INEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

The National Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, disclosed that as of February 15, the commission had received 9,777 requests from across the country for the establishment of additional polling units. Yakubu made the disclosure when he visited the offices of the Arewa Consultative Forum office, in Kaduna, for consultation on creating additional polling units in the country. He said the requests, which were 5,700 as of October, 2020, had...

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Nigeria: Borno State Government Seals-off Eight NGO Offices

LocalNewsNigeriaNigeria: Borno State Government Seals-off Eight NGO Offices

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Borno state government has sealed eight offices and guest houses occupied by development partners for not updating their property records in different locations in Maiduguri metropolis. The offices locked include that of International Non-Governmental Organizations and local NGOs. Speaking to newsmen shortly after a Special Enforcement Operation, Executive Secretary Borno Geographic Information Service, BOGIS, Alhaji Adam Bababe said out of the 183 International and local NGOs operating in the state, only 21 are duly registered....

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Gov Fintiri Monitors Compliance On The Ban To Use Tricycles, Motorcycles At Night

LocalNewsNigeriaGov Fintiri Monitors Compliance On The Ban To Use Tricycles, Motorcycles At Night

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 16, 2021

To ensure compliance with the Executive Order banning the use of tricycles and motorcycles in the night, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri Monday night led a security patrol within the state capital to arrest defaulters of the Order. The order which came into effect on Tuesday 2nd February, 2021, in Girei, Yola North and Yola South Local Governments within the hours of 10: pm to 5: am. According to the Executive Order, any person found in a Tricycle...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 20211

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This concludes a rejoinder by this Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, who made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. Indeed the action...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. ___________ In the first part of an article...

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Femi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

NigeriaOpinionPoliticsFemi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a...

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Benue State Will Not Receive Armed Fleeing Herdsmen from South-West – Governor Ortom’s Aide

LocalNewsNigeriaBenue State Will Not Receive Armed Fleeing Herdsmen from South-West – Governor Ortom’s Aide

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 15, 2021

The Benue State Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, on Sunday, said that the state will not welcome armed herdsmen that are fleeing from South-West. Akase state that the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, on several occasions, had said that any cattle owner who wanted to reside in the state must ranch his animals. A report had earlier quoted the Governor’s aide as saying that the herdsmen in the state must be ready to obey the...

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Akeredolu Visits Hausa and Yoruba Clash Scene in Oyo

LocalNewsNigeriaAkeredolu Visits Hausa and Yoruba Clash Scene in Oyo

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 15, 2021

Called on the people to consider the past and the peaceful coexistence that they have enjoyed for many decades. The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu on Sunday, visited the Shasha area, the scene of Yoruba and Hausa clash in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The Ondo State governor, who was led to the Shasha market by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, appealed to the waring parties to embrace peace and dialogue. Akeredolu was in...

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Bandits Kills Air Force Personnel In Kaduna State

LocalNewsNigeriaBandits Kills Air Force Personnel In Kaduna State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 15, 2021

Authorities of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) say bandits have killed some of its personnel in an ambush in Kaduna State. According to a statement by the NAF spokesman, AVM Ibikunle Daramola that the incident occurred, on Saturday, when the troops of the 271 NAF detachment foiled an ambush set up by a group of over 100 bandits at Ungwan Laya near Birnin Gwari. The statement read in part “the troops were able to fight...

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Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri presents 30 Hilux vans to hunters

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGovernor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri presents 30 Hilux vans to hunters

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 15, 2021

…Sends 600 Hunters for Training at Police College Maiduguri Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state Monday presented a second set of thirty Hilux vans IVM to the 21 local government council chairmen in the state for onward distribution to hunters in their respective areas. Similarly, ten motorcycles were also presented to “Operation Farauta” by the Governor to assist in reaching hard-to-find areas in the maintenance of peace across the state. At the ceremony that...

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