Author: Safiu Kehinde

Safiu Kehinde Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala has accused some unnamed TV anchors and guests of conspiracy against him. Bwala made the accusation in a post on his official X handle on Saturday. This came in the wake of his sudden demotion last week to the post of the SA to the President on Policy Communication barely 24 hours after his resumption to his initial appointed role as special adviser on media and public communication. Bwala, in the post, held the TV anchors and guests pushing agenda against him will be exposed. “When you come…

Safiu Kehinde A DHL cargo plane has crashed near Vilnius airport, Lithuania on Monday, at about 3.30 a.m GMT (10.30 p.m ET). This was confirmed by Lithuanian police spokespersons. According to an air traffic monitoring outlet, Flightradar24, the Swiftair 737-400, built in 1993 and powered by two CFM56 engines, operated for DHL reportedly crashed in a residential area short of the runway while attempting to land in Vilnius this morning at approximately 03:30 UTC. The aircraft registered EC-MFE, had departed Leipzig, Germany at 02:08 UTC. It was converted to cargo configuration and acquired by Swiftair in 2015. Though yet to…

Safiu Kehinde The Challenged Parenthood Initiative (CPI), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has called for sexual and reproductive health awareness campaign as it decried the spate of teenage pregnancy in Kogi. The Director of the initiative, Eunice Agbogun made the call on Sunday in Lokoja, when the organisation paid the hospital bill of a young girl who gave birth out of wedlock. While Agbogun affirmed the NGO and its partners’ support of the the young mother, it also pledged to take good care of the baby and return to school to continue her education. The director, however, called for a massive…

Safiu Kehinde The Coalition of Opposition Lawmakers in the House of Representatives has called for the reconstitution of the national leadership of the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The coalition made the call in a statement issued by its spokesman, Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere (PDP-Imo) on Sunday in Abuja. Ugochinyere alleged that some national leaders of the party were working with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders. He said there was a plan to ensure that the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting to choose a Chairman from North Central where the position was originally supposed to come…

Safiu Kehinde The Federal Government of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) of Brazil to promote agribusiness across the 774 local government areas in the country. This was made known in a statement issued on Sunday by the State House Director of Information and Public Relations, Abiodun Oladunjoye. According to the statement, the FG signed the MoU with the Brazil in a effort to advance private sector development in fertiliser production, hybrid seed technology, and agricultural finance. The MoU was signed on behalf of the government by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of…

Safiu Kehinde Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has reinstated the full statutory rights of the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II, abolishing the new traditional councils in Edo South created by the last administration. This was contained in a statement released by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Fred Itua, on Sunday. The governor, according to the statement, also backed the Federal Government’s Gazette, which gave the ownership of the returned artefact to the Oba’s palace, which was looted during the 1897 Benin massacre by the British colonial forces. Also, the state government is withdrawing the letter revoking the concession of the…

Safiu Kehinde Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has bursted drug syndicates led by a Chinese man, 58-year-old Tianzhen Yen (alias Jackie). This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi. Yen was reportedly arrested at his hotel in Ikeja area of Lagos following a tip off from one of the drug syndicates earlier arrest Officers of the Seme Special Area Command of the Agency had on Thursday 21st November intercepted a 40-year-old suspect, Yakubu Emmanuel Mark in a commercial bus going to Ghana at the Gbaji checkpoint along Badagry-Seme expressway…

Safiu Kehinde Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a 50-year-old businessman, Osuoha Christian Iheanacho, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, for ingesting 90 wraps of cocaine. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi. According to the spokesperson, Osuoha was intercepted on Wednesday 20th November 2024 at the arrival hall of the Enugu airport during the inbound screening of passengers arriving from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on an Ethiopian airlines flight following months of intelligence and surveillance on him. He was subsequently placed…

Agency Report A Financial Expert, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, says the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is likely to raise interest rates again. Uwaleke, the Director, Institute of Capital Market at the Nasarawa State University, is also the President, Capital Market Academics of Nigeria. He said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, against the backdrop of the 298th MPC meeting scheduled to hold on Monday and Tuesday. According to him, for the first time in many months, both core and food inflation went up last month.…

Safiu Kehinde Ebonyi State governor, Francis Nwifuru, has ordered the arrest and prosecution of six state Ministry of Health members of staff over alleged diversion of materials meant for the ministry. As contained in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Dr Monday Uzor, on Sunday, Nwifuru ordered the arrest of one Ndukwe Ayansi and five others over the issue. The statement indicated that the governor while inspecting projects cited an articulated vehicle loading registers, books and other materials from the warehouse of the Ministry of Health. “Nwifuru stopped and made inquiries but not satisfied with answers given to…