The All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun the process to vacate a court order restraining the party from conducting its national convention. APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) National Secretary, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, disclosed this while briefing reporters at the party’s secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja. “The party has engaged a team of senior lawyers to address a purported court order halting the planned APC National Convention,” he said. “We hereby call on the judiciary to give the matter the needed and expedient attention in our bid to vacate the purported court order and allow for the conduct of a…
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By Racheal Abujah The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says investing in Primary Healthcare Centres, PHCs, has remained a cornerstone for preventing maternal and child mortality in Nigeria. Dr. Eduardo Celades Blanco, UNICEF Nigeria Chief of Health, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja saying that 200 women die of preventable diseases in Nigeria annually. Blanco said that the COVID-19 pandemic had highlighted the importance of investing in PHCs and there were no better time to sustain such investment in the PHCs and for the country to build back better with resilient, affordable and accessible health care for its…
Ahead of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a frontline Chairmanship aspirant, Saliu Mustapha, has purchased the nomination form, thereby becoming the first among other contestants to do so. Mustapha, a long-time ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, is a former Deputy National Chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressives Congress (CPC). The APC Caretaker Extra Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) announced the sale nomination of form on Tuesday in a statement by its Director of Organisation, Prof. Al-Mustapha Ussiju. Represented by Director General of the Saliu Mustapha Campaign Organisation (SAMCO), Ballah Usman, Mustapha said the convention was…
The Ebonyi Police Command has confirmed the killing of four persons in an attack on the facility on the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) facility on Tuesday. The spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah who confirmed the incident said that security agencies killed two of the gunmen, while others escaped with injuries at the incident that occurred at Ntezi. “Too bad, one of the officers and a patient at the NDLEA rehabilitation center were also killed. “The security agencies are still searching the bush to get some of the gunmen, who were injured,” she said. The spokesperson added that two riffles…
In discharging its corporate social responsibility, BUA Cement has supported seven Sokoto communities with N62 million worth of water supply and electrification projects. The Managing Director of the company, Engr Yusuf Binji disclosed this on Tuesday while handing over a completed borehole to members of Gidan Gamba village in Wamakko local government area of the state. Represented by the company’s Head, Administration and Corporate Services, Sada Suleiman, Binji said that each of the water projects at Gidan Gamba and Girabshe communities is comprised of two units of 10,000 gallons per day. According to him, the electrification project covers Rugar Waru…
A socio-professional organisation, “Gov Yahaya Bello Lawyers Volunteer Campaign Forum”, with national outreach across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has called on leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to be cautious and play the game of politics by the rules. In a released its National Coordinator, Barr Chilaka Igidi, jointly signed along with the six zonal coordinators, the forum identified with His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari in his recent directive mandating Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Committee and Extra-ordinary Convention Committee (CCECC) to conduct the March 26 APC National Convention. The…
Operatives of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 11, 2022 arrested Osondu Igwilo, who has been on the watch list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, since 2018. The 52 year-old Igwilo, who is the alleged leader of a criminal network of “catchers’’ was arrested alongside Okafor Nnamdi Chris, Nwodu Uchenna Emmaunel and John Anazo Achukwu at a studio in the Sangotedo area of Lagos for an alleged fraud, money laundering and identity theft to the tune of about $100m. Before their arrest, Igwilo and his accomplices had allegedly been involved in…
A Consultant Rheumatologist, Dr Hakeem Olaosebikan, says Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) disease should be suspected if a person, especially female had recurring malaria or typhoid illness. Olaosebikan, who works at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, gave the advice in an interview in Lagos on Tuesday. Lupus or SLE is an inflammatory or autoimmune disease that occurs when the body system attacks its own tissues and organs. Inflammation resulting from lupus may affect various body organs including the skin, kidneys, brain, blood cells, lungs, heart and the joints. Olaosebikan, who said the country needed national prevalence estimate for…
The Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says the country’s consumer price index, CPI, which measures inflation has increased to 15.70 per cent for the month of February. This is according to the National Bureau of Statistics, which disclosed this in their The CPI and Inflation report on Tuesday states that “this is 1.63 per cent points lower compared to the rate recorded in February 2021 (17.33) per cent,” indicative that the headline inflation rate slowed down in February when compared to the same month in the previous year. Also detailed in the report, were increases in all COICOP divisions that…
The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, James Akpanudoedehe on Tuesday, returned to the party secretariat accompanied by allies of Yobe state governor and Chairman of the committee, armed security personnel. The development is coming after the Niger state governor, Abubakar Bello announced that he was the acting National Chairman of the CECPC of the party. Akpanudoedehe, after resuming the office, issued a statement insisting that the party remains united and strong and that governor Buni remains in charge with the committee working to ensure the party’s National Convention holds on March 26. Read the…