The Oyo State government would redeploy 200 members of the Oyo State Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun to kidnapping/banditry hotspots in the state, especially in the Ibarapa and Oke-Ogun zones, the state governor, Seyi Makinde. The governor, in a statement issued on Wednesday, said the operatives will launch missions to rid the forests of […]
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Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (right), flanked by the Commissioner of Police, Edo State, Mr. Johnson Kokumo (2nd right); Commander of 4 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Major General Ibrahim Garba (2nd left); and the Edo State Commander, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr. Makinde Ayinla By Peterson Ibi /Benin The death toll […]
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Senate suspends Ndume for 6 months
Barely two months after he was removed as the Leader of the Senate, Ali Ndume was on Wednesday suspended by the Senate for six months. The suspension of the senator was based on the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions which recommended that the senator be suspended. Ndume had asked […]
Saraki The Senate on Thursday passed a Bill for a law against abduction, wrongful restraint or wrongful confinement for a ransom. This came after a clause-by-clause consideration of a report on the issue by Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters at plenary. The Bill was sponsored by Sen. Isa Misau (APC-Bauchi) and […]
The Nigerian Senate may amend the proposed death penalty clause in the Hate Speech Bill before it. Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, who is the sponsor of the bill, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Abdullahi, who is the Deputy Chief Whip in the Senate, assured that the death penalty proposed in the […]
By Kayode Ogunbunmi As Nigeria fights to contain the raging COVID 19 pandemic, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has warned that smokers are at higher risk of developing fatal complications from contracting the virus. The group, in a statement issued in Lagos, said that while there is currently no conclusive evidence […]
Six more persons have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) at iSON Xperiences in Ibadan, the organisation where the Oyo State government said about 38 persons had earlier tested positive. This brings the total number of infected staff at this company to about 60, with other test results awaited. The Oyo State government made this revelation […]
The Special Assistant to Sen. Shehu Sani (APC- Kaduna), on Politics and Ideology, Malam Suleiman Ahmed, has vowed that nothing will deter his principal from criticising the “anti-people” policies of the state government. Ahmed stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) in Kaduna while reacting to the alleged suspension of […]
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal, has apologised to indigenes of the FCT for their omission in the appointments so far made by the Federal Government. Mr Bolaji Adebiyi, the Director of Press in the Office of the SGF, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. The […]
Sowore Publisher of SaharaReporters and leader of the “RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore has dared the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu to release the audio tape of the meeting between himself and late business mogul, Isa Funtua and other newspaper publishers’ who visited him while in custody of the […]