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By Kamil Opeyemi The Senate will on Tuesday screen former Chairman of the Board of Citi Bank Nigeria, Dr Olayemi Cardoso for the position of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The senate will also screen four nominees for the positions of CBN Deputy Governors, who will join forces with Cardoso to steer affairs of the apex bank in the next five years. In a statement by the Media Office of the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, the Senate will screen all the nominees following its resumption from its annual recess. The senate had on Aug. 8, adjourned…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has issued an advisory to motorists and diverted traffic along Enugu–Port Harcourt Dual Carriage Expressway after a collapsed flyover fridge. The Corps Public Relations Officer (CPEO) Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Kazeem said the collapsed bridge was at new Artisan Market on the Port Harcourt-Enugu dual carriage way in Enugu State. He said the bridge, which was said to have collapsed on Sept. 25 at 12.30 p.m. had affected vehicular movement on that route. According to him, motorists coming from Portharcourt/Aba to Abakiliki are…
By Halimah Olamide The hospital where popular singer Oladimeji Ilerioluwa Aloba (Mohbad) died has opened up saying the singer was brought in dead. Perez Medcare hospital, located in Victoria Island, in a statement on Monday said the singer was brought to their medical facility, already lifeless, on the 12th of September at approximately 04:30 p.m. The statement partly read, “The attention of the management of Perez Medcare Hospital has been drawn to the misleading and false information circulated in some social media platforms that Mr Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba (AKA Mobbed) died in our medical facility. “We consider it pertinent to…
Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun on Monday called on world leaders to empower subnational entities to accelerate achievement of the Paris agreements on climate change. A statement by the governor’s Media Aide, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, said that Adeleke made the call when he received the report of the Climate Advisory Council in Osogbo. Adeleke said that his call had become necessary as world leaders converged on Dubai ahead of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the United Arab Emirates will host the…
By David Orji No life was lost on Monday after a 50-year-old Overhead Bridge across the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway at the New Artisan Market in Enugu State, collapsed. It was that the incident occurred at about 12 noon. People using the route were left stranded, creating heavy gridlock around the New Haven and Independence Layout area. Traders in the new Artisan Market claimed that they heard a large bang shortly after two lorries conveying goods passed through the bridge. One of the traders, who identified himself as Musa said: “We knew that this would happen someday because we have been…
By Kamil Opeyemi Men of the Nigerian Police Force on Monday arrested the Chairman of the Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun state, Mr. Wale Adedayo. Information available to the NPO Reports showed that Adedayo was arrested in his house by a combined team of policemen numbering about 12. He was said to have been whisked away by the policemen who sandwhiched him and did not allow anyone to follow him. A member of the family who spoke with the NPO Reports however confirmed that his lawyer had been contacted and had gone to the Eleweran Police Command headquarters…
By Halimah Olamide Veteran actor Yemi Adeyemi, popularly known as Suara, is dead. He died on Sunday according to a statement released by his family on Monday. The statement signed by the deceased’s son Adedotun Adeyemi read: “It is with a heavy heart but with total submission to God that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, Oluyemi Lawrence Adeyemi (Suara) who went to be with the Lord on Sunday, September 24, 2023. We are consoled because we know that he has gone to rest. We kindly request that the family be allowed some privacy…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Navy Holdings Limited (NHL) on Monday, dismissed allegations of corruption against its Executive Director, Operations, Commodore Gabriel Aligwe. The NHL Public Relations Officer, Commander Blessed Nuhu, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, described the allegations as malicious. The Network Against Corruption and Trafficking (NACAT), had in a statement, called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the officer. NACAT had in a statement by its Director of Investigation, Oghenedoro Tega, also called on the Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of…
The Kano State Government says it has no regrets demolishing structures that contravene the city Master Plan. It also alleged that some previous administrations in the state bastardized the City Master Plan, thus the reason for demolition of structures by the Gov. Abba Kabir Yusuf administration. The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Mr Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa, disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Lagos. Bature spoke against the backdrop of controversies that continued to trail demolitions of structures in Kano State by the Yusuf administration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the government on June…
The Federal Government with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has repatriated more than 150 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Amb. Kabiru Musa, Chargé D’Affaires En Titre in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja, said the evacuees were expected to arrive the country on Monday evening. According to Musa, the evacuees are Nigerians who were trapped in Libya as irregular migrants on the verge of perilous journey to Europe and other parts of the world. Musa said that the repatriation came less than a week after 155 irregular migrants…