Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said over 20,000 workers were engaged for the ongoing construction of Lagos-Ibadan rail project. Amaechi said in a statement on Monday that the engagement was in compliant with the local content law inherent in the 1.6 billion dollar contract agreement between Nigeria and China. He made the clarification at a public hearing in Abuja, while responding to concerns by the House of Representatives Committee on Treaties, Protocols and Agreements that local content was not observed in the course of the project. He said, “There are over 20,000 Nigerian workers employed for the construction of the…
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The Presidency has released the details of the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In a statement on Tuesday by the Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina said former President and ECOWAS special envoy, Jonathan briefed the President on Mali crisis. Adesina added that Jonathan told President Buhari that the country’s main opposition group, M5, demanded the resignation of President Ibrahim Keita. He said ECOWAS also rejected the demands of the opposition group. The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday received his immediate predecessor in office, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, at State…
Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Expanded Interim Management Committee, EIMC, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has expressed surprise that people thought he was mimicking actors in movies when he fainted at the House of Representatives some weeks ago. Pondei unexpectedly fainted while being questioned by members of the House of Reps exactly one month ago. The NDDC MD told Vanguard that he had a mysterious and unpredictable health challenge that led to the scenario. I had an unexplained, unexpected health challenge. It is ridiculous to think that people believed I was acting, the MD said. I would…
The camp of the ruling All Progressives (APC) and its candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, received a major boost as members of the 43 de-registered political parties in Ondo State, declared their supports for the re-election of Akeredolu. The de-registered under the auspices of Emerging Political Platform (EPP) who collapsed their structures into the APC, promised to deliver over 100,000 votes for APC to ensure Akeredolu’s victory in the October 10 governorship election in the state. Leading the group, Mr Biyi Poroye, said the EPP was the original third force in the state,…
Russia on Saturday announced that it has produced the first batch of its COVID-19 vaccine after President Vladimir Putin announced it had been first in the world to approve a vaccine. “The first batch of the novel coronavirus vaccine developed by the Gamaleya research institute has been produced,” the health ministry said in a statement quoted by Russian news agencies. Putin’s announcement on Tuesday about the vaccine was met with caution from scientists and the World Health Organisation who said it still needed a rigorous safety review. Putin said the vaccine was safe and that one of his own daughters…
House of Representatives Minority Caucus has said that allocating only 30 slot per local government to each member of the House from the 1,000 job per local government was unfair and unacceptable to lawmakers and Nigerians. Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu (PDP, Delta), said in a statement they were rejecting the 30 job slots allotted to them. It said as true representatives of the people, it was unfair to allocate just 30 slot out of available 1,000 to members from the local governments within their constituencies. Elumelu said the caucus was demanding more transparency and review of the criteria being used…
The family of slain Bauchi lawmaker, Hon. Musa Mante Baraza, has regained freedom after spending five days in kidnappers’ den. YemieFash medium had reported Mante’s wives, Rashida Musa Mante 40, Rahina Musa Mante 35 and his one- year old daughter Fausar Musa Mante were abducted by gunmen after killing him at his residence last Thursday in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi. Confirming their release to Yemiefash medium on telephone, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Bauchi Command, Ahmed Wakili said: ” They were rescued yesterday around 11pm by the police, no ransom was paid. Immediately they were rescued…
A PERSONAL Assistant to the President on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, on Monday replied the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide (a.k.a Winners Chapel), David Oyedepo, for criticizing the Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA). The Federal Government seeks to regulate financial activities of local churches through CAMA. The cleric was reported to have rejected the terms of the CAMA, which proposes to appoint Trustees on the management of churches, saying it would be a direct assault on God by the nation. Oyedepo spoke during the Sunday service in his sprawling church auditorium, Ota, Ogun State. He was…
The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has neutralized scores of terrorists and destroyed their hideouts and logistics structures at Tumbuma Baba and Boboshe in Borno, the Defence Headquarters says. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, John Enenche, a major general, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Mr Enenche said the air strikes were executed on August 16, the first day of missions of a new subsidiary Operation codenamed “Hail Storm”. He said the subsidiary operation was an air interdiction operation aimed at taking out identified terrorists’ targets in the Lake Chad and Sambisa Forest areas of…
Jimoh Jubril, a middle-age man was on Monday arraigned before a magistrate court in Akure, Ondo State, for allegedly destroying Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s campaign vehicle. Jubril, an indigene of Owo and Akeredolu’s kinsman, was arrested by the police during an unrest in the town in which a vehicle branded with Governor Akeredolu’s campaign poster was damaged. During his arrest, the defendant was also accused of causing trouble and shooting no fewer than five persons at Iju Igboroke in Owo. The police claimed that the campaign vehicle destroyed by Jubril was worth N2.5m. He was later arraigned on a six-count charge…