The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, charged the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to recruit more men and women that will help to tackle the present security challenges in the country. Lawan made this known in a statement made available to DAILY POST by his Special Adviser on Media, Ola Awoniyi, on Tuesday. The senate president who gave the charge at the National Assembly during an interactive session with the Police IG and his management team urged them to also provide timelines for the implementation of Community Policing in the country. “Going forward from today, we must have clearly…
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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The Minister of State, Labour and Employment, has declared that the National Assembly cannot stop the planned recruitment of Nigerians each from the 774,000 Local Government Areas in Nigeria. In a statement on Tuesday, Keyamo said in obedience to their invitation, he appeared before the Joint Committees on Labour of both the Senate and the House but there was a misunderstanding when they questioned why he did not privately submit the program to them for vetting before taking certain steps. 2. The Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CEONCPC) of the All…
Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, over 10 million people have been infected and more than 500,000 have died, data from worldometers.info has revealed. The World Health Organisation (WHO) head, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said the worst is yet to come, noting that the virus would infect many more people if governments did not start to implement the right policies. “Six months ago, none of us could have imagined how our world – and our lives – would be thrown into turmoil by this new virus”, Mr Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing on Monday, the BBC reported. “We all want this to be over. We…
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has said that it was a mistake to assume that Nigeria has transited from dictatorship to democracy. Kukah stated this on Tuesday at a town hall meeting on ‘Fixing Nigerian elections’ and organised by YIAGA. He said that the military intervention in Nigeria’s politics made the system to be so quarrelsome. The Bishop also berated the judiciary for supposedly not living up to the wishes of the people in electoral cases. He said, “We are mistaken in assuming that we have had a transition from dictatorship to democracy. We still haven’t. “This is…
Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has tested positive for coronavirus. Akeredolu confirmed his status via his Twitter handle on Tuesday. The Governor tweeted: “Today, I tested positive for #COVID19. All is well. I’m asymptomatic and have been self -isolating. “Work continues. Your continued prayers over my wellbeing are most appreciated.” Details shortly….
Young people have been charged to pursue the virtue of purity despite the pressures around them. This charge was given by the Administrator of the Cathedral of St. Andrew, Amichi in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ven. Chukwuebuka Chukwuemeka during the June edition of Leadership clinic. Ven. Chukwuebuka while preaching on the topic “Keep thyself pure” said that purity of life should be regarded as the highest attainment in life especially among youths. According to him, “Our lives are stained either by the things we do directly by ourselves or by the people or ideas we associate…
One of the four ex-Minneapolis Police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing will plead not guilty to all charges. J Alexander Kueng, 26, who is charged along with Derek Chauvin, 44, Tou Thao, 34, and Thomas Lane, 37, made his intentions known in a court filing obtained by DailyMail.com. The papers filed by attorney Thomas Plunkett state that the ex-cop intends to plead not guilty and use the defenses of self-defense, justifiable force, and authorized use of force. It was reportedly filed after he and his fellow defendants officers appeared in Hennepin County District Court for a pretrial hearing. Chauvin,…
Belgian King Philippe has expressed regret for the acts of cruelty committed during the years that his ancestor, Leopold II, presided over what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as his personal property. In a letter to DRC President Felix Tshisekedi on Tuesday, Philippe wrote for the first time of his deep regret for these past injuries, the pain of which is also revived by the discriminations that are all too present in our societies. The 60-year-old monarch also apologised for the suffering and humiliation caused after the end of Leopold II’s administration of the Congo Free State…
About 4,625 university and polytechnic graduates representing 35 per cent have applied for recruitment into Amotekun Corps in Osun. Twenty per cent of the applicants are university graduates from various disciplines, while 15 per cent have Higher National Diploma. Application for job in Amotekun Corps in the state ended on Tuesday, June 27 with about 13,000 applying for placements. However, data obtained from the office of the corps on Friday revealed that the majority of the 13,216 applicants were married men. Further analysis of the applicants indicates that 1,891 single females also applied for recruitment. According to other details obtained…
Sir: Social media did not have much attraction for me throughout the time I was preoccupied with doing my duty in the mass media. But my foray into the Facebook, late in November 2017, proved to be most explosive. Within six months I had garnered ,5000 friends. This popularity was at huge price. Account hackers were merciless. The first attacker cloned Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye, wife of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Church of God. Seeing her on Facebook, asking me to be one of her millions of friends, took me to Cloud Nine. Less than a week after…