GROUND ZERO Tuesday, 12th May, 2020.
GROUND ZERO Tuesday, 12th May, 2020, on Invicta 98.9fm. SNIPPETS1- Buhari Appoints Gambari As New Chief of Staff2- FG declines disclosing details of home-school feeding programme…to flagoff programme on Thursday, 14th May3- Almajiri crises…a northern Problem or a Nigerian Problem. GUESTS –– Eddy Ochigbo is a Veteran Journalist and Media Strategist.– Danjuma Abbas Dangwa, Coalition […]
EFCC apprehends Chinese nationals for allegedly bribing its officials
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto TWO Chinese nationals, Mr Meng Wei Kun and Mr Xu Kuoi have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crest Commission( (EFCC) for alleged attempt to offer N100 million bribe to officials of the anti graft agency in Sokoto. Those alleged to be bribed by the duo were the Commission’s Sokoto […]
Buhari Appoints Gambari As New Chief of Staff
A former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari has been appointed the new Chief of Staff to the President. Gambari, from Kwara State was the Minister of External Affairs between 1984 and 1985.A professor of repute and a global citizen, the 78 year old replaces former Chief of Staff, late Abba […]
GROUND ZERO: Sat, 9th May, 2020.
GROUND ZERO Saturday, 9th May, 2020, on Invicta 98.9fm. SNIPPETS1- Call it Abacha loot and not Abacha assets, Nigerians attack AGF Malami2- Supreme Court Nullifies Orji Uzor Kalu’s Conviction….Matters Arising. GUESTS –Barrister Anthony Agbonlahor, is an Abuja based Legal Practitioner and Advocate of Good Governance.Eddy Ochigbo is a Veteran Journalist and Media Strategist.Abdul Bako Usman, […]
GIDEON IKHINE COMMENDS EDO NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH IN EDO CENTRAL.
Foremost PDP governorship aspirant in Edo state, Engr Gideon Ikhine, has showered praises on commander and members of the Neighborhood Watch (Vigilante) in Edo Central Senatorial District. This followed the series of successful foiling of the attempts to smuggle some people from the northern parts of the country into Edo state despite the interstate lockdown […]
COVID-19: Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?
Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR This piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is raging. At an African regional policy platform, I had expressed some of these (personal) […]
MKO ABIOLA: Kola Abiola Speaks
Tinubu Asked Abacha To Make Him Commissioner In Lagos – Kola Abiola Twenty-six years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, which was won by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, his first son and present head of the extended Abiola family, Kola Abiola, has opened up on his father’s struggle to […]
N40bn Fraud: Akpabio, IMC asked to stop further administration of NDDC affairs
BySeun Opejobi A Civil Society Organisation, Global Centre for Good Governance on Sunday said no stone should be left unturned in the investigation of alleged misappropriation of N40 billion by the Interim Management Committee of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. DAILY POST had reported that the Senate on Tuesday set up a seven-man ad-hoc committee […]
COVID-19: Tambuwal braces measures, introduces rapid response volunteer team of retired health professionals
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto AMIDST the rising statistics of COVID-19 cases in the state, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has on Friday geared up efforts to brace existing measures against its spread in the state with the inauguration of a rapid response volunteer team of retired health professionals.Tambuwal explained that the move to create the volunteer […]
FG grants 2-month licence fee waiver to broadcast stations …Sets up committee to advice govt on impact of COVID 19 on creative industry.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government has granted a two-month licence fee waiver to terrestrial broadcast stations in the country to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the broadcast industry. He said this in Abuja on Wednesday at a meeting with the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria. He […]