The Akwa Ibom State Government has closed indefinitely the Government Technical College, Ewet, Uyo over students’ wanton destruction of school property and injuring of some policemen and staff members. The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Nse Essien, announced the closure in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen in Uyo on Thursday. Essien said the students of the college on Wednesday afternoon engaged in unruly behaviour, destroying school property and causing injuries to some police officers and staff of the college. He expressed government’s displeasure with the attitude of the students, who, he said, behaved unruly. Essien said: “Government…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja reassured that the Federal Government will continue to support efforts by the Plateau State Government towards a peaceful, prosperous and tolerant society. Receiving Governor Simon Lalong and other stakeholders from Plateau State, President Buhari appealed to residents and indigenes of the State to support the governor’s development agenda. He said: “Plateau is strategic to Nigeria. “It is geographically unique with its diverse environmental and huge economic potential. “This clearly shows the State’s incredible potential in tourism, agriculture and mining. “It is, therefore, our collective duty to ensure these potentials are fully harnessed by…
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday accepted the bill in favour of the South West Security outfit, Amotekun, and has fixed a public hearing for February 24, 2020. The Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, at a sitting of the House, subsequently committed the bill to the House Committee on Information, Publicity, Security and Strategy, headed by Hon. Tunde Braimoh, for public hearing. The Clerk of the House, Azeez Sanni, had informed the lawmakers that he received a letter from the state Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, on February 19, 2020 on the amendment of…
The Niger State Government on Thursday said as part of efforts to ensure cleanliness and healthy environment, it will kick start the monthly sanitation exercise on the last Saturday of this month (February). While briefing newsmen at Government House after its Executive Council meeting in Minna, the government explained that vehicular and human movements will be restricted between 7am and 10am. The exercise, according to the Commissioner for the Environment, Mohammed T. Zakari, will take place every last Saturday of the month to ensure cleanliness and to help curb outbreak of any disease. According to Zakari: “We are reintroducing the…
An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a former part-time lecturer in the University of Lagos, Akin Baruwa, to 21 years imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old admission seeker. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Josephine Oyefeso, while sentencing Baruwa, described his action as heinous. Oyefeso held that the sentence should serve as a deterrent to others. He said: “The offence committed against this young lady was a violation of her chastity, which would have left huge emotional scars from which I pray and hope she will recover. “I cannot begin to imagine the physical and mental trauma she…
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has restated its commitment to the productivity and profitability of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) through funding, capacity building, advisory and other forms of support that would boost their overall contributions to economic development. FCMB, which is rated as the number one Bank for SMEs in Nigeria in the latest Banking Industry Customer Experience Survey report by KPMG, gave the assurance at a free and comprehensive capacity building and empowerment programme it organised for women entrepreneurs in Ogun State, in partnership with the Office of the First Lady of the State, Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun,…
Former Manchester United star, Antonio Valencia, has backed new signing Odion Ighalo to shine at the Old Trafford. Valencia via his Twitter handle: @anto_v25, wrote: “I always saw the number 25 as an opportunity to work beyond my dreams. “It has been my inspiration and became my amulet. I wish you all the success now with this shirt brother!” Ighalo will wear the number 25 shirt during his time at the club. The transfer is a stop gap to help Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side for the last few months of the season with Marcus Rashford out injured and it was…
The National Population Commission on Wednesday advocated for the promulgation of a law making the conduct of census compulsory every 10 years in Nigeria. Nduka Arinzechi, Acting Director, Population Management, said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. Arinzechi explained that the law would override the presidential proclamation, which had been the practice. He said the law would make the conduct of census constitutionally mandatory just like general elections. He said: “We had our last census 14 years ago. “At the moment, we in the population commission are ready for census, but we are waiting for…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Saad Ahmed as the new Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, Abuja. According to a statement released on Wednesday by Eunice Akro, Assistant Director, Press and Publicity in the Ministry of Health in Abuja, the appointment of Ahmed takes effect on February 16, 2020. Congratulating the Medical Director on his appointment, the Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, asked Ahmed to do his best in improving on the achievements already attained at the hospital. Mamora advised him to focus more on service performance in order to build public…
Dr. Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, on Tuesday inspected an Isolation Centre under construction at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada as part of the precautionary measures to prevent importation of coronavirus. Ehanire in a statement by the Head Media and Public Relations in the ministry, Enefaa Bob-Manuel, said the Federal Government had adopted the measure in the event that the disease is imported. He said: “We must not allow it enter our country through any of the entry points. “As such, if any passenger should test positive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, he or she…
Bresica have parted company with head coach Eugenio Corini for the second time this season. The Serie A club announced the news on Wednesday, with reports claiming that Diego Lopez is set to take over. Corini was previously sacked in November before he was re-hired one month later, replacing Italian World Cup winner Fabio Grosso. A club statement read: “Brescia Calcio announce to have relieved Eugenio Corini of the position as coach for the first team. “The club wants to thank Mr. Corini and his staff for the professionalism, dedication and commitment they have shown.” Brescia, who were promoted from…
Former Premier League striker Osaze Odemwingie is set to become a professional golfer. The Nigerian, aged 38, is currently going through his PGA training course and hopes to qualify for the EuroPro Tour via Q-School in the next year. Odemwingie, a 3 handicapper, passed his playing test, where you must shoot 15-over or better over 36 holes at The Belfry. The former Nigerian international made it with the final putt, which he compared to scoring a last-minute free kick. “I made it with the last putt so it’s as good as scoring a last-minute free kick taking 3 points home,”…
The Peoples Democratic Party has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s resort to religious coloration and classification of wanton killings in the country by insurgents as totally horrendous, unpresidential, scandalous, discriminatory, divisive and a huge spat on the grave of the victims. The party described as highly insensitive that President Buhari could attempt to rationalize the failure of his administration to end insurgency by stating that 90 per cent of those killed by terrorists are members of a particular religion. The position of the PDP, contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, followed President Buhari’s article in which…
The Nigeria LNG Limited on Monday received the Letter of Nomination from the Federal Ministry of the Environment to make Finima Nature Park, a conservation park managed by the company, a Ramsar Site of International Importance. The letter was presented to the company by the Minister of State for the Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor, who was represented by the Director of Forestry, Tiamiyu Sikiru, during a visit by the Ministry officials to NLNG’s Plant site and Finima Nature Park on Bonny Island, Rivers State to celebrate 2020 World Wetlands Day. The park, managed, on behalf of NLNG, by the Nigerian…
A youth organization, the Bayelsa Youth Vanguard, has reacted to comments by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, that his Bayelsa State counterpart, Henry Seriake Dickson, traded off the last governorship election in the state in exchange for protection from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after leaving office. Wike, who was also reacting to earlier positions of Dickson that he sponsored the opposition All Progressives Congress against the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the election, said the Bayelsa State Governor had wanted to join the APC but was blocked by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources,…
The social media had been awash with news that the former Head of State, popularly known as Maradona, was dead.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on December 10, 2019 announced the replacement of Banire with a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Edward L. Adamu.
Thakur said this to newsmen at an event to commemorate the World Hindi Day and Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Abuja on Wednesday night.
The high commissioner said the BASA was part of pending agreements to be signed between both countries.
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Chuks Ibegbu, disclosed this on Thursday in Enugu at a media briefing to mark the second anniversary of the current executive of the organisation.
Ramsey has made more than 250 appearances since joining the Gunners from Cardiff City in 2008, but the Wales international has failed to agree on a new deal with the London club in the final year of his contract.