Bashir Sheriff Machina, All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Yobe north senatorial election, says he will not step down for Senate President Ahmad Lawan. Lawan contested the ruling party’s presidential ticket but lost to Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos. Speaking with Daily Trust, Machina said he has been approached by some people to relinquish the ticket, but that he would not. The candidate said he was not opposed by any senatorial hopeful for the ticket because “I was the one that was qualified”. “As far as I’m concerned, I contested for the Yobe north senatorial ticket and I won the…
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu yesterday warned that the Southwest would not tolerate another unprovoked attack. He described the June 5 terrorist attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo as “one too many”. At least 40 worshippers were killed during the attack, with many injured. Akeredolu spoke while receiving his counterparts Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) and AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (Kwara). The three governors donated N75 million to victims. In Lagos, Sanwo-Olu directed that flags be flown at half-mast for three days to mourn the victims. Akeredolu noted that the people of the Southwest had always been peaceful.…
More than 24 hours after the collapse of the National Grid, the nation remained in darkness. The Nigerians Consumer Protection Network (NCPN) put the blame of the system collapse on the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), which it said had failed to get its priority right. On Sunday night, power generation dipped to nine megawatts. Before the collapse, the System Operator (SO) in its performance report put peak performance at 3,703mw. On the day under review, the NESI generated a total energy 2,869.01mw and distributed 2,824mw. Spokesman of the Network, Kunle Olubiyo, a lawyer, challenged the TCN to prioritise its…
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) of the National Assembly has suspended its strike. The workers embarked on an indefinite strike since penultimate Monday to press home demands for payment of some allowances. Addressing the workers at the entrance of the National Assembly on Tuesday, the PASAN Chairman, Sunday Sabiyi, said they agreed to suspend the strike following some agreements reached with the leadership of the Senate. The workers however threatened to resume the industrial action if agreements reached were not implemented by the end of July. Details Shortly…
The Federal Government is set to eliminate multiple taxation in the transportation sector, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Dr Magdalene Ajani, has said. Speaking on the sidelines of the National Transportation Technology Conference and Exhibitions (NTTCE), by the Forum of Transportation Commissioners in Nigeria, Ajani said the removal would reduce the cost of transport. Ajani said streamlining the various taxes in the sector was necessary to enhance growth and development. She said it is high time the unregulated multiple taxation be dealt with. She said the law that governed the transportation sector apportioned roles for the federal, state…
Twenty-three years old Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) undergraduate, Mojeed Adegoke, is need of N12.5 million to carry out kidney transplant and treat other chronic ailments. The app builder was working for Google until three years ago when sickness suddenly struck and disoriented him. He was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2021 after he was subjected to severe headaches. This made him put a hold on his final year project at FUTA. According to ABUAD Multi-System Hospital in Ekiti State, Adegoke was at facility on August 5, 2021 with complaints of recurrent headaches and reduction in urine output…
The Catholic Diocese of Ondo State has said that the victims of terrorists’ attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, in the Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State would be given a funeral mass on Friday. According to the pamphlet, the funeral mass would hold at Otapete, Emure Road at 9:00am. Gunmen had on Sunday, June 5, attacked the church located on Owa-Luwa Street in Owo, the hometown of the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, leaving many parishioners dead and several others injured. Akeredolu had put the number of persons that died during the attack at 40. …
The Nigerian national grid has yet to recover to its previous level of 3,700 megawatts (MW) as only the Jebba hydropower plant had 88MW on the grid on Monday afternoon. It had earlier been reported that the national grid collapsed on Sunday just before 7pm, the sixth reported collapse in 2022. It had earlier been reported that the national grid collapsed on Sunday just before 7pm, the sixth reported collapse in 2022. Amid efforts by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to manage and restore the grid, electricity supply has been restored to only a few cities while the rest…
The Incumbent House of Assembly Member Representing Akure South Constituency 1, Hon Simeon Toluwani Borokini has felicitated Nigerians on the commemoration of yet another Democracy day in the history of the country. He noted that the freedom fight by Chief MKO Abiola which birthed the recognition of June 12 as democracy day in Nigeria must not be forgotten in a hurry even as another election year draws near and that is enough reason for Nigerians to eschew violence, other uncivil acts that may hinder a free, fair and credible poll in the country. In the spirit of democracy day…
It gives me a great pleasure to address the good people of Imo state today on the auspicious occasion of this year’s Democracy Day celebration. For our young ones, June 12,1993 was the day Nigeria conducted what has been described as the fairest and freest presidential election in the nation’s modern history. But it was annulled by the then government, thus precipitating a long and bitter struggle for freedom and democracy. In the course of that stuggle, some of our citizens paid the supreme sacrifice, others went into exile while others were incarcerated. By the grace of God and consequent…