West African leaders elect Tinubu chairman of ECOWAS

President Bola Tinubu was elected the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Sunday. President Tinubu’s election was the unanimous decision of the leaders of member states of the regional group at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. President Tinubu enthusiastically accepted the honour, on behalf of Nigeria, with a solemn pledge to bear the responsibility of the office and run...

NASS: APC nat’l chairman berated over comments on principal officers

Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been berated over his comment on the nomination of principal officers in the National Assembly. House of Representatives members on Sunday lambasted Adamu, saying that what he has done is an attempt to sabotage that harmonious working relationship that is aimed at delivering on parliamentary goals. Ikenga Ugochinyere, the deputy chairman, House Ad-hoc Committee on Media and Publicity, while speaking at a press...

Otti describes demise of Prof. Irukwu as great loss to Abia, Nigeria

…Says Abia, south-east will give him befitting burial Dr. Alex Otti, Governor of Abia State has described the death of Prof Joe Irukwu, a former President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide and former Managing Director of Nigerian Reinsurance Corporation, who passed on at the age of 89 as a great loss to Abia State, South-East, Nigeria as a whole. In a statement issued in Umuahia by his Chief Press Secretary, Kazie Uko, the governor said he...

Insecurity: Plateau govt. imposes 24-hour curfew on Mangu LGA

Caleb Mutfwang, Plateau State Governor has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Mangu Local Government Area following ongoing attacks that have led to many deaths and loss of properties in that LGA. Mutfwang is connected to killings of the natives of Mangu by suspected herders in many communities of the Mangu LGA which has defied all attempts by the government to broker peace between the rampaging herders and their host communities. On Sunday residents of Farinkasa Kerana...

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...

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...

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...

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