By Admin THE Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has faulted the claim by the Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates, that the government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, does not reflect people’s needs. El-Rufai, in an interview with State House correspondents at the end of a special session of the National Economic Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja “It is not correct to say that the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan does not give primacy to human capital, it is not correct. “The plan has enough provision for human capital, it is a Federal Government’s…
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By Admin There was confusion on Thursday in some parts of Narayi, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State after some irate youths set ablaze a church and a police outpost. The youths, it was learnt, set ablaze a branch of the Celestial Church of God as well as a police outpost in Narayi, while protesting the death of a mason, Friday Sylvester, who was working for the pastor of the church, Babatunde Shittu. The youth, it was learnt, accused Shittu of having a hand in Sylvester’s death. Livid with anger, they descended on the church and razed it while…
Yemisi Izuora The Secretary General of the Yoruba Council of Elders, Dr. Kunle Olajide, has said the North is a big problem and a great obstacle to the development of Nigeria. Olajide said this in reaction to the statement credited to the Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum and a former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, who said that Nigeria could not survive without the North. Olajide spoke in Osogbo on Thursday at the first memorial lecture of Nathaniel Abimbola organised by the Osun State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists. Abimbola, who was a reporter with…
Posted By Admin Less than 24 hours after the National Broadcasting Commission banned one of his recent songs, Wo, among others, from being played on the airwaves, popular rapper, Olamide Adedeji, has said that he never intended to cause harm to music fans with the song. The rapper, popularly called Olamide, on Tuesday tweeted, “No intentions of promoting tobacco to get people killed. I love my people, I love my country. One love, one Nigeria.” The NBC, on Tuesday, placed a ban on works by three of Nigeria’s top level music artistes for an alleged violation of its rules and…
Gerard Izuora The proprietor, The Polytechnic, Ile-Ife, and Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, has called for the scrapping of the higher national diploma programmes. Adedoyin said the HND should be replaced with Bachelor’s degree in technology as obtained in advanced nations. The educationist was reacting to the decision of the Federal Government to remove the disparity between the holders of HND and university degree holders. In a statement on Thursday, Adedoyin noted that though the removal of the disparity between HND and university degree was a welcome idea, what the Federal Government ought to do was to…
Joseph Bakare The Oyo state Police command has arrested sixteen suspected herdsmen who kidnapped officials of the West African Examinations Council in Kishi area of the state. The suspects, who were nabbed by the police who worked with local vigilante, were allegedly recruited from Zamfara State by a kingpin who is also from Zamfara. He is still being wanted by the police after he escaped arrest, it was gathered. Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Odude, said the gang kidnapped many people and killed some of them, with huge ransom collected before they released some of their victims. The…
Source: Premium Times Adedayo Akintoye, a judge at an Igbosere High Court, Lagos, had on Thursday dismissed the application by kidnap suspect suspected, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans, seeking to quash charges slammed on him, saying they are not defective and not an abuse of court processes. Evans had sought the court to quash the two separate charges filed against him by the Lagos State Government. The Lagos State Government had brought a fresh five-count charge bordering on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder against Evans and three others. Evans is charged alongside Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba.…
Source:ACSS At least 11 soldiers were reportedly killed and several civilians injured by bandits in northwestern Nigeria early Wednesday, according to security sources. Samuel Aruwan, spokesman for Kaduna state’s governor, confirmed that security officials were killed in attacks on the villages of Doka and Maganda in Birnin Gwari, but gave no figures. “Governor Nasir El-Rufai received with sadness reports of bandit attacks in Doka and Maganda. He praised the communities for their vigilance and their cooperation with the military to thwart the attacks,” said the statement. Three senior security officials told Anadolu Agency that 11 soldiers died in the incident…
Source: BBC Africa is hoping to create a free trade area stretching across the continent The European Union and its free trade agreement took decades to establish. Africa is now hoping it can achieve the same in a fraction of the time. But with Nigeria pulling out, questions are being raised over just how achievable it really is. The vision is a free trade deal encompassing 1.2 billion people stretching from Cape Town to Cairo. Goods, services and perhaps labour, flowing freely in and out of more than 50 African countries. It could create tens of thousands of jobs and…
Yemisi Izuora Oil prices rose on Friday, pushed up by Saudi statements that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, and Russian led production curbs that were introduced in 2017 will need to be extended into 2019 in order to tighten the market. The rise in oil prices defied global stock markets and other commodities, which slumped on the back of worries about a trade stand-off between the United States and China. U.S. President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday that could impose tariffs on up to $60 billion of imports from China, while China unveiled plans on…
