GhanaWeb, Ghana’s biggest news platform and Tonaton.com, Ghana’s biggest online marketplace have signed an exclusive cooperative partnership agreement to lead and improve Ghana’s online marketplace with engaging content. This partnership follows nearly two years of commercial cooperation between both companies resulting in a positive synergy that strengthened the customer experience journey of their visitors. GhanaWeb and Tonaton.com agreed to integrate their content and offering respectively to allow their visitors to orient themselves in specific categories of interest on GhanaWeb to eventually buy and sell items or apply for jobs simultaneously on Tonaton.com. Popular classifieds such as Electronics, Property, Vehicles and…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Mr Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has beaten his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Mr Eyitayo Jegede and re-elected as governor of Ondo state. He won 15 of the 18 local governments by scoring 292,830 votes, while Jegede and Mr Agboola Ajayi of the Zenith Labour Party came second and third in the election with 195,791 and 69,127 votes, respectively. The Chief Returning Officer for the election, Professor Idowu Olayinka, returned Akeredolu as the governor-elect on Sunday. “Having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest number of votes, I hereby declare Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu…
… Emplaces other measures to protect the citizens The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Muhammad Adamu has desolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) across the 36 State Police Commands and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is contained in a statement by the Spokesperson of the Force Headquarters, DCP Frank Mba on Sunday. “In the finest spirit of democratic, citizen-centred and community policing, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has today, 11th October, 2020, dissolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) across the 36 State Police Commands and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) where they hitherto existed. “The IGP,…
The wife of the Sokoto State Governor, Hajiya Maryam-Mairo Tambuwal, on Saturday commenced the distribution of food items and working tools to women as palliatives to cushion the effects of COVID-19 in the state. Speaking at the ceremony, Tambuwal said she will continue to champion economic empowerment, social awareness, medical outreach services and other intervention activities to alleviate the sufferings of people in the state. According to her, the project knows no bound irrespective of religion, political affiliation, gender or tribe. “I will not compromise my drive through this laudable initiative for the people.” Tambuwal, who is the founder of…
In fulfillment of its pledge to continue promoting transparency in electoral process using technology, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it made progress in uploading election results from polling units (PUs) during Saturday’s Ondo State Governorship election. According to INEC, the results were uploaded on its result view portal. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Aug. 6 introduced a dedicated public election result viewing portal, known as “The INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal’’. At the Ondo election, therefore, results from 2,518 polling units out of the 3,009 units in 18 Local Governments across the state were uploaded on the…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudiness and thunderstorms from Sunday to Tuesday. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Saturday in Abuja predicted partly cloudy skies over the northern region with slim prospects of rains over parts of Adamawa, Bauchi and Gombe State during the morning hours of Sunday. According to him, there are prospects of thunderstorms over parts of Sokoto, Zamfara, Borno, Taraba and Bauchi States later in the day. “The north central cities should be predominantly partly cloudy to cloudy in the morning. During the afternoon and evening hours, isolated thunderstorms are expected over parts of Kwara, Abuja,…
Experienced poultry farmers would accept that raising chicks is not an easy task, especially when doing it for the first time. Chicks are highly susceptible to different kinds of dangers (both environmental and health dangers). In fact, it is the health established by chicks at this period or age that will follow them all through their lives. Successful brooding entails a lot of things such as maintaining the right temperature, protection of chicks from predators as well as ensuring adequate ventilation. Some poultry farmers have incurred losses or raised unproductive birds as a result of committing brooding/brooder house mistakes. Some…
The coalition of opposition parties in Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday called for the postponement of the Oct. 31 presidential elections in the country. The group then urged Nigeria in particular, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and the African Union (AU) to intervene. Mr Seth Koko, Presidential Candidate of L’ ALTERNATIVE-CI political party, who is also the leader of the coalition in Cote d’Ivoire, made the call at a news conference in Abuja while speaking after after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and ECOWAS in Abuja. The coalition is made up of the Democratic Party of…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr Yusuf Ali has observed that the N110 billion budgetary allocation for the National Judicial Commission is adequate, saying the Judiciary in Nigeria needs to be well funded. Ali stated this on Saturday in Ibadan during a thanksgiving and prayer session to mark the retirement of Prof. Rasid Aderinoye from the University of Ibadan, organised by his children. The senior advocate said that the judiciary must be well funded for it to be fair and independent and able to cater for its personnel and capital projects. “Our court rooms are not as modern as…
A group, Sub-Sahara Peace and Awareness Foundation, has urged the Federal government not to disband the Nigeria Police Force Special Anti Robbery Squad, FSARS, and suggested the holistic reform of the security organization to enhance its operations, and protect lives and property in the country. The Coordinator of the Foundation, Mr Abdullahi Ali-Kano, made the call at a news conference in Kano on Saturday. The conference, with the theme: “Reform SARS Don’t End SARS”, was organised in collaboration with the Foundation and Abdullahi Ali Foundation. Ali-Kano said the SARS operatives had made sacrifices to end robbery, banditry, kidnapping and other…