Emmanuel Okikiola, a graduate of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), has restarted a new attempt to break the world record for the longest singing marathon by an individual. Okikiola spoke about his intention to sing for 150 hours during a chat with TheCable Lifestyle on Monday. He said he had initially kickstarted the sing-a-thon on December 3 but stopped after 62 hours because “our stopwatch went off for over 30 minutes”. The gospel singer, however, said he will be starting afresh on December 12, in Akure, Ondo state. I stopped it because there were some mistakes that occurred. The number…
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According to a press release on Newsfile, the rapper and Caribbean International Commerce have signed a partnership with Plateau state to establish the tech hub in the region. The project, which is believed to be the first of many such tech and infrastructure hub deals, will be built on 4,000+ hectares of land and encompasses diverse initiatives aimed at fostering innovation across various industries. State-of-the-Art Music and Movie Studios: The hub will serve as a creative incubator, providing emerging talent with access to world-class studios, thus catalyzing the evolution of the music and film industry. Coming Soon: NiDax – Commodities Exchange for Equitable Wealth…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has directed security agencies in the state to fish out the perpetrators of Wednesday’s bank robbery in Ikere- Ekiti and bring them to book. The Governor who described the armed robbery incidence, which claimed three lives, as senseless and disheartening, said no stoned would be left unturned in the bid to bring the perpetrators to book. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Yinka Oyebode, Governor Oyebanji, condoled with families of victims of the robbery, the Ogoga-in-Council and the people of Ikere Ekiti. He also directed government hospitals in…
The Ekiti State Government, on Wednesday, sealed the premises of four second-generation banks in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, over violation of Environmental Impact Assessment Laws. The state Environmental Protection Agency in the state’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources also sealed some business premises for non-payment of the necessary dues for EIA and audit. The Commissioner for Environment, Mrs Tosin Aluko-Ajisafe, said the move was to restore sanity in the state, adding that the sealed premises would only be reopened when the owners did the needful. Aluko-Ajisafe said, “Governor Oyebanji’s administration has approved the enforcement of the state Environmental…
Even till this moment that you are holding this piece, the devastating effect of the weird misadventure in the name of naira redesign unleashed on Nigeria’s economy in late 2022 by the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has yet to abate. Just on Monday this week, because of scarcity of Naira notes in banks, the CBN, now headed by Olayemi Cardoso, issued a directive cancelling charges on large cash deposits at the counter as against a 2019 circular that stipulated processing fees of two percent and three percent on cash deposits above specified thresholds by…
The Code of Conduct Bureau have presented a Budget Proposal of Forty Nine Billion Naira to the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Ethics Privileges and Anti Corruption.
Lagos – N651.2bn Rivers – N172.8bn FCT – N124.4bn Ogun – N120.6bn Delta – N85.9bn Oyo – N62.2bn Kaduna – N58.1bn Edo – N47.5bn Kano – N42.5bn Kwara – N35.8bn Akwa Ibom – N34.8bn Anambra – N33.9bn Ondo – N32.6bn Enugu – N28.7bn Bauchi – N25.5bn Osun – N24.6bn Sokoto – N23.6bn Cross River – N21.1bn Jigawa – N20.5bn Abia – N20.1bn Zamfara – N19.4bn Imo – N19.3bn Nasarawa – N19.3bn Borno – N19.1bn Kogi – N18.2bn Ekiti – N17bn Niger – N16.9bn Benue – N15.9bn Plateau – N15.9bn Bayelsa – N15.9bn Gombe – N13.6bn Adamawa – N13.2bn Katsina –…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has assured that the projections on crude oil production and price benchmark for the 2024 Budget were realistic and realisable. The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mele Kyari, gave the assurance on Wednesday. He spoke during an interactive session with the Senate Committee on Finance at the National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday. Speaking on the dynamics of the market in relation to the projected budget benchmark price of $77.96 per barrel, Kyari said: “With what we see in the market today and potentially in the year 2024 and even beyond the…
The Joint Committee on Public Service of the National Assembly has decried the deplorable condition of the Federal Secretariat in Abuja. It urged the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation to urgently renovate it. It urged the office to articulate action plans toward revamping the national infrastructure in order to avert possible collapse. The National Assembly made the call on Wednesday when the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemisi-Esan, appeared before the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Civil Service Matters to defend the budget estimates proposed by…
Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, have arrested a Lagos-based businessman, Alhaji Ismaeel Iyanda Salami and charged him before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly conniving with others still at large to obtain the sum of N172,000,000 from another businessman, Tunji Teluwo under false pretence. Police said that Salami allegedly collected the money from the complainant with the pretext of using the money to finance an AGO, Diesel supply contract, a claim the police said the defendant knew to be false. Police further said that the defendant failed to use the money…