Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has expressed optimism he will win the October 10 Governorship election in the local government areas of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Eyitayo Jegede and his deputy Hon Agboola Ajayi He reiterated the defection of Ajayi to the opposition PDP cannot threaten his victory at the polls. Akeredolu, who spoke with newsmen at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) shortly after meeting with APC Ondo Primary Election Appeal Committee, however admitted that Jegede may be a hard nut to crack. He was invited by the committee following petitions against his emergence at the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has named train stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors after “deserving Nigerians”, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said. Presidency aide, Tolu Ogunlesi, revealed this on Monday in a tweet. According to Ogunlesi, the Apapa station was named after Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while the Agege station was conferred on the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola. Other personalities conferred with train station names include Lateef Jakande (Agbado station), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Kajola station), and Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Papalanto station).’ Earlier in June, the President had approved the naming of the Railway Complex in…
The Federal Government has said Secondary schools in the country will reopen on August 4, 2020 for pupils in exit classes to sit for their examination. The government said students will have two weeks to prepare for the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination organised by the West Africa Examination Council. WAEC will commence on 17th of August, 2020. The government announced the decision at the end of a virtual consultative meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education, Commissioners of Education of the 36 states, the Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT), the proprietors of private schools, and Chief Executives of…
Despite the incessant killings and Boko Haram attacks, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has disclosed that Nigeria is safer and more secured than in 2014. This disclosure was made by the Chief of Army Staff during a sit-out with Wounded Soldiers in Action (WIA) in Kaduna. Newsmen gathered that Wounded Soldiers in Action (WIA) are officers and men injured during various operations against insurgency receiving treatment at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. Expressing his delight to be among the wounded soldiers, Buratai said their efforts in securing the nation will never…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointments of Alhaji Sabiu Bello Abubakar and Mr Oba Olufemi Oluniyi fca as Deputy Commissioners for Insurance, National Insurance Commission, (NAICOM). A statement from a deputy director in the Office of the Commissioner for Insurance, ‘Rasaq Abdulsalam, on Monday morning, explained that while Abubakar is the Deputy Commissioner, Technical, Mr Oba will serve as the Deputy Commissioner in charge of Finance and Administration (F&A) in the Commission. Both appointments are effective July 17, 2020, for an initial tenure of five years.
The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, says he regrets his mistake of supporting Mr Godwin Obaseki for governorship in 2016. Oshiomhole said this on Sunday in Benin while addressing some members of the APC. He disclosed that he supported the governorship aspiration of Obaseki in 2016 to ensure the continuity of his projects and programmes. “I have made my honest mistakes. Only God is perfect. I am now 68 years. I have come to apologise for the mistake of supporting Obaseki in 2016. “I am in Edo to repair my mistakes. God had…
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other West African regional leaders in an extraordinary peace mediation meeting over the political crisis in Mali. Monday’s meeting is sequel to the one held last Thursday in the Malian capital, Bamako, where all sides in the crisis were brought to the table for discussion. It would be recalled that the Thursday meeting ended with a plan to resume discussion today (Monday). The President of Niger Republic, who is also Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Mahamadou Issoufou, had on Thursday said the…
The Federal Government has extended the N-Power batch C online application by two weeks. The online application process, which began on June 26, 2020, was scheduled to close on Sunday, July 26, 2020. The Federal Government explained the extension will afford interested youths the opportunity to also register. It also said the number of applications received so far indicates enthusiasm on the part of the applicants to be part of the programme. According to the Federal Government, at the end of the application exercise, 400,000 of the applicants will be absorbed. The extension was announced in a series of tweet…
THE Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) received a whopping N946. 91 billion as budgetary allocation in 18 years. The sum is part of the N9.43 trillion allocated between 1999 to 2019.as 13 per cent derivation to the nine oil producing states and other agencies of the Federal Government involved developing oil producing communities. Figures sourced from the Budget Office of the Federation and the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) at the weekend contain the figures. Information garnered from the Budget Office showed that the NDDC allocation is subsumed in the Ministry of Niger Delta’s total allocation. It…
Godswill Akpobio, minister of Niger Delta affairs, has named lawmakers who got contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The names of the lawmakers were attached to the letter the minister sent to the house of representatives. The former Akwa Ibom governor was responding to an ultimatum by Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, who had given him 48 hours to name the lawmakers who got the contracts or face the “wrath of the house”. While appearing before a house panel probing the alleged mismanagement of N81.5 billion by the interim management committee (IMC) of the commission,…