the outbreak of the sad news, and he assured the former U17 World Cup winner of the empathy and support of the country’s football…
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The Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu has assured Nigerians in the diaspora of business protection at home, stressing that local fraudsters frustrating diasporans from investing in Nigeria would henceforth be dealt with. Magu spoke on Saturday, May 23, 2020 during a Virtual Town Hall Meeting, an interaction with Nigerians in Diaspora, anchored in London by the Host/Moderator of the group, Prince Ade Omole. According to him, the EFCC is aware of the frustration, uncertainties and risks, local fraudsters are posing to credible businessmen and women abroad, who wish to invest in…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched legal action against governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and the government of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the “brutal crackdown, repression, and grave violations and abuses of the human rights of the people of Rivers State.”SERAP said in suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/20/20 filed last Friday: “Governor Wike is using COVID-19 as a pretext to step up repression and systematic abuses against the people of Rivers state, including by carrying out mass arbitrary detention, mistreatment, forced evictions, and imposing pervasive controls on daily life.”According to SERAP:…
The Buhari administration did not prime itself for leadership but for power. The regime has titillated more attention from controversies stoked by internecine scrimmages than from any milestone project. It has been five years of intrigues, scandals, and the simply unbelievable. Really, the life of the regime has been more dramatic than a Telemundo soap opera. In October, 2016, just 17 months after the regime came to power, Aisha Buhari, matron of the villa, spun the conspiracy of a cabal in the government. The first lady said she might not support Buhari’s re-election because he is a titular head puppeteered…
The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, on Sunday, relaxed the existing curfew imposed on the state in respect of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic to between 8.p.m. and 5 a.m.A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, confirmed that the decision was reached at the COVID-19 Task Force meeting presided over by the governor on Sunday.According to the statement, the state has so far recorded 233 COVID-19 positive cases, while 171 of them are active cases.It stated that a number of creative measures were approved for implementation by the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), which coordinates…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The recent appointment of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari has received the endorsement of the Chairman, Board and management of the National Population Commission, (NPC). This was contained in a congratutory letter sent on behalf of the Commission to the new CoS dated 18th May 2020 and signed by Dr Eyitayo Oyetinji, the Commission’s acting Chairman. In the letter, Dr Oyetunji said that Prof. Gambari’s appointment at this critical time of COVID-19 Pandemic and the attendant national economic and social dislocations was a clear testimony of president…
A coalition of local and international anti-corruption movements have alerted Nigerians on what appears an orchestrated plot to thwart corruption charges against oil giants associated with OPL 245 scam in which the country was swindled through a cobweb of criminal gangs.In a statement on Sunday, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), Re-Common, Cornerhouse and Global Witness asked the Nigerian media to protect public interest and the integrity of the judiciary by ensuring professional ethics in the report of the scam associated with OPL 245.The statement was signed by Antonio Tricario, (Re-Common), Nicholas Hidyard ( Cornerhouse) Simon Taylor (Global Witness)…
By Amosu AdeboyeNigeria forward Victor Osimhen has announced the unfortunate demise of his beloved father.The 80-year old and father of seven, reportedly died after a brief illness.Osimhen’s mother, Christianah had earlier died in 2001.The 21-year-old took to the social media to announce the sad news.”RIP Dad. No words to describe this feeling,” Osimhen wrote on his Twitter handle.
A member of the Police Service Commission, (PSC), Barrister Rommy Mom has faulted House of Representatives for its moves to strip the Commission of recruitment and training powers and domiciled them with the Nigeria Police Force through a bill amending the Nigeria Police Act, which passed the third reading.Mom said the Police Service Commission is a creation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that its powers, its mandate, and what it can do, or cannot do can only be carried out by constitutional amendment.His words “While it is true that the House of Representatives or the…
Serial digital entrepreneur and Chairman, Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh has hailed Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, for crashing the Right of Way (RoW) charges in the state by over 96 per cent. The governor had recently signed an Executive Order No. 002, 2020 which slashed the current charges from N4500 to N145 per linear meter as stipulated by a Federal Government policy.Ekeh believes the development is a step in the right direction for the government and people of Imo state. ‘‘I sincerely think this is the best palliative citizens of Imo state and corporate organizations doing businesses in Imo state…