President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday told world leaders at the ongoing 76th United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, in New York, that he built hospitals across Nigeria to fight COVID-19. The President said in a bid to curtail the COVID:19 pandemic which halted economic and other activities across the globe in 2020 and early2021, that his administration was able to put up medical facilities across Nigeria. During the address, President Buhari who assured the Assembly of the full support and cooperation of the Nigerian delegation revealed that his government had trained over 40,000 health care workers on the…
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he Federal Government has barred senior secondary school students 1 and 2 from sitting for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB). The Federal Ministry of Education directed principals of unity schools to expel senior students who sit for external examinations before SS3 class, as they could distract other students from achieving their goals. This was contained in a circular signed by Binta Abdulkadir, Director, Senior Secondary Education at the education ministry and distributed to principals of unity schools. The ministry said the ban was necessary to…
Founder of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor W.F. Kumuyi arrived for an event in Abuja in an expensive car that got social media buzzing. In photos shared on his official Facebook page, Kumuyi was seen alighting from a platinum limousine car while being received by church officials. He is said to be attending the crusade in the capital city with his wife.
Minister of communication and digital economy, Isa Pantami said the fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks will be deployed in January 2022. Speaking during a town hall meeting in Maiduguri, Borno state, on Thursday September 23, the Minister was represented by Ubale Maska, NCC commissioner for technical services, said the deployment became necessary as there are over 50,000 telecommunications sites across the country and about 16,000 outages recorded by mobile network operators (MTN, Glo, Airtel, 9mobile) between January 2021 and July 2021. Pantami blamed the outages on fibre cuts, access denial and theft, leading to service disruption in the affected areas. The Minister who condemned situations…
PRESS STATEMENT ON THE DEHUMANISING OF A FEMALE CORPS MEMBER CAUGHT ON VIDEO BY A FEMALE OFFICER. The attention of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs has been drawn to a video which went viral yesterday 22/09/21 in which a female Army Officer was seen brutalizing a female Corps member in Calabar, Cross River State. This matter was said to have taken place in July 2021. 2. It is unfortunate that while we are raising the bar in our campaign to sustain the zero tolerance against SGBV at all levels in the country, including the Security Sector, an act of…
Two years after President Muhammadu Buhari, the German Government and a German company, Siemens AG, inked a 25,000 megawatts (MW) Presidential Power Initiative (PPI), work is yet to take off at any power station under the phase one that ought to raise the electricity grid to 7,000MW by the end of this year. Nigeria’s power system is suffering from an imbalance between power generation and demand. Despite more than 8,000MW of operational power generation capacity in the country, only an average of 4,500MW actually reaches consumers. To change the narrative, Siemens and the Nigerian Government signed an implementation agreement for…
Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has said he has been spending millions of Naira to fix failed portions of federal highways in the state without getting a refund. He spoke while inspecting repair work at the Ayede-Ogbese axis of the Ilesha-Akure-Owo-Benin highway. The failed portion made motorists spend about one hour on the spot. Akeredolu said he decided to repair the failed portions to alleviate the sufferings of road users. The governor said hundreds of millions of Naira have been spent by his administration to fix Federal Government roads without getting refunds. He said the Ilesha-Akure-Owo-Benin highway was important because…
The estranged lover of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, Precious Chikwendu has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Inspector General of Police, (IGP) his officers and men from intimidating and harassing her in any form whatsoever pending the hearing and determination of her suit seeking the custody of the four children she had with the former minister. She is also asking the court to award her the sum of N800 million against the IGP, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Force CID, Commissioner of Police FCT, CSP James Idachaba, OC Legal (CID) FCT Command…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said contrary to public opinion, the Nigerian education system is well funded considering the lean resources of the federal government. Speaking at the book presentation of “Gamaliel Onosode Classicus, an Honourable Life” and discussion on “Harnessing Nigeria’s Greatest Resource: Growth through Education”, Gbajabiamila said the education sector is getting more funding than people acknowledge. Gbajabiamila who noted that the resources of the government is currently lean, and what could be done is being done, said the funding of the sector is however not enough as it is still not up to the 23…
Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has warned herders against breaching the anti-open grazing laws recently enacted in the state, saying the state will deal with any herder who dared to breach the law. Akeredolu stated this in Akure, the state capital while fielding questions from newscasters on ARISE TV NEWS. The governor who assured that the Southern governors are implementing the Anti-open grazing law with vigor noted that his major interest is protecting the livelihood of his people. Akeredolu maintained that the Meyetti-Allah are already cooperating with the government. He said the statement…