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Wednesday, 30 June 2021 05:43

Makinde sacks Chief of Staff, commissioners, others

PRESS RELEASE Governor 'Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Tuesday, announced the dissolution of the state's Executive Council. Those affected include Chief of Staff (CoS) and 17 Commissioners. The Cabinet was constituted on August 14, 2019, following Makinde's victory in the March 9, 2019, election. The remaining Council members not affected include Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Head of Service (HOS) and Director General, Due Process Office. A statement by Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Makinde announced the dissolution of the Executive Council after a meeting of the body on Tuesday, which lasted about…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:49

IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu re-arrested by Nigerian security forces - FG

Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been re-arrested and brought back to Nigeria to face his trial, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said. At a joint press briefing on Tuesday with the State Security Service (SSS) in Abuja, Malami disclosed that international collaborative efforts with security agencies led to Kanu’s arrest and repatriation to Nigeria. Kanu and his co-defendant are facing treasonable felony charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Kanu fled the country in September 2017 after an invasion of his home by the military in Afara-Ukwu,…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:48

Buhari’s policies will make Nigeria lose 10 years of economic gains - World Bank

Nigeria Development Update (NDU) report by the World Bank estimated that despite the country’s gradual recovery from the 2020 recession, Nigerian masses will continue to suffer the adverse effect of the economic downturn. A new report authored by the World Bank says a full decade of economic growth in Nigeria is likely to be lost by the end of 2021 under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The international bank made it known that the country’s gross domestic product is likely to approach its 2010 level by the end of the year thus reversing a full decade of economic growth. The bank…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 05:46

FG adds South Africa to Covid-19 'red list' for arriving travellers

Nigeria is adding South Africa to its “red list” of countries for which there are stringent restrictions for arriving passengers, officials said during a briefing on Monday. Nigeria is introducing the restrictions due to the spread of the Delta variant in South Africa, Chikwe Ihekweazu, head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, said. The country joins India, Brazil and Turkey on the list. “In Nigeria, we haven’t found the Delta variant yet,” Ihekweazu said during the briefing. Non-Nigerian passport holders and non-residents who visited the countries on the list within 14 days are barred entry from Nigeria, while passport…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 05:45

‘We’re sorry’, NRC apologises to passengers over Kaduna-Abuja train breakdown

Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has tendered an apology to passengers on board the KA2 train that departed from Rigasa in Kaduna, on Monday morning, but broke down minutes after takeoff. Passengers on board the train were stranded a few kilometres away from the train station in Rigasa, Kaduna state, after the train developed a mechanical fault. The breakdown of the train kept the passengers stranded for over three hours, before a rescue locomotive was sent from Idu station in Abuja. Paschal Nnorli, manager, Abuja-Kaduna train service, in a statement on Monday, apologised for the occurrence, adding that the breakdown of…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 05:43

Nigerians have equal rights to live and do business in ‘the market or forest’ - Sultan

Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto, says Nigerians have equal rights to live and carry out legitimate businesses anywhere in the country. Abubakar said this in Suleja, Niger state, on Monday at a retreat organised for northern lawmakers in the house of representatives. He said Nigerians should be wary not to allow “divisive schemes” to pitch one ethnic group against another. “Today, tribal politicians are bent on tearing the fabric of our nation apart under different guises. As patriotic and peace-loving Nigerians, we should not fold our arms and watch them destroy our unity,” he said. “I, therefore, urge you, as…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 05:41

Police shoot students protesting fee hike in Kaduna institution, one dead, another hospitalised

A student of the Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been shot dead. The deceased had joined his colleagues, who were protesting over hike in school fees, when security operatives made attempt to disperse them forcefully. Speaking with our correspondent, one of the protesters, who preferred anonymity, said they came out to protest the increase of school fees in the state-owned institution but met security operatives outside the college. Our correspondent also gathered that one student identified as Emmanuel Nata was also shot but he is currently receiving treatment. Confirming the…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 05:40

U.N. peacekeeping missions prepare for possible shutdown

United Nations peacekeeping missions globally are preparing for a possible shutdown on Thursday if the 193-member U.N. General Assembly is unable to agree a new $6 billion budget for the year to June 30, 2022, officials and diplomats said on Monday. Some diplomats blamed changes to negotiating procedures, issues with logistics and tough talks pitting China against Western countries for the delay in reaching an agreement. Catherine Pollard, the U.N. head of management strategy, policy and compliance, said the world body’s 12 peacekeeping missions - most of which are in Africa and the Middle East - had been advised to…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:54

Buhari reacts to threats by Niger Delta Avengers, says issues raised being addressed

President Muhammadu Buhari has described threats by the Niger Delta Avengers to attack oil installations in the south-south region as “unnecessary”. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, in a statement on Sunday, quoted Buhari as saying all issues raised by the group were already responded to when the president met with the leadership of the Niger Delta and Ijaw National Congress (INC), at the Presidential Villa on Thursday. The militant group, in a statement on Saturday, had announced the launch of ‘Operation Humble’, a new mission to resume attacks in the oil-rich region. They said the south-south remains the most underdeveloped region…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:51

Ortom offers land to Fulani herders interested in ranching

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said he would not hesitate to give land to any Fulani man who intends to do livestock business through ranching. Speaking in Abuja at the 72nd birthday of Iyorwuese Hagher, former Nigerian Ambassador to Mexico, Ortom dismissed the insinuation that he is on a war path with the Fulani. The governor reiterated that his government would not back down on the anti-grazing law, arguing that ranching remains the best practice. Ortom spoke through his Commissioner of Education, Dennis Ityavyar, at the event former students, friends and colleagues of the celebrant put together in…

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Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:10

Boko Haram, ISWAP settle differences, pledge allegiance to new leader

Barely a month and some weeks after Abubakar Shekau, former leader of the factional Boko Haram sect, killed himself after a violent confrontation with some renegade Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) top commanders, PRNigeria has gathered that both Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters have mended fences. In a 13-minutes long video obtained by PRNigeria, an army of terrorists belonging to the rival extremist groups reunited themselves, after they individually placed their hands atop one another, while chanting words of solidarity, to demonstrate their reuniting and togetherness. They, thereafter, pledged their allegiance to one Aba Ibrahim Al-Hashimiyil AlKhuraishi, whom…

Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:09

‘Niger Delta Avengers' threaten oil installation attacks

A militant group in Nigeria’s oil-producing Delta region has threatened to resume attacks amid rising insecurity and disagreements over the share of oil wealth communities should get. The group, called the Niger Delta Avengers, roughly halved Nigeria’s oil production in 2016, including an attack on an underwater pipeline that took it out for more than a year. It has since made a variety of threats but has not staged any attacks since 2017. “The Nigerian government has continued to pay deaf ears to our demands and the rising challenges in the country,” the group said in a statement posted on…

Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:08

UK health minister quits after breaking Covid rules by kissing aide

British health minister Matt Hancock quit on Saturday after he was caught breaking Covid-19 rules by kissing and embracing an aide in his office, enraging colleagues and the public who have been living under lockdown. In the latest scandal to rock a government that has overseen one of the highest official death tolls from the pandemic, Hancock wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign, saying he had let people down. An increasing number of his fellow Conservative lawmakers had privately called for him to go after the Sun newspaper published photos on Friday of the married minister embracing a…

Saturday, 26 June 2021 04:17

Buhari has postponed his latest medical trip to London. Here’s a chronicle of all the times the president traveled to UK for treatment

In a terse public statement, Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, says the “medical follow-up visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to United Kingdom earlier scheduled for today, Friday, June 25, 2021, has been postponed. A new date will be announced in due course.” Meanwhile, Buhari’s frequent foreign travels, especially for medical check-ups continue to set many tongues wagging. Asides his medical trips, Buhari has visited the UK on several occasions for private and official reasons. A lot of Nigerians have always raised questions on propriety of Buhari’s medical tourism with respect to the country’s healthcare…

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