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By Halimah Olamide The Nobel Prize has said that Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka is the finest poetical playwright to have written in English language. The global body that honoured Soyinka in 1986 with a prize in Literature, stated this as it’s celebration of the Nigerian writer on his 90th birthday. Soyinka clocked 90 on Saturday July 13 in what was marked in many parts of the country with lectures, dramas, book readings, and others. “The creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another.”…
By Kamil Opeyemi The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Wednesday said its operatives have arrested, Sulaiman Jimoh popularly know as Temo, said to be a kingpin in drugs business in Lagos. Said to be 57-year-old old, he is alleged to be leader of a drug cartel in the state. Mr. Femi Babafemi, NDLEA, Director of Media and Advocacy, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the arrest was done after many years of aversion and much resistance from the drug dealer and his gang of hoodlums. “After many years of wearing the toga…
Agency Report The Commissioner for Health in Abia, Dr Ngozi Okoronkwo, suspended from office on June 11, has resigned her appointment. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Njoku Ukoha, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Umuahia on Wednesday. Ukoha added that Okoronkwo tendered her resignation letter to Gov. Alex Otti on Tuesday, even when the panel set up to investigate her alleged misconduct was still sitting. It stated that the governor, while accepting her resignation, “thanked her for her services and modest achievements in repositioning Abia’s Health Sector for better service delivery in the…
Students Bodies, Youths Organisations, Others Address Media More Groups to Emerge Ahead of August By Halimah Olamide Apparently to stave off the massive protests being planned by some groups and individuals unhappy with the current economic hardships in the country, state governments are beginning to mobilise more youths organisations, students bodies and others to speak against the proposed protests. The last few days have witnessed a good number of groups from different parts of the country speaking against the proposed protests. NPO Reports learnt reliably that the strategy is one of those agreed upon by the states and the…
Agency Report The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has secured the conviction of a couple in Benin for human trafficking. Mr Ganiu Aganran, the Coordinator of the Benin Zonal Command of NAPTIP, disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin. He said that the couple, Adesuwa Otabor and Otabor Idahosa, was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit human trafficking. According to him, the High Court, Criminal Division 2, Benin City. found the couple guilty of exporting a victim to Dubai for…
Agency Report Music sensation, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, will perform for the second time at the iconic 02 Arena in London for an event slated for Sept.21 . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the O2 Arena, commonly known as ‘The O2’, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the centre of the 02 entertainment district on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London. It opened in its present form in 2007. It has the third-highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom. It is behind the co-op live and Manchester Arena, and in 2008 was the world’s busiest music arena.…
By Halimah Olamide Some officials of the West Africa Examination Council were on Wednesday ordered to be detained at the Police Post of the National Assembly until issues bordering on which authority the council reports to is resolved. At a hearing probe which saw the presence of Amos Josiah Dangut, Head of National Office, WAEC Nigeria, who represented the Registrar; Angus Okeleze, Senior Deputy Registrar; Victor Odu, Acting Director of Finance and Segun Jerumeh, Deputy Director of Finance, the probing lawmakers had demanded for accountability to which one of them had reportedly said WAEC was not accountable to the House…
ByHalimah Olamide FirstBank, on Wednesday announced its continuous VISA Cross Border and Summer campaign in partnership with VISA. The campaign, which commenced on 1 April 2024, according to a statement made available to the NPO Reports, is set to run until 31 August 2024 as a rewarding initiative for existing VISA Gold and VISA Infinite cardholders and prospective customers. “Throughout the campaign, 502 lucky Visa Infinite and Visa Gold cardholders will win $50 gift vouchers. 2 cardholders will enjoy an all-expense-paid trip for two to the Olympic Games in Paris, France. The promo offers an excellent opportunity for…
By Kamil Opeyemi The last has not been heard over the allegation by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga who fingered the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 general election, Peter Obi, of being behind the August planned protests by Nigerians. Obi’s lawyer, Chief Alex Ejesieme, SAN, has written a letter to Onanuga demanding for N5bn in damages. The lawyer also demanded a retraction of the alleged defamatory statement against Obi. In the letter addressed to Onanuga, Ejesieme refuted the allegations. He described them as “false and malicious.” The letter stated: “Our Client…
By Halimah Olamide Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike has said politics is at the centre of the nationwide protests against the country’s economic situation being planned to commence on August 1. Wike said Nigeria has been rotten for a long time noting that a new government has come to fix the decay and should be given the room to mend the damages. Wike stated this on Tuesday, while interacting with journalists after inspection of the Karshi to Apo Road construction project awarded 13 years ago. “Let’s tell ourselves the simple truth. If we are playing politics let’s say we…