The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the incident.
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“The President himself re-negotiated the China-EXIM loan for the Lagos-Calabar rail line and in the 2017 budget have provided for the Udokpani/Ikot Ekpene road.”
Saraki further stated that since revenue derived from oil is highly volatile, fixing gaps leading to revenue leakages in the petroleum industry needed to be addressed before implementing any policy for energy sufficiency and sustainability.
“If we don’t do anything, we might shoot over five degrees or more and that would be catastrophic,”
Li, speaking in Berlin on Thursday, underlined strong support for the 2015 Paris climate change accord from China, which overtook the US as the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007.
The Adamawa Emirate Council has confirmed the elevation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to the position of Waziri Adamawa, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Mallam Muawiyah Abba, the Information Officer of the Emirate Council, confirmed the development to NAN on Friday in Yola.
Atiku’s appointment to the position followed the death of the former Waziri, Alhaji Muhammad Abba in April.
The Waziri is the most senior kingmaker in the emirate and serves as close confidant and adviser to the Lamido.
Abba explained that the Council had also conferred the title of Turaki Adamawa, hitherto held by Atiku, on his son, Aliyu.
He said: “It is true that the emirate has appointed Atiku Abubakar the new Waziri of Adamawa, while his son, Aliyu, is also appointed as the new Turaki Adamawa to take over from his father.”
The new Turaki is also a grandson to late Lamido Adamawa, Alhaji Aliyu Mustafa.
When contacted on the development, the spokesman of Abubakar, Paul Ibe, confirmed the appointment, adding: “I have spoken to him (Atiku) and he confirmed it.”
The Federal Road Safety Corps on Friday disclosed that its operatives at Okada unit command of Edo State recently recovered a stolen vehicle along Benin-Ore Expressway, after Ovia River in Edo State. The vehicle was said to have been snatched at gunpoint along Edusogie Street, off Etete Road in Benin City. The vehicle, a red Toyota Matrix, with registration number EKP 895 AT, was earlier reported to be causing obstruction along the route, which prompted the Corps to send its field operatives with a recovery vehicle to the scene, where no one was found anywhere close to attend to the…
“This opportunity is for us to discourse the ills that affects the social media.”
The group leader added that the Niger Delta was never part of Biafra before it became defunct, stressing that the parts that were coerced into the failed project were victim of occupation by Biafran militants.
“Therefore,this letter serves as a final reminder and a plea for you to act on the letter in accordance with the dictates of the law and duties of your office. If there is still no response from you within 7 days from the day of this letter, we shall be constrained to approach the court to secure an order of mandamus to compel you to carry out your constitutional and statutory obligations.”
While presenting the agriculture inputs to the state government, the Project Leader, Cassava Weed Management and Director, Development and Delivery Office, IITA, Dr. Alfred Dixon, assured the state of the organisation’s readiness to ensure that the state have highest tons and yields in all areas of agriculture.
He further thanked Buratai for his commitment and determination at improving the capacity of the Nigerian Army by establishing a university.
The Federal Capital Territory Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS on Thursday cautioned people living with HIV and AIDS not to stop taking their Anti-Retroviral drugs for alternative cure. The Project Manager of the agency, Dr Uche Okoro, in Abuja was reacting to the speculation that some people living with HIV and AIDS are now abandoning their ARV drugs for some acclaimed cure of the disease. Okoro warned that cure for HIV and AIDS had not been found therefore no one living with the disease in the territory or any part of the country should abandon their ARV drugs. He…
Delivering ruling on a no-case-submission filed by the defendants, Justice Gabriel Kolawole held that the prosecution counsel, Alex Iziyon had made out a prima facie case linking Okah and Nwabueze with the alleged offence.
According to Umunakwe, Nokia’s consumers are more discerning and demanding than ever before and the company will always put them first in producing phones.
Nwokolo explained that the house resolved to treating the bill holistically in consideration of what had happened and what was obtainable in other parts of the globe where petroleum was a natural resource.
The incident, the News Agency of Nigeria reports, happened on August 12, 2013, at Odo Usi Street, Awo Road, Igede-Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.
“We are worried, however, because the timing of the bill with the agitation for Biafra is suspicious.”
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday called for an upward review of salaries of traditional rulers in the state. The House made the call in its resolution after adopting a motion for “the Upward Review of Traditional Rulers’ Remuneration and the Use of Yoruba Language as a Medium of Communication at Palace and t other Public Functions”. Lanre Ogunyemi, the Chairman, House Committee on Education, had moved the motion at the day’s sitting. The House called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs to actualise the increase of salaries of Obas and…
Yaya Toure has agreed a new one-year deal to stay with Manchester City. The Ivorian was out of contract this summer having been with club since signing from Barcelona in 2010. Toure, who turned 34 last month, was pleased to put pen to paper and told the club’s official website: ‘I’m delighted. I told myself the journey at City is not done and when I received a call from Txiki and talked to the manager I was very delighted. ‘When I was first coming here [in 2010] I was trying to be part of a new story, of something special…