The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said it would deploy no fewer than 20,000 ad-hoc staff for the conduct of the forthcoming Edo governorship election scheduled for Sept. 19. Prof. Bolade Eyinla, the Technical Advisor to INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this during a virtual meeting with journalists in Edo organised by the International Press Council (IPC) on the role of journalists in the Edo election. Eyinla said the recruitment of the...
The fashion industry, hospitality and tourism contributed over N3.2 trillion to the national economy, a report by the Federal Government’s Post Covid-19 Initiative Committee on the Creative Industry has revealed. The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Thursday, gave an insight into the report recently submitted to the government by the committee led by ace comedian, Ali Baba. Mohammed, who was a guest on NAN Forum in Abuja, said that the recommendations...
The Federal Government has appealed to the world powers not to be weighed by unsubstantiated arguments to deny the country vital platforms and weapons to fight insecurity. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the appeal on Thursday when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. “I want to use this opportunity to say that the international community can help us better than they are doing right...
“Evidence-based medicine should not be rejected or disregarded, especially if it produces potent results after treating COVID-19 patients successfully, as Dr. Immanuel did, regardless of whether the knowledge comes from the Northern or the Southern hemisphere,” —Dr. I. D. Onwudiwe For this article, I am inspired to write about Dr. Stella Immanuel’s much-touted video on her treatment of COVID-19 patients in her medical clinic in Houston, Texas. Absent of any extensive background in the science...
Nigerian Major General Ibrahim Manu Yusuf, commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) fighting the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin, announced August 7 that 109 Boko Haram fighters and their prisoners had defected on the Nigerian-Cameroonian border. Yusuf said the defection was encouraged by a campaign through which Boko Haram fighters who defect would be pardoned. This specific group of defectors have been taken to the Cameroonian Center for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration....
The Governing Council of the University of Lagos has confirmed the sack of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the Vice-Chancellor. The Registrar and Secretary of the Council, Mr. Oladejo Azeez, confirmed the removal of Prof Ogundipe in a statement on Wednesday. Ogundipe was removed for gross misconduct, financial recklessness and other offences, the Nation reported. “The general public is hereby notified that at an emergency meeting held on Wednesday 2 August 2020 and in accordance with...
Mr. Sunday Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports Development, has inaugurated the Ministerial Technical Committee on the establishment of the Nigeria Youth Investment Fund (NYIF). The minister said that the committee would facilitate the effective operationalisation and implementation of the N75 billion youth fund approved by the Federal Executive Council He said that President Muhammadu Buhari on July 22, approved the establishment of the NYIF to the tune of N75 billion, for three years, dedicated...
By Hector-Roosevelt Udunna Ukegbu Col. Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho, one of Biafra’s most successful military commanders, passed away Wednesday July 8, 2020 from natural causes. He was born on December 24, 1944 in Upe, in Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State. He has since been buried in Owerri. He retired from the Nigerian Army as a colonel on September 3, 1990, At the time, he had recently served as the Principal Staff Officer (Colonel General Staff)...
Fear has gripped the marketers at the popular Ophoke-Abba market, Kpiri-Kpiri in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, over an object suspected to be an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was discovered at the market on Monday. Report of the suspected IED sent the traders, payers, and passers-by in the market running for their dear lives. The incident which occurred around 4 p.m on Monday forced the market to close before the usual 6 p.m closing time. As published...
The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the election, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, has said repentant terrorists revealed that a serving northern governor is a Boko Haram leader. The former ADC Presidential candidate in the last election said this on ‘Morning Crossfire’ programme on Nigeria Info 95.1FM Abuja on Monday. The former deputy governor of the CBN said he had a chat...
