… urges President to recover over N50trn allegedly stolen by APC leaders Main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, on Saturday, lambasted President Bola Tinubu for not addressing the nation amid the ongoing nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests. Nigerians responding to the hardship in the country began hunger protests on Thursday and continued on Friday, across Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Kano, Rivers, and other regions, demanding an end to hunger and poor governance. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement on Saturday, urged Tinubu to break his silence, address the nation immediately, and reassure citizens of the pressing issues affecting them. The statement…
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Agency Report The Borno Police Command said it has discovered six projectile grenades allegedly abandoned by terrorists at Ajilari Cross area in Maiduguri. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Yusuf Lawal, who disclosed this on Saturday while providing a situation report to the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri, said the projectiles were discovered on Friday. Lawal said that the personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Device, Base 13, deployed to the scene to assess the grenades and discovered that they were manufactured with incendiary chemicals. He said that the affected area was thoroughly screened and the projectiles were…
…describes corruption as deadly cankerworm Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Friday, once again clarified the general misconception about the National Association of Seadogs, popularly known as the Pyrates Confraternity. Soyinka stressed that contrary to claims in some quarters, the Pyrates Confraternity, which is a registered association, is not a blood-thirsty secret cult group that many misconstrue it to be. The Nobel laureate made this clarification at the 26th Annual Wole Soyinka Lecture organised by the National Association of Seadogs, aka Pyrates Confraternity, to mark his 90th birthday. Recall that Soyinka, alongside six other undergraduates of the University College, Ibadan…
A total of 3,173 Nigerian-trained nurses and midwives were licensed to practise in the United Kingdom in one year, Saturday PUNCHreports. This is according to the latest report on the number of nursing and midwifery professionals on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, obtained exclusively from the council. The report also showed that so far, 13,656 nurses and midwives educated in Nigeria were practising in the UK. The NMC data noted that on March 31, 2024, “there were a total of 826,418 nursing and midwifery professionals on our register. “Of this number,…
Organised Civil Society of Nigeria says according to data obtained through its Civil Society Protest Monitoring Situation Room, no fewer than 21 persons have been killed since August 1 when the nationwide protests against hunger began. It also claimed 1,154 others were arrested by the police on the first day of the nationwide protests, popularly dubbed #EndBadGovernance. Head of the Coordinating Secretariat of the United Action Front of Civil Society, Olawale Okunniyi, in a statement on Friday, on behalf of the group, stated that 175 persons sustained injuries. Okunniyi stated that 18 states, including Lagos, Yobe, Zamfara, Borno and the…
President Bola Tinubu says his administration is undertaking bold economic policies to propel Nigeria’s economy out of the downturn occasioned by multiple shocks in the global economy. Tinubu also called for global cooperation among African countries to tackle their shared economic challenges and take advantage of opportunities. He spoke on Friday while declaring open the 2024 African Caucus Meeting at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja. Tinubu’s remarks are coming against the backdrop of ongoing nationwide protests against hardship, which started on Thursday across the country. He noted that although Africa was grappling with “numerous challenges across economic, humanitarian and social spheres,”…
Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, on Friday, warned that the military will intervene if violence persists in the ongoing nationwide #EndbadGovernance protests. Musa stated this while reacting to the vandalisation and looting of properties that characterised the protest in many parts of the country on Thursday. In Kano, protesters looted the newly built Nigeria Communications Commission Industrial Park and set parts of it ablaze. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre was scheduled for commissioning next week. The CDS, while briefing newsmen on Friday, urged protesters to recognise that destruction is counterproductive and would only set the nation…
Umar Faruk, Gusau Zamfara State All Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party supporters of hijacking the peaceful movement and giving it a political undertone to target APC and its leaders. Addressing journalists in Gusau, party spokesman, Yusuf Idris said APC was disturbed by the dimension the nationwide supposed peaceful protest took in the state. “This is because we observed that many PDP thugs were strategically deployed to attack, maim, and destroy personalities and properties of the APC”, he added. According to him, the most disturbing was how on the first day of the protest, the already known PDP…
Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, on Friday, announced the disconnection of the supply of electricity to the Kaduna State Government House and other state government facilities due to unpaid bills totalling N2.9 billion. Head, Corporate Communication, AbdulAzeez Abdullahi, announced this in a statement on Friday. The statement noted that Kaduna Electric made repeated attempts to resolve the issue, including consultations with state officials, before issuing a disconnection notice on July 21. Recall that the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service sealed the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company over a N600m tax liability. Executive Chairman of KADIRS, Jerry Adams, who addressed newsmen on Friday,…
Police in the Federal Capital Territory Police have directed medical personnel to report anyone with gunshot wounds to the police in the territory. Police in the FCT said it engaged some hoodlums in a fierce gun battle with many of them escaping with gunshot injuries, adding that the hoodlums had taken advantage of the hunger protest to embark on massive extortion and assault on innocent citizens along the Lugbe end of the FCT. Spokesperson of the Command, Josephine Adeh, said in a statement on Friday that the residents alerted the police about the incident. The statement read, ”Following distress calls…