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By Halimah Olamide Amidst outcries over incessant robberies at the Gateway Polytechnic, Sapade, Ogun state, the Commissioner of Police on Tuesday higlighted new measures already taken to ensure security of students and the entire Ode community and its environs. Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Mr. Abiodun Alamutu, in an exclusive chat with the NPO Reports on Tuesday said the reported suspension of physical classes by the institution was prior the latest steps taken by his command to provide cover for the community. Alamutu said there are eight patrol teams fully mobilised to mount surveillance on the communities around the location…
The alleged treason case filed by the Federal Government against a former Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore was stalled on Tuesday at the Federal High Court, Abuja due to the absence of the judge. Sowore is standing trial before Justice Emeka Nwite on allegations of treasonable felony. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government had accused Sowore of treason following his call for a protest tagged #RevolutionNow, on Aug. 5, 2019. Sowore was in court on Tuesday, but the matter could not go on. His counsel, Mr Marshall Abubakar told NAN that the…
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Tuesday presented a budget of N434. 2 billion for 2024 to the State House of Assembly for consideration and approval. According to Makinde, the budget is made up of N222.3 billion for capital expenditure, and N211.8 billion for recurrent expenditure. Presenting the budget tagged: “Budget of Economic Recovery”, the governor said the capital expenditure is 2.4 per cent higher than the recurrent expenditure. He added that the 2024 budget was estimating an increased Internally Generated Revenue of N72 billion with an average of N6 billion monthly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…
By Halimah Olamide Amnesty International on Tuesday called for investigations into the various cases of air strikes that had killed innocent Nigerians. Amnesty International’s intervention on Tuesday was on the heels of the Sunday bombing of over 100 villagers in Tundun Biri village in Kaduna state. The organisation said on Sunday December 18, 2022, Nigerian Air Force jet fighter killed 64 people in Mutumji village in Zamfara state. It reminded Nigerians also of the killing on Tuesday January 24, this year of 40 people in Doma Village of Nasarawa state. Condemning the Sunday December 3, 2023 killing in Kaduna, the…
Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said it had seen some of the steepest drops in performance since 2000 when it began its usually triennial tests of 15-year-olds reading, maths and science skills. Nearly 700,000 youths took the two-hour test last year in the OECD’s 38 mostly developed country members and 44-non members for the latest study, closely watched by policymakers…
By Halimah Olamide Award-winning journalist and Head, of the Development Desk, Premium Times, Mojeed Alabi has warned that trouble looms for the nation if early marriage is not looked into. Speaking at the 10th day of the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), 16-Day Activism Against Gender-Based Violence themed: “Can Nigeria Afford to Ignore the Consequences of Early Marriage” Alabi in his statement said that child marriage which contributes to the poverty of the country is yet to be eradicated due to people and authorities not doing the appropriate thing. “We always say that when we train a woman,…
By Halimah Olamide The Chief of Army Staff General Taoreed Lagbaja has on Tuesday visited Tundun Biri, the village where air strikes killed worshippers on Sunday. NPO Reports that the Army on Monday admitted that it’s operatives mistakenly dropped bombs on the village on Sunday night while on a mission against some terrorists in the area. Though there have not been an official figure of casualties, there have been reports of as much as 100 lives that were lost with many also injured. The Chief of Army staff was said to have arrived the village Tuesday morning and immediately met…
A former Tesla employee has told the BBC he believes the technology powering the firm’s self-driving vehicles is not safe enough to be used on public roads. Lukasz Krupski leaked data, including customer complaints about Tesla’s braking and self-driving software, to German newspaper Handelsblatt in May. He said attempts to highlight his concerns internally had been ignored. Tesla did not respond to requests for comment. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has championed its self-driving technology. “Tesla has by far the best real-world AI,” Mr Musk said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. But, in his…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Defence Headquarters on Tuesday explained the reason for its bombing of the Kaduna community where many civilians were killed. The Defence Headquarters, in a statement, said the action was based on an intelligence that some terrorists were have some “untoward activities” in the Ligarma community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday, This is contained in a statement by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba on Tuesday in Abuja. Buba said the Nigerian Army Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) detachment had at about 2200hrs on Sunday, observed movement of terrorist at…
By Kamil Opeyemi Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has lamented what he described as too many cases of miscalculated air strikes by the Nigerian armed personnel leading to unfortunate death of innocent Nigerians. Atiku was reacting to Sunday’s bombing over about 100 villagers at the Tundun Biri Village, Kaduna who were said to be marking the year’s Maulud event. Commenting on the tragedy on Tuesday, the former vice president said he was grieved by the news of the drone airstrike that killed dozens of people and left scores of others with various degrees of injury in the Tudun Biri community…