The Senate on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023, urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to halt their proposed tariff increase and “allow Nigerians to breathe.” The Senate also urged DisCos to henceforth allow Nigerian communities to recover their cost of buying electricity transformer before asking them to pay bills. It also called a halt to estimated billing by urgently supplying all electricity consumers with prepaid meters at affordable rates across the country. This and other resolutions of the Red Chambers followed its consideration of a motion titled: “Need to halt proposed increase in…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
Former captain of the Nigerian Rugby National Team, Azeez Ladipo has been appointed to the Nigeria Olympic Committee Athletes Commission. A statement from Dr Robinson Okosun, Chairman Media Committee, Nigeria Rugby Football Federation on Wednesday, 25 July, 2023, said the appointment was approved by the NOC leadership. Robinson also quoted the NOC President, Engr Habu Ahmed Gumel, in a congratulatory message ”Your appointment is in recognition of your wealth of experience and outstanding contribution to Nigerian Sports as well as the Olympic Movement”. Engr Gumel further stated that ”It is therefore hoped that you would bring to bear your expertise…
By Kehinde Bamigbetan Professional maturity is expected to come with experience on the job. After over three decades of reporting, writing and editing scripts, it is a pity that malicious propaganda has sent Steve Osuji down the hill to a catastrophic abyss. His petty and pitiable piece of malignant disinformation published in the papers and circulated on social media yesterday rankles. Remote from the precincts of policy generation and formulation, far from the intellectual discourses and technical sessions on how best to give succour to the Nigerian people as fast as feasible at a time of great expectations of social…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Super Eagles dazzling winger Samuel Chukwueze’s much-anticipated move to Milan is nearly done, as the Italian giants have successfully concluded negotiations with Villarreal and the Nigeria international has landed in Italy for his medicals on Wednesday, 25 July, 2023. Sky Sport Italia reports that the deal is all but finalised, with only minor administrative formalities remaining to be resolved within the next few hours. Milan are set to confirm the signing of Chukwueze soon and he will become the seventh player that Milan have signed this summer. He will be the fifth of those seven that the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023 received in audience the immediate past National Chairman and Secretary of the governing All Progressives Congress,(APC) Senators Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore, respectively, at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. Today’s meeting comes one week after Adamu and Omisore reportedly resigned their positions just days to the scheduled National Caucus and National Executive Council meetings earlier slated for Monday, 18 July and Tuesday, 19 July, 2023, respectively. At the time, Tinubu was away in Kenya for the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union and have not met…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Three suspects in connection to the gang rape of a 15-year-old minor are now cooling off at the Adamawa state police command cell in Mayo Belwa Local government Area of the state. The suspects identified as Hassan Nasir, 25years, a resident of Sabon Pegi Ngurore, Yola South Local Government Area, Uzairu Dan Fulani, 25years, a resident of Gasabga ward Mayo belwa, Yola South local government Area and Yahaya Edward, 26, a resident of Sabon Pegi, Ngurore, Yola South Local government Area. According to the police, the suspects lured the girl who boarded a tricycle from Mayo Belwa to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Some aggrieved Muslim youths took to the streets of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to demonstrate their displeasure with popular singer, Davido who posted a video clip offensive to Islam on his Twitter page. Recall that Davido came under heavy criticisms after sharing a clip of the music video of his signee, Logos Olori’s new single ‘Jaye Lo’ which captured people praying and dancing in front of a mosque. Many prominent Nigerian Muslims including former aide to ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, Senator Shehu Sani, actor, Ali Nuhu, asked Davido to take down the video and apologise…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The unthinkable happened to the family of a 30-year-old County Chief Officer, Rahab Karisa in Mnarani, Kilifi county in Kenya as she was allegedly stabbed to death by her house help after a disagreement over money spends on house expenditure. Karisa, who until her death, was the Chief Officer for Fisheries and Blue Economy, was found dead in her room on Thursday, 20 July, 2023, after reportedly quarreling with the house help. An autopsy conducted on Friday, 21 July, 2023 at the Kilifi county hospital, indicated that Karisa sustained a deep cut that pierced through the artery…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Protest rocked the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree Chapter, on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023 over the suspension of the institution’s Rector, Dr Tajudeen Odetayo. The protesters, chanting solidarity songs, barricaded the main campus entrance in Iree which left the students writing examination stranded. The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, had suspended Odetayo as the rector of polytechnic over corruption allegations and announced Alabi Adeyemi as the acting rector of the institution. However, the Academy Staff Union of Polytechnic in the institution described the suspension as an aberration which was against the constitution of the institution. The Chairman of the union,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Rights groups on Tuesday, 26 July, 2023 disclosed that Singapore is set to hang two drug convicts this week, including the first woman to be sent to the gallows in nearly 20 years for drug related offence. Rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023 urged Singapore to halt the impending executions. “It is unconscionable that authorities in Singapore continue to cruelly pursue more executions in the name of drug control,” Amnesty’s death penalty expert Chiara Sangiorgio said in a statement. “There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect or that…