FG gets ultimatum to sack NDDC Sole Administrator, inaugurates board
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME Oil Mineral Producing Communities Traditional Rulers Association (OMPCOTRAS) has handed the federal government fourteen day ultimatum to reverse the appointment of an Interim Sole Administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and inaugurate the board that has been screened for the commission almost a year ago. The group in a statement […]
Atete FC wins 3rd Felix Anirah football tournament
J.Atete FC of Warri has won the 3rd edition of the Felix Anirah Football Tournament with a 1-0 win against Zenith Fc of Sapele at the Sapele township Stadium in Sapele, Delta State. The Utu Jeremi based team defeated Zenith FC of Sapele with a second half free kick in the 46th minute after first […]
Kankara schoolboys and Buhari’s victory jig
By Ikechukwu Amaechi I AM yet to meet a Nigerian who did not heave a sigh of relief when the news broke on Sunday that the boys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, were on their way home after spending six days with terrorists in the wild. By Nigerian standards, it was a […]
The National Assembly has powers to replace the 1999 Constitution (2)
By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, OFR, CON LAST week, I commenced the discussion of this topic by highlighting the background of constitutional enactments and repeals in Nigeria from the period of amalgamation in 1914 till date. As I noted, the present 1999 Constitution is a product of military decree which, does not means it represents […]
Russia to launch own TikTok
Russia’s leading media holding, which is controlled by state energy giant, Gazprom, will launch an app similar to the video-sharing social network TikTok, the group’s CEO said Wednesday. The Kommersant business daily cited Gazprom-Media CEO Alexander Zharov as saying the holding had purchased a service called “Ya Molodets” (“I am great”). Zharov said the app […]
Kidnapping: Are students now endangered species?
By Adesina Wahab ON the night of April 14-15, 2014, final year secondary school girls, said to be 276 in number, were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents at the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. The girls were preparing for their West African Senior Secondary School Examination paper in Physics. Prior to the incident, […]
Why I won’t negotiate with criminals — Gov Bello
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has reiterated his stand not to engage in any negotiation with criminals either bandits, kidnappers or terrorists, noting that such stand was a key ingredient in Kogi State’s fight against insecurity.
Unity Bank Corpreneurship Challenge produces more winners
Unity Bank’s flagship business plan competition for National Youth Service Corps members, Corpreneurship Challenge, has produced three more winners. The winners who include Ejidike Vitalis, Aromire Yusuf, and Sanni Adeola emerged during the final pitch for NYSC 2020 Batch B, Stream 1B corps members, held at the Lagos NYSC Orientation camp on Monday. A Zobo […]
Costa Rica poised to begin Covid-19 vaccinations
Costa Rica was expected to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines late Wednesday and planned to start vaccinations the following day, joining Mexico among the first Latin American countries to begin mass immunization campaigns. “Tonight we are going to receive the first vaccines. Tomorrow the first Costa Ricans will be vaccinated,” President Carlos Alvarado […]
Shareholders seek removal of Finance Act 2021 Part V
Against the backdrop of transferring unclaimed dividend into the Federation Account as proposed in the Finance Act 2021, the shareholders under the aegis of Independent Shareholder Association of Nigeria, ISAN, have pleaded to the government that Part V of the Act which made the stipulation be expunged.
Trump warns Iran over rocket strike on embassy in Iraq
US President Donald Trump warned Wednesday he would hold “Iran responsible” in the event of a fatal attack on Americans in Iraq, as the first anniversary of the killing of a top Iranian general in a US airstrike approaches. “Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets,” Trump said on Twitter, referring to […]
