The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has declared that there will be no hiding place for illegal miners in the country as efforts to strengthen operations of the mining marshals and ensure nationwide coverage are in the offing. Addressing a press conference to mark the one year anniversary of the corps on Friday, the Minister emphasized that the establishment of the Mining Marshals last year has significantly disrupted unauthorized mining activities and restored investor confidence in the sector. “The activation of the corps to enforce provisions of the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act (NMMA) has struck fear…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, has described the withdrawal of services by local government workers in the state, as pathetic and unfortunate. Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, said that the action of the workers had plunged the local government areas in the state into administrative paralysis, inflicting untold pain on the people at the grassroots The APC chieftain, while speaking with newsmen on Sunday, 23 March, 2025, in Osogbo, appealed to workers to immediately return to work and save the councils from total collapse. Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential…
Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism, and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, has disclosed that work is at the final stage in the review of Nigeria’s National Policy on Culture. Musawa, who made this disclosure in a statement issued on Friday, 21 March, 2025 in Abuja, said that this was coming 37 years after the last review. According to the Minister, the exercise was in collaboration with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation. “The document was last reviewed in 1988, and has remained in draft form for over 37 years in spite of…
The management of Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, has confirmed that at least six students of the institution have died as a result of an outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis. The university’s Public Relations Officer, Mustapha Ango,who made this disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen on Saturday, 22 March, 2025, also conveyed the institution’s sorrow over the tragic loss. He, on behalf of the management, extended condolences to the families of the deceased students, stating that the Vice-Chancellor, B. G. Danshehu was deeply saddened by the unfortunate incident. He said, “Upon detecting the initial signs of…
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared N1.678 trillion among the Federal, States and Local Governments for the month of February. This is according to a communiqué issued by FAAC and made available by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Bawa Mokwa, on Saturday. According to the communiqué, the total revenue of N1.678 trillion comprised statutory revenue of N827.633 billion and Value Added Tax revenue of N609.430 billion. It also comprised Electronic Money Transfer Levy revenue of N35.171 billion, Solid Minerals revenue of N28.218 billion and Augmentation of N178 billion. It said…
The communal clashes involving Ifon and Ilobu communities escalated on Saturday, 22 March, 2025 spreading to the Erin Osun community. The state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has subsequently imposed a 24-hour curfew on the affected communities. Adeleke had initially imposed a 12-hour curfew in the wake of the communal clashes that had displaced many residents of Ifon, Ilobu and Erin Osun. Many of those displaced were observed on the streets of Okinni on Saturday, 22 March, 2025 with some, especially northerners, coming out of the area in buses. A statement by the spokesperson to Osun Governor, Olawale Rasheed, intimating measures to…
President Bola Tinubu has donated 7,000 bags of rice to the All Progressives Congress (APC) members in Zamfara as a Ramadan package. The party’s state Publicity Secretary, Yusuf Idris, who made this disclosure through a statement issued in Gusau, the state capital on Saturday, 22 March, 2025, said that the Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, inaugurated the distribution of the largesse on Friday, 21 March, 2025 in Gusau. Represented by the state APC Chairman, Alhaji Tukur Danfulani, the Minister handed over the commodity to the party’s executives at the APC Secretariat, Gusau. He said the gesture was…
Gunmen have abducted a Nigerian Navy officer attached to the Defence Headquarters, Lt. Cynthia Akor, along with two others in Abuja. The victims were kidnapped from their residence in the Mpape area of the Federal Capital Territory on the night of Friday, 21 March, 2025. A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reason, confirmed the development to our correct on Saturday. The source, who lives in the same area with the victims, said the kidnappers have contacted the families of the hostages, demanding a ransom of N100 million for their release. “Anong the three people that were…
The Ogun State Police Command has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Adedokun Oluyemi, the supervisor of Solution One Hotel, located in the Ago Oko area of Abeokuta, the state capital. It was gathered that Oluyemi’s unconscious body was discovered in his hotel room around 6am on Saturday, 22 March, 2025, just as it was also gathered that the bar assistant at the hotel, identified as Taiyelolu, reportedly found Oluyemi unresponsive after multiple attempts to reach him. Concerned by the lack of response, she was said to have alerted the police at the Oke Itoku…
The Coalition for Democracy and Development has called on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike and the suspended Rivers state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara to put aside their differences and sign a new peace pact within the next 90 days. The CDD condemned both Wike and Fubara urging them to prioritise the welfare of the people in the midst of the political crisis. The Public Secretary, CDD, Dr. George Ifure, who stated this in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen,lamented the political crisis in Rivers State, just as he also added that the ongoing crisis is a…