President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, returned to Abuja from Paris, France, where he attended African Finance Summit. The presidential aircraft, conveying the president and some of his aides, landed at the Presidential Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 3.52 pm. While in Paris, the Nigerian leader participated fully in the Financing Africa Summit, held at Grande Palais Ephemere on Tuesday, with the theme: “External Financing and debt Treatment”. The president also engaged in various bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit. At the opening of the summit on Tuesday, Buhari called on European countries and global…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello has received the “Role Model Governor in Education Award” bestowed on him by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). The Union’s National President, Chris Isiguzo said the award Committee singled out Bello of the 36 state governors, after assessing the education sector in each state. He explained that the Role Model in Education Award is a special category award, given to Bello for bringing revolution to education in Kogi state. “The award we are presenting to him (Gov. Bello) today is a special category award in education. Apart from recognising political actors that have done well…
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, of the Federal High Court, on Thursday in Abuja, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to pay N1 million to Mr Babajide Adelekan, for violation of his right. Adelekan, who was arrested when he visited his bank in 2018, to find out why his account was frozen was the Provost of the Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan at the time. Justice Ojukwu, in a judgment delivered via a virtual court sitting, held that the EFCC failed to prove why Adelekan was arrested and detained. The judge held that the EFCC failed to lay credible evidence…
A Professor of Fish Nutrition, Fisheries and Ecotoxicology, Mr Lawrence Nwanna has warned against consuming fish grown in sick water to avoid taking ill. The Don who is of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, gave the warning while delivering the 127th Inaugural Lecture held in the new auditorium of the University on Tuesday. Speaking on the topic: “Nutritional Concepts and Fisheries Production in Sick Waters”, Nwanna said fish perform all physiological activities in water, including breathing, excretion of waste, feeding, maintenance of salt balance and reproduction. “Therefore, producing fish in…
Sokoto state executive council has approved the sum of over N196 million for the construction and tarring of a five kilometre bye pass road from Achida-Tungar Malam-Lambar Kwali in Wurno local government area. The state Commissioner of Information, Isah Bajini Galadanchi stated this while briefing journalists after the state executive council meeting held at the council chamber of Government House, Sokoto on Wednesday. Similarly, the council also approved the virement of the sum of N155 million from one aspect to other at the Ministry of Religious Affairs to provide motorcycles to the Ulamah for the propagation of Islamic activities in…
A gas explosion at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun state, has reportedly killed two persons. The explosion, which occurred at 11am Thursday morning at the Marcque event centre, was said to have occurred when technicians were trying to fill some air conditioning units with gas at the Library. A worker at the Library confirmed the tragic incident to newsmen. “2 persons have already been confirmed dead,” the worker said. Security guards manning the gate asked some newsmen who were trying to get into the facility to go back. On the truck of the State Fire Service and some…
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ayade defected to the APC on Thursday in Calabar at a ceremony at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office. He said his defection was to align the state with the ruling party at the centre for prosperous growth and development and to also join hands with President Muhammadu Buhari in building the nation. “Buhari’s commitment to the development of the country is commendable. It is obvious at this point that we need to join hands with him to…
An enormous iceberg has broken away from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, reports on Thursday said. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the iceberg, known as A-76, measuring around 4,320 square kilometres in size, is currently the largest in the world. The iceberg was spotted in recent images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission and at around 170 kilometres in length and 25 kilometres wide. It is said to be slightly larger than the Spanish island of Majorca. The British Antarctic Survey spotted the berg and it was confirmed by the…
. .. Request For New Passport Starts June 1 All Passport Issuing Centres in Nigeria have been directed to clear existing backlog of applications on or before 31st May, 2021. A press statement from the Public Affairs Department of the Nigeria Immigration Service on Tuesday, 18 May, 2021 confirmed this directive. According to the statement, “requests for fresh and/or re-issue shall not be entertained with effect from 18th May 2021-31st May 2021 in all centres except for locations in the Missions abroad. “Notifications for collection of produced Passports are already going out to applicants who indicated functional phone numbers in…
By Bashir Rabe Mani The fact that the blessed and highly revered Month of Ramadan, 1442 AH, and or 2021, has came and gone is undeniable. It came, it saw and it conquered. We are already missing the rare divinely controlled opportunity provided by the Month in which the Glorious Qur’an was revealed to the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad, PBUH, SAW. It is always tangibly agitating and psychologically as well as emotionally exerting to be hoping to witness the Month, in which there exists a single unequalled and unparalleled night, Laylatul Qadri, which equals more than one thousand nights.…