Month: March 2020

$22.7bn Foreign Loan: NASS South East Caucus Protests Exclusion Of Region

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The South east Caucus in the National Assembly on Thursday protested the exclusion of projects in the region from the recently approved $22.7bn foreign borrowing plan of the federal government approved by the senate. The group led by former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu took their protest to the Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Senator Ekweremadu who briefed journalists on the outcome of the meeting with the two principal officers, said it was a meaningful discussion as the National Assembly…

S/West PDP Meeting: Makinde harps on unity, says region‘ll set example for others on internal democracy, party cohesion

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The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, told members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-West geopolitical zone to unite and work together to reposition the party and reclaim its glory. Governor Makinde made the call while speaking at a South-West Stakeholders’ meeting of the PDP held at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, on Thursday. He noted that he had already dedicated himself to the cause of uniting all tendencies in the zone, adding that a united South-West PDP would rub off positively on the national…

Makinde appoints Simiyu Adepoju as Special Adviser on infrastructure

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The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has approved the appointment of Mr. Simiyu Adekola James Adepoju as his Special Adviser on Infrastructure. A statement signed by the Special Assistant (Print Media) to the governor, Moses Alao, said that the appointment was communicated through a letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Olubamiwo Adeosun.. The appointment, according to the letter, took effect from March 9, 2020. Prior to his appointment, Adepoju, a corporate member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and registered member of COREN, has…

Sanusi sues IG, DSS DG, seeks release from detention

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Muhammadu Sanusi, former emir of Kano, has filed a suit before a federal high court in Abuja, seeking an order for his release from confinement following his dethronement. Sanusi is praying the court for an interim order releasing him “from the detention and or confinement of the respondents and restoring the applicant’s rights to human dignity, personal liberty, freedom of association and movement in Nigeria, (apart from Kano State) pending the hearing and determination of the applicant’s originating summons.” After he was dethroned on Monday, he was taken to Loko, a town…

COVID-19: NYSC subjects high profile personalities, others to screening

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As part of recommended measures to contain the COVID-19, high profile personalities on visit to NYSC Orientation Camps were being subjected to secreening along with Corps Members and other visitors before entry.   This was in addition to the provision of handwash points with germ-killing liquid soaps and sanitizers at strategic points in all the Orientation Camps.   Earlier yesterday, the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano presided over the swearing-in ceremony of the 2020 Batch ‘A’ Corps members and also inaugurated the newly constructed Orientation Camp, Umuawulu/Mbaukwu in Awka…

All Hails To The New Bichi Emir by Abba Dukawa

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WEDNESDAY March 12,2020 will surely remains in the mind of kanawa as one of the memorable where history has been made in Kano Traditional instirution of over 1000 years when two of the sons of our revered late Emir Alhaji Ado Bayero, have become First Class Emirs. Born by the same mother and the same father. This is the first time such thing is happening in the history of the state As act of Allah’s will on Monday Emir of Bichi Aminu Bayero replaced Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II, …

Tribute to deposed Emir of Kano, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by Prof Isa Alabi Abubakir

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سَتَظَلُّ أَمِيرَ القُلُوبِ قصيدة تضامنية إلى أمير القلوب الحاج سنوسي لاميطو سنوسي حُزْنٌ شَدِيدٌ في الحَشَا يَتَلَهَّبُ والقَلْبُ مِنْ فَرْطِ الأسَى يَتَعَذّبُ دُنْيَا الخِيَانَةِ قد تَكَشّفَ أَمْرُها لِمُهَذَّبٍ إِغْرَائَها يَتَجَنَّبُ أَغْرَى أُنَاسًا مُلْكُها فَتَوَحَّشُوا في العالمين وفي النهايةِ تُعْطِبُ ماذا يَقُولُ الشعرُ بَعْدَ ضَلاَلِهم ويَرَى المُسَوَّدَ في البلاد يُعَذَّبُ ؟ إنَّ الدُّعَاءَ إلى الصَّوَابِ جَرِيمَةٌ عندَ الطُّغَاةِ وصالحٌ لا يُعْجِبُ جَعَلُوا النِّفاقَ فَضِيلَةً في دِينِهم فَتَرى عَظِيمًا لِلْحُطَامِ يُذَبْذِبُ قد خيَّبُوا آمَالَ شَعْبٍ مُنْهَكٍ طَلَبَ النَّجَاةَ فَخَانَهُ مُتَعَصِّبُ لا تَقْبَلُوا ما جَاءَ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِم فَوُعُودُهُم دَوْمًا سَحَابٌ يَخْلُبُ هَذِي البلادُ…

Meet the first man to import a bulletproof car into Nigeria and got assassinated

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Celebrated politician, chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, was the first man to import a bulletproof car into Nigeria in 1964. The car was a Mercedes Benz worth £8,000. Akintola has been described as a political strategist and an orator of note, who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and the Cicero of Esaoke, late Chief Bola Ige. He was the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of Yoruba, a highly revered traditional title in Yoruba land and also a great politician who was one of the founding members of…

Policeman kills wife, self; leave kids of two years and three weeks

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A policeman attached to the Ondo State Police Command has allegedly shot his wife dead and committed suicide. The incident was said to have happened at Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the police officer, simply identified as Tolulope, who was attached to the Akungba Police Division, committed the crime after he returned from work. According to sources, the deceased, who was an indigene of Supare-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of the state, had been having trust issues…

Outcry as Niger council chairmen travel to Ghana

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A one-week trip of 25 local government chairmen in Niger to Ghana for a training has generated outcry. Many residents frowned at the trip at a time many of them couldn’t pay salaries. The retreat in Ghana is coming barely two months after they attended a similar retreat in Kaduna two days after they were inaugurated into office in January 2020. Local government workers wondered why the retreat could not hold in Nigeria, describing the trip to Ghana as waste of resources. The Nation gathered that most of the local…