An 18 seater bus on Sunday plunged into the Owena River on the Akure Ondo road in Ondo State. An eye witness account stated that the driver of the bus who was coming from the Ondo town axis and heading toward Akure lost control as a result of speeding and plunged into the river. The witness further revealed that five of the passengers including a child were rescued and taken to the hospital by motorists and men of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). The witness added that some of the passengers lost their lives at the scene of the…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) on Sunday declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the overall winners of the just concluded Local Government Area elections. The elections held on April 17, in Rivers state. Justice George Omereji, the chairman of RSIEC and the Presiding officer of the concluded election made the declaration at the commission’s secretariat in Port Harcourt, Omereji announced that PDP won in all the chairmanship positions and the councillorship seats in the 23 local government areas. He stated that certificates of return would be issued to the winners on Monday, April 19 at the Commission’s secretariat.…
The COVID-19 pandemic, undoubtedly, affected Nigeria’s socioeconomic wellbeing and also exposed the inadequacy and vulnerability of the country’s healthcare system just as it created medical and economic emergencies across the world. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a way of cushioning the effects of the pandemic on Nigerians established a fund to assist households, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). It set aside N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility (TCF) – stimulus package to support households and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and also spent huge amounts to support farmers to boost food production. The CBN’s direct intervention in the…
A prosecuting witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Salisu Shuaibu has been revealed to be the alleged owner of the Halal Fountain Hotel (Annex), in Kaduna. Checks by PRNigeria revealed that the hotel was sealed off by EFCC after Shuaibu, a former Director of Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) was arrested and arraigned in Court in 2015 over alleged fraudulent activities at ONSA. In a surprise twist of events, the anti-graft agency dropped all corruptions charges against Shuaibu in 2016 and presented him as its prosecution witness to testify against Sambo…
A chieftain of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Zamfara, Abdulmalik Zubairu has alleged that the recent move by the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tukur Danfulani to announced that the party received over 1,000 defectors from APC in Bungudu, is “political deception”. Speaking with newsmen in Gusau on Sunday, Zubairu also alleged that the Danfulani-led PDP leaders in the state were “only making fool of the governor and using such tactics of receiving defectors to be collecting money from Matawalle.” According to him, Danda Bungudu is a known card-carrying member of the PDP, adding that prior to the…
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib has disclosed that a total of 8,491 Nigerians have so far adversely reacted to AstraZeneca vaccine. Disclosing this in Abuja on Friday, he said that Nigeria also recorded 52 cases of moderate to severe incidents of Adverse Effects Following Immunisation (AEFI), presented as fever, vomiting, diarrhoea headaches, dizziness and allergic reactions. According to him, there were 8,439 mild AEFI reported, ranging from swelling at the site of the inoculation, body pains and nausea. Shuaib mentioned five states with highest recorded AEFI to include Kaduna (970),…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal, has called on the citizens of Sokoto, especially those in the eastern part of the state, who are hard hit by the activities of bandits, to provide timely intelligence reports to security agencies in order to checkmate the activities of the criminals in the area. The governor gave the charge when he visited to condole families of the victims of gunmen daring midday attack at Rarah village in Rabah local government area on Friday. Accompanied by the deputy governor, Muhammad Dan’Iya and some high-ranking security chiefs serving in the state, Tambuwal, who was visibly worried, appealed to…
Kebbi state governor, Abubakar Bagudu says his administration has secured a $70 million World Bank grant, to strengthen adolescent girl-child education. He disclosed this on Saturday, in Birnin Kebbi at the 5th Kebbi State Women Ramadan Lecture Series themed: “The Fundamental Role of Women in Islam.” The lecture’s sub themes included: Innovative Islamic Ways of Home Management in COVID-19 era, Family Obligations of Wives in Times of Economic Hardship and Curbing Gender Based Violence. Bagudu said that with the grant, women in the state, especially adolescent girls will be taught more skills, coupled with both formal and non formal education.…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday approved Plateau State University, PLASU, Bokkos as one of it’s Computer Base Test, CBT, center. The news was unveiled by the University Registrar, Mr Amos Mallo, in a statement. Mallo explained that the nod was given recently after JAMB successfully accredited the University for the yearly exercise exercise that serves pathway for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. “Already the registration of candidates for the 2021 JAMB UTME begins at the centre on Thursday April 16 upon the payment of a fee of N4,700 only for the JAMB pin, Study materials…
Some residents of Northeast, have attributed the rise in price of cement to the widening gap between demand and supply of the product. A survey carried out in Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa as well as Jigawa states, indicate an average of 40 per cent increase in price. Respondents to the survey said several challenges affected production in factories, one of which is the outbreak of COVID-19, thus reducing supply, while demand kept increasing. Some of the respondents also condemned the activities of middlemen, saying such people capitalised on the development to further worsen the situation. They called on government…