An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, has nullified the suspension of the former Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Dare Kadiri, describing it as unconstitutional. It was reported in September 2022 that the Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, announced at plenary that Kadiri had been suspended “in line with the provisions of Sections 14 and 15 of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act, 2017.” Oluomo said he received a resolution by an appropriate number of house members that Kadiri and one other breached the provision of the Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges) Act, 2017 and “they stand…
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The Super Eagles of Nigeria are the most expensive national team in Africa, according to the transfer market. The three-time African champions are also placed in the 13th position in the world. A number of Super Eagles stars play for clubs in Europe’s lucrative leagues, making them one of the most valuable teams on the continent and world. Napoli forward, Victor Osimhen is the biggest player in the Super Eagles at the moment and is expected to command a huge transfer fee in case he decides to leave the Partenopei this summer. The likes of Alex Iwobi, Samuel Chukwueze, Ademola…
The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has petitioned the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to sanction Channels Television for breaching the Nigerian Broadcasting Code during an interview with the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba Ahmed. In the petition signed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign council Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, dated 30th March 2023, Tinubu said: “In line with Section 14.0.1 of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code 6th edition stating the duty of the commission to accept complaints from aggrieved persons, bodies or members of the public and investigate as well as apply sanctions where…
The post-election conflict in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken renewed steam as the party’s aggrieved governors, G5 Governors, and the camp of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, fight for the soul of the opposition party. Barely 24 hours after the suspension of the National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, at the ward level in Benue State, a high court order surfaced asking Ayu to stop parading himself as PDP’s chairman. However, a statement on Monday by Ayu’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Simon Imobo-Tswam, described the suspension and court order as a mere exercise in futility. Ayu insisted he remains the…
As the globe marks World Tuberculosis day, the Federal Ministry of Health has highlighted reasons patients of Tuberculosis die silently. Olajumoke Adebari, an Assistant Director of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization unit of the national Tuberculosis program, said the disease kills silently because those infected delay in carrying out tests and treating it appropriately. She spoke during a sensitization programme at Agwan Shaho in Karmo area of Abuja as part of activities to celebrate world Tuberculosis day. According to Adebari: “World TB Day was the day that Robert Koch in 1882 found the treatment for Tuberculosis. So since then, we…
Having faith in God does not mean that one should not take medication when he or she is sick. Anyone who does that is going too far in the exercise of his or her faith. Such is also a clear indication that the individual does not know what faith in God is. There is nowhere in the Bible we read that if you have faith in God you cannot take any medication. One’s faith in God should enable him/her to believe that the medication will work. Today, there are some Christians who have fine-tuned the Bible to suit their personal…
The National Examinations Council, NECO, has announced the release of the result of the November/December 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE. Registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, who made the announcement in Minna, Niger State, said, 59,124 candidates sat for the examination, with 31,316 males, representing 52.96 per cent, while 27,808, representing 47.03 per cent were female. Wushishi added that the number of candidates that sat for English Language is 58,012, out of which 44,162, representing 76.13 per cent got credit and above, while the number of candidates that sat for mathematics is 57,700, out of which 43,096, representing…
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has disclosed that part of the measures being taken to ensure hitch free polls on February 25 would involve the deployment of over 400,000 security personnel across the country. The security personnel jointly comprise the police, the Department of State Services, Army, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Correctional Officers, National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (NDLEA) among others. Out of the entire security personnel to be deployed, the police force is producing about 310,973,000. Baba said the various arms of security personnel have come up with their unique identifications system…
The United Kingdom has issued another travel advice to its citizens in Nigeria, the second in four months. In the information updated on Wednesday, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, FCDO, warned against areas where there are banks and ATMs. It noted that the Central Bank of Nigeria’s redesigning and issue of new N200, N500 and N1000 notes has led to shortages of cash. Citizens were encouraged to ensure notes provided by currency exchange vendors will be valid for the duration of their travel to Nigeria. There have been outbreaks of violence in some Southern states as a result of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the restoration of the old N200 notes as legal tender. He made this announcement in a national broadcast on Thursday morning. According to him, this is to further ease the supply pressures, particularly to citizens, as he has given the approval to the CBN that the old N200 bank notes be released back into circulation. “And that it should also be allowed to circulate as legal tender with the new N200, N500, and N1000 banknotes for 60 days from February 10, 2023 to April 10 2023 when the old N200 notes cease to be…