The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged Edo State residents to vote against the incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki, in the forthcoming governorship election in the state. He said that the call had become imperative after several undemocratic actions taken by the embattled govenor during his first tenure, among which he allegedly refused to obey the rule of law despite voices of reasoning from politicians and other stakeholders on the issue of 14 lawmakers he prevented from being sworn into the state House of Assembly. “I want to appeal to you to reject Godwin…
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, early morning Tuesday, left Abuja for Accra, Ghana to attend an Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on the situation in Mali. Osinbajo, who is representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the summit will join other leaders in the sub-region to discuss the political crisis in Mali and the security situation in the sub region at large. According to a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, the Accra meeting will form part of several efforts by leaders…
NO fewer than five persons were killed while eight others were injured in an auto crash along Owo/ Akure highway in Ondo state. Eyewitness account said that the crash occurred at Emure in Owo council area of the state at about 923am. He attributed the accident to over speeding and wrongful overtaking by the drivers of the vehicles. The vehicles involved are a J5 bus marked LSR 855 XF and a DAF 75 truck marked AKD 880 XX Vanguard learnt that thirteen persons were in the two commercial vehicles when the incident occurred. The eight persons that were injured reportedly…
Arik Air Tuesday resumed normal flight operations after Monday’s disruption by aviation unions members. According to the airline’s Manager, Communication, Mr Adebanji Ola, all the early morning flights for the day were operated as scheduled. Ola said: “All our early morning flights for Tuesday, 15 September 2020 operated in and out of Lagos on schedule and all other flights for the day will operate as scheduled”. “Once again, we apologize to all our valued customers for the disruption to their travel plans on Monday and assure them of our resolve to continually adhere to safety standards. We thank our esteemed…
The Federal Government has met with officials of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over the hike in electricity and fuel tariffs. The meeting called by the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige was held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The meeting was called to discuss solutions to the recurring labour issues with a view to finding an end to incessant industrial actions. In attendance at the meeting is the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola and the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva. Naija…
Evicted Kiddwaya has predicted Laycon will win the show in a recent interview with African Magic. “I want Laycon to win and I think he will win, in the start I thought Neo would when I was in the House,” he said. On why he thought Laycon would win, he said: “When I actually heard his music for the first time, when they played it by then I was on my own vibe I didn’t really listen to it, I just saw people jumping around him doing this and I didnt know it was him so I think I told…
Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, says Lamidi Adeosun, his deputy, saved him from an ambush in the north-east in 2015. Speaking at the inauguration of a bridge named after him in Osun state on Monday, Buratai said Adeosun, chief of training and operations, was able to mobilise some troops to repel the bandits. The army chief praised his deputy for his methods against the Boko Haram insurgents in the north-east. “When I had the first ambush, he was with me in the vehicle, by my side on the 18th of September, 2015, and I can see the courage he…
Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has promised to focus more on rural transformation in his second term. He said his first tenure had delivered landmark projects that touched all sectors of the economy. Akeredolu, speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign in Ondo East Local Government, said he would open up rural communities under the World Bank Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP). He added that he had paid the counterpart funding. He assured farmers that the intervention would enable them get their produce to the markets as well as encourage youths to become agropreneurs. Akeredolu said: “We…
It was an unpleasant resumption by staff and students at the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, as all staff unions in the school protested, yesterday, locking out the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, and others, following alleged refusal by the Lagos State Government to pay the workers the monthly new minimum wage of N30,000. The unions involved in the action are; the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT. Incidentally, the Chairperson of the state council of the Nigeria…
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has warned that the ongoing seven-day warning strike by health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), could jeopardise the lives of patients at the various medical facilities across the country. Speaking yesterday in Abuja during the media briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Ehanire appealed to the JOHESU to call off their strike, to avoid the risks to lives of citizens, especially as the country us battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The minister, said while it was gratifying that the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD)…