By Abimbola Ogunnaike In a bid to ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS are not discriminated against at place of works, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a policy to guarantee their rights. A presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, who disclosed this on Wednesday, 5 April, 2023, said this would ensure people living with HIV/AIDS are respected and given equal rights. “Government has revised regulations pertaining to woodworking machinery and the entire ecosystem which dated back to 1959. New regulations have been put in place as empowered by the law, “ Shehu said “And by this approval, the Attorney-General of…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike At least 18 Boko Haram fighters were killed by the troops of Operation Hadin Kai after raiding the enclaves of the group in Sambisa Forest in the Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. It was gathered that the troops received credible intelligence from the newly established camp where the insurgents coordinated operations in the Sheutari and Mutari general area. It was also gathered that the troops of 21 Task Force Brigade Bama in conjunction with the Civilian Joint Task Force(CJTF) on Tuesday, 4 April, 2023 conducted precise clearance into the Garin Ba’aba enclave which led to the elimination of nearly…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Federal Government has castigated some western countries for funding the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a terrorist organisation. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who spoke in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations and policy institutes, said it was hypocritical for the western world to claim to be fighting terrorism but turn around to be supporting a terrorist organization like IPOB. The Minister is in the United States America (USA) to engage with international media organisations and Thinktanks on the just concluded 2023 polls “IPOB is a terrorist…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS) in collaboration with Centre for Social Cohesion Peace and Empowerment (CENSCOPE), other partners has disclosed that at least 755 people were killed by landmine, while 1, 321 were injured in six years of Boko Haram attacks. They called on the Federal Government to expedite action to establish the centre for Mine Action to enable the body to coordinates its activities in the country. The National Coordinator National Humanitarian Mine Action Committee, Group Captain Sadeeq Garba Shehu (rtd) made this known during this year’s commemoration of International Day for Mine Awareness…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba presided over by P. E. Nwaka. on Wednesday, 5 April, 2023 ordered that the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Fredrick Nwajagu, be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre. The 67-year-old Nwajagu was arrested last Saturday, 1 April, 2023 following a viral video, in which he threatened to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra to Lagos to secure properties of Igbo people living in the state. The police charged him with two counts, bordering on misconduct and intention to cause a breach of peace in Lagos State. The four-man police…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved N320,345,040, 835 as the 2023 intervention funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. From the 2023 intervention cycle, each university would receive N1,154,732,133.00; Polytechnic would get N699,344,867.00, and college of Education would get N800,862,602. The approval was revealed by the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Sonny Echono, during TETFund’s annual strategic planning workshop with all heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja on Wednesday, 5 April, 2023. “I am pleased to inform you that Mr. President has approved the 2023 disbursement guidelines in the total sum…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike In a bid to provide access to social services in the African countries, the World Bank and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have forged partnership to create proof of identification for 190m Africans. According to ECOWAS, the identification system would help to achieve the objective of West Africa Unique Identification for Regional Integration and Inclusion (WURI) programme. The West African regional body observed that despite the high level of intra-regional mobility within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) space– estimated at 70 percent of the population– about 196 million people (roughly 53 percent…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he is looking forward to his retirement in Daura, Katsina State, after handing over on May 29. Buhari, according to a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said this at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, 5 April, 2023 while receiving the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Wendy Laing. “I will be as far away from Abuja as possible,” the President said, just as he lauded United Kingdom (UK) for cooperation on many fronts, particularly in the rebuilding of the North East, hitherto ravaged by insurgency. According to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Senate report has revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation failed to account for oil delivery to Warri and Kaduna refineries amounting to N102 billion. The Senate on Wednesday, 5 April, 2023 considered and adopted the report of its Committee on Public Accounts which probed the spendings of government agencies using the 2016 audit report. The report said in 2016, the NNPC delivered crude oil to Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company without details of what was delivered to the two firms. According to the report, presented by Senator Matthew…
Oyotunji African Village is a village located near Sheldon, Beaufort County, South Carolina that was founded by Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I in 1970. Oyotunji village is named after the Oyo empire, a pre-colonial Yoruba kingdom lasting from the 1300s until the early 1800s in what is now southwestern Nigeria. The name literally means “O̩yo̩ returns” or “O̩yo̩ rises again” or “O̩yo̩ resurrects” referring to the African Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, now rising in a new form near the South Carolina seashore. Oyotunji village covers 27 acres (11 ha) and has a Yoruba temple which was moved from Harlem,…