IMO GOVT. DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY ON INFRASTRUCTURE
…APPROVES N49M FOR REHABILITATION OF OTAMIRI WATER PLANT The Imo State Executive Council, Thursday, declared a state of emergency on Infrastructure in the State, even as it approved the sum of Forty Nine Million, Eight Hundred and forty five thousand Naira (N49,845.00) for the rehabilitation of Otamiri Water scheme, Owerri. The approval followed a recommendation […]
SEN. SHEHU SANI DISTRIBUTES EMPOWERMENT EQUIPMENT WORTH N75M TO KADUNA CENTRAL CONSTITUENCY
Immediate past Senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Senator Shehu Sani today, 1st July, 2019 distributed 50 pumping machines, 50 grinding machines and 50 Sewing machines to people of his constituents. Beneficiaries of the items were drawn from Giwa, Igabi, Chikun, Kaduna South, Kaduna North, Kajuru and Birnin Gwari local government areas of Kaduna […]
COZA Pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo Steps Down
The embattled Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, Monday morning stepped down as the senior pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, over alleged rape allegation by Timi Dakolo’s wife, Busola. Pastor Fatoyinbo, in a post on his Instagram page on Monday, announced stepping down from the pulpit following the saga. Christian leaders around the world who feel […]
ECOWAS’ new currency will be called “Eco” and could replace the Naira
The Authority of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), alongside Heads of States and Governments, has adopted a flexible single currency ‘Eco’ as its trade currency to be issued by January 2020. This comes after the bloc’s 55th Ordinary Session which took place over the weekend in Abuja. The new currency could replace […]
Buhari’s Ruga insult
By Lasisi Olagunju On October 18, 1990, the United States, in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), predicted the end of a country which was behaving almost as Nigeria is behaving now. It said, “Yugoslavia will cease to function as a federal state within a year, and will probably dissolve within two. Economic reform will not […]
Our sex predators in cassock
By Festus Adebayo A high-pitched scandal is ripping through episcopal space in Nigeria. It is the confession by Busola Dakolo, wife of famous artiste, Timi Dakolo, of how she went through a traumatic rape experience in the hands of founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo. The Pastor is alleged to have been […]
The Fulani’s Salubata
By Festus Adebayo If four ills gained notorious mentions in the four years or so that President Muhammadu Buhari has been in power, the Fulani menace should be atop the ills. Fulani menace has other irritable offshoots embedded into it, like kidnapping, banditry and killings of farmers and allied evils. Other ills would be an […]
Soyinka and murderers of memory
By Festus Adebayo Two seemingly unconnected events occurred in the last two weeks, with very serious social implications for the polity. One was the Muhammadu Buhari government’s return of the teaching of history as a standalone subject in all basic and secondary schools across the country. The second was the ostensibly gossipy, “very minor” revelation […]
PDP Lambasts INEC Chairman Over False Claims…Says INEC Has Become Degraded Under Prof. Yakubu
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) berates the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for claiming that INEC is the most improved service institution in the country, when in reality, it has become the most debased, degraded and corrupted institution, particularly with the rigging of the 2019 Presidential election. The PDP […]
Lere LGA: 2019 Quarterly Budget Performance Review
…Abubakar Buba Presents 108 Project for scrutiny …Citizen Engagement at the local government level is redefining governance -Ahmed Maiyaki …put aside party differences and work for the good of the council- Hon. Munirat Lere Local Government area Chairman, Honourable Abubakar Buba, has presented 108 Project implemented since he was sworn in one years ago. The […]