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By Femi Alabi Telecommunications operators in Nigeria have apologised to users for outages on their different networks caused by damage to multiple submarine cables along the West African Coast. The appeal was made in a statement signed by the Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), Mr Gbenga Adebayo and Executive Secretary of ALTON, Mr Gbolahan Awonuga. Adebayo said that on behalf of its members, it wished to assure users of communication services that repair processes were ongoing by the responsible international service providers. A combination of cable cuts, resulted in equipment faults on major undersea cables along…
By Femi Alabi President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr Dennis Otuaro as the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) and Dr Dakorinama George as the Director-General, Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) This is contained in a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Thursday in Abuja. Ngelale said ”the new PAP administrator holds a PhD in Comparative Politics & Development Studies; an MSc in Public Administration, and a BSc in Education.” He said Otuaro had served as a top-level executive of the Niger Delta Development Commission with…
By Femi Alabi The late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun who died late Thursday, will be buried on Friday evening in Ibadan, a family member has announced. The late Oba who died barely 72 hours after completing two years on the throne as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland will be buried at his Aliiwo ancestral home by 4 p.m. according to Islamic rites. His younger brother, Dr Kola Balogun, disclosed in a statement by the late Olubadan’s media aide, Oladele Ogunsola, that “Olubadan bowed out gracefully this evening at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan after a…
By Femi Alabi Troops of the Joint Task Force Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) have rescued five women and two babies in Zamfara after spending two months in captivity. This is contained in a statement issued in Gusau on Thursday.by the Information Officer to the Operation, Lt. Suleiman Omale, “Troops in a daring operation, successfully stormed Kuyambana forest in Zamfara state and succeeded in rescuing five women two babies. “They were kidnapped in January 2024 from Marange village in Kagara Local Government Area of Niger State. “The victims, who endured months of captivity, were liberated following the relentless offensive…
By Femi Alabi A Special Offences Court sitting at Bolade-Oshodi has convicted a lady, Fasia Anime to Seven months and three weeks imprisonment for assaulting a female operative of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (KAI). The 22 year old Ajoke was arraigned before Chief Magistrate S.A Adefioye of the Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile Court), Bolade-Oshodi on offences bordering on conducting herself in a manner likely to breach peace, obstruction and breach of peace by crossing the highway. The Lagos State Commissioner for the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab who posted on his X…
By Femi Alabi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has on Thursday, dragged former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja over N84billion money laundering offences. Bello was arraigned alongside his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Sulaiman and Abdulsalam Hudu. The EFCC on its Official X handle said the Commission is prosecuting the quartet on an amended 17-count charge of money laundering, breach of trust and misappropriation of fund to tune of N84,062,406,089.88 (Eighty-four Billion, Sixty-two Million, Four Hundred and Six Thousand, Eighty-nine Naira, Eighty-eight Kobo). To make way…
By Femi Alabi The Nigeria Civil Service Union (NSCU) has appealed to the Federal Government to be fair in the implementation of Oronsaye Report and ensure workers do not lose their jobs. The President of the Union, FCT chapter, Asogwa Gupada, made the appeal at the union’s 58th Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja. “The Federal Government is set to implement the Oronsaye Report, which recommended the merging of some MDAs in order to cut the cost of governance. “Our stand is that the federal government should be fair in the implementation of the Report. We do…
By Femi Alabi The Senate has dismissed media reports claiming that it will expose all “frauds associated with the contracts and management of the Turn Around Maintenance of the nation’s refineries”. A news report last week claimed that the Senate through its Ad-hoc Committee on Investigation of Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) in the nation’s refineries has vowed to “expose all frauds associated with the contracts and management of the process.” The Chief Corporate Communications Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited NNPCL, Olufemi Soneye in a statement said the Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has…
By Femi Alabi The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has called on lawmakers to enact security related laws to stem the tide of kidnapping in Nigeria Tinubu in a statement by her Senior Special Assistant on Media, Busola Kukoyi reiterated her call for stiffer penalties for kidnappers in the country. She started this when she received in her office in Abuja the Senators representing the 3 senatorial districts of the Lagos State. Tinubu said, “We should look into the laws we would bring up. On the issue of kidnapping, it is like we…
By Femi Alabi Ogun State Government on Thursday dismissed an online recruitment advert purported to have emanated from the state’s Civil Service Commission as fake. Permanent Secretary, Ogun Civil Service Commission, Mrs Roseline Jacobs, in a statement described the online advert as a ruse and did not emanate from the Commission. The online advertisement had called on prospective applicants to apply for various vacancies in the state’s civil service. Jacobs advised members of the public to disregard the recruitment advert, stressing that it was mischief perpetrated by unscrupulous individuals bent on maligning the state government