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Wednesday, 03 March 2021 03:37

FG talks tough, warns ‘those profiting from insecurity’

Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA), says some people are taking advantage of the deteriorating security situation in the country. Speaking on Tuesday after the national security council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, Monguno said the government will not tolerate the situation. He warned anyone stoking violence to desist or have themselves to blame. “Of course, the president still remains concerned about the level of security, which seems to be cascading for the worse. Given the fact that we have a new organisation with new service chiefs, the president has charged all of us to redouble our efforts,…

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 03:34

Fuel scarcity pushes up transport fares

Petrol scarcity in Abuja and neighbouring Nasarawa and Niger states persisted on Tuesday and provoked an over 100 per cent rise in transport fares in many locations of the affected areas. Also, hundreds of black marketers of petrol surfaced in various roads in Abuja and environs, as they sold the commodity at between N300 to N500 per litre. The scarcity of petrol led to severe queues by motorists in front of the few filling stations that dispensed the commodity on Tuesday. Transport fares were hiked by commercial transporters. For instance, fare from Zuba, a border town between Abuja and Niger,…

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 03:33

Herdsmen crisis: Wike brokers peace between Bauchi, Benue govs

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, and his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, on Tuesday, settled their differences over their face-off on the herdsmen crisis rocking the country. Mohammed had defended Fulani herdsmen wielding AK-47 rifles, saying they did so for self-protection. Reacting, Ortom had lambasted the Bauchi governor for allegedly supporting criminality while labeling him a “terrorist governor”. Peoples Democratic Party had waded into the altercation between the two governors who incidentally belonged to the PDP. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his Adamawa State counterpart, Ahmadu Fintiri, met with the two governors on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 16:24

Buhari declares Zamfara ‘no-fly-zone, bans mining in state

Federal Government has announced a complete ban on mining activities in Zamfara, declaring the state as “no fly zone’’. National Security Adviser (NSO), Babagana Monguno, made this known when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the National Security Council. The meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday. “The President has approved, based on our recommendations, the imposition and enforcement of a ban on all mining activities in Zamfara with immediate effect until further notice. “He has directed Minister of Defence and National…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 12:48

FG gets first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines

Nigeria received its first Covid-19 vaccines on Tuesday to kick off an inoculation programme in Africa’s most populous nation, delivered under the international COVAX scheme. The West African nation of 200 million people took delivery of 3.92 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Nigeria is the third West African country to receive COVAX shots, after Ghana and Ivory Coast, which have both started vaccination campaigns. Dozens of Nigerian officials, wearing yellow high-visibility jackets and facemasks, met the flight delivering the vaccines on the airport tarmac in Abuja. The government aims to start by vaccinating frontline healthcare workers, the highest-priority recipients,…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 12:47

‘We’re walking in the stones and thorns’: Zamfara schoolgirls narrate kidnap ordeal

Gunmen have freed all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday, as victims described how their abductors had beaten and threatened to shoot them. The pupils from Jangebe, a town in Zamfara state, were abducted just after midnight on Friday. All had now been freed, Zamfara Governor Bello Matawalle said. Umma Abubakar, among those released, described their ordeal. “Most of us got injured on our feet and we could not continue trekking, so they said they will shoot anybody who did not continue to walk,” she told Reuters. Boarding schools in northern Nigeria…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 12:46

Oyo retired Perm Secs laud Makinde over education reform, workers and pensioners welfare

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has been lauded for creating four additional zones for post primary school education administration in the state. The new zones - Kisi, Iseyin, Ibadan II and IV came on stream last quarter of 2020 after Makinde approved their establishment to join the existing six in the state post primary school teaching service commission. Commending the governor for the initiative, the body of the Forum of Retired Permanent Secretaries (Schools' Administration), FOPSSA, described it alongside appointment of Permanent Secretaries/Tutors-General for each of the four zones as another ingenious masterstroke by the Makinde administration at strengthening and…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 05:41

Obasanjo has written another damning letter to Buhari on the grave security situation in Nigeria. Here’s the full text

Dear President and General Buhari, OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT, GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since the issue is of momentous concern to all well-meaning and all right-thinking Nigerians, it must be of great concern to you, and collective thinking and dialoguing is the best way of finding an appropriate and adequate solution to the problem. The contents of…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 05:40

FG begins registering residents for Covid-19 vaccinations

Federal government launched on online registration portal for Covid-19 vaccinations, its primary healthcare agency said on Monday, the day before the first doses are expected to arrive for its 200 million people. Osindeinde Ademilayo Abodede, a healthcare worker, was the first to register for the vaccine, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said in a Tweet on Monday. Her appointment was scheduled for March 12 in Abuja. “Our goal is to introduce Covid-19 vaccine in a phased and equitable manner...ultimately vaccinating all eligible Nigerians within the next two years, to ensure herd immunity,” Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 05:38

Yoruba leaders lead campaign against beef consumption

Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho; the Are Ona Kankanfo, Gani Adams; and the Odua Peoples Congress under the leadership of Segun Osinbote are set to launch a campaign against cows. This is according to an advertorial published in The PUNCH on March 1, 2021. The campaign which is tagged, ‘Anything But Cow Day’, will launch on Friday, March 5, 2021, and is being held in response to the boycott of the South by northern traders. The boycott has entered its 4th day. The campaign, which is themed, ‘A one-day symbolic beef boycott towards terminating the…

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Tuesday, 02 March 2021 05:37

Akeredolu orders road transport unions to vacate Ondo motor parks

Ondo State government has ordered the suspension of activities of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria (RTEAN). The government also asked the unions to vacate motor parks. This development was announced on Monday by Doyin Odebowale, senior special assistant to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on special duties and strategy. Speaking with journalists in Akure, Odebowale said the government had also told the state taxi drivers to revert to the old rate of N50 per drop. He said following the leadership crisis within the unions, both NURTW and RTEAN members are to vacate motor…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 05:36

Covid-19: Lagos extends work-from-home directive

Lagos State Government has further extended the work-from-home directive to civil servants on salary grade levels 12 and below. A statement by Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, said this was to further stem the spread of Covid-19 within the public service and other stakeholders. He expressed the government’s delight that measures put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the state has resulted in a steady decline in the number of recorded cases in the preceding weeks. Muri-Okunola stated that in order to sustain the success so far recorded, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has extended the directive to the…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 05:35

Cleric petitions IGP, says life threatened over N500m property

A Canada based pastor, Edward Taiwo Soetan, has raised the alarm over threat to his life on his N500 million estate in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Apparently for fear of allegedly being killed, Soetan has turned to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, over “Soetan Estate” which he bought in Orita Challenge 18 years ago. He alleged that suspected thugs threatened to kill him over his property worth over N500 million. “As if that was not enough, our client is now being confronted that whenever they see him around that land, they would kill him,” counsel to Soetan, Joy…

Monday, 01 March 2021 03:32

Fear of fuel price hike sparks panic buying, queue in Abuja, Lagos, others

Queues for petrol grew worse in some parts of the country on Sunday following the shutdown of many filling stations amid heightened expectations of an increase in the pump price of the product. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had on February 9 said Nigerians should prepare for the pain associated with the increase in crude oil price. International oil price, Brent crude, rose by more than 14 per cent in February as it closed at $64.42 per barrel, up from $56.42 per barrel at the start of the month. Motorists besieged the few outlets opened for business…

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