Ita Enang: FG will soon release white paper on NDDC forensic audit report
Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on Niger Delta affairs, says the federal government will soon release a white paper on the report of the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). President Muhammadu Buhari had, in 2019, ordered a forensic audit of the NDDC’s operations from 2001 to […]
El-Rufai: Let’s bomb forests to tackle banditry
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says security operatives should “carpet bomb the forests” to wipe out bandits. The governor spoke in a chat with Arise TV on Monday. El-Rufai attributed the prolonged inability of security operatives to curb banditry in the northwest region to a “lack of enough boots on the […]
OPEC appoints new secretary-general as Mohammad Barkindo’s tenure ends July
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has voted to appoint Kuwaiti candidate Haitham Al-Ghais as its new secretary-general In a statement, the oil cartel said Al-Ghais was selected at a special meeting of the Conference of OPEC held via videoconference on Monday, January 3, 2022. He will replace Mohammad Sanusi […]
IPOB: Henceforth, no more Nigerian national anthems in south-east schools
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says the recitation of the Nigerian national anthem will henceforth be banned in schools in the south-east. Chika Edoziem, IPOB director of state, stated this in a New Year message announcing the plans of the proscribed separatist group for 2022. Edoziem said school authorities in the […]
Lekan Balogun not qualified to be Olubadan, ex-Oyo AG writes Makinde
Michael Lana, a former attorney-general of Oyo state, says Lekan Balogun, a former senator, is unfit to be crowned as the next Olubadan of Ibadan. Saliu Adetunji, the Olubadan of Ibadan, breathed his last at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in the early hours of Sunday. The monarch, who was the 41st king […]
‘Gross abuse of power’ — Inibehe Effiong faults Lagos CP’s arrest of Magodo residents
Inibehe Effiong, human rights lawyer, has faulted the arrest of residents and security guards of Magodo Brooks estate by Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos commissioner of police. On Saturday, the police commissioner, who was attending a social event at the estate, ordered the arrest of four security guards over their “refusal to allow” him entry […]
‘Governance isn’t for idle bloggers’ — Kaduna APC hits Shehu Sani
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state has taken a swipe at Shehu Sani, a former senator representing Kaduna central, over comments credited to him. While declaring his intention to contest the Kaduna governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sani had said if elected, he “will clean […]
OBITUARY: Bashir Tofa, MKO Abiola’s opponent who rejected declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day
There is that epochal moment — a landmark happening that defines a person’s life. Some people are the main characters when this significant moment happens. However, some are outshined by a bigger star in this all-important moment. Bashir Tofa happened to be one in the latter group of individuals who have been relegated to […]
CLOSE-UP: The man who would become next Olubadan of Ibadan
Just as the world was celebrating the transition to a new year, news filtered in that Salihu Adetunji, the Olubadan of Ibadan, had passed on. Adetunji, who was crowned as the 41st Olubadan in March 2016, died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo state in the early hours of Sunday. He […]
Henceforth, visitors to Aso Villa will be tested for COVID, says presidency
The presidency says visitors to the presidential villa in Abuja will be required to take rapid COVID tests before they would be allowed in. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, confirmed the development to state house correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. Rapid COVID tests are designed to tell in a few minutes if someone […]