Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai on Tuesday restated the unalloyed loyalty of officers and men of the Nigerian Army to President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. This is coming a day after Governors and Traditional Rulers of Northern extraction said the recent #EndSARS protests were hijacked by people seeking to change President Buhari’s government outside the ballot box. COAS stated this as Keynote Speaker during the opening ceremony of a two-day Directorate of Army Physical Training (DAPT) Officers Training Conference 2020″ (DOTC – 2020) currently running in Zaria, Kaduna State. Represented by the Commander Infantry of the Nigerian Army,…
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Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to shelve the seven months ongoing industrial action in the best interest of the students. Fayemi stressed the need for urgent and holistic engagement between Federal Government and the leadership of ASUU in order to bring an end to the current impasse. The governor made this appeal in Ado-Ekiti while playing host to members of the Board of Trustees of the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, led by its Chairman and former Governor of Niger State, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, in his office. He…
Lekki Concession Company (LCC) Managing Director, Mr Abayomi Omomuwa, has said neither he nor any member of his staff witnessed shootings of protesters at Lekki Toll Gate. LCC is the operator of the Lekki Toll Gate where #EndSARS protesters were alleged to have been fired at by soldiers on the evening of October 20. Omomuwa spoke while testifying before a Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government to probe the Lekki shootings as well as complaints of human rights abuses against members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. He said following the 4pm curfew announced by…
The Oyo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, announced the indefinite suspension of the caretaker chairmen of eight Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) and five Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. This followed the failure of the 13 caretaker chairmen to submit a comprehensive list of graders, bulldozers, flat-bed trucks and other earth-moving equipment in their domain as requested by the state assembly. It will be recalled that the Assembly had given an October 23 ultimatum to the chairmen of local councils to submit the report or risk suspension. This ultimatum followed the failure of 95 percent of the…
The Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the nomination of a new chairman and members of the Lagos State Local Government Service Commission (LASCOM). The nominees include Hon. Kamal Baiyewu as chairman, while Hon. Taofeek Adaraniji, Mr Ahmed Seriki, Engr. Biodun Orekoya and Hon. Akeem Bamgbola are nominated as members. The State Head of Service (HoS), Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, made this known in a statement made available from his office, stating that the governor’s approval of the new nominees was in accordance with the provisions of relevant state laws. According to the statement, the new appointment was consequent…
Nigeria approved of last weekend’s rescue operation by the United States Special Forces, Minister of Defence Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd.) has declared. The operation to rescue a kidnapped American, according to him, was not a violation of the nation’s sovereignty. He said the Federal Government granted the US all the needed support and permission to carry out the military operation. The United States Special Military Force rescued an American citizen kidnapped by bandits in the northern part of Nigeria. In an interview with newsmen shortly after he defended his Ministry’s budget at the Senate on Tuesday, the Minister said…
The Lekki Concession Company, operators of the Lekki toll gate, has submitted video footage recorded by its surveillance camera on the night of October 20, 2020, when soldiers allegedly opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. The Managing Director of LCC, Abayomi Omomuwa, submitted the video footage on Tuesday to the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government to probe the Lekki shootings as well as complaints of human rights abuses against members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Tendering the video footage to the panel, Omomuwa said, “I can confirm that inside…
The Senate on Tuesday tackled the Minister of information, Lai Mohammed, over a controversial project fully funded by the Ministry of Finance for execution by his Ministry in the 2020 fiscal year. The project was tagged ERPG 10145116, and was listed as ‘completion of NTA Gashua sub-station ongoing’. The project had its allocation of N250m fully released to the Ministry. The Minister led other top officials of his Ministry to the Senate on Tuesday o defend their 2021 budget estimates. Chairman, Senate Committee on information, Abdullahi Sankara, maintained that the Minister has a lot of explanations to make over the…
Former Vice President Joe Biden, has been declared winner in Dixville Notch, a tiny New Hampshire township along the US-Canada border. The township is said to be among the first places in the country to make its presidential preference known. Biden took all five of the votes cast for president in the town. CNN reported that the ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight, becoming some of the first cast and counted on Election Day. By tradition, all eligible voters gather in the storied “Ballot Room” at The Balsams resort in Dixville Notch to cast their secret ballots once…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has threatened to sue the National Assembly and the Northern Governors’ Forum if any social media bill is passed and signed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). SERAP said this in a tweet on Tuesday while reacting to a proposal by the northern governors for more social media regulations in the wake of the #EndSARS protests. The tweet read, “We’ll sue the Northern Governors’ Forum and the National Assembly if any social media bill is passed and signed by President Buhari. Nigerians have a right to freedom of expression online. We won’t…