Akeredolu Orders Immediate Repairs Of Owo -Ikare Road Ondo State Executive Council has approved the immediate rehabilitation of Owo -Ikare road to bring to an end the untold hardship the dilapidated road causes commuters and people of Ondo Northern District daily. The Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Rt Honourable Taofiq Abdulsalam also disclosed that Council considered and approved : 8.1 km Igbaraoke/Ibuji in Ifedore Local Government Area, 5.4km Oke Ogba in Akure South Local Government Area and 8km Bolorunduro/Fagbo road in Ondo East Local Government Area. Not only that, the Commissioner for Local Government & Chieftaincy Affairs, Lola Fagbemi announced…
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Chinese drugs alert: Implement National drug policy now, PSN tasks FG By Sola Ogundipe In the wake of the alert to Nigeria by the South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety about drug products contaminated with human remains from fetuses, infants and flesh, allegedly smuggled into South Korea from China, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has urged the Federal government to as a matter of urgency and in the interest of medicines security, take critical action to implement the National Drug Policy and the National Drug Distribution Guidelines. President of the PSN, Pharm Ahmed Yakasai, who…
NFF holds 74th Annual General Assembly in Asaba By Nwafor Polycarp The 74th Annual General Assembly of Nigeria Football Federation will take place in Asaba, capital of Delta State on Wednesday. It is the first in the life of the NFF Executive Committee 2018-2022, democratically composed at the Elective Congress that took place in the city of Katsina on 20th September this year. Expected at the Annual General Assembly are the Members of NFF Congress, the full compliment of the NFF Executive Committee, NFF Management, invited guests, accredited observers and NFF schedule officers. The opening ceremony has been…
The old Students of the Federal Government Girls College, Gboko, have concluded arrangement to embark on a protest on Tuesday over the death of a 13-year-old girl allegedly raped by a lecturer of Benue State Polytechnic, Andrew Ogbuja, and his son, Victor. The innocent girl who was a cousin of the lecturer’s wife, was allegedly raped by the suspects for three years while she was residing with them, but the victim died last Wednesday at Benue State Teaching Hospital. The late victim was a Junior Secondary School 1 student at the Federal Government College, Gboko, Benue State, who…
Contestants from five countries took part in a spicy food challenge in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan province on Sunday. CJ from Nigeria won the game. https://t.co/FIeRh1YrpJ
Disregard For Rule Of Law Worse Than Corruption – US Envoy The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, William Stuart Symington , has said that injustice and disregard for the rule of law are worse than the stealing of public funds . Symington said this on Monday at the convocation lecture of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State , where he delivered a lecture on “Citizen Leadership and the Link between Economic Diversity and Democratic Good Governance .” The ambassador described disregard for justice and rule of law as “more damning a corruption than stealing of public funds. ” “What many…
PDP’s loss is APC’s gain in Asari-Toru LGA. Yesterday the unshakeable State Chairman of Rivers APC, Hon Ojukaye Flag Amachree, received in audience a PDP LGA chairmanship aspirant in the just concluded illegal local council elections, Hon Ibisobebo Wokoma (Aka Doctor). Hon Wokoma visited the secretariat to intimate the party of his desire to become a bona-fide member of the APC family. Official harvesting of the PDP strongman and his followers to the APC in my LGA loading.
Over 200-year-old Sultan Bello Mosque in Sokoto has continued to enjoy monopoly of popularity among worshipers. The mosque, which is reputed to be the first in the ancient city, is situated opposite the Sultan’s Palace. Built by the first Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Bello, son of Sheikh Usman dan Fodiyo, the worship centre is centrally located in the very heart of Sokoto city.
SHUT UP AND GET OFF THE ALTAR!!! INTRODUCTION I was born a Christian and have been all my life. I however became a member of the Living Faith AKA Winners Chapel since Jan 1st 1991 and oh what a glorious day it was. It was in the Frederick K.C Price Hall in the Church’s premises in Barnawa, Kaduna. I have been privileged to be beloved of the Church’s leadership and remain so to date. It’s a congregation that I love passionately and in which I have made some of the most wonderful friends I have in my life and a…
Osinbajo: Religious Leaders Intervene Whenever I Want To Sack Some Corrupt People Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says whenever he wants to sack a public official who has been found to be corrupt, he gets many calls from religious and political leaders not to do so. Speaking on at 24th Nigerian Economic Summit plenary on corruption and rule of law, in Abuja on Monday, the vice-president said the Nigerian elite are often times in the way of getting rid of a corrupt official. Ngaire Woods, the founding dean of Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, who moderated the plenary asked Ossinbajo…
