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Wike Sacks Commissioner For Hosting Programme Without Permission

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has sacked the State Commissioner of Health, Professor Princewill Chike, for not seeking the State government’s approval to host the preliminary session of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, in Port Harcourt. The governor described the…

14/12/2021

INEC: Prolonged Delay In Electoral Bill Assent May Affect Ekiti, Ondo Guber Polls

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cried out that a prolonged delay in assenting to the new Electoral Bill may hinder its preparations and smooth conduct of upcoming elections, including the governorship polls in Ondo and Ekiti States scheduled for June…

14/12/2021

EFCC: Governor Withdrew N60bn In Cash From His State

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that a Northern Governor personally withdrew cash of N60 billion from his state treasury. The Chairman of EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, disclosed this in a story published on the agency’s magazine, EFCC Alert. Although Bawa…

13/12/2021

NDLEA Arrests Suspected Nigerien, Ghanaian Drug Traffickers

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the latest clampdown on drug traffickers have arrested a Ghanaian and two Nigeriens at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Akanu Ibiam international Airport, Enugu for trafficking a total of 9.953…

13/12/2021

53 UI Lecturers’ Salaries Not Paid Since December 2020 — ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said that 53 lecturers of the University of Ibadan and several others in state universities, including the Ebonyi State University, have not been paid salaries for more than one year. The union explained that this…

13/12/2021

Umahi To IPOB: You Can’t Stop Buhari From Visiting

Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi has said the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) cannot stop President Muhammadu Buhari from visiting any state in the Southeast. He was reacting to a statement credited to IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful last week in which the group…

13/12/2021

NFF Sacks Rohr, Appoints Eguavoen As Interim Super Eagles Manager

FOLLOWING months of speculation on the status of the senior national team coach, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has sacked Gernot Rohr and appointed its technical director Augustine Eguavoen as the interim technical adviser of the Super Eagles. This follows the termination…

13/12/2021

Religion Preventing Nigerians From Thinking Like Rational Humans — Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says religion has become a major problem in the country, preventing Nigerians from thinking rationally. “Religion has become the number one problem for Nigerians,” Mr Soyinka said, adding that any religion that becomes an excuse for the adherents…

12/12/2021

How Justice Babalakin Intervened When Obasanjo Held Lagos LGA Funds — Osinbajo

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, went down memory lane during his condolence visit to the family of the late Justice Bolarinwa Babalakin in Gbogan, Osun State yesterday, recalling the vital efforts he made to get President Olusegun Obasanjo to change his…

12/12/2021

Probe ‘missing N10bn NASS funds in 2019’, SERAP tells Lawan, Gbajabiamila

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila to “promptly probe and refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies fresh allegations that N10bn of public money budgeted for the…

12/12/2021

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