Day: April 19, 2020

POLICE BRUTALITY: Officers Arrested For Flogging Woman In Osun.

The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has withdrawn the Police Mobile Force (PMF) personnel previously attached to prominent individuals.

…Tola Azeez narrates her ordeal. Some police officers who were seen in a viral video assaulting a woman who was out to “get drugs for her people” in Osun state, have been arrested.  The security operatives were arrested after the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu averred that the police force will not condone any act of misconduct and […]

Tambuwal condoles Buhari, Kyari’s family , Nigerians over CoS demise

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto. ” From Allah we did come and to Him is our return”, were the words from Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who joins millions of citizens to mourn when he received with shock the news on the demise of CoS to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari in the early hours of Saturday. […]

KADUNA OPEN DAY – My Experience In This COVID-19 Season

…The Dairy Of A Journalist By Josiah Otache Since the beginning of the lock down in kaduna, I have not gone out and can only speak or write about what happens in my immediate environment. I have had the opportunity to educate some people who may not be taking the COVID-19 seriously or out-rightly refuse […]

Tambuwal grants 29 inmates amnesty, pardons 2 civil servants

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has set free 29 deserving  inmates from the Sokoto Central Correctional Service prison after granting them state pardon. Hitherto,  two  civil servants dismissed from the state’s service also had  their penalties converted to retirement.The two civil servants are: Bawa Sahabi Tambuwal and Murtala Mani Salihu. The […]

Abba Kyari: Master Strategist Who Loved and Hugged Power to Death

By Senator Iroegbu “In the world today, however, it is dangerous to seem to be too power hungry, to be overt with your power moves.”“Do not build fortresses to protect yourself–isolation (COVID-19 style) is dangerous”, Robert Green, ‘The 48 Laws of Power’. Mr. Abba Kyari, the reclusive yet powerful and intelligent Chief of Staff (COS) […]

Coronavirus: Guinness, Presco donate relief materials to Edo govt

The Edo State Government has taken delivery of 5,000 units of hand sanitisers and 4,000 cases of malt drinks donated by Guinness Nigeria Plc to support medical officers on the frontlines fighting to check the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. Also, Presco Nigeria Plc, an oil processing company operating in Edo […]

Edo rallies Danjuma, Okunbor, Bello-Osagie, Ikazoboh, others for govt’s COVID-19 fundraising c’ttee

The Edo State Government has constituted diaspora and domestic-based fundraising committees made up of illustrious indigenes, corporate organisations as well as religious and traditional rulers, to support the state’s response in checking the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). In a statement, Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., said the Edo State COVID-19 Fundraising Committee […]

COVID 19: Unprofessional conduct at Gudu cemetery

The Health and Human Services Secretariat of the FCT Administration has noted with concern the video trending on social media, showing a man pulling off his Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) unprofessionally after participating in the burial of the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Abba Kyari, at the Gudu cemetery, Abuja. The […]

Abba Kyari’s Death, End of a Surrogate Presidency, and the Coming Chaos

By Farooq Kperogi To say I was shocked by Abba Kyari’s death would be to tell a lie. Being an asthmatic patient who routinely had “breathing problems” that necessitated periodic trips to London hospitals—in addition to being a diabetic who was older than 65—it would have been nothing short of miraculous if he survived COVID-19. […]