Hon Shina Peller, who represents Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Iwajowa/Kajola Federal Constituency in Oyo State has urged youths to reignite their energies for the BBNaija show in the 2023 polls. He advised youths to accord the 2023 general polls the same energy and devotion to the reality show. The Ayedero of Yorubaland said the 2023 general elections will mark a reset period for the country as the youths would be given the chance of laying claim to the nation’s destiny to bring about a change. The politician wrote: “Me thinking of how I can get the youth to replicate the drive and commitment they…
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Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reacted to the decision by the Kwara state government to demolish a public library named after his later father, elder statesman Olusola Saraki. Reacting to the development via his Facebook page, Saraki wrote; ”Wow! I just got the news that the major official assignment carried out by the Governor of my state, Kwara, today, is the demolition of an old public library named after my late dad, Dr. Olusola Saraki. May Almighty Allah continue to retain a place for Oloye in Aljannah Firdaus.”
A child forensic interview expert, Anike Ajayi-Kayode, on Tuesday, narrated before an Ikeja Special Offences Court how Nollywood actor Olanrewaju James (Baba Ijesha) allegedly groomed and defiled a minor (name withheld). Ms Ajayi-Kayode is the executive director of the Cece Yara Foundation, a non-governmental organisation founded to prevent child sexual abuse and provide emergency intervention for children. Testifying as the third prosecution witness, Ms Ajayi-Kayode told the court that she was a certified child forensic interview specialist and had participated in over 25 child forensic interviews. Led in evidence by Olayinka Adeyemi, Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Ms…
Christened ‘Budget of Economic Re-Engineering’, the budget has a capital expenditure of N79.621 billion. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo Tuesday presented a fiscal proposal of N191.6 billion for 2022 to the State House of Assembly. Represented by the Commissioner for Finance, Wale Akinterinwa, Mr Akeredolu said the budget was an increase of 9.59 per cent over that of 2021. Tagged “Budget of Economic Re-Engineering”, the 2022 budget has a recurrent profile of N112.017 billion and capital expenditure of N79.621 billion. “Hence, the expansionary measures being pursued in 2022 is a carefully weighed option to weigh in into the resultant…
A House of Representatives member, Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro, has suggested the Central Bank of Nigeria forcibly shut down domiciliary accounts bearing foreign currencies to regulate the continuous fall of the naira. Mr Obanikoro, currently serving the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency of Lagos State, made this suggestion on Tuesday on Twitter. “I am not the CBN Governor but at this moment, I’m of the opinion that CBN should mandate that all dorm accounts be closed for the next 12 months. Let’s see the effect on the naira. “After all, you can’t go to any of the Western world and open a foreign currency account,”…
A fighter jet operated by the Nigerian Air Force has mistakenly dropped a bomb on a Nigerian community in the Lake Chad region, the AFP reported on Tuesday in yet another costly glitch with military strike precisions. At least 20 people, said to be fishermen, were killed in the airstrike that occurred on Sunday in Kwatar Daban Masara, the French newswire reported on Tuesday morning saying information about the tragedy had been slow to circulate due to obsolete communications infrastructure in the area. Locals said the community was about 50 kilometres from Borno capital and Boko Haram heartland…
Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri has said that former military dictator, Sani Abacha, remains a hero to the people of the state following his decision to create the state 25 years ago on October 1, 1996. He stated this during a thanksgiving service on Nigeria’s 61st independence and Bayelsa 25th anniversary at the King of Glory Chapel in Government House, Yenagoa. In eulogizing Abacha, the Governor said; “Let me use this medium to thank one man. He may not be popular in Nigeria but to me and all of us Bayelsans, we see him as a great man, a…
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has reacted to a video of Pere’s fans protesting over BBNaija’s eviction twist today September 27. The fans had taken to the streets to protest over the task given to Angel and Pere after the eviction night even though Pere had more votes than her. Reacting to this, Reno noted that these fans are not protesting “because the Naira is now worthless than the Zimbabwean dollar, or because insecurity has made life in Nigeria a living hell, or because of Buhari’s refusal to name Boko Haram’s sponsors, or because VAT is collected by the Federal…
The naira exchanged to the dollar at 580 on Friday, while the Pound Sterling traded for 780 at the parallel market. Some Bureau de Change operators who spoke to our correspondent said that the naira to the dollar was bought and sold at 575 and 580, while the Pound Sterling was bought and sold at 775 and 780. At the I&E forex window, the naira reached a high of 415.20 to close at 414.90. The official website of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s licensed Bureau De Change operators, www.naijabdcs.com, used for the publication of exchange rates of the naira to other currencies…
There may be looming fuel scarcity as the national executive council of Petroleum Tankers Drivers (PTD)’s branch of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has directed for a nationwide strike as it blamed the federal government over the poor state of highways and other safety issues. This was contained in a communique issued on Monday after a meeting held on Saturday in Enugu, signed by the PTD chairman, Comrade Salmon Akanni Oladiti, and the Secretary, Sunday OchibeJivwie. The union said, after deliberating on these important safety issues, the Council resolved to resume the suspended action of…