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By Halimah Olamide The Delta State Police Command has confirmed handing over the traditional ruler of Ewu Kingdom, Clement Isoko to the military authorities. Bright Edafe, spokesman of the command, said in a statement in Warri on Friday that Ikolo was among the 8 persons declared wanted by the military. NPO Reported on Thursday that the military had declared 8 persons wanted over the March 14 killings of the 17 soldiers in Okuama community. Among them is also a professor of Physics at the Delta State University, Ekpepo Arthur. The embattled royal father, who had surrendered himself to the police…
By Noor Nanji,Culture reporter BBC NEWS Louis Gossett Jr, the first black man to win the best supporting actor Oscar, has died at the age of 87. The New York-born actor won the Academy Award in 1982 for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman. Gossett also won an Emmy in 1978 for his role in Roots, the ground-breaking TV mini-series about slavery. His death was confirmed by his family to the BBC’s US partner CBS. No cause of death was given. Gossett made his Broadway debut as a teenager and later starred in…
Agency Report Dr Muda Yusuf, founder of the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE), says the upward adjustment of capital requirements for banks will improve their ability to manage risks and withstand economic shocks. Yusuf said this in a statement on Friday while responding to CBN’s announcement on recapitalisation requirements for banks. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the apex bank had on Thursday raised minimum capital requirement for commercial banks with regional, national and international licences to ₦50 billion, ₦200 billion and ₦500 billion respectively. CBN also raised the capital base of merchant banks…
By Halimah Olamide Millions of telephone lines have become inactive after the Nigerian Communications Commission made good its vow not to extend the deadline midnight Friday March 29. The NCC had given a March 29 deadline for all telephone subscribers to ensure linkages of their NIN with their SIMs. The commission said it is Part of Federal Government’s measures towards ending insecurity in the country. NPO Reported Friday that NCC had declined to succumb to overtures by telcos to have the deadline extended by another one week. But the commission said it has given enough period of grace for those…
Grades Community Road in Osun A former House of Assembly aspirant in Iwo, Barr Segun Obiwusi, has urged political office holders across the country to fulfill their promises to improve the lives of the people. This, Obiwusi said would endear them to the electorate. Obiwusi made this call during the weekend while overseeing the grading of selected roads in the Adeeke area of Iwo. In a statement by his media aide, Ishola Adekanmi, Obiwusi emphasized the imperative for political office holders to recognize their current positions as avenues for aiding their communities “See the electorates as the backbone behind your…
Former President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he is fully committed to the success of the Bola Tinubu administration. He was quoted as saying this during a telephone conversation he had with the President according to his former Aide on Media Garba Shehu. Shehu had earlier posted a statement credited to Buhari where he greeted his successor on his 72nd birthday. Shehu said Buhari followed up his public statement with a phone call to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in which he personally passed on his best wishes for a happy 72nd birthday to the President. “In the course of the…
By Halimah Olamide The Senate President Godswill Akpabio has hinted of the possibility of that Upper Legislative House recalling suspended member Abdul Ahmed Ningi. Speaking with journalists on his return from an international event on Friday, Akpabio said the decision against the former Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum was a parliamentary one adding that the parliament would treat it as one. He said the matter would be resolved like a family affair and hopefully Ningi would return to take his seat earlier than expected. Akpabio said: “It is a parliamentary decision. I have not seen the letter yet. But…
By Halimah Olamide Few hours to the deadline for the NIN-SIM linkage given by the regulator, the National Communication Commission will not extend its midnight March 29 tonight for affected lines to be blocked. This is amidst unsubstantiated reports that the NCC will permit telecommunications companies to extend by another one week. Sources at the NCC confided in the NPO Reports Friday afternoon that all telephone lines without NIN linkage will stop working as from 12 midnight today. Though it was gathered that the body of telecom operators are putting pressure on teh NCC to consider an extension, sources said…
By Debo Adesina The times are tough. It is therefore just appropriate that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shunned all forms of celebration of his 72nd birthday. He has great dreams. And a proverb says a man who wants his dream to come true does not sleep. That is a proverb Asiwaju has lived all his life and is living even more, now! That is one man who, literally, never sleeps! The least we can do as Nigerians is to join hands with him by staying awake to our duties and responsibilities as citizens. An appropriate birthday gift we can…
By Gloria Aradi,BBC News KFC Nigeria has issued an apology after the airport authority shut one of its outlets over alleged discrimination against a disabled client. Adebola Daniel, son of a former Nigerian state governor Gbenga Daniel, said in a post on X that he was ordered to leave a KFC outlet at Lagos airport because of his wheelchair. The post sparked widespread outrage. It also prompted an investigation by the federal airport authority, ending in the branch’s closure. In a long thread, Mr Daniel described the incident, which happened on Tuesday, as “the worst sort of public humiliation” he…