As the world marks the International Vulture Awareness Day, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) on Saturday underscored the importance of Vultures in the maintenance of balance in the ecosystem. The NCF in a communique released after its five days webinar forum on Vultures and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, noted that vultures were sanitary officers with a clean-up service on the environment. Dr Joseph Onoja, Director of Technical Programmes,...
The European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), on Saturday, said voters in Ologbosere primary school, ward 4 with 40 units and other polling units they visited were not observing the COVID-19 guidelines as stipulated in the INEC policy. Mr Wilson Manji, the deputy project coordinator, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), that although the voters were all wearing face masks but they did not maintain social distancing. “So far the election is going smoothly...
The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has expressed displeasure over the conduct of the ongoing state governorship election in Edo. Obaseki said the Independent National Electoral Commission should have prepared better for the election The governor said this after casting his vote at Polling Unit 19, Ward 4, Oredo Local Government Area. He lamented that he stayed for over one and a half hours in the queue. The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party...
On September 2, Boko Haram (ISWA) militants reportedly killed 10 Nigerian soldiers in Borno state. Such bloodshed has become so commonplace that it often fails to garner much interest. International news outlets spilled little ink to report the incident. Nevertheless, the failures of the region’s militaries—as well as the Lake Chad Basin Commission’s Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF)—to combat Boko Haram merit greater attention from policymakers and the international community. The widespread and persistent human rights abuses...
Based on the agrarian nature of Adamawa state, the Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) has expressed its readiness to partner with the Adamawa State Government towards sponsoring youths from the state to Israel for training on farming skills. The Executive Secretary of the Commission Dr Yakubu Pam revealed this when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri in the Government House, Yola on Friday. “Israel is one of the leading developed countries...
To ensure conducive learning environment, UNICEF and Adamawa State Government are partnering to construct and rehabilitate one hundred and sixty-five (165) classrooms in eighty (80) schools across Fufore and Guyuk local government areas of Adamawa state. Speaking at the commencement of work in Central Primary School Fufore, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state, thanked the United Nations Children Fund UNICEF and other development partners for collaborating with the state government to execute the project....
The embattled Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Dr Wale Babalakin, has resigned. He resigned hours after the Special Visitation Panel set up by the federal government to investigate the crisis rocking the top management of the university, submitted its report to President Buhari through the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. Recall that in an emergency meeting on Aug. 12, the Governing Council of the University of Lagos led by Dr Babalakin removed the...
The Governor of Imo State Sen. Hope Uzodinma has signed the Imo State Administration of Criminal Justice ACJL 2020, with some sections of the law authorizing him to detain citizens at his “pleasure”. The Bill was sponsored by the Minority Leader of Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Barr. Frank Ugboma, has come under intense public scrutiny after sections 484 and 485 were exposed. Specifically, section 484 of the Administration of Criminal Justice law reads,...
The Nigerian Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has met with speakers of parliaments in other African countries to discuss ways to seek from external debts. The Speaker announced the meeting on his verified Twitter handle, @FemiGbaja, on Thursday night. Gbajabiamila tweeted, “Today, I engaged with my colleagues from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa to discuss how African speakers can collaborate in the joint task of loosening the stranglehold of...
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Friday, apologized to all account holders in the country’s financial institutions, for asking them to re-register their details again. On Thursday, the FG had asked all account holders in Nigerian banks, including insurance companies to fill and submit a self-confirmation form. The FG gave the order despite the possession of Bank Verification Number and the National Identification Number by account holders. It threatened that failure to do so, it...
