The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos state, on Monday faulted Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s alleged claim that it will take N1 trillion to restore all properties and facilities destroyed by hoodlums during the violence that trailed the #EndSARS protests in the state. The PDP disagreed with Sanwo-Olu and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in a statement in Lagos by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani. Gani accused the Sanwo-Olu-led APC government of “dishonesty and extortionate tendency”. According to him, the act of inflating and over costing governance in the state has now become spread in the Lagos State Government’s…
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Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, has disclosed that there is no case of hoarded relief materials meant for COVID-19 palliative in the state. The governor disclosed this Monday at a stakeholders meeting on the fallout of the nationwide ‘EndSARS#’ protests, which eventually snowballed into ransacking of many warehouses suspected to be hoarding the COVID-19 palliative across some states in the country. “Sokoto state never recorded both the protest and the attendant mayhem. “The state received two categories of COVID-19 palliative since the pandemic broke out. “There was one by Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), which was a donation by an ensemble…
By Ahmed Attahiru, Gusau Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity of the Nigeria army, operating in the north west, have killed 38 bandits, rescued 108 kidnap victims and destroyed 10 bandits camps in Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara states. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko at a press conference which held at Faskari Army Super Camp on Monday, said the troops had intensified operational activities in the theatre of operation. “Nigerian Army’s mandate is to completely rid the North West zone of the country of armed bandits, cattle rustlers, kidnappers and incessant killings of innocent citizens. “The gallant troops …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Lagos state the nation’s epicentre of the COVID-19, on Sunday recorded zero infection. The NCDC, on uts verified Website said it recorded 62 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. The centre said with the 62 new infections, the country now have 61,992 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The NCDC also said that 180 COVID-19 patients were is charged across the country in the last 24 hours. It announced that one new COVID-19 death was reported in the last 24 hours with the national death toll at 1,130. The centre said that 10 states and FCT recorded new…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government will assist the nation to give justice to peaceful protesters who lost their lives. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Sunday, Buhari also expressed the hope that the security men who were murdered and property owners whose assets were vandalised and looted would treated justly and fairly. The Judicial panel of inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government to look into remote and immediate causes as well as…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has granted approval for two mobile network operators (MNOs) to carry out trial on National Roaming Service for a period of three months, beginning from Aug. 1, 2020 and ending on Oct. 31. Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC Director, Public Affairs, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Adinde named the two telecoms operators as Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Nigeria and the Emerging Markets Telecommunication Service Limited (EMTS), trading as 9Mobile in Nigeria. He said that with the approval the EMTS and MTN were expected to configure their networks to begin test and simulation…
President Muhammadu Buhari has again condemned hate messages and eviction notices to ethnic and religious groups as a result of the consequences of the EndSARS protests in some parts of the country. Many lives were lost, while both public and private assets, worth billions of naira, were either burnt, damaged, vandalised or looted by hoodlums, following the EndSARS protests in parts of the country. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State had, on Oct. 22, said that the state had recorded losses from the escalated #EndSARS protests running into billions of naira. He added that the massive destruction witnessed would cause…
By Ahmed Attahiru, Gusau Armed bandits have again struck Zamfara and kidnapped the village head, Chief Imam and 52 others in Lingyado village of Maru local government area of the state. One of the kidnap victims, who escaped being kidnapped along with others, Abdullahi Mohammed told our reporter that the gunmen invaded the village around 8am on Sunday. He said that the village head, Alhaji Dalhatu Mohammed, the Chief Imam and 52 others, were kidnapped by the gunmen who stormed the village on motorcycles, shooting sporadically. “When they started shooting,later they went from house to house searching and kidnapped the…
Sokoto state government says it is on course on l the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives to the people of the state. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Affairs, Abubakar Shekara made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday also debunked a recent media report, alleging that the state began the distribution of Covid-19 palliatives in order to avoid looting, as is being experienced in some states. “The story is false and misleading and deliberate mischief, aimed at disparaging Sokoto as a state and casting aspersions on the image of the State Government, obviously at the bidding of…
Pope Francis said Sunday he will create 13 new Catholic cardinals next month, including the first African-American “prince of the church” and a Franciscan preacher to the papal household. Francis made the surprise announcement from his window overlooking Saint Peter’s Square at the end of his weekly Angelus, and said they would be appointed on November 28. It will be “an unusual and possibly unprecedented ceremony, held during the midst of a continuing global pandemic”, Vatican expert Joshua McElwee said in the National Catholic Reporter. The Vatican has been on high alert over the health of the pope, 83, after…