Day: December 22, 2019

XMAS: IGP Directs Zonal AIGs, Command CPs to strengthen crime prevention strategies

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Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu has directed the Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners of Police in charge of Zonal and State Commands nationwide to ensure that no stone is left unturned towards effectively implementing appropriate crime prevention strategies before, during and after the festivities. IGP Nigeria Police Force has beefed up security across the Country. The IGP reiterated his call for effective deployment of both human and material assets of the Force in protecting the major highways, recreational centres, motor – parks, places of worship, financial institutions…

BREAKING: CBN slashes electronic transfer, ATM withdrawal charges

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reviewed downward electronic transfer and ATM fees as well as card maintenance fees. The new charges were contained in the latest Guide to Charges by Banks and Other Financial Institutions just released by the CBN According to the CBN, bank customers will now pay N10 for electronic transfers below N5,000, and N25 for electronic transfer between N5,000 and N50,000. Only electronic transfer above N50,000 will attract N50 charge. Previously, bank customers pay N50 charge for electronic transfers below N500,000. Further, the CBN in…

Gov Yahaya Bello Inaugurates Chapel in Govt House After 28 Years

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Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello has inaugurated the Government House Chapel for the Christian worshippers after 28 years since the creation of Kogi State,   Governor Bello who was represented at the Christmas Carol by his deputy, Edward Onoja on Saturday asserted that the newly constructed Government House chapel symbolised unity, access, inclusion which his adminstration vowed to enshrine in public institutions in the state.   He pointed out that his government promised to deepen these virtues in his administration’s second term until all kogi indigenes would no longer be…

Tinubu’s Dangerous Dance with the Cabal By Farooq Kperogi

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The cabal is toying with Bola Tinubu like a yo-yo—and he is naively, if gingerly, playing along— in readiness for his eventual political incineration by or before 2023. And the cabal is being ruthlessly Machiavellian about it. Tinubu has been given a fake promissory note that he’ll be APC’s presidential torchbearer in 2023. On the strength of this worthless promissory note, they’ve sought his permission to destroy some of his most trusted foot soldiers. With his consent, they’ve consigned Osinbajo to symbolic Aso Rock prison. Tinubu endorsed Fowler’s replacement at…

Veteran Yoruba Actor, Alabi Yellow Is Dead

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Veteran actor and author, Samuel Akinpelu, aka Alabi Yellow, has passed on. Akinpelu, known for his caustic tongue in movies, was believed to have died earlier today in his home in Ikorodu, Lagos. It should be recalled that the actor had been afflicted with a stroke in March shortly after the demise of his wife. However, the actor had got a lifeline of N10m from a popular philanthropist, Reverend Esther Ajayi, popularly known as Iya Adura, back in April, and many had thought was on the path to recovery. Alabi…

US Sanctions: Hate Speech Bill, a remedy to religious, ethnic persecution in Nigeria – Sen Sabi Abdullahi …says Nigerians are in support of legislation

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Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has said the passage of the Hate Speech Bill under consideration by the National Assembly will address all issues of discrimination associated with religious and ethnic persecution in Nigeria. Sabi Abdullahi stated this against the backdrop of impending sanctions faced by Nigeria following its inclusion on the ‘special watchlist’ of the United States Government over high cases of religious and ethnic persecution. The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, had announced Nigeria’s inclusion into the religion violations list. Also,…

NIDCOM Chairman receives two Nigerians held hostage in Bosnia border camp.

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The Secretary of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, Engr. Dr. Sule Yakubu Bassi on behalf of the Chairman/CEO NIDCOM, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, received Abia Uchenna and Eboh Chinedu students of Federal University of Technology Owerri who were held hostage in Bosnia-Herzegovina Border Camp on when they arrived Abuja, Nigeria last night. The Students were officially received by Dr Bassi who urged the two Nigerians (students) to always be of good behaviour wherever and whenever they find themselves by obeying the laws of their country of stay. Dr Bassi commended the…

FG Rejects Religious Freedom Violation Tag, says It Feeds On Discredited Narrative

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The Federal Government has rejected the US designation of Nigeria as a country that engages in or tolerates severe violations of religious freedom, saying the iniquitous tag stems from an orchestrated narrative that has long been discredited In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the good people of Nigeria enjoy unfettered freedom to practise their religion, and blamed failed politicians and disgruntled elements some of them supposedly respected leaders for latching on to religion as their trump card, especially…