Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has commended civil servants in the state for their dedication and commitment towards achieving the lofty goals of his administration. The Governor stated this on Monday during an unscheduled visit to offices within the Governor’s office and the secretariat complex, Ado-Ekiti, in solidarity with the workers who just resumed for the new year. The Governor who was accompanied on the visit by the Head of Service, Mrs. Peju Babafemi and some top officials, said he was out to motivate the workers for better service delivery in the new year. Some of the offices visited…
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Also reportedly in development by Marriott in Lagos, a 216-room Renaissance Landmark Lagos Hotel, and a 44-room Marriott Executive Apartments, in Landmark Village, VI. “In the face of the growing demand, Nigeria has been deemed Africa’s top market for planned hotel projects. The country contributes 48.9% to West Africa’s current hotel construction pipeline with more than 10,000 hotel guestrooms in 61 hotels lined up.” — HotelManagement (2017)
This is Her Worship, Safiya Iyeh Ashipu, of the Chief Magistrate Court Odukpani_ and her two sons in front of the Cross River state Governor’s office, Calabar. Magistrate Ashipu is one of the 29 Magistrates that Governor Ayade has refused to pay for the last 2 years.* She is a single mother of two kids. Imagine the danger of allowing such a woman holding such a sensitive position in penury for 2 years? The police have seized her phone and are already threatening to use force to remove her from the front of the governor’s office.
The Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, on Monday arraigned the convener of RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore and four others before a magistrate court. The defendants were on 1st January 2021 arrested by the Special weapons tactical team in Abuja while protesting to mark the New Year celebration. They were arraigned on a 3 count charge of Criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly and public disturbance. They all pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Prosecution, however, alleged that the defendants were arrested on New Year eve with placards calling for a violent revolution against President Muhammadu Buhari. Sowore had earlier before the…
Some senior police officers in the Edo State Police Command have been arrested over the escape of some suspected kidnappers and armed robbers from the custody of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, at the Command’s Headquarters in the wee hours of Sunday. The dramatic escape of the suspects, who are prime suspects in the various crimes for which they were arrested, Nigerian Tribune gathered, was considered as an embarrassment to the command, which in recent times, has been battling with the menace of the men of the underworld. Subsequently, all the policemen on duty within the SCID and others on security…
All 10 living former US defense secretaries declared that the US presidential election is over in a forceful public letter published in The Washington Post on Sunday as President Donald Trump continues to deny his election loss to Joe Biden. The letter — signed by Dick Cheney, James Mattis, Mark Esper, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, William Perry and Ashton Carter — amounts to a remarkable show of force against Trump’s subversion efforts just days before Congress is set to count Electoral College votes. “Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate challenges have been addressed…
Most Reverend Mathew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, is a catholic priest that burst onto the public domain as a reverend father. Reverend Father thus stuck to him like a second skin. Whatever official progression he achieved in his calling, he has remained a reverend father in the minds of many, including yours truly. I had two favourite writers in the New Nigeria Newspapers of the 1980s whom I regarded very highly. They were Malam Ibrahim Sulaiman who wrote on Fridays and Kukah who wrote on Sundays. I even had to be cutting their pages and filing them away…
Trek Africa Newspaper reports that There are indications that the Nigerian Police Council may nominate a new Inspector-General of Police by February. It is unclear if the current Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, will get a tenure extension but unconfirmed sources said his successor may be announced. The council, which is chaired by the President, comprises the 36 state governors and the Chairman of the Police Service Commission. Adamu, who is the 20th indigenous police boss, is expected to retire next month when he would clock 35 years in service. Sources said he had launched a vigorous lobby for tenure…
The Lekki conservation centre is a spot of tourist wonders comparable only to the Etua Utagba – Uno swamp forest attraction in Delta State – a region of masterland vegetation that spreads across the ethereal branches of the Ethiope River. As you set on the walkway amidst the splendours of forest biodiversity, you are drawn to the wet scenery of the atmosphere, the restless arm-swingings of monkeys and the bare scent of mud beneath the forest ground waters. A visit to the Lekki Conservation Centre is like re-enacting the foresting experience of childhood in the aquatic rain forests of Etua…
The President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, Engr. Habu Gumel, has assured of the body’s readiness for the Olympics this year. Gumel, in his new year message to his immediate constituency and the corporate world, thanked all and sundry for their support for the success recorded thus far. He, however charged the athletes and officials that have qualified and those seeking qualifications to see this as a call to serve their fatherland. The International Olympic Committee member also expressed delight over the listening ears of the Grand Patron and President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Gumel also appreciated the support and…
