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Share TO the chagrin of many a Nigerian, President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to honour his promise to address a joint session of the National Assembly slated for December 10 to answer questions on security issues. The president had been invited via a resolution of the House of Representatives to address the house on the deteriorating security situation in the country. The house’s summons was personally conveyed to the president by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Honourable ...

[ICYMI] Oyo Caretaker Chairmen set for three months tenure extension [ICYMI] Oyo Caretaker Chairmen set for three months tenure extension Share Tenure of Caretaker Chairmen of 33 Local Government Areas and 35 local council development areas is set for a three-month extension. This stems from a letter from Governor Seyi Makinde seeking the tenure extension for the caretaker chairmen read at plenary of the state House of Assembly on Monday. The current six months tenure extension for the caretak...

Strike: Again, Nigerian Government, ASUU Cancel Meeting This is the second time in a row the meetings were cancelled. However, no reason was given for the cancellation of the parley scheduled to discuss the union’s current strike. by Saharareporters, New York Dec 15, 2020 A meeting between the Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities was again cancelled on Monday. This is the second time in a row the meetings were cancelled. However, no reason was giv...

Share The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Tanko Muhammad has tested positive for COVID-19. A member of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa made this known at the inauguration of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria (MULAN) in Abuja, on Tuesday. Justice Muhammad is said to be receiving treatment in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The CJN was absent at the swearing-in of 72 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Monday. Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour was the...

Share Stakeholders under the aegis of Ilaje Stakeholders Forum have lamented their exclusion from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. It said despite being an oil-producing part of Ondo State, the area was not allotted any top position in the constituted Board of the Commission. This was contained in a statement issued by the Forum’s President, Chief Eko Isinmi in Abuja on Tuesday. According to him, the  Ilaje host community is bedevilled by sea incursion owing to long time ...

Share INSPECTOR of the Nigeria Plant Quarantine Department have received intensive training on the modalities of their operations, particularly on the best practices for plant quarantine operation. The training was collaboratively organised by the University of Missouri Assistance Program (UMAP), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the NPPO/IPPC of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), including the support of the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign...

Share Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South West on Tuesday urged the national leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu to contest in the 2023 presidential election. They made the appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State capital at the end of a meeting held by delegates from the South-West states of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos. The meeting also featured the launch and unveiling of the logo of the South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA ’2...

Bandits have so far released 17 of kidnapped students, says Masari Bandits have so far released 17 of kidnapped students, says Masari Share Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has said bandits have released 17 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, who were kidnapped on Monday evening. Speaking in an interview with Deutse Welle Hausa Service in Katsina on Monday, the governor said he had just be informed that 15 students were found in Danmusa Local Government Area while ...

[ICYMI] Minutes after Electoral College elected Joe Biden, US Attorney General resigns (Resignation Letter inside) [ICYMI] Minutes after Electoral College elected Joe Biden, US Attorney General resigns (Resignation Letter inside) Dec 15, 2020 Attorney General William Barr speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room, Monday, March 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Share A close ally of President Donald Trump and the United States Attorney General, William Barr, ...

Share Nigerian Pop singers Omah Lay and Tems will regain their freedom from police custody in Uganda after charges against them for breaching Covid-19 rules were dropped on Tuesday. According to Arise TV, the Ugandan government ordered the prison where the singers and their manager, Muyiwa Awoniyi, to release them as charges against them “had been withdrawn.” The musicians, their manager and four others were arrested for breaching coronavirus rules when they held a concert on Saturday in th...