Month: July 2019

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has vowed to pull down all illegal structures at Ore market to ensure a safer and more hygienic environment. Igbere TV reports that Special Adviser to the Governor on Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Olatunji Ifabiyi, said this on Wednesday during an inspection of Ore market in Odigbo Local Government…

President Muhammadu Buhari has enjoined all Nigerians to ignore the recent call by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to Fulani herders, asking them to leave the southern part of Nigeria. According to a statement by the President’s spokesperson, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, Buhari said all citizens of Nigeria are free to move…

The Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan, on Wednesday, said that delay in the submission of the ministerial list by President Muhammadu Buhari for screening won’t affect the National Assembly from giving Appropriation bill expeditious passage. According to him, returning the national Budget’s fiscal cycle to January to December will be possible if the proposal gets…

The Senate on Wednesday resolved to extend the time of its investigative panel probing alleged assault of a woman at an Abuja sex- toy shop by Senator Elisha Abbo. The Upper Chamber agreed to extend the two weeks earlier given to the Senator Samuel Egwu- led committee by one week. Egwu told the Senate that…

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Wednesday wielded the big stick by suspending two teachers of the FCT School for the Blind, Jabi, alleged to be involved in the molestation of some female students. A visibly angry Permanent Secretary of the FCTA, Sir Chinyeaka Ohaa who made an unscheduled visit to the school following…

Claim by a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, that President Muhammadu Buhari does not own a house in Abuja and Port Harcourt are not true, The PUNCH has reported. Kalu, who is the Chief Whip of the Senate, had, while addressing journalists on Saturday, said, “I have known him (Buhari) now…

Herdsmen have been caught by the people of Obudi Agwa Autonomous Community in Oguta Local Government Area, with one of them carrying a sack of bullets. The traditional ruler of the community, Eze Ignatius Asor, confirmed this to Vanguard in Owerri, saying his people were living in fear. He said the suspect was handed over…

The mouthpiece of Northern Nigeria, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has reacted to the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. The Northern socio-cultural organization said it was still studying the letter and will speak on it soon. ACF, in a one-sentence statement sent to The Nation by its National Publicity Secretary,…

ABUJA—DEPUTY Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, said yesterday that the Senate will support the recent proposal by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to deploy soldiers to the highway in different parts of the country to curtail escalating wave of insecurity. He also advised the security apparatus in Zamfara State, especially the Commissioner of Police, to…