NYSC director-general Yusha’u Ahmed says they are collaborating with numerous stakeholders to facilitate soft loans for the corps members to enable them to be self-reliant. Mr Ahmed said this while speaking to newsmen at the sidelines of the formal closing ceremony of the 2024 Batch ‘A’ Stream ‘2’ orientation course on Tuesday in Kaduna. He said the compulsory Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme, which the corps members undertook during their orientation course, aimed to ensure self-reliance and financial independence after their service year. He said what the NYSC envisaged for the corps members was their ability to create…
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Governor Abba Yusuf on Wednesday assented to the Kano State Premarital Health Screening Bill into law. The new law mandates premarital health screening for all prospective couples in the state. While signing the law in Kano, Mr Yusuf urged its faithful implementation to uphold the sanctity of marriages in Kano and ensure the birth of healthy offspring free from preventable illnesses. According to the law, no wedding would be permitted in Kano without the presentation of a health screening certificate for genotype, hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS, and other related conditions. The law is meant to reduce the likelihood of children being born with underlying health…
Six political parties in Ekiti have disassociated themselves from the recently conducted election and inauguration by the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC). The election was held on April 23 at the INEC office in Ado-Ekiti. However, the six political parties, in their protest letter, dated April 24 and addressed to the national chairman of IPAC, Yusuf Dantalle, rejected the election, describing it as null and void, saying it cannot stand. The letter was signed by Dele Ekunola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Samuel Odeoba (Accord) and A.O. Okunade (Labour Party). Others were Ifedayo Iyaniwura (National Rescue Movement), Moses Awogbemi…
The Rivers Police Command has announced the arrest of a gang allegedly specialised in kidnapping and raping young women in the state. SP Grace Iringe-Koko, the command’s spokesperson, told journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday that the gang kidnapped and molested one Ogechi, 28, in Elele, Ikwerre LGA, on July 1, 2023. She said the police had been pursuing the gang, resulting in the apprehension of a 32-year-old resident of Igoni Street, Abuloma, linked to the crime. “Investigations revealed that Louise Brutolu engaged his victims through phone chats, inviting them to meet him at the Pacific Suite Hotel in Abuloma,…
Actress Elizabeth Evoeme, famously known as Ovularia from the timeless 80s TV series “The New Masquerade,” has passed away at 81. Reports said she died in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, on Sunday. In a statement, the Evoeme Emekalam family thanked her fans, friends, and colleagues for their unwavering support and requested privacy to grieve the loss of their matriarch. “Friends, fans, colleagues, and the family of the legendary actress Elizabeth Lizzy ‘Ovularia’ Evoeme would like to notify the public and all those who loved her and her work in ‘The New Masquerade’ of her passing. “We thank you all…
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have killed two suspects who kidnapped three Indian nationals on their way home. In a press release on Tuesday, the command’s public relations officer, Omotola Odutola, said the remaining four kidnappers escaped while the operatives rescued the victims. The police, in the statement, revealed that the manager of Breeze Company Nigeria Limited on the Ibadan-Lagos expressway informed the DPO of the Mowe Divisional Headquarters about the incident. According to the state police spokesperson, the manager reported that on May 3, his principals, numbering about 16, were returning to their residence at Kajola junction when…
A scuba diver, Kelvin Ngwa, has been found dead five days after reportedly missing amid an unapproved diving activity at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) facility in Warri, Delta. The Diving Personnel Development Foundation (DPDF) disclosed this in a statement signed by its principal investigator, Julius Ugwala, in Lagos on Tuesday. Mr Ugwala said the scuba diver went missing at about 11:00 a.m. on May 2 during a salvage dive for airlifting around a submerged barge at NPA Warri, with a depth of 15 metres. “He had successfully airlifted during the first dive and was given a pull to come…
The Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to sports development The Governor gave this reassurance while playing host to members of the Cross Creek Golf Club at his office in Alagbaka, Akure, on Tuesday. Governor Aiyedatiwa expressed his gratitude to the team of golfers for their visit. He assured them that the government would continue to create an enabling environment and prioritize the well-being of the people, thus ensuring the safety and peace necessary for residents and visitors alike to engage in recreational activities such as golfing. The governor pledged to provide…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Jesutega Onokpasa, has revealed that certain appointees of President Bola Tinubu are plotting to succeed him before the end of his tenure and are seriously wishing that the President will not make it to 2027 for their selfish reasons. Onokpasa, a lawyer and former member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who lamented the alleged hypocrisy, pull him down mentality and anti-party activities going on in the governing party, laid curses on those he accused of wishing Tinubu dead, saying, “If they don’t repent, Asiwaju will attend their funeral.”…