By Gami Tadanyigbe The Ane Osiobe International Foundation, an online NGO, has called on schools in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to comply with the COVID-19 prevention guidelines ahead of the school reopening. Dr. Ejiro Osiobe, the (Chief) Financial Officer & Economic Adviser of the Foundation, made the call during a virtual (ZOOM) outreach and donation of educational materials to seven FCT schools. The donation was hosted by the Foundation’s outreach officer and the Foundation’s Chief Mentoring Officer Dr. Rebecca Creamer, an epidemiologist from New Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA. According to Dr. Ejiro Osiobe, the Foundation is committed…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Muhammad Adamu, has banned the personnel of certain units of the Nigeria Police from carrying out routine patrols and other conventional low-risk duties – stop and search duties, checkpoints, mounting of roadblocks, traffic checks, etc – with immediate effect. This is contained in a statement issued by the Spokesperson of the Force Headquarters, Frank Mba on Sunday. These include the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, and other Tactical Squads of the Force, including the Special Tactical Squad, STS, Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Anti-Cultism Squad and other Tactical Squads operating at the Federal, Zonal and Command…
Democrat Joe Biden opened his widest lead in a month in the U.S. presidential race after President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, and a majority of Americans think Trump could have avoided infection if he had taken the virus more seriously, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday. The Oct. 2-3 national opinion poll gave little indication of an outpouring of support for the president beyond Trump’s core group of followers, some of whom have gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre, where the president has been hospitalised. Trump has repeatedly dismissed the severity of the…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, in Lagos on Sunday prayed that all terrorists and their sponsors will not see the new year. Adeboye made the declaration during the Thanksgiving Sunday Service held at the Throne of Grace Church in Lagos. Adeboye also assured Nigerians that the Almighty God will arise against those pretending to be friends with Nigeria but planning to enslave the country. He prayed: “Where they say there is no way, God will arise and make a way for Nigeria and everyone. Any form of stagnation in Nigeria will come…
The chief executives of Facebook <FB.O, Twitter and Alphabet-owned Google have agreed to voluntarily testify at a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct. 28 about a key law protecting internet companies. Facebook and Twitter confirmed on Friday that their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, will appear, while a source said that Google’s Sundar Pichai will appear. That came a day after the committee unanimously voted to approve a plan to subpoena the three CEOs to appear before the panel. Twitter’s Dorsey tweeted on Friday that the hearing “must be constructive & focused on what matters most…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, Mr Seye Oladejo says he is optimistic that Nigeria will overcome its present challenges to become a stronger nation. Oladejo, who is the state APC Publicity Secretary said this in an interview in Lagos on Sunday that the enormous problems facing Nigeria would give way for a better country if all citizens play their roles in nation-building. He said he did not believe that Nigeria would break or disintegrate ,noting that agitations in the country were indications that many things needed to be addressed for progress. Oladejo said that the…
The National Animal Production Research Institute, (NAPRI) Zaria in collaboration with partners is working towards establishing ranches in Toro, Bauchi state and Ebonyi to preserve the local donkey breed and enhance livestock farming. The Executive Director of the Institute, Prof. Abdullahi Mohammed, said on Sunday in Zaria that the institute signed a memorandum of understanding with Earthwheel Logistics Limited and other partners sometime in February to to breed over twi million donkeys in Nigeria in the next five to 10 years. He said that the value chain is expected to generate about two billion dollars annually for the country. Mohammed added…
The police command in Kano State has arrested a 26-year-old woman, Hauwa Habibu, over alleged stabbing her two children to death at Diso Quarters in Gwale local government area of the state. DSP Abdullahi Haruna, spokesman for the command said this in a statement in Kano on Sunday. He said that on October 3, the police received information that the suspect allegedly stabbed her two children to death with a cutlass. Haruna said that the victims were identified as Yusuf Ibrahim, 6, and Zuhra Ibrahim, 3. “On receiving the information, we quickly sent our men to the scene and found…
The Police Command in Anambra State has rescued a day-old baby wrapped in a cloth and abandoned inside a drainage in Abuja Estate in Awka. The spokesman for the command, SP Haruna Mohammed, said this in a statement in Awka. Mohammed said efforts made to trace the mother of the baby proved abortive. “On Oct. 3, at about 8:25a.m., a good samaritan resident in Abuja Estate behind NSCDC office Awka, reported at B Division Police Station, Awka at about 7:30am. “That a day-old baby was wrapped in a cloth and abandoned inside a gutter at same area by unknown person.…
Gunmen have killed a cleric, Mr Kayode Ogunleye and dumped his body in a forest on the Aramoko-Ijero-Ekiti highway in Ekiti. The lifeless body of the pastor, who was also a staff of the Ekiti West local government area in Ekiti, was found on his farm near the forest. Sources revealed that Ogunleye, working for All Christian Fellowship Church, was murdered while working on his farm. He was said to have been shot dead while trying to harvest banana at his plantation. One of the sources, who pleaded anonymity, described Ogunleye’s killing as barbaric, calling on security agencies to fish…