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…
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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…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected a suit by Senator Dino Melaye, challenging some provisions of the controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020, also referred to as the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Bill. In a judgment on Tuesday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu held that her court lacked the jurisdiction to hear and determine issues raised in the suit by Melaye, who represented Kogi South Senatorial District in the Eight Senate. Justice Ojukwu upheld the preliminary objection filed against the suit by the respondent. The judge was of the view that the issues raised in suit were…
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Monday gave the head of the European Union mission in Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, 72 hours to leave the country after the bloc announced sanctions against 11 Venezuelan officials. “Who are they to try to impose themselves with threats?” said Maduro. “We will sort it out in 72 hours… she will be given a plane to leave, but we will arrange our things with the European Union.” Venezuela’s airspace is currently closed to commercial airplanes due to the coronavirus pandemic. Maduro also accused the EU of getting down on its “knees” to US President Donald…
In the last few decades, Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta has had to battle many problems: damaged environment, lax security that made militancy and kidnapping thriving businesses for a select few, dwindling livelihood occasioned by oil spillages, and bad governance. While militancy – mostly attacks on oil installations and oil workers – has taken the back seat in recent years, crimes have not let down. And in Rivers, one of the most prosperous states in the region, fatal clashes among street gangs are rife. “The attacks happen more at city outskirts and hinterlands,” a resident of Port Harcourt told The Guardian…
The palace of the Oba of Benin Uku Akpolokpolo has distanced itself from a trending video where some members of Benin kingdom insulted Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari. Secretary to the Traditional Council of Benin Frank Irabo in a statement said the contents were not commissioned nor approved by the Benin monarch Oba Akpolokpolo. The Benin Kingdom assured president Buhari of its support and urged members of the public to disregard the statements uttered in the viral video. Last week, one Eranornigho and other people who claimed to be representatives of the palace of Oba of Beinn in a video accused…
Former Argentina president Carlos Menem was discharged from hospital on Monday after two weeks receiving treatment for pneumonia, local media reported. The senator, who will turn 90 on Thursday, is due to continue his recovery at home. Menem, who was president from 1989-99, was taken to hospital on June 13 suffering from a severe pneumonia and required intensive care. He was tested for coronavirus but came up negative, medical sources said. Following a week in intensive care, he recovered quickly. Since entering the Senate in 2005, Menem has kept a much lower profile than during his presidency when he pursued…
The coronavirus pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the WHO warned Monday, as the global death toll passed half a million and cases surged in Latin America and the United States. In another grim milestone, the number of infections recorded worldwide topped 10 million, while some authorities reimposed lockdown measures that have crippled the economies worldwide. “We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “But the hard reality is this is not even close to being over,” he said, adding that “although…
Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke have eliminated four-armed militia men at Rafin Kada in Wukari Local Government Area and Yojaa in Donga Local Government Area of Taraba. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, said the troops operated under the Operation Accord. Enenche said the troops at Gbise in Katsina Ala Local Government Area in Benue and Sector 4 in Taraba conducted a joint commando raid operation in the area in the early hours of Monday. He explained that the troops came in contact with the suspected militias at Che Jukun…
Still struggling to deal with the impact of the coronavirus on their economies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said Nigeria and other countries in the sub-Saharan African (SSA) region would need additional financing needs of over $110 billion. Of this $110 billion and approved loans, the IMF insisted that the countries still have $44 billion financing gap to fill. Noting that many citizens are informal workers and typically have few savings and limited access to finance, the IMF ruled out further considerations of lockdown to check the pandemic, saying that effort complicates the authorities’ hard work to maintain an…