Video shows proof of Tinubu’s deteriorating health

The health condition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a frontline Presidential Aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State Governor is deteriorating and needs immediate medical attention following a video that went viral on the internet on Tuesday. In the video obtained by Starnews Nigeria, Tinubu’s two hands were seen shaking violently and he was coughing while addressing a political gathering. The National Leader of the ruling APC has been in and out of the hospital in the United Kingdom (UK) recently while Nigerians have raised a lot of concerns about his health since he declared his intention

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Edo to arrest parents over children’s street begging

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said the government will begin to arrest and prosecute parents of out-of-school children as part of efforts to tackle the menace of street begging in the state.   Obaseki said this when he received the Muslim faithful at the Government House, Benin City to celebrate the Eid-El Fitr after the successful completion of the Ramadan.   The governor said, “We believe that basic education is the right for every child in Edo State; it’s their right and it’s free and compulsory. We will link education with street begging and street children. “In the

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My grouse with Saraki, Tambuwal, other northern PDP presidential aspirants – Wike

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, disclosed his grouse with former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, over zoning of the presidency to the South ahead of the 2023 general elections.   Wike said he had always supported presidential aspirants from the North, wondering why those he supported in the 2019 elections are now aspiring to be president in 2023.   He stated this while appearing on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television, monitored from Abuja on Monday.   Wike claimed to have supported Tambuwal to become Speaker

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Ondo retired teacher disappears from home, family seeks help

Family members of a 70-year-old woman, Mrs Victoria Ojimi, are in distress after her sudden disappearance from Abiodun Street, in the Okearo area of Ondo State, where she lived with her daughter and grandchildren. The victim, a retired teacher said to be suffering from dementia, was said to have left her house around 7pm on Saturday, April 30. Her son, Mr Temitope Oluwadeyi, said efforts to find her had been abortive. Oluwadeyi noted that the family reported the incident to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Okearo Police Division and the ‘B’ division, Okearo. The woman’s first daughter, Mrs Gbonjuola Ojo,

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NURTW crisis: Call your followers to order, CP warns Oluomo, Istijaba

LAGOS— Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Mr Abiodun Alabi, yesterday, warned Chairman of the Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, and Azeez Abiola, aka Istijaba, to call their followers to order or face the wrath of the law. Alabi, in a statement by the Command’s Spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, warned that anyone found fomenting trouble in the state would be apprehended and made to face the law. Loyalists of Oluomo and Istijaba had clashed over the control of parks and garages, after the state government suspended activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, across the state,

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44% of Nigerian firms paid hackers ransom in 2021 –Report

…71% of Nigerian companies hit in 12 months SEVENTY one per cent of Nigerian organisations were hit by ransomware in 2021 while 44 per cent of the affected firms were forced to pay ransoms to get their data back, according to a new report by Sophos, a United Kingdom-based cybersecurity solutions firm. The report titled, ‘The State of Ransomware 2022,’ said the number of Nigerian organisations that were hit with ransomware increased from 22 per cent in 2020 to 71 per cent in 2021. The report read in part, “The main findings of the State of Ransomware 2022 global survey

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Striking ASUU members shouldn’t be paid – Education minister

The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, has said it doesn’t make sense for members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to continue to earn salaries while on strike. The PUNCH reports that ASUU began one month warning strike on February 14, 2022 and since then has not suspended its industrial action. Speaking to The PUNCH in a telephone interview on Sunday, Nwajiuba said, “The lecturers have continued to earn salaries while on strike; it doesn’t make sense to earn salaries when you have refused to work. “If you refuse to even pay them, by the time they call off the

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Kwara teachers to get tablets, smartphones for education programme

Kwara State Government said that it has secured the delivery of 4,329 tablets and smartphones for teachers to implement the KwaraLEARN education programme Other requirements for the programme such as procurement of 250 blackboards, hiring of IT operation teams, setting up of teachers’ tablets and, validation of tech applications in schools has also been put in place. The Chairman of the State Universal Primary Education Board, Sheu Adaramaja, said that the government would on May 16, 2022 kick-start its data-driven education transformation project, KwaraLEARN, across 365 primary schools in the state. According to a statement signed by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief

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2023: Ijaw APC chieftains endorse Omo-Agege for Delta gov

Prominent Ijaw leaders of All Progressives Congress in Ogbe Ijoh, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State have endorsed the governorship ambition of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. This was contained in a statement signed by the duo of Chief David Omare and Amb. Tekedor Clement, copies of which were made available to journalists in Warri on Monday. They said that “the party’s leadership in the Ward is in support of Omo Agege’s quest to become the next Governor of Delta State and will give him all the necessary support”. The APC leaders noted that

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Okorocha tried many times to join us, IPOB alleges

The Indigenous People of Biafra has claimed that a former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, tried to join IPOB, many times, but its leadership rejected him. The group, therefore, warned him to stop using them for politics as doing so will lead him to “political destruction”. In a statement on Monday, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said Nigerians must be mindful of Okorocha, just as it alleged that the former governor and his cohorts are behind the numerous attacks, killings, and abductions going on in Imo State. He said, “Okorocha has tried so many times to be

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