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By Halimah Olamide A former head of public agency gives reasons why workers of Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission were jubilant over the removal of their former Registrar A former Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Waziri Adio on Tuesday said the wild jubilation by officials of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) after the replacement of the agency’s former Registrar, A.G Abubakar cannot be divorced from the diligence and the no-nonsense posture of the former Registrar while in the saddle. Adio, who served as the boss of the transparency organisation, said he had close dealings with the…

By Halimah `Olamide The newly appointed Postmaster General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Postal Service, Tola Odeyemi, has eventually taken charge of affairs at the Abuja head office of the postal agency on Monday. She addressed members of staff at the conference room of the organisation after hours of chaos which saw to an order on the sacked CEO, Mr. Sunday Adepoju, to vacate the office for her. Adepoju had claimed that President Bola Tinubu had changed his mind on the appointment of Odeyemi, whose name was among the new heads of all agencies under the Ministry…

How New Postmaster General, Tola Odeyemi Took Over With Soldiers By Kamil Opeyemi There seems to be calm at the head office of the Nigerian Postal Service few hours ago in Abuaj as the sacked Postmaster General, Sunday Adepoju finally bowed to “order from above” to leave office for the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, Tola Odeyemi. Workers, who a source told the NPO Reports were instructed to mount a resistance to the resumption by Odeyemi on Monday, had shut the gate of the head office. Many of them also displayed placards carrying various inscriptions saying Adepoju should not be…

By Halimah Olamide There is currently tension at the Garki, head office of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) on Monday as workers of the government-owned postal company shut the gate against the newly appointed Postmaster General of the Federation, Tola Odeyemi. NPO Reported on Sunday that the sacked Postmaster General, Sunday Adepoju, had claimed that President Bola Tinubu had changed his mind and had asked Odeyemi to see him for consideration for another position. On Monday, some workers in the agency displayed placards at the gate of the postal company, a parastatal struggling for survival in view of the new…

Halimah Olamide Social media influencer and Public Relations specialist, Adegoke Pamilerin, and his wife Motunrayo have welcome their first child. Pamilerin revealed this in a short post on his X handle on Sunday. The couple got married last year in a court event in Lagos. Sharing the good news with his fans, Pamilerin wrote : My Housemate don born with a love emoji. daddy Boy. Almost immediately, Pamilerin updated his bio on his profile to indicate he has become a father in addition to its initial “Husband PR Media.” A baby boy, the influencer said that they were aware of…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) says the party’s candidate in the Nov. 11 Imo State Governorship election, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu remains the party National Secretary. The party made the clarification in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in Abuja on Friday. Ologunagba said that the attention of the NWC of PDP had been drawn to a statement by a group mischievously purporting that the NWC had relieved Anyanwu of his elected position as national secretary. “The NWC states in very clear terms that the claim by the group is completely…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Ondo State House of Assembly has suspended the impeachment proceedings against Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Deputy Governor of the state. Olusegun Odusola, the Chief Judge of the state High Court, had declined the Assembly’s request to set up a seven-man panel to investigate allegations of gross misconduct against Aiyedatiwa. The CJ was said to have cited a subsisting court’s ex-parte order restraining him from carrying out the directive of the Assembly. Speaking on the matter on Friday, the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr. Olatunji Oshati, said the House would abide by the order of the court,…

By Kamil Opeyemi The All Progressives Congress (APC), has postponed the flag-off of its Bayelsa Governorship Campaign earlier scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 14, in Yenagoa. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, announced this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said that a new date would be communicated to the public in due course. Recall that an Abuja High Court recently disqualified Timipre Sylva, the APC candidate, from contesting the Nov. 11 governorship race. Justice Donatus Okorowo, while delivering the judgement, held that Sylva had been sworn in twice and ruled Bayelsa for five years as governor.…

By Kamil Opeyemi The ICPC says it is set to begin Phase 6 tracking of the constituency and executive projects valued at N500 billion, which started in 2019 in 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that the exercise would have teams tracking 1,932 projects. She explained that the focal states for the exercise included Nasarawa, Benue, Kogi, Niger, Kwara, Plateau, Adamawa, Borno, Bauchi, Taraba, Gombe and Yobe. Others, according to her, are Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto,…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has set up two joint security task forces to ensure the safety and security of residents of the FCT. The Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Haruna Garba, made this known while briefing journalists on the outcome of the FCT Security Council meeting in Abuja on Friday. Garba said that one of them was a Joint Task Force, consisting of all security agencies in the FCT, on “one chance” activities. The other, he said, is a Joint Task Force to curtail the activities of armed robbers, kidnappers…