The Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-terrorism (UNOCT), Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, has concluded a week-long high-level visit to Nigeria. During his visit which ended on Tuesday, 5 September, 2023, Voronkov held a series of high-level bilateral meetings with the President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar; Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar; National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Rufai Abubakar; Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja; Kayode Egbetokun, Inspector- General of Police and President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)Commission, Omar Alieu Touray.…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, CON, has approved 100 per cent increment in the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed to Kogi State for their mandatory one-year service. The Governor approved the raise considering the current economic realities and the overall importance of the NYSC scheme to national and state development. He spoke during the closing ceremony of the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream 2 of the NYSC at the State’s Orientation Camp, Asanya, in Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, on Tuesday, 5 September, 2023. The Governor also announced a donation…
The Oyo State Government has sealed off some commercial banks as well as telecommunications masts around Ibadan metropolis. Some of the banks sealed were branches of Access Bank and Heritage Bank in Ibadan. The Enforcement team of the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Led by the Director, Land Use Charge, Esv Olufisayo Ogunbiyi, during an Enforcement tour around the city of Ibadan, said the action was due to non-compliance with payment of revenue to the coffers of the state government. According to the Director, Land Use Charge, the commercial banks and the telecommunications outfits have been served notices…
The Civil Society Organizations on Community Advancement and Humanitarian Empowerment Initiative (CSCHEI) in Nigeria has appointed Kunle Yusuff, MON, as its Director General. The appointment was endorsed by the Board of Trustees and Alliance Members of the organisation on Tuesday, 5 September, 2023 during the inaugural meeting of the executive management team, which was held at Nicon Luxury, Central Area, Abuja. The Organization is an accredited non-profit establishment that coordinates various registered Community-based Organizations-CBO, Non-Governmental Organization NGO, with a view to providing community enhancement, humanitarian empowerment, dignity and societal values for development in the country. Equally, the establishment serves as…
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris Malagi has assured that activities and intervention programmes by the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) will enjoy wider coverage, henceforth. This is in order to capture more women and other vulnerable groups targeted by the initiative across the country. The Minister stated this during a courtesy call on Nigeria’s First Lady and National Chairman of Renewed Hope Initiative, Senator Oluremi Tinubu CON, at the Villa. Applauding recent interventions by the Initiative, the Minister says the Renewed Hope Initiative programmes effectively complement the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration, and as…
The declaration of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Senator Adams Oshiomhole of the All Progressives Congress(APC) as the winner of the February 25, 2023, Edo North Senatorial District election has been affirmed by National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin, the Edo State capital, on Monday, 4 September, 2023. The tribunal also upheld the election of House leader, Julius Ihonvbere of the APC as the member representing Owan Federal Constituency. Recall that Alimikhena, through his counsel, Rasak Isenalume, had petitioned the former Governor of the state, Oshiomhole, alongside the INEC and APC, Suit No. EPT/ED/SEN/02/2023. The…
Manchester United are set to take disciplinary action on Jadon Sancho, for publicly, through a social media, lashing out at manager Erik ten Hag. Ten Hag had claimed that he dropped England national team winger for their 3-1 defeat at Arsenal on Sunday, 3 September, 2023, because of the player’s poor attitude in training all week. The 23-year-old then hit back at the Dutch tactician online and claimed he was being used as a scapegoat. However, Ten Hag is standing by his remarks and United may initiate disciplinary action against Sancho. Sancho’s latest fall-out with his manager has plunged his future…
The Federal Government has unveiled plans to include families of wounded and fallen soldiers in the national social register and its poverty alleviation programmes. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, who made this disclosure during a meeting with the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa on Monday, 4 September, 2023 in Abuja, also expressed the need to support the military families. ”We want to expand our social register to accommodate military personnel that have either been wounded or affected by war, even soldiers that left their families behind. “We need this data from the military so…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, said on Monday, 4 September, 2023, that the government would move to fix about 100 kilometres of internal roads in Ibadan, the state capital and that once it is able to succeed with that, the effort would be replicated across the state. He also expressed the readiness of his administration to kick-start the process for the employment of primary school teachers to fill the gap left by the secondment of teachers to secondary schools and retirements. This was as the governor called on residents of Olodo Area of Ibadan to be patient with the government,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The District Head of Ofugo at Opulega, in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State, Chief Abdulkerim Aliyu, have been kidnapped by gunmen, just as they also demanded the sum of N5 million as ransom. It was gathered that the incident happened at the weekend, around 7:30 pm on Sunday, 3 September, 2023 when the gunmen invaded his palace and whisked him away. According to the locals, the kidnappers came to his house, disguised as police officers from Kogi State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Lokoja, the state capital and took him away in his Lexus jeep for…