Anambra Government Moves to Mitigate Environmental Degradation

Anambra State Commissioner for Environment Engr. Felix Odimegwu, has intensified efforts to checkmate the rapid environmental crisis witnessed across the state in form of erosion and watershed. Speaking in a brief exclusive conversation with The West African Pilot News during a tree planting exercise around specified locations within the capital city Awka on Thursday, Engr. Felix Odimegwu said that Anambra State Ministry of Environment is guided by Governor Soludo’s mandate that the state must plant...

Intersociety accuses Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch of political partisanship

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has called for the appointment of a non-Nigerian Researcher on Nigeria Affairs for the Human Rights Watch, HRW. The group, in a statement dated Thursday, 6 July 2023, also solicited a leadership overhaul of Amnesty International, AI, Nigeria. Emeka Umeagbalasi, the board chair of Intersociety, stated that the demands were imperative to purge the HRW and AI’s “advocacy activities in the country of entrenched...

After several months in custody, Abba Kyari is out on  bail

After 17 months in prison, suspended high-ranking Nigerian Police officer, Abba Kyari has been granted bail. Kyari was granted bail on Thursday by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Omotosho granted a conditional bail of N50 million with two sureties in like sum to Kyari in a charge against him and his two brothers, Mohammed Baba Kyari and Ali Kyari, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for failing to...

Oyebanji bans kiss-a-thon, ‘other events like it’ in Ekiti State

The Ekiti State Government has issued a notice prohibiting the organisers of a proposed kiss-a-thon in Ado-Ekiti, the State capital, from going ahead with the ‘immoral’ event. The kiss-a-thon, aimed at setting a new Guinness World Records, GWR, for the longest kissing marathon category, was slated to begin on 7 July 2023 and end on July 10. However, as the organisers of the event was gearing up to bring the trophy home, the Governor Biodun...

Abia State Government to adopt Treasury Single Account on Sept. 1

The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti has said that the State will transition to a Treasury Single Account, TSA, system on 1 September 2023. The Governor made the announcement at a town hall meeting with the leaderships of the transport unions and markets in the State, held at the Banquet Hall of the Government House in Umuahia, the Abia State capital on Wednesday. The TSA entails that from September 1, all monies accruing to...

Tinubu signs four executive orders to ease tax burden on businesses, households

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, signed four executive orders, including the suspension of the five per cent excise tax on telecommunication services, as well as the excise duties escalation on locally manufactured products. This was disclosed by Dele Alake, the special adviser to the President on special duties, communications, and strategy at a press briefing. Read the full text of Alake’s statement below: STATE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING ON PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTIONS ON MAJOR CONCERNS OF MANUFACTURERS...

Sit-at-Home Chaos in Enugu Wednesday is a Result of Fake News – CP Ammani

The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Ahmed Ammani, says the pandemonium witnessed on Wednesday 5th June 2023 within Enugu metropolis is a result of false alarm and circulation of fake news aimed at enforcing sit-at-home order in the state. CP Ammani stated this in the Command’s bulletin signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe. “The Police shall never be deterred by the panic-causing and disinformative schemes of subversive criminal elements,...

First Female Commissioner of Police In Kwara State Assume Duty

The first female Commissioner of Police, in Kwara State, Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi, has assumed duty in the state. According to a statement by the spokesman of the command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi in Ilorin on Wednesday, CP Ebunoluwarotimi hails from Sagamu in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. She enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force on March 3, 1990, as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police. The statement said the new police commissioner has worked...

Former Commissioner In Kano State Arrested Over 1 Billion Fraud

Former commissioner in Kano state, Engineer Idris Wada Saleh has been arrested over an alleged N1 billion fraud. Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado, chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) confirmed the arrest on Tuesday at a press conference. The anti-graft boss said its preliminary investigation has monumental fraud to the tune N1billion in the guise of repairing some metropolitan roads a few weeks before the end of the past administration. He said...

SuperSport to bring premier league trophy to Lagos

The Premier League (PL) 30th-anniversary celebrations, SuperSport, the official broadcast rights owners of the Premier League in Africa, is set to bring the prestigious Premier League trophy to Nigeria. According to reports, the trophy will be paraded at a media event in Lagos on July 5, ahead of the official unveiling of the PL Greatest Africa 11. PL’s greatest African XI, as voted by football fans across Africa, will be unveiled at a Gala Night...

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