The United States Electoral College has confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the US 2020 presidential election. This is after electors in all 50 states met to cast their votes on Monday. In the results declared by the Electoral College representatives, Democrat Biden secured over 270 votes to defeat US president, Donald Trump. Earlier, Trump claimed, without evidence, that he was the real winner but failed in the court cases instituted. Thousands of Trump supporters, including members of far-right groups, had protested in Washington and other parts of US claiming Trump won the election. After the electoral college, only…
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THE management of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Akoko, Ondo State, has said it would investigate the allegation that some members of staff of the institution were fond of demanding bribe before attending to postgraduate students of the university. The AAUA Alumni Association had alleged that some employees of the institution would always demand for specific number of wraps of pounded yam with soup, crates of soft drinks, bitter kola, packets of biscuits and sweets before attending postgraduate students who wanted to defend their Ph.D thesis. Members of the association were said to have made the allegation at the 2020…
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Daura, Katsina State, received more briefing on children kidnapped from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, with an assurance from Governor Aminu Bello Masari of steady progress to bring them out unharmed. President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Daura, Katsina State, received more briefing on children kidnapped from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, with an assurance from Governor Aminu Bello Masari of steady progress to bring them out unharmed. Governor Masari according to Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity noted that security agencies had located the position of the children. The…
The Ondo State House of Assembly has been in crisis for over six months following the defection of the deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and later to Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) where he contested as the party candidate in the October 10 governorship election. After the defection, there were moves by the state assembly to impeach Mr Ajayi as some members of the state assembly signed the impeachment process of the deputy governor but nine lawmakers refused to sign then. Of the nine lawmakers, the assembly indefinitely suspended four: Iroju Ogundeji, deputy speaker, representing Odigbo…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of recently trained officers of the special Weapon and Tactical Team, SWAT. Adamu ordered SWAT deployment for routine patrols across the country. The IGP’s directive was addressed to the 17 Assistant Inspector Generals of Police in the Force and Commissioners of Police in Nigeria. A statement with reference number CH:5350/IGP.SEC/ABJ/VOL.20/340 was tagged “Deployment of Newly Formed Special Weapon and Tactical Team operatives,” Vanguard reports.
Cable News Network, Inc.(CNN) has objected to a Witness Summons by the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution of Victims of SARS Related Abuses for its Team of Reporters to appear before it today, December 12, to give evidence on their reportage of the #EndSARS Lekki shooting. The international news outfit said the Panel lacks jurisdiction to summon its staff since they are not in Nigeria. CNN’s Lawyers, Messrs. Olumide Babalola LP, filed the objection dated 4th December 2020 at the Tribunal on December 9, 2020. In the letter, seen by The Nation, Mr Olumide Babalola said: “Since the…
The 774, 000 Special Public Works (SPW) jobs will now commence on January 5, the Federal Government said on Sunday. Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, told The Nation on Sunday in Abuja. The programme, designed for artisans to do public works for three months for N20,000 per month, suffered setbacks in commencement date because of internal wrangling between the minister and a former Director – General of the National Directorate of Employment, Nasir Ladan, who was sacked last week by President Muhammadu Buhari. The minister said the programme ran into some “hiccups” hence the delay in…
The Google-owned family of apps has crashed for thousands of users worldwide. This includes Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets and YouTube as well as the main search engine. Outage tracker site DownDetecter clocked tens of thousands of users reporting issues with the sites around 11:40am. Problems were reported mainly in Europe but also in Australia, the east coast of the USA and parts of Africa, South America and Asia. Google’s websites are some of the most popular in the world, with its video-streaming site YouTube frequented by more than two billion people every month. Unlike other tech firms like Facebook,…
Barcelona will come up against Neymar and Co. in the Champions League after being draw against Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16. The draw took place on Monday with Barca always set for a tough pairing after being pipped to top spot in Group G by Juventus in their final group game. Atletico Madrid vs. Chelsea RB Leipzig vs. Liverpool Porto vs Juventus Barcelona vs. PSG Sevilla vs. Borussia Dortmund Atalanta vs. Real Madrid The dates are yet to be confirmed but the first leg will take place between 16-24 February at the Camp Nou. The return will be played at the…
More than 500 pregnancies were recorded in secondary schools of Benin’s northeastern department of Borgou during the 2019-2020 school year, the Beninese news agency (ABP) reported from Cotonou. “Altogether, 547 out of 36,487 school girls regularly registered were pregnant during the 2019-2020 school year as against 431 cases in 2018-2019,” ABP reported, quoting Thomas Adam, a Representative of the child protection department of Secondary education and professional and technical training ministry. Adam attributed the increase in the cases of pregnancies to the long cessation of classes observed during the coronavirus pandemic. Although no strategy linked to the phenomenon was yet…