AN ad hoc committee set up by the National Economic Council to address the #EndSARS protests, on Tuesday, resolved that the 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory should meet with youth groups, traditional rulers and political leaders in their respective jurisdictions. It also resolved that after the engagements at the state level, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and other members of the committee should lead further engagements at the zonal levels. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement he issued after the virtual meeting of the committee. The…
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The Lagos State Government has announced that it may impose new lockdown in the state over the reoccurrence of coronavirus cases in the state. This was made known in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Director, Public Affairs of the Ministry of Health, Tunbosun Ogunbanwo. The statement contains a quote from the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, which references the new lockdown in other parts of the world. Abayomi warned that “the continuous flagrant disregard of safety guidelines by citizens heralds’ danger and may lead to a second wave of new infections in Lagos”. The statement read in…
U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed victory in Tuesday’s presidential election with millions of votes yet to be counted. In remarks at the White House, Trump alleged that there was a “major fraud” in ongoing counting of votes and vowed to mount a legal challenge. The remarks came after Twitter restricted his post with the same allegation and warned users it might be misleading. In the White House remarks, Trump claimed that he had won in several states, including Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, where votes were still being counted. He alleged that election officials had halted vote counting in…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria will not be allowed to embark on new capital projects in 2021, the House of Representatives has said. The House Committee on Power, said this while grilling the Managing Director of TCN, Sule Abdulaziz, over the 2020 budget performance and 2021 proposal by the company in Abuja on Tuesday. The committee said it did not make any sense to have ongoing projects worth N145bn, with N4bn only available to fund them, and still introduce new ones. The TCN boss, however, told the committee that ‘higher authorities’ imposed new projects on the company. Chairman of the…
For safe re-opening of the National Youth Service Corps orientation camps across the country, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said all corps members will be tested using the new antigen-based test. The centre disclosed that the process of procurement of the antigen-based test was almost complete. Speaking at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, the NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said, “We will test everyone (corps members) and that will enable us to keep our camps safe and also help us understand what is going on in the rest of the country.” Ihekweazu…
NIGERIA’S external and domestic debts have been projected to hit N38.68 trillion by December 2021, Finance, Budget and National Planning Minister Zainab Ahmed, alerted on Tuesday. Mrs. Ahmed, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts to defend the ministry’s next year budget, blamed abandonment of road projects on the intricacies in the preparation of annual budgets. The Minister noted: “The total public debt stock, comprising the external and domestic debts of the federal and state governments and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) stood at N31.01 trillion ($85.90 billion) as at June 30, 2020. “It (debt) is…
US President Donald Trump has accused his opponents of electoral malpractices in Tuesday presidential election. According to the Republican candidate, his opponents are casting votes after polls are closed. “We are up big but they are trying to steal the election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the polls are closed!” he tweeted. With polls gradually closing across the United States Tuesday, a long night of waiting for results ahead. The first results are trickling in, with US media projecting wins for the Republican incumbent so far in 13 states including Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma,…
Army troops of Operation Fire Ball which is a subsidiary operation under Operation Lafiya Dole have killed 75 fighters of Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) between the period of September 28 to October 31, 2020. This number of neutralized terrorists was given on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 during a press briefing by the Acting Director of Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Benard Onyeuko. It was however added that one officer and 2 gallant soldiers regretably paid the supreme price during the period under review. General Onyeuko also briefed that four other soldiers were wounded…
DEMOCRATIC candidate Joe Biden surged ahead as results of the United States Presidential election trickled in this morning. As of 5:00am, Biden had secured 209 Electoral College votes to President Donald Trump’s 118. For a candidate to win, he must secure 270 Electoral College votes. Results from battleground states with 96 Electoral College votes that would determine the final outcome were being expected. The states are: Arizona (11), Florida (29), Georgia (16), Iowa (6), Maine 2nd Congressional District (1), North Carolina (15) and Ohio. The final outcome in not expected until later today. The Democratic candidate won California (55), Connecticut…
The leadership crisis rocking the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has deepened following insistence by State Chairmen and Zonal leaders in the Southern States that Acting National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdul Isiaq, must leave office. Isiaq emerged Acting National Chairman of the SDP after former National chairman, Dr. Tunde Adeniran, resigned from office and partisan politics last September. The Southern Chairmen, who passed a vote of no confidence on Isiaq at a meeting in Akure, faulted the manner he emerged as the Acting Chairman. They said his emergence was contrary to the party’s constitution. The Southern Chairmen expressed confidence…