Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has hinted that he will resign on Monday in deference to a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) seeking election to quit. The Minister gave the hint in Kaduna on Sunday when he visited the State to canvass the support of All Progressives Congress(APC) delegates for the presidential primary. He expressed appreciation to Buhari for the opportunity to serve as Minister. Amaechi stressed the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train would not have happened if the Federal Executive Council (FEC) had approved the surveillance contract he request to monitor…
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The Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) on Sunday announced the appointment of Mr Joeé Santos Peseiro as the new Head Coach of the Super Eagles. The appointment is with immediate effect, subject to the signing of agreed terms between the NFF and Peseiro. José Vitor dos Santos Peseiro, 62 last month, is a Portuguese who played as a striker in his days and has wide and varied experience coaching top Clubs and National Teams across four different continents, namely Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. José Vitor dos Santos Peseiro, 62 last month, is a Portuguese who played as a striker in…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that the 330kV Akure Transmission Substation in Ondo State, which is at 98 per cent completion, will be completed in five months. This was even as it said efforts were being made to complete the 330kV transmission line that would supply power to the substation. The Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider, TCN, Engr. Victor Adewumi made the disclosure during the on-the-spot assessment of the facility at the instance of the Minister of Power, Engr. Abubakar Aliyu. The Akure 330/132/33kV Substation he said, has two units of 150MVA transformer on the 330kV section,…
In view of the crisis rocking Sokoto over killing of Christian lady who allegedly blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has placed a ban on protests related to religious activity throughout in Kaduna State with immediate effect. A statement by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan said: “The prohibition becomes imperative in view of moves by some unpatriotic elements to organide series of for-and-against protests related to a security development in one of the Northern Nigerian States. “The Kaduna State Government, in consultation with security agencies under the umbrella of the Kaduna State Security Council,…
RIVERS State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to get rid of banditry within six months if elected President in 2023. Wike said he had drawn the blueprint to provide the logistics and gadgets necessary for security agencies to expeditiously end banditry in the country. Wike, who spoke at a meeting in Abeokuta with PDP delegates from Ogun State, said he would prioritise the protection of life and property of every person. He said: “Once there is insecurity you can’t do anything. You must have peace for investors to come in, for people to…
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has congratulated a Nigerian medical doctor, Boubini Miyensinte Jones-Wonni, on her emergence as the Best Graduating Student in the Howard University Medical School, class of 2022, at the age of 22. Jones-Wonni hails from Arogbo-Ijaw Kingdom in Ese-Odo Local Council of Ondo State Akeredolu also celebrated her admission into the prestigious Harvard University Medical School as one of the only two members of her class admitted for residency post-training in internal medicine. This was contained in a statement in Akure, yesterday, signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Richard Olatunde. The statement…
The Chief Whip of the Senate , Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu says nine presidential aspirants from the All Progressives Congress (APC) are set to step down to support the presidential ambition of the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan. Kalu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja that an influential presidential aspirant from the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is also planing to join the APC. Kalu, though did not list their names, was the first to drop his presidential ambition in support of Lawan on the grounds of failure of APC to zone the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has revealed that the presidential aspirants would be screened on May 23. The Organising Secretary of the party, Suleiman Argungun, stated this during the inauguration of the screening committee on Saturday in Abuja. The screening was supposed to take place Sunday before it was later postponed. He said, “The screening for the presidential candidates we have so far 28 aspirants and as you are aware some aspirants have started withdrawing their aspiration and as such on the 23rd of May this month they will be screened.” Argungu revealed that 145 governorship, 351 Senatorial and 1197…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday strongly condemned the resort to self-help by the mob in Sokoto, resulting in violence, destruction, and killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, following an allegation that she had blasphemed Muhammad (SAW), the Prophet of Islam on Thursday. President Buhari said the news of the killing of the young lady by fellow students was a matter of concern and demanded an impartial, extensive probe into all that happened before and during the incident. The President in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant to the President on…
Former vice president and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has warned that nothing will be left of the leading opposition political party if it fails to recapture power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023. Atiku, who was addressing PDP delegates at the state secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt yesterday, appealed to the delegates of the PDP in Rivers State to give him 60 percent of their votes in the forthcoming presidential primariy of the party. He was accompanied on the visit by former Adamawa State governor,…