Those familiar with novels, especially before the advent of the internet, can remember a famous novel recalled in my headline. The book, The Way The Cookie Crumbles, first published in 1965, is one of the ninety or so thrillers written by Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond, better known as James Hadley Chase. Ordinarily, a cookie represents many things ranging from the inanimate to the animate but The Way The Cookie Crumbles in Chase’s novel means “how things worked or panned out”. It is a plot in the author’s imaginary millionaire’s playground called Paradise City. A sinister criminal called Ticky Edris was…
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami has explained why it is mandatory for foreign diplomats to have National Identity Number, NIN. is mandatory for foreign diplomats who will reside in Nigeria for a continuous period of at least two years. He said in a statement by his Technical Assistant, Dr Femi Adeluyi on Sunday that an enrolment centre at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been established for foreign diplomats, who will reside in Nigeria at a stretch of at least two years. “The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami,…
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole, has destroyed additional seven gun trucks, and eliminated scores of terrorists who attempted to reinforce attack at Marte, in Borno. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Sunday, said the success came after the earlier destruction of seven gun trucks by combined ground and air operations. Enenche said the troops had successfully repelled a Boko Haram/Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), terrorists’ attack on Marte on the night of Jan. 15, into early hours of Jan.16. He said the Nigerian Air Force…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked the National Assembly, NASS, to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from selling government properties to fund 2021 budget. In a statement issued on Sunday by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP appealed to the leaders of NASS Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, in a letter on January 16, to bar Buhari from carrying out such moves. SERAP wants the leadership of the National Assembly to “urgently review the 2021 appropriation legislation to stop the government of President Muhammadu Buhari from selling public properties to fund the 2021 budget, and to identify areas…
A top aide of president-elect, Joe Biden has said that the incoming president would sign 12 executive orders on his first day in office. This is coming as the US police, in fear of violence from Trump supporters, staged a nationwide security operation ahead of the inauguration. Authorities in Washington had reported an arrest of a man with a loaded handgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition at a security checkpoint. Biden’s incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain said in a memo to new White House senior staff that the executive orders would address the pandemic, the ailing US…
Nigerian government says it will inaugurate a COVID-19 Rapid Response Register (RRR), for the urban poor made poorer by the pandemic. Mr Joe Abuku, Communications Manager, National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), in an interview on Sunday, disclosed that the register is an emergency intervention database. According to him, the register would identify Nigerians who had sunk deeper into poverty as a result of the economic shocks caused by the pandemic. “This register is being built by NASSCO as an expansion of the existing National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP). It targets small businesses owners, street vendors, petty traders,…
The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has started research into the development of maize varieties that can withstand flood and remain in waters for up to 14 days. Prof. Muhammad Ishiyaku, the Director of the institute said in Zaria on Sunday that the institute had started the first phase of the experiment. He said that when the institute must have identified the flood endurance of those selected lines, then it would use them in its breeding programmes. “That will take a while before we can be able to say here are the potential…
At least 48 people were killed and 97 others injured in an attack by armed militias in El Geneina, the capital of Sudan’s West Darfur State, official SUNA news agency reported on Sunday. “The bloody events are still continuing in El Geneina city starting from Saturday morning, which left around 48 people dead and 97 injured, according to our statistics,’’ SUNA quoted the Doctors’ Committee in West Darfur State as saying. The committee urged the government to provide means of transport accompanied by security forces and medical cares. The Council of Ministers, in the meantime, sent an urgent high-level delegation…
Former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Sen. Jubril Martins-Kuye, on Sunday morning died, aged 78. The minister’s political godson, Sen. Lekan Mustapha, representing Ogun East senatorial district in the Senate, confirming his death. Sen. Mustapha described the death of Martins-Kuye as shocking, saying he was not just a mentor but a pathfinder. According to reports, the former minister would be buried by 4.00 p.m. on Sunday according to Islamic rites. The politician was appointed Minister of State for Finance in June 1999 during the first term of President Olusegun Obasanjo, serving until June 2003. The then Acting President Goodluck Jonathan also…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has commiserated with the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar III, over the death of his brother, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abubakar. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director, MURIC said this in a statement in Lagos on Sunday, describing the deceased as an industrious man. “Sokoto State lost an industrious son yesterday, as the state’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Abdulkadir Jeli Abubakar III, died after a protracted illness. “The deceased was a junior brother of the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar. “We are deeply saddened by…