Senate Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, says the rising cost of living and food scarcity call for serious concern. Ndume in an interview with BBC Hausa, said the Federal Government’s inability to address these issues is a major challenge, adding that some ministers are unable to meet with President Bola Tinubu to discuss the matter. According to him, “The major problem with this government is that its doors are closed, to the extent that even some ministers cannot see the President, not to mention members of the National Assembly, who do not have the opportunity to meet with him and…
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Gbenga Abegunrin, Ibadan The lawmaker representing Ibadan North Federal Constituency, Hon. Musiliu Akinremi (Jagaban), is reportedly dead. An Ibadan-based online platform, OyoInsight, broke the sad news of the sudden demise of the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker. The platform claimed that Hon. Akinremi’s colleagues, who spoke with its Correspondent, expressed disbelief about the lawmaker’s passage. Some other sources said that he died earlier this morning at a hospital in Jabi, Abuja. Efforts to reach his media aide to speak on the matter proved abortive. A popular politician in Ibadan North Federal Constituency, Ismaila Asipa, has taken to the social media…
. Admissions for 2024/2025 academic session ongoing @hust.edu.ng/admission Hillside University of Science and Technology, Okemesi-Ekiti in Ekiti State is leveraging on its massive infrastructural edge and quality faculty comprising of leading academics to redefine the trajectory of education in Nigeria. To this end, the University is leaving no stone unturned to equip students with skills and knowledge needed to excel in a rapidly evolving global landscape. Making the disclosure recently was the Chancellor of the Institution, Mr Joseph Olaoye Jaiyeola during a university event. Mr Jaiyeola said: “Hillside University of Science and Technology, is rapidly positioning itself as a transformative…
An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has narrated how Mr Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), moved funds to his wife, Mrs Margaret Emefiele. Ogbonnaya told an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday how Emefiele used the bank to move multimillion naira to his wife. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office and alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud while in office. Ogbonnaya, the fifth prosecution witness, was led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Counsel, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN). She told the court…
… fears attacks by hunger-ravaged, angry citizens . Raises the alarm ‘Nigeria’s food reserve zero, silos empty’ Samuel Adesola, Abuja Senate on Tuesday engaged in a panic debate over the hunger and hardship confronting citizens across the country, expressing fears of attack and revolt by hunger-ravaged angry Nigerians. The debate followed a motion titled: “Urgent Need to address Food Insecurity and Market Exploitation of Consumables in Nigeria,” sponsored by Senator Sunday Karimi Steve representing Kogi West Senatorial District and co-sponsored by Senator Ali Ndume Mohammed representing Borno South Senatorial District. Senator Kaimi stressed that prices of food and consumables had…
A media advocacy group, Media Rights Agenda (MRA), on Tuesday, demanded the release of two Kaduna-based journalists kidnapped along with their wives and children last Saturday night. MRA expressed deep concern over the abduction, urging the Federal Government, particularly security and law enforcement agencies, to take immediate action to secure their safe release. The group emphasized that it’s the duty of the government and security agencies to ensure the safety of journalists and other media workers. Recall that about 15 armed men invaded the Dahjonu community in Millennium City, in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on the…
House of Representatives’ Joint Committee on the arbitrary increase in the price of cement, on Tuesday, threatened to order the arrest of the management of Dangote Cement if it fails to appear at its next hearing. On May 7, 2024, the House had issued a 14-day ultimatum to cement manufacturers to appear before its joint committee and make their submissions on the arbitrary increment of cement prices in Nigeria. Chairman, House Committee on Solid Minerals, Jonathan Gbefwi, issued the summon at a public hearing to investigate the arbitrary increase in the price of cement in Nigeria by cement manufacturers, organised…
… says ‘you concocted figures to embarrass me, my administration’ . Such amount was neither earned nor diverted, ex-govs claims Former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday, again lambasted his successor, Governor Uba Sani, for allegedly concocting financial figures to indict him and his administration with claims that his administration diverted a whooping N423,115,028,072.88. The former governor dismissed the purported financial report indicting him and his ex-commissioners, arguing that the report lacked merit and was mischievously orchestrated by Governor Sani and his team to discredit him and his administration. El-Rufai who spoke through his former commissioners at a press…
Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, on Tuesday, expressed concern over the safety of two journalists kidnapped at the weekend in Kaduna – Messers Abdulgafar Alabelewe and Mr. AbdulRaheem Abdu, the Kaduna state’s correspondents of The Nation and Blue Print newspapers respectively. Armed men had stormed Danhonu community in Millennium city of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and raided the houses of the reporters, abducting them, their wives and children. The bandits had released Abdulraheem’s wife after she was unable to keep up, as she was recovering from an ailment. A family member of one of the victims, Taofeeq…
Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Kola Ologbondiyan, has said the struggle for the soul of the party has become so worrisome, following issues which according to him, have to do with principles. Ologbodiyan, the former national spokesperson of the party, argued that the problems in the party transcend the issues of who emerges as the leader of the party and those that have to do with the supremacy divide of who is to be regarded as the recognised leader between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election and…