Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province, have accused the Buhari administration of nepotistic tendencies. The bishops, after their meeting held at the Domus Pacis Pastoral Institute, Igoba in Akure, also accused members of the National Assembly, NASS, of sabotaging their constituents. They argued that the spike in insecurity across the country is occasioned by government’s inability to serve on the principles of equity and fairness. According to the communique signed on Wednesday by the province Chairman and Secretary, Rev. Gabriel Abegunrin and Rev. Akin Oyejola, respectively, the country is plagued by “inept, uncaring leadership which functions by selective allocation of…
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Rural women have shared over N3.7 million loan through the Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) scheme in Dambam and Gamawa local government areas of Bauchi state. Mr Kingsley Yalling, the Programme Manager, Attah Sisters Helping Hands (ASHH) Foundations, coordinated the sharing on Thursday in Dambam local government area of the state. He said that the VSLA scheme was a microfinance model to reduce poverty by financially and socially empowering the poor and vulnerable people in the communities. “The VSLA provides its members a safe place to save their money, to access loans and to obtain emergency insurance. “The strength…
The Kano command of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), says reports on alleged poisoning of Kano based cleric, Abduljabbar Kabara, under its custody, fake news. This is contained in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSC Musbahu Kofar-Nasarawa, on Thursday in Kano. “The attention of the Nigerian Correctional Service, has been drawn to a malicious and false report, which claimed that the Kano-based cleric, Abduljabbar Kabara, who is in our custody, is seriously ill. “The service is calling on the general public to disregard and discountenance this falsehood which is a figment of the imagination of the author,” he said. He…
The death toll following severe flooding in China’s Henan province and its capital Zhengzhou has risen to at least 33. At least eight people were still missing, the authorities announced on Thursday. Since last Friday when the heavy rains began, at least 376,000 people in the province had been brought to safety from danger zones. According to official figures, at least 25 people died in Zhengzhou alone after the heaviest rainfall in the region since weather records began. Videos showed how some of the multi-lane roads in the metropolis of nine million people had turned into raging rivers on Tuesday.…
By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered additional 238 COVID-19 cases in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official website handle on Thursday morning. The new infections indicate an increase from the 203 cases announced a day earlier. It said the country’s COVID-19 cases continued to rise for seven consecutive weeks across Africa including Nigeria, signaling the third wave of the deadly Delta variant. It stated that the 238 additional new cases were reported from five states. “The Lagos state where a majority of the cases were picked on Wednesday reported 181,…
Police operatives have rescued two of the abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state. The students were rescued Wednesday evening in Rijanna area along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. The spokesperson of Kaduna state police command, Mohammed Jalige told ChannelsTV that the two abducted students had been taken to a police medical facility where they are currently undergoing medical examination. Recall that 121 students of the school were abducted by bandits from their hotels on July 8. The police, earlier last week, rescued one of the students inside a forest. The bandits had demanded…
AD Scientific Index Limited, a leading global ranking body based in Turkey, has ranked Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso in Oyo State, as the 11th best university in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Lekan Fadeyi and made available to newsmen on Wednesday night in Ibadan. LAUTECH was ranked as a leader among its peers in the production of researchers. Fadeyi said that the body rated LAUTECH as the 11th best Nigerian university in its latest world scientist and university rankings for 2021. He said information accessed on the website of…
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Ogun has confirmed the death of nine people in an accident involving two vehicles on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Wednesday. The Sector Commander of FRSC in the state, Mr Ahmed Umar, said in Ota that 16 other persons sustained varying degrees of injuries. Umar explained that the accident occurred at about 3.45 pm. around Wich Tech Company, near Danco Station on the ever-busy expressway. He said that the accident involved a commercial white Mazda bus, with registration number: APP 28 YE and a blue Volvo truck, with no number plate. The sector commander…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) will inaugurate an intervention effort for young Nigerians. Named Generation Unlimited, (GenU), the collaboration between the federal government and UNICEF, will be inaugurated on July 26. It is aimed at urgently supporting expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people, aged 10 year to 24 years on an unprecedented scale. The collaboration is a global multi-sector partnership that was initially launched in September 2018, in collaboration with over 200 partners. It has reached, to date, more than 100 million young people globally through innovations and programmes…
By Ephraims Sheyin It used to be so easy. A reporter brings a story and the excited editor goes through it and simply publish it, confident that the claims are correct. Very often, impressed editors offered some morale boosting rewards – a bottle of wine. Lunch. Dinner. Cash. And even more. Trust was mutual. Not anymore. With the prevalence of fake news, most editors, also known as gatekeepers, no longer trust the frontline soldiers and would use every available binocular to search for the truth. Analysts have said that it is difficult to blame the editors for being more careful,…