President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised to correct decades-long injustice against the people of Ondo State in appointments in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Speaking with journalists in Lagos, the Chairman of Niger Delta Emancipation and Justice Forum (NDEJF), Eniola Ayenuberu, declared that since the creation of NDDC, an indigene of Ondo State has not been appointed the Managing Director or given any sensitive position in the agency. To him, this is a flagrant disregard for the Act setting up the Commission. NDEJF insisted that lopsidedness in the appointment of top management members of the commission since its…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has imposed an indefinite ban on metal scavenging activities in all nooks and crannies of the state. According to a statement by the spokesman of the government, Mallam Isa Gusau, the Governor’s ban aims to forestall continued killings of scavengers by Boko Haram insurgents at the outskirts of some local government areas and to stop theft of public and private property. Gusau recalled that known and unknown number of youths who go to deserted communities in search of metals have been ambushed and killed by insurgents. Gusau, said the Governor while announcing the ban…
South Korea has asked for partnership with Nigeria on management of affairs of her diasporas. South Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Kim Young-Chae, who revealed that the South Korean Government has just established the South Korean Oversea Agency similar to Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), as a one-stop shop for Korean nationals in the Diaspora, seek collaboration with the Nigerian agency. The Korean envoy who paid a visit to the Chairman/ CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday said the agency was established in June, this year He congratulated the President of…
No fewer than 4,560 kilogrammes of skunk have been seized in interdiction operations in Lagos, Adamawa and Osun by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in the last few days. The Operatives also raided a skucchies factory in Ogun and arrested four members of a drug syndicate including two church officials; female staff of a courier company and another lady, involved in trafficking lethal opioid, fentanyl in Delta. These were parts of the clampdowns in the last one week by the anti-narcotics agency, according to a statement on Sunday by it’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi. He noted that…
The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulkarim Chukkol has reiterated the Commission’s readiness to sustain its partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC. The Chairman made the disclosure today, Monday, 10 July, 2023, at a meeting with the Country Representative of the UNODC, Mr. Oliver Stolpe at the Commission’s corporate headquarters Jabi, Abuja. Chukkol who appreciated the UNODC for its long-standing collaboration and enduring partnership in the anti-corruption space, however assured of the Commission’s unwavering Commitment to working with critical stakeholders in the actualization of its mandate. According to him, EFCC…
Transportation expert and former Commissioner for Transportation in Lagos State, Dr Kayode Opeifa, has called on the National Assembly to fully take over the proposed introduction of annualized N1,000 tax on drivers for certificate of proof of ownership on vehicles nationwide. In an exclusive telephone interview on Monday, 10 July, 2023, Opeifa, who is now an Executive Director, Centre for Sustainable Mobility and Access Development (CenSMAD),, described the proposed tax as “unwarranted” saying imposing such levy on hapless Nigerians would amount to double taxation and would go contrary to the spirit of the new administration which is bent on making…
The Kogi State Government has reiterated its endorsement of the recent joint operation carried out by security agencies in the state, in which a notorious gang leader was neutralised, saying that the operation has reduced crime in the area by over 40 per cent. The state Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, who said this at the quarterly press briefing of the ministry on Monday, 10 July, 2023 in Lokoja, stressed that no amount of blackmail by desperate enemies of the state would stop the government from protecting lives and property of Kogites and cooperating totally with law enforcement agencies to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike An ailing groom, who organised a spontaneous hospital wedding with his partner after being told he did not have much longer to live, died the day after the marriage. Ryan Dack had been planning to get hitched to Rosie, his girlfriend of three years, in August – but a devastating diagnosis at the end of last month meant he was forced to act quickly. The 30-year-old had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder that causes the progressive degeneration of muscle, and was told a few weeks ago that he had developed pneumonia. On June 25, doctors at…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A racist gunman, Patrick Crusius, 24, who murdered 23 people in a mass shooting at a Walmart in Texas in February 2019, has been given 90 consecutive life sentences. Crusius pleaded guilty to the attack, after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. Instead, he was handed a life sentence for each of the 90 charges against him on Friday, 7 July, 2023. But even at that Crusius could still be handed death penalty for his crime, as he is yet to face capital murder charges in state court Half of the 90 charges against…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike At least1,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across six states in the North East and North West regions of the country have been trained by the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), thegazellenews.com reports. The MSMEs which spread across Gombe, Borno, Adamawa, Katsina, Sokoto and Kebbi states were trained on business optimisation and development skills aimed at further strengthening their capacities. The one-day capacity training programme which was conducted in each of the locations, had facilitators from Cjonyx Consulting. DBN, which made this disclosure in a statement issued on Sunday, 9 July, 2023, said that the key objective of…