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Sunday, 15 January 2023 05:31

Soludo offers to stand as surety for Nnamdi Kanu’s release

Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, has called on the federal government to release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Soludo said this on Saturday during the campaign flag-off of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Awka, the Anambra capital. He said Kanu is critical to the security conversation in the southeast and is needed to discuss the future of the region. He added that if the federal government cannot release Kanu unconditionally, he will stand as surety to ensure Kanu is available whenever needed. “We thank the federal government of Nigeria. We thank President…

Sunday, 15 January 2023 05:29

What to know after Day 326 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE New wave of strikes reported against Ukrainian power grid ** Multiple critical infrastructure facilities across Ukraine came under attack on Saturday, local officials and media outlets have reported. The strike has prompted emergency power outages in several regions of the country, Energy Minister German Galuschenko has said. “There were hits in Kharkov, Lviv, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozhye, Vinnytsia and Kiev regions,” Galuschenko wrote in a Facebook post, warning that the “next few days will be difficult.” Ukraine’s largest private energy operator, DTEK, has reported damage to two thermal power stations (TPS) under its management. The facilities were targeted in previous…

Saturday, 14 January 2023 05:50

NNPC announces date for drilling of first oil well in Nasarawa

Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says official drilling operations for the first oil well in Nasarawa will commence in March 2023. Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO), NNPC Limited, disclosed this on Friday during a visit by a delegation of prominent Nasarawa indigenes, led by Abdullahi Sule, the state governor. Kyari said available data confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in Keana, a local government area in Nasarawa state. The NNPC GCEO noted that the discovery is in continuation of hydrocarbon exploration activities in Nigeria’s inland basins. He called for immediate action on the project as the global energy…

Saturday, 14 January 2023 05:48

Buhari hosts Adeleke at the Villa, promises support for Osun devt

President Muhammad Buhari has pledged to support Osun state in infrastructure as well as economic development. Buhari made the announcement on his official Twitter page after a meeting with Ademola Adeleke, governor of Osun, on Friday. During the visit, Buhari said Adeleke sought assistance in several areas, including infrastructure development in Osun as well as a proposed new economic city and free trade zone (FTZ). “During his visit today, the governor of Osun state, requested support in a number of areas, including infrastructure development, and a proposed new economic city and free trade zone. I assured him that Osun state…

Saturday, 14 January 2023 05:46

What to know after Day 325 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian MoD praises ‘selfless’ Wagner fighters Fighters from the private military company Wagner Group have played a major role in liberating the strategic Donbass town of Soledar, the Russian Defense Ministry declared in a Telegram post on Friday. The statement follows an announcement by the ministry that the town was now under the full control of the Russian forces. “As for the … assault on the urban quarters of Soledar, occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, this combat mission was fulfilled through the courageous and selfless actions of the volunteers from the Wagner Group strike teams,” the ministry…

Friday, 13 January 2023 05:35

Nigeria’s economy in 2022: These are the winners and losers

At the start of 2022, Nigerians hoped that, with less than two years to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the government would ramp up its efforts to reduce poverty and unemployment. In his 2022 new year message to Nigerians, Buhari was effusive about his intention to secure the country and address its socio-economic challenges. But socio-economic conditions have since deteriorated. Budget deficits have ballooned to nearly 5% of GDP, more than the 3% recommended by the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007. The act was supposed to ensure prudent management of the country’s financial resources and long-term macroeconomic stability.…

Friday, 13 January 2023 05:34

Abia doctors protest 25-month salary arrears

Doctors in Abia State barricaded gate of the Government House on Thursday, pleading that they were dying and unable to deal with their issues. In their anger, they said next time, they will carry the corpses of their members, who die daily to the Government House. The doctors were crying through a peaceful protest over the non-payment of over 25 months salaries. Carrying placards with different inscriptions, including “Abia doctors’ lives matter,” “Two years without salary is no joke,” and “No salaries for 25 months,” among others, the doctors pleaded with the people of the state to prevail on the…

Friday, 13 January 2023 05:31

Ex-diplomat loses millions of Naira as fire consumes farmland in Ogun

Former Nigerian Ambassador to Zambia/Malawi, Folake-Marcus-Bello has lost farm products running into millions of naira, following a mysterious fire which gutted her farmland located on Onipepe axis of Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun State. The fire incident which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday ravaged the 10-hectare farmland known as Folake B Farm, destroying over 500 palm oil trees among other assets. The source of the fire at the farmland located along Siun-Sagamu-Abeokuta expressway was unknown as at the time of filing this report, and was said to have lasted for about four hours, before it was extinguished.…

Friday, 13 January 2023 05:29

What to know after Day 324 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine says its forces hold out against Russia in battle for Soledar Ukraine said its troops were holding out against pro-Moscow forces in the eastern salt mining town of Soledar as more than 500 civilians including children were trapped there. In a video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday thanked two units in Soledar that he said "are holding their positions and inflicting significant losses on the enemy." He did not give more details. Zelenskiy said he and senior Ukrainian commanders analysed the need for reinforcements in Soledar and nearby towns in the eastern industrial area known…

Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:00

Buhari signs mental health bill replacing earlier Acts of 1918, 1958

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed into law the Mental Health Bill 2021 after two failed attempts at overhaul in 2003 and 2013. The bill, which was harmonised by both the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly in 2021, is the first legislative reform adopted in the field since the country’s independence, and will also replace the Lunacy Act of 1958. Chairman of Senate Committee on Health, Ibrahim Oloriegbe, confirmed the development in a post on his Twitter handle. Oloriegbe, who defeated the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, during the 2019 general election, is a first-timer in the…

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Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:58

The unmarried female police officer sacked for getting pregnant - remember her? Court nullifies the law relied upon by Police for this reason

National industrial court has struck down a regulation of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), which forbids unmarried officers from getting pregnant. Pursuant to Regulation 127 of the Nigeria Police Force Regulation, a female officer who gets pregnant outside wedlock will be dismissed. BACKGROUND Omolola Olajide, an unmarried police corporal attached to Iye-Ekiti station, was sacked in 2021 for getting pregnant. Babatunde Mobayo, the state commissioner of police, had justified Olajide’s sack, saying the officer contravened section 127 of the police regulations. Following the sack, Olawale Fapohunda, Ekiti state attorney-general and commissioner for justice, instituted a lawsuit had before a federal…

Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:56

NISER, CMD get new governing councils. These are the members

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the governing councils of Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) and Centre for Management Development (CMD). The announcement of the presidential approval was contained in a press release issued by the Director of Information in the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Folasade Boriowo. According to the release, “The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning hereby announces the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari of the reconstitution of the Governing Councils of Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) and the Centre for Management Development (CMD). “Membership of…

Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:54

What to know after Day 323 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Navy Secretary Warns U.S. May Run Out of Weapons for Its Defense Within the next six months, the United States Navy may need to decide whether to arm itself or Ukraine due to a reported weapons shortage. The comment was made Wednesday by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro to a group of reporters on the sidelines of the 2023 Surface Navy Association National Symposium in Arlington, Virginia, Defense One editor Marcus Weisberger reported. Weisberger tweeted that although the bulk of American weapons given to Ukraine are land weapons and not naval weapons, Del Toro's concerns are shared by…

Wednesday, 11 January 2023 05:49

Millions more Muslims to perform 2023 Hajj as Saudi lifts restrictions imposed due to Covid-19

Saudi Arabia is lifting restrictions imposed on the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage after the coronavirus pandemic forced a downsizing of the annual event for three years.minister in charge of the Hajj, Tawfiq al-Rabiah, said that the numbers of pilgrims would return to pre-pandemic figures with restrictions, including age limits, being lifted according to the official Saudi Press Agency. Before the pandemic, around 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world usually gathered every year for the Hajj, Islam’s largest congregation, in the holy city of Mecca. In 2020, only a few thousand residents in the kingdom performed the Hajj under strict…

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