A Magistrate’s Court in Yola on Thursday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, the son of late former President Musa Yar’Adua, in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving on 23 June, 2021. According to the police First Information Report (FIR) tendered in court by the prosecutor, Insp. Zakka Musa, the accused had, while driving along Yola bye pass on 23 June, 2021 crushed six people as a result of over speeding. The court heard that four…
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By Justina Auta Dr Aisha Buhari, Wife of the President, has called on stakeholders to enhance their work environment by providing child support service and establish day care centres to boost women’s productivity in the work place. Mrs Buhari made this known on Thursday at the Re-commissioning of the Dr Aisha Buhari National Centre for Women Development (NCWD) Day Care Centre in Abuja. Mrs Buhari, represented by Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, Wife of the Vice President, stressed the importance of day care services to the empowerment of women. She said it improved access to affordable day care services and reduced the…
Less than 24 hours after the passage of the Law creating the new 19 Local Council Development Authorities (LCDAs) by the Ekiti House of Assembly, one of the affected communities, Ilasa Ekiti, has rejected the exercise. The community which rejected the citing of the headquarters of the new LCDA, said that undue political manipulations were allowed to prevail over objectivity, common sense and rationality, in the creation of the LCDA. Writing under the auspices of Ilasa Development Union (IDU), the community, in a letter dated Aug. 5 sent to the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said that there…
By Abujah Racheal The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), has distanced itself from most of the demands by striking National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), saying that they were the responsibility of state governments. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, stated this to newsmen on Thursday, in Abuja, adding that the association was using the anxiety surrounding the third wave of COVID-19 to push its demands. Ehanire said seven out of the 12 demands presented by NARD were within the jurisdiction of the state governments, and were not justifiable cause for a nationwide strike. “In their notice of July 25,…
The 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season ended on Thursday the day’s high points in Enyimba International’s upward surge and Sunshine Stars’ escape from relegation. With the competition’s title already gone since Match Day 37 to Akwa United, only one 2021/2022 CAF Champions League slot and one 2021/2022 CAF Confederation Cup ticket were at stake. Enyimba surprised all with a 3-1 away win in Uyo against Dakkada FC to move from fifth to second and qualify to return to the CAF Champions League. The Aba-based 2019/2020 champions moved ahead of Nasarawa United, Kano Pillars and Rivers United of Port Harcourt…
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) on Thursday sensitised more than 300 Nano, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NMSME’s) on the benefits of microinsurance products designed to meet their needs. The Commissioner for Insurance, Mr Sunday Thomas, said this at a one-day sensitisation workshop organised by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) for NMSME’s in Lagos. He stated that the MicroInsurance and Takaful were two insurance offerings carefully designed for affordability and inclusiveness to bring insurance within the reach of the NMSME’s which are one of the nations most valued contributors to the economy. Thomas said the products would support the NMSME’s…
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, has said that about $250 million is needed to address the food crisis in insurgency affected states of the North East. Kallon made this known Thursday in an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri while speaking on his four-day tour of the affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. Kallon said over four million people were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in the affected states. “Hunger is on the rise worldwide. The combination of conflict, COVID-19, increased food prices and the effects of climate change are decimating livelihoods…
The federal government has begun biometric data capture of 642,000 pupils to scale up implementation of the National Home-Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSFP) in Borno. Mohammed Alfa, the Consultant of the programme, stated this in an interview on Thursday in Maiduguri. Alfa said the one-week enumeration exercise was going smoothly across the state. “Initially; we planned for 112,500 beneficiaries in Borno, however, the figure based on updated data rose to 642,500, and so far, we have only 55 tablets and expecting delivery of 212 others to speed up the exercise. “Any moment from now, that would go round the 27…
The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo on Thursday in Enugu elected new executive members to run its affairs for the next four years. The election is coming barely seven months after the emergence of Prof. George Obiozor as the president general of the association. The election which had delegates from Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo in the South-East and Delta and Rivers in the South-South region produced Mr Damian Okafor from Ebonyi as national youth leader. Other members of the new executive include Mr Jones Onwuasoanya (deputy national youth leader), Mr Ezechukwu Okpala (national…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says developing human capital and building up Nigeria’s infrastructural backbone in a sustainable manner is certainly doable, especially with a sense of urgency. The vice president said that all the tiers of government and critical partners ought to be focused, open-minded and collaborative in meeting shared aspirations, providing better and fuller lives and decent jobs for Nigerians, especially the youths. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja while virtually declaring open the 20th meeting of the Joint Planning Board and the National Council on Development Planning holding in Maiduguri, Borno. Members of…