The 15-man medical team from China who arrived Nigeria on April 9 to help contain the Coronavirus pandemic flown out of the country.This was disclosed by Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, whose husband, Matthew Ekeinde is a pilot.She took to her Instagram page to announce that her husband was embarking on his first flight in two months due to the shut down of the nation’s airspace.Sharing a picture of her husband and his co-pilot fulled kitted in a face shield and a mask, she wondered if it was the new normal. The Nollywood diva eventually added that he was flying the…
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Kehinde Akande, the Caretaker Chairman, Ibadan South-West Local Government, has emerged the new chairman of Ibadan Local Government Properties Company. He emerged winner of an election conducted at a meeting of Caretaker Chairmen for Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas in Ibadanland on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Ibadan Property Company is a business entity of all LGAs and LCDAs in Ibadanland. Akande defeated his co-contender, Hameed Adekunle, the Chairman, Akinyele South LCDA, with 16 votes to one. Ibrahim Akintayo, the Caretaker Chairman, Ibadan North-East Local Government, told newsmen after the meeting that 16…
The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has inaugurated its reconciliation committee constituted to reconcile all aggrieved members in the state. The committee, led by former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, was inaugurated on Thursday at the party secretariat in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that former Governor Abiola Ajimobi, the APC Deputy National Chairman (South), had in March constituted the committee, but could not be inaugurated due to the prevailing situation in the country. The event, presided over by the State Chairman, Chief Akin Oke, was attended by Alao-Akala and other members drawn from across the state. Oke said…
The Minneapolis Police Officer seen kneeling on the neck of an unarmed black man heard saying “I can’t breathe” multiple times before he died was a 19-year department veteran, who was the subject of at least a dozen police conduct complaints that resulted in no disciplinary action and one that led to a “letter of reprimand.” The officer, who was praised for valour during his career, also once fired his weapon during an encounter with a suspect, records show. According to NBC News, the officer, Derek Chauvin, and three fellow officers were fired Tuesday from the Minneapolis Police Department, one…
The prosecution in the trial of former governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adelake and for others on examination malpractices charges, withdrew charges against the politician on Thursday. Adeleke was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja in October 2018 along with Sikiru Adeleke (who is said to be the senator’s relative), Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (the school principal), Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo (registrar) and Dare Samuel Olutope (teacher). Ademola and Sikiru were accused of fraudulently, through personation, registering as students of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, Ojo-Aro, Osun State to enable them sit for…
The Honourable Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN has issued a Press Release on “THE EXTENDED SPECIAL PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME APPROVED BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI FOR THE SELECTION OF 1000 PERSONS EACH FROM ALL THE 774 LGAs FOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT DURING THE DRY SEASON” In the sighted Press release, Keyamo, SAN in given a background said “Sometime in October, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, approved a Pilot Special Public Works Programme in the Rural Areas. The programme was domiciled in the National Directorate of…
A coalition of eighteen Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has applied to be monitors of the Federal Government’s spending of the repatriated sum of $311 million recovered from embezzled public funds by the late former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha. The monies were recently repatriated to the country from the United States of America and the Bailiwick of Jersey. Their applications for the monitoring activity were presented on Thursday at a bidding process put in place by the Federal Ministry of Justice in collaboration with the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP). The groups that successfully entered their applications were…
The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu, NPM, mni has ordered the immediate posting/redeployment of the following Commissioners of Police to Commands/Formations as follows: Osun State – CP Undie J. Adie Edo State – CP Johnson Babatunde Kokumo, mni Bauchi State – CP Lawal Jimeta Tanko Ebonyi State – CP Philip Sule Maku, fdc Gombe State – CP Ahmed Maikudi Shehu Ondo State – CP Bolaji Amidu Salami Oyo State – CP Joe Nwachukwu Enwonwu Eastern Port – CP Evelyn T. Peterside EOD – CP Okon Etim Ene, fdc Airport Command – CP Bello Maikwashi Anti-Fraud Unit (FCID Annex…
Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Thursday endorsed the development of a three-month plan on reopening the nation’s economy. Governor Kayode Fayemi, NGF Chairman, in a communiqué made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, noted that the resolution was part of the outcome of the governors 9th Teleconference meeting. Fayemi said NGF’s NEC Sub-Committee comprising the Governors of Delta (Chairman), Ekiti, Lagos, Anambra, Kano, Bauchi, Plateau and the FCT Minister; will interface with the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to fine tune the plans. According to the Chairman, NGF also resolved to interface with the Ministry of Finance, Budget and…
LAGOS State Government will from July introduce what it describes as First Mile and Last Mile (FMLM) mobility solution to replace banned Okada and tricycle. Transportation Commissioner Frederick Oladeinde, speaking yesterday at the 2020 ministerial press briefing at the JJT Park, Alausa, Ikeja, said: “Following the restriction of motorcycles and tricycles for commuter operations in some areas in the metropolis, the government is working on implementing a First Mile and Last Mile (FMLM) mobility solution.” He explained that Okada and tricycle are not part of the state’s transport architecture, adding that they are constituting nuisance on the roads and responsible…
