No fewer than 700 residents of riverine communities in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Saturday benefited from the NNPC/Chevron joint venture free medical treatments with drugs worth over N7.5 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that residents of Odofado, Gbagura and Akinsolu communities benefitted from the free medical outreach organised and facilitated by Ilaje Rural Development Advocacy Committee (IRDC). Mrs Edna Eyiwunmi, coordinator of the medical team, told NAN that various medical experts including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory scientists and other medical attendants were deployed for the free outreach. She said that the beneficiaries including children,…
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Education, they say is the bedrock of all developments in society. More so, the developmental level of a society can be determined by the quality of education of such a society. Going by history, Zamfara had a larger and envious number of educated people in the former Sokoto State, Which at that time Zamfara was predicted to be among the fastest-growing states in the North-Western region of Nigeria if declared independent. Time never fails, Zamfara started well, however, the state is being tested with bad leadership which sees no value in educating the children of the poor as such the…
Sokoto Governor Aminu Tambuwal received a rousing welcome on his return to Sokoto after last weekend’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary. A crowd besieged the Sultan Abubakar Airport to receive the Governor and his entourage. Due to the large crowd that received him, the Governor’s convoy moved at a snail pace from the airport to the city. The enthusiastic crowd sang and danced as they joined the Governor’s convoy to the city. Tambuwal, one of the PDP presidential aspirants, stepped down for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at the convention venue and directed his supporters to vote for the…
FRONTLINE President Aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pooh-poohed those he accused of misrepresenting his statement in Abeokuta on Thursday to pit him against President Muhammadu Buhari. Noting that he has high regards for President Buhari, the former Lagos State Governor said he would not denigrate Buhari or the office he seeks to occupy. He added that he would accept the outcome of free and fair presidential primaries whether he won or lost. Tinubu while addressing APC delegates in Ogun reportedly said among others that he deployed his resources to make…
The Director-General of Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Kashim Shettima, has ruled out the possibility of the former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, stepping down for any of the presidential aspirants of the All progressive Congress (APC). Mr Shettima disclosed this on Friday while appearing on “Politics Today” a political programme on Channels TV. Mr Tinubu and 22 other aspirants were screened by a committee set up for that purpose by the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of its National convention commencing on Monday. Among the aspirants are Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Governor Ben Ayade…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled judgment for August 29 in the extradition proceedings involving suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari. Justice Inyang Ekwo announced the date on Friday after lawyers to parties made their final submissions. Lawyer to Kyari, Nureini Jimoh (SAN) faulted the extradition application filed by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and prayed the court to reject it. Lawyer to the AGF, Pius Akutah argued otherwise, insisting that the AGF has complied with all necessary requirements for an extradition process. Akutah prayed the court to allow the application and order the…
A gale of change yesterday swept through the management and board of Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) Plc. Its chairman, chief executive officer and eight other non-executive directors were retired by the bank’ new core investor – Titan Trust Bank (TTB) Limited. It wasr reported that TTB had concluded the acquisition of 93.41 per cent majority equity stake in UBN with the transfer of the shares through the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) to the new core investor. In a regulatory filing obtained yesterday at the NGX, UBN stated that with the completion of the acquisition, , TGI Group’s parent company TTB,…
Russian forces now occupy one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday, while claiming that Russia has suffered massive losses since the February 24th invasion. Speaking in a video message to the parliament of Luxembourg, the Ukraine’s president lamented that his country is facing “virtually” the entire Russian military, and urged the West to send modern weapons “that will ensure the superiority of our state over Russia”. “Russian troops entered 3,620 settlements in Ukraine. 1,017 of them have already been liberated. Another 2,603 are to be released. As of today, about 20 per cent of our territory is under…
The report of the John Odigie Oyegun-led seven-man Presidential Screening Committee (PSC) was still being awaited by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday, the party confirmed. Those screened by the panel in Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, are set for the party’s presidential primary billed for Eagle Square from June 6 to June 8. Twenty-three aspirants were screened on Monday and Tuesday. But, the panel was yet to submit its report 48 hours after the exercise ended. The delay in submission of the report by the committee is a gross violation of Section 15 (g)…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the proposal of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited to sign an agreement with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the construction of the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline. The council gave the approval yesterday at the weekly meeting presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva who spoke at the end of the meeting, said the project was still at the front-end and engineering designing stage, adding that the cost would be determined after the design has been completed. He said the…