The Labour Party chairwoman in Rivers, Hilda Dokubo, was suspended Thursday as a member in her ward, Asari Toru LGA. The suspension was conveyed in a letter written to the Labour Party chairman of the Asari Toru LGA and signed by the ward chairman, Ajalamonia Ibama, the secretary, Lole Amacheer and the treasurer, Emmanuel Ibamathe. Others who signed the letter were the women’s leader, Osaki Dieypiriye, and the publicity secretary, Osaki Dokubo. Ms Dokubo was suspended on July 15 after an emergency meeting of the party’s ward executive committee and ratified by the Asari Toru LGA executives on July 18.…
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The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has called on the public to cooperate with the service to recapture 31 fleeing inmates as they posed a danger to public safety and national security. The NCoS spokesman, Abubakar Umar, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. A downpour on April 24 wreaked havoc on the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger, resulting in extensive damage to the facility resulting in the escape of 119 inmates. The downpour caused severe damage to the custodial centre’s infrastructure, including a breach in the perimeter fence, allowing inmates to flee. Mr Umar said the public was…
Tourism minister Lola Ade-John says tourism operators should not be discouraged in marketing Nigeria as a choice destination for tourists because of its challenge of insecurity. Ms Ade-John made the plea on Thursday in Ilorin during the eighth annual general meeting of the National Association of Tour Operators (NATOP). She said, “This meeting here helps us to express what we have in Nigeria. We are not creating the experiences we should create. Forget the security challenge in Nigeria. Every country has security issues. Don’t allow the problem of insecurity discourage you from promoting Nigeria. “And in marketing our dear nation,…
The police in Katsina have arrested a 13-year-old boy suspected to be providing information to armed bandits. Police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu disclosed this in Katsina. “On July 3, the command, in collaboration with members of the Katsina State Community Watch Corps (KSCWC) attached to Dansoda village, Dandume Local Government Area, succeeded in arresting the 13-year-old boy. “He resides in Sheik Abdullahi quarters of Dandume town. He was arrested in connection to a suspected case of aiding and abetting armed banditry. The suspect was arrested following intelligence tips on his nefarious activities. He specialises in providing information on potential targets to…
The National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has closed down a bakery for using unfortified sugar and banned bromate in Sokoto. The NAFDAC coordinator in Sokoto, Garba Adamu, said on Friday that its officials detected the bakery during a special raid. “We discovered that the bakery was using saccharine, an unregistered foreign sugar, as a sweetener along with banned bromate in their productions. The items were seized for destruction, and the bakery is shut down until it complies with regulations and directives,” Mr Adamu said. Mr Adamu emphasised that only fortified registered sugar containing vitamin A with…
The Federal Government has launched the National Cleantech Innovation Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, an initiative aimed at fostering innovation and supporting startups and SMEs in the country. The announcement was made by the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, in a statement obtained from his official X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday. The launch event in Abuja was organised by the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme Nigeria, a UNIDO-led initiative sponsored by the Global Environment Facility. “We launched the National Cleantech Innovation Entrepreneurship Ecosystem to bridge the commercialisation gap faced by cleantech startups. Despite their potential to drive economic development…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero on Thursday gave reasons why the Organised Labour accepted the proposal of N70,000 minimum wage from the President, Bola Tinubu. Ajaero, who spoke to State House reporters after the meeting with the President, said the unions agreed to the offer because of other incentives attached. He said another reason for accepting the offer is because “ the President promised a review every three years as against what obtained in the past.” President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved the sum of N70,000 as national minimum wage, his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo…
The House of Representatives has resolved to cut members’ salaries by 50 per cent for six months to support President Bola Tinubu’s government in providing succour to Nigerians suffering untold hardships due to Mr Tinubu’s harsh economic policies. The resolution followed a motion of urgent public importance by Ibrahim Isiaka (APC-Ogun) during a plenary in Abuja on Thursday. In an amendment to the motion, the deputy speaker of the House Rep, Benjamin Kalu, pleaded with the lawmakers to cut their salaries by 50 per cent for six months. This he said, was to support the government in providing succour to…
At least 100 psychiatric doctors left the country to practise abroad in one year, Taiwo Obindo, the president of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN), said on Thursday. Mr Obindo said this in Lagos while examining the brain drain rate in Nigeria’s psychiatric profession in 2023. He decried that the psychiatric profession was the worst hit by the trending brain drain syndrome ongoing in the Nigerian medical sector. He said brain drain was affecting the psychiatric profession more than other professions in terms of the psychiatric nurses, psychiatric doctors and all other caregivers and health workers in the field.…
The Abuja Division of the Appeal Court on Thursday dismissed an application filed suspended alleged drug dealer and disgraced cop Abba Kyari, requesting that the unlawful drug deal charge against him be dropped. A three-member panel of justices dismissed Mr Kayri’s appeal, marked CA/ABJ/CR/516/2023, for being unmeritorious. Justice Adebukola Banjoko who led the panel, held that there was no reason to tamper with the findings and conclusions reached on the issue by Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in the ruling he delivered on March 22, 2023. “In conclusion, this court finds no reason to disturb the findings…