President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the leadership of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Committee, CECCC, should return to status quo. The president gave the order in a letter to the Chairman, Progressive Governors Forum, Abubakar Bagudu on Wednesday. According to Buhari, Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni remains the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Committee and should be given necessary support to carry out the National Convention as planned. He also directed all members of the Governors Forum and their followers to desist from making utterances that could lead to disunity…
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By Abdallah El-Kurebe Parts one and two of this investigation. The Initial Indictment The initial indictment charged Abegunde and Ojo with the same exact Counts of Wire Fraud Conspiracy, Money Laundering Conspiracy and Aggravated Identity Theft. The background of the initial indictment alleged that “Ayodeji Olumide Ojo is a Nigerian citizen residing in Nigeria, but also lives with Abegunde in Atlanta, Georgia, when he is in the United States.” (See Document 3: Initial Indictment, Filed August 24, 2017, PageID 7, Paragraph 22). But Abegunde, in a court document he filed titled “The Government lied to secure Grand Jury indictment,” raised…
Across Africa, petrol prices are soaring. This problem has worsened by a number of factors, including the increasing scarcity of the commodity. In Nigeria, petrol has been scarce for about a month now. Some experts have said, the case in Nigeria started after the country inadvertently imported adulterated fuel. Efforts by the West African country’s state-owned energy company (the NNPC) to clean up the contaminated product from the market inevitably resulted in a shortage. Since then, it is alleged that marketers have been hoarding and profiteering. Despite the recent price surge in Nigeria, the country is not making it to…
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Google on Wednesday announced an inaugural Google.org fellowship to provide one million additional Africans with access to TEFConnect. Jen Carter, global head of technology at Google.org, said at the Foundation’s headquarters in Lagos that it was part of the Foundation’s mission to empower young African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries. Carter said that the partnership was the first Google.org Fellowship in Africa and would offer enormous opportunities for Africa’s digital community. She maintained that nine full-time Google employees, including software engineers, UI/UX researchers, and policy experts, would work with the Foundation to design…
A frontline All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, met with the party’s senate caucus at the National Assembly, NASS, in Abuja, urging them to support his lifetime ambition of becoming Nigeria’s president in the 2023 general elections. Tinubu said he has the experience and capacity to be the president of the country having served as Lagos state governor and state senator. He hailed the National Assembly for sustaining the nation’s democracy, adding that the interest of women, which the APC is doing its best to include, is necessary. Tinubu, who was received by the APC Senators,…
The Alumni Association of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, has canvassed the selection of an old student of the institution as its next Vice Chancellor in May 2022. The Association made this known in a position paper it presented to the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Dr Godknows Igali. According to the President of the FUTA Alumni Worldwide, Engineer Adeyemi Bello, who led a delegation to Dr Igali, there are many alumni who are in senior academic positions that fit the bill as the institution’s Vice Chancellor. He said FUTA which was established in 1981 has…
Kebbi state governor, Abubakar Bagudu has approved the release of N3,097,013,964.47 as gratuity and death benefits due to the state, local government and local education authority workers disengaged in 2019. The governor had on January 17 January, 2022 also directed the release of N381,778,623.68 as balance for state workers who retired from service in 2017 and 2018. A statement by the Acting Head of Service, Safiyanu Bena on Wednesday, said that the two releases were from the N6 billion earlier approved by Bagudu, while reconciliation exercise is continuing in respect of 2020 and 2021.
Real Madrid have donated one million euros ($1.1 million) to help alleviate the needs of the displaced population of Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia. Ukraine was invaded by Russia three weeks ago and almost three million citizens have now fled the country, according to the United Nations (UN). European football governing body UEFA recently pledged one million euros to assist Ukrainian children, and Los Blancos have matched that sum through the Real Madrid Foundation. The Spanish club made the announcement on their official website on Wednesday, with the funds going to the Red Cross and United Nations High…
Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor has blocked access to at least a dozen media websites on Wednesday, AFP has reported. The crackdown on online websites has sharply escalated after President Vladimir Putin sent in troops to Ukraine. AFP was unable to access at least a dozen Russian and foreign-based media inside the country. These included award-winning investigation website Bellingcat, a Russian-language Israeli news site and regional websites, like Permdaily.ru. Their websites were listed as blocked by Roskomnadzor.
Hong Kong has recorded nearly a million infections and more than 4,600 deaths under three months, since the highly transmissible variant broke through, throwing the country’s morgues overflowing with dead bodies — the bulk of them from the city’s unvaccinated elderly population. A funeral industry representative told local media the soaring death toll had seen a crunch in the city’s coffins supply, with only 300 remaining and expected to be gone by the weekend. Leader Carrie Lam acknowledged the supply issues during a press conference Wednesday and said two more shipments of coffins will arrive in Hong Kong from the…