The owner of motorcycle-hailing company ‘GoKada’ and co-founder of ride-sharing venture Pathao, Fahim Saleh has been found dead in his New York apartment. According to New York Times, the dismembered body of the tech entrepreneur was found inside his swanky Manhattan condo on Tuesday afternoon. An NYPD official said investigators believe the victim is a tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, 33, who bought the condo for $2.25 million last year. NYPD spokesman Sgt. Carlos Nieves said all of the body parts were found at the scene but declined to give specifics on where. Details shortly…
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Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has written to the state Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, to investigate the claim made by a former Secretary to the State Government, Ifedayo Abegunde, that the 2016 governorship election was rigged in his favour. Abegunde, shortly after his resignation on July 6, claimed that the 2016 election was won by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, and not Akeredolu. The SSG said the poll was manipulated by bigwigs of the APC, including himself, just for Akeredolu to win at all cost. But in his petition to the police commissioner, Akeredolu…
The Chairman, Forum of State Chairmen of SDP, Ambassador. Oke Idawene who made this known while addressing journalists at the party’s national secretariat, yesterday in Abuja, said that SDP shall deliver Ondo from the shuffle of bad leadership. Idawene noted that the party has its plan to restructure Nigeria ahead of 2023 general election. He said, “With the current security challenges, Nigeria needs restructuring because that is what SDP stands for. When we restructure Nigeria, we will have a better country. “Every government’s duty is the security and life of his people, the SDP is reorganize by…
Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, says the service chiefs have not disappointed President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria in the discharge of their duties. Buratai spoke when he welcomed Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of defence staff, to the Nigerian army super camp four, located in Faskari, Katsina state. Olanisakin was on an operational visit to the camp to assess how troops in the newly formed exercise, Sahel Sanity, were faring. Buratai said a few days after the exercise was launched, troops began tackling banditry and other criminal activities in the north-west. He expressed appreciation to God for giving them good health…
The first-ever female combat pilot of the Nigerian Air Force, Tolulope Arotile, has died in a road accident at the Nigerian Air Force Base, Kaduna. Her death was announced on Wednesday morning by the Nigerian Air force. Miss Arotile was commissioned as a member of the 64 Regular Course of the Nigerian Air Force in September, 2017 and was in 2019 decorated as the first-ever female fighter pilot by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique. She was a flying officer in the Air Force. According to a statement by the Nigerian Air Force on its Twitter…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday, announced that the country has recorded 463 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 33,616. The NCDC disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle on Tuesday night. “463 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-128 Kwara-92 Enugu-39 Delta-33 Edo-29 Plateau-28 Kaduna-23 Oyo-15 Ogun-14 Osun-14 FCT-12 Ondo-9 Rivers-9 Abia-8 Bayelsa-5 Ekiti-3 Borno-2.”
The House of Representatives has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the decision of the Federal Ministry of Education to withdraw Nigeria from participating in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination and other similar examinations. Last week, the House Committee on Basic Education and Services, headed by Julius Ihovbere made the same appeal to the Federal Government. The lawmakers also urged the Minister of Education to immediately implement the health safety measures outlined by the Federal Executive Counci| for the conduct of the examinations as well as provide soap, hand sanitizers and all other requirements stipulated by NCDC. The…
ABUJA–THE 36 states’ chairmen of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, have appealed to the federal government to review the guidelines it released Monday preparatory to schools’ resumption, saying it was too difficult for implementation. The chairmen under the aegis of Forum of Social Democratic Party Chairmen, at a press conference in Abuja, Tuesday, also appealed to the government to rescind its decision suspending students who registered to write the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, from going ahead. Delta State chairman of the party, Oke Idawene, who also doubled as chairman of the Forum, speaking on behalf of others, faulted the…
The House of Representatives is to investigate the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for engaging in extra budgetary spending of over 500 million dollars from Nigeria Export Supervision Scheme Fund. The House is also to investigate the spending by the CBN and the Ministry of Finance over another extra-budgetary spending of about N700 billion from the same fund in contravention of section 80 of the constitution which stipulates that such funds must be appropriated before being utilised. Adopting a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Rep. Abdullahi Sa’ad Abdulkadir on the need for…
The House of Representatives has endorsed the candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, describing her as very qualified. The resolution to support her followed a motion of urgent public importance raised by the minority leader, Ndudi Elumelu at plenary on Tuesday. The lawmakers also urged President Buhari to rally other African leaders in support of her candidacy. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar also endorsed the former Finance Minister on Saturday, saying her “experience and the enormous related works she has done confirms without equivocation that her leadership shall be a blessing to the…