The Police Command in Enugu State has ordered its men to arrest any individual or group suspected to be sabotaging the ongoing enforcement of boundary closure in the locality. A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, on Sunday in Enugu, quoted the Commissioner of Police, Mr Ahmad Abdurrahman, as giving the order. Ndukwe stated that the commissioner gave the directive while inspecting the enforcement at Ette/Ogugu boundary post between Enugu and Kogi states on Friday. “The commissioner gave the directive when he heard complaints from prominent people in the area that…
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A new book on how Nigeria can avert the looming threat of implosion arising from growing discontent over current political system has been released.The book, which serves as a blueprint for the government and people of Nigeria on the way forward, highlights various political options to steer the country away from edge of the precipice. It is in response to mounting demand for change of the country’s political system from unitary system to federal.The current unitary system with centralized powers is incompatible with a heterogeneous society like Nigeria, fueling demand for federalism believed to be best suitable for the country’s…
Foremost composite e-commerce giant, Konga has partnered with UKAid funded Frontier Technology Livestreaming to deploy the power of e-commerce in reaching rural farmers across Nigeria’s vast landscape. Indeed, the partnership will see Konga – a major player in Africa’s biggest market – leverage its huge technology backbone, considerable network of branches across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, its considerable delivery capacity and effortless ability to reach the last mile in empowering the beneficiaries to do more. The partnership involves implementing a pilot through the Frontier Technology Livestreaming Programme, a UKAid funded programme established in 2016 that is designed to…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his “leadership position to follow the ‘Namibia example’ by urgently issuing an executive order to ban the purchase of new cars by the presidency, and all ministers for the remainder of the tenure of your administration, that is, until May 2023.” SERAP urged him to “use the savings from this ban to support students of tertiary institutions across the country to reduce the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on them and their parents, and to improve access to healthcare for…
The Nasarawa State Government has conveyed its profound appreciation to the Federal Road Safety Corps for deploying additional 2 life support ambulances with complete team of personnel to the state, describing the gesture as, uncommon, indelible, unprecedented and indeed, a positive boost to the state’s capacity and efforts to combat the devastating novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, the handing and taking over of the life support ambulances took place on Friday, 15 May, 2020 in Lafia, the State capital. According to Kazeem, the State Government expressed its appreciation to the Corps…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has urged the newly recruited Graduate Trainees (GTs) to join hands with other staff in building the corporation to become the National Oil Company (NOC) of choice, urging them to go the extra mile to achieving extraordinary results.Mallam Kyari made the call Thursday during a virtual platform session with the 1,050 GTs that were newly recruited by the corporation as part of their onboarding programme.The Federal Government COVID-19 guidelines limited physical contacts necessitating that the onboarding session held virtually.The GMD charged the newly recruited employees of…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the renewal of the tenure of Mr. Benjamin Akabueze, the Director-General (DG) of the Budget Office of the Federation. This was contained in a statement made available to Prompt News by Mr Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, Special Adviser (Media & Communication) to Finance Minister in Abuja on Sunday. According to the statement, Akabueze was first appointed as a Special Adviser Planning (SAP) to the President on February 15th, 2016 and later re-deployed and appointed as DG Budget, June 10th, 2016 by Mr. President. The appointment is expected to expire on June 10,…
Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections are billed to hold in Nigeria in 2023, in line with constitutional provisions. If, in the worst-case scenario, COVID-19 subsists beyond 2022, what then does the future hold for dear country? The more reason Nigeria’s politicians, as at today, should worry about how to ensure that we have a country still populated with human beings. Impliedly, it is better to find a solution to COVID-19, which has no specifics and has not been seen…
On Wednesday May 6, 2020, Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development gave a briefing at the daily media interaction of the Presidential Task Force. During her briefing she tried to bring her audience up to speed with activities and interventions in her ministry since her last briefing on May 1, 2020. Her opening salvo caught people’s attention: “In the time since I was here last, we have made progress on the overhauled Home Grown School Feeding Programme and sensitization has already begun in the 3 frontline states of Lagos, Ogun and the FCT…
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Saturday night announced 176 new cases of coronavirus codenamed Covid-19. Surprisingly, Oyo state which had hitherto being recording low cases climbed up, recording 31 new cases in a day. Also, 12 other states and FCT recorded fresh cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in Nigeria to 5,621 with 176 deaths. The tweets by @NCDCgov reads: “176 new cases of #COVID19; 95-Lagos31-Oyo11-FCT8-Niger8-Borno6-Jigawa4-Kaduna3-Anambra2-Edo2-Rivers2-Nasarawa2-Bauchi1-Benue1-Zamfara 5621 cases of #COVID19 in NigeriaDischarged: 1472, Deaths: 176.”