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By Halimah Olamide Amidst tension over impending nationwide protests over the state of the economy in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, the ruling party has asked the masses to ignores calls on them to match to the streets in protests. The All Progressive Congress, which took over the reign of federal rule in 2015 with the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari, has produced a second president in 2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu’s announcement of a removal of the oil subsidy on his inauguration day had precipitated a wave of repercussions in the economic indices. Prices of goods and services have…
Agency Report Nigeria will begin the quest for medals in the table tennis competition of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris with Quadri Aruna taking on Romania’s Eduard Ionescu on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aruna will face Ionesco in a first round match of the men’s singles event. The pairing emerged following the event’s draw on Wednesday at the South Paris Arena, the venue of the competition. It presents the Nigerian an opportunity to gain revenge against the Romanian who beat him 2-3 in the semi-finals of the European Champions League. Teammate Olajide Omotayo faces Iran’s Noshad…
Halimah Olamide “Already, Nigerians have suffered enough. The global economic recession, the insecurity in Nigeria, the political tension occasioned by instigations and campaigns of calumny by the opposition parties, the social media attacks on the various policies of government. Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have asked young Nigerians not to be instigated into causing violence in the country in the name of protests. This was the appeal by the governors after they met under closed door in Abuja. The governors had reviewed the situation in the country and the impending protests across the country over…
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…