I won’t approve state police; governors not treating LG chairmen well: Buhari “Are the third tier of government getting what they are supposed to get constitutionally? Are they getting it?” the president asked. President Muhammadu Buhari says state police is not feasible in Nigeria giving the hostile relationship between state governors and local governments. “State … [Read more…]
Okoh Aihe SO early in the year, there are plans and projections, hopes and promises, and optimism so strong in the air that life can be a sustained swan song. But there are also fears. People thinking that the kind of uncertainties and bloodletting we witnessed in the previous year may have … [Read more…]
The Federal Government is set to gazette the court order classifying bandits as terrorists, it was learnt yesterday. The November 26, 2021 judgment by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has also become a critical factor in the deployment of Super Tucano aircraft in the fight against terrorists, … [Read more…]
THE usual hustle and bustle of the recently-concluded Yuletide season came with the harsh reality of the shortage of cash in Nigerian banks. This was evidenced by the unusually long queues at the ATMs with many of them not being functional, as well as the inundation of banks by customers who require cash … [Read more…]
Apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and the Tiv nation have endorsed the quest by the South East to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023. They, however, demanded that the country must be restructured before the 2023 general election to guarantee its continued co-existence as one … [Read more…]
Lewandoski named best footballer, Mo Salah second, Messi third Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski is the best football player and Liverpool’s Juergen Klopp, the best coach, according to a survey among German Bundesliga players conducted by Kicker sports magazine. Kicker said in its latest edition on Monday that Lewandowski garnered 43.2 per cent of the … [Read more…]
Ignore collateral damage, bomb all forests in north to end banditry: El-Rufai Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has proposed for a blanket bombing of forests in the North to flush out bandits, saying “collateral damage” was expected to ending banditry. “I’ve always believed that, you know, we should carpet-bomb the forests; we can replant the trees … [Read more…]
Nine fire stations to be established in Enugu: Official The Enugu State Government plans to establish new fire stations in nine council areas without fire stations in the state in the year 2022, a fire service official said. Okwudili Ohaa, the Enugu State Chief Fire Safety Officer, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on … [Read more…]
Former presidential candidate Bashir Tofa dies at 74 Bashir Tofa, a former presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention in the 1993 presidential election, is dead. Mr Tofa died at 74. He died at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in the early hours of Monday. Mr Tofa contested against MKO Abiola of the SDP in the … [Read more…]
Banks’ borrowings from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, rose by 233 per cent, year-on-year, to N26.9 trillion in 2021 reflecting increased reliance on the apex bank to cope with the intense scarcity of funds which prevailed in the interbank money market for most part of last year. The CBN has two short … [Read more…]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors and the Joint Health Sector Union, on Sunday, knocked members of the House of Representatives over plans to outlaw strikes in the health sector. The bodies described a proposed bill to that effect as draconian and an assault on the democratic rights of employees. The PUNCH … [Read more…]
All is set for the Imo State Stakeholders meeting scheduled to hold on Tuesday, 4th January 2022 at Sam Mbakwe Exco Chambers, Government House, Owerri as all relevant stakeholders have been invited and Imolites expectant of the outcome. In running all-inclusive governance, His Excellency the Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma had upon resumption of … [Read more…]