I Won’t Tolerate Under-Performance, FCT Minister Warns LGAs
Muhammad Musa Bello, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has told heads of agencies, departments and the six area council chairmen that he would not tolerate any act of underperformance.rubi He explained to them that every department and agency was expected to do its work, even as he noted that the heads of […]
EFCC desperate to silence Obasanjo by accusing him of crime, says Atiku
Press statementIt has come to our attention that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is feeding members of the media with deliberate falsehoods in an attempt to cause disaffection and bad blood between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar, on one hand, and between former President Obasanjo and Nigerians in general. […]
SOKOTO: Civil Defense Arrests Bandit, confiscates arms.
Officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corp arrested a bandit during a routine check at Sabon Garin Agwada in Kebbe local government area of Sokoto state on Saturday 24 August 2019. The Bandit who was in possession of dangerous arm when arrested was at late hour was brought to state command Headquarters Sokoto […]
Rivers State Government did not demolish any Mosque says Governor Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has described as unfortunate the false Information being circulated that the State Government demolished a Mosque in Port Harcourt, saying that the false report was planted by mischief makers to create disaffection. Addressing journalists at the location on Biambo Street Off, School Road by Mami Market Junction, near Rainbow […]
‘The lungs of the Earth are in flames’: Leonardo DiCaprio launches fund to tackle Amazon fires
‘Without the Amazon, we cannot keep the Earth’s warming in check. The Amazon needs more than our prayers,’ actor and climate change campaigner wrote on Instagram Roisin O’Connor @Roisin_OConnor Leonardo DiCaprio’s non-profit organisation Earth Alliance has announced a new emergency fund for the Amazon rainforest and pledged an initial $5 million to the cause, in response to the fires […]
Kaduna to pay new minimum wage from September 2019
Kaduna State will implement the new national minimum wage from September 2019. The Kaduna State Executive Council today approved that payment of the new national minimum wage and consequential adjustments to civil servants will begin from 1st September 2019. “The Executive Council meeting, chaired by Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, the Deputy Governor, noted the commitment of […]
ODD BUT TRUE? See Bricklayer Using “Juju” Technology To Work At A Site In Ibadan (Video)
Whao!! This is what we call Real-African Jazz!!😵 This is not Yoruba Nollywood movie, it is not a film trick. This is damn real This happened at a construction site in Ibadan, the bricklayer was filmed practically using African Jazz or Juju, if you like, you can call it Otumopor to serve himself bricks instead going to carry it manually or getting […]
Sultan of Sokoto Gives Out Daughter In Marriage.
…Sokoto Civil Defense Commandant, U M Bala, felicitates with Sultan Prominent Nigerians arrived in Sokoto State on Saturday for the wedding ceremony of the daughter of Sultan Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, Princess Fatima and her husband, Mahmoud Yuguda, from Bauchi State. The wedding rites took place at the Sultan Bello Jima’at Mosque, where the Emir of […]
Five plans for carbon neutrality
UN Development Programme Since the industrial revolution, technology has boosted the development of our societies in ways we never seen before. We tackled some of the biggest challenges of our era: the production of food, the eradication of diseases, and the expansion of transport and communication systems. But this form of development has come at […]
Disgraced Presidential Aide Obono-Obla Blames Osinbajo For Ordeal
Okoi Obono-Obla, the suspended chairman of the special presidential investigation panel on the recovery of public property, has said the planned investigation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, would not be fair due to the closeness of the commission’s chairman, Bolaji Owansanoye, to vice-president Yemi Osinbajo. Obono-Obla stated this in […]