Author: TheScrutinyNG

The Federal Government has expressed commitment to producing a critical ingredient called pharmaceutical-grade starch locally for solid medicine production. This was disclosed by Professor Martins Emeje, the director general of the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA), during a virtual stakeholders’ meeting which the agency hosted on Saturday, where the don emphasised the necessity of the Cassava Value Addition Initiative (CVAI) in this regard. The meeting served as a platform to involve key players in cassava cultivation, processing, and utilization, emphasizing the project’s national importance. The DG sad the Cassava Value Addition Initiative (CVAI) aims to curtail foreign exchange losses,…

Alhaji Dalhatu Bafarawa, the former governor of Sokoto State, has said division along religious lines was used to divide the people of northern Nigeria to prevent the region from realising its full economic and socio-cultural potential. Different parts of Northern Nigeria have over the year grappled with one form of insecurity or another. For instance, the North East has been suffering from Boko Haram insurgency for over a decade, the North Central battles farmers-herders conflict while the North West is encountering banditry and terrorism. Farmers across conflict-ridden areas in the North can barely go to farms now, thereby posing threats…

Hon. Yakubu Dogara, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, has challenged those opposing the Federal Government’s Tax Reform Bill to come up with any better alternative if they even have such. This is as he also advanced reasons he is supporting the bills,, saying he was not supporting them because they were perfect but because it was the right thing to do. He, however, conceded the fact that those opposed to it have the right to do so, saying, “But I do not share their jaundiced nay tenuous and puerile position that because they disagree with some aspects…

Abbas Tajudeen, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has assured Nigerians that all Bills Introduced and passed in the lower chamber of the National Assembly are meant for their benefits. This is as he assured that the 10th House of Representatives under his leadership is focused on driving economic growth, enhancing national security, improving healthcare access, reforming education, and advancing good governance. Abbas who spoke at a capacity building training for journalists on Saturday, noted that each bill introduced was carefully developed to ensure that it delivers tangible benefits to Nigerians and aligns with national development goals. He said…

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, is hale and hearty, not dead, his Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, has said. Oyekanmi in a statement on Saturday, also urged members of the public to disregard the ‘fake’ news circulated by a section of the social media, claiming the purported death of Yakubu in a London hospital. According to him, the INEC chairman is alive, hale and hearty and has not travelled to London in the last two years. “Our attention has been drawn to a fake news narrative circulated by a section of the social media…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned deposit money banks that it would impose a fine of N150 million per branch of any bank which engages or facilitates illegal flow of mint naira notes to currency hawkers of dubious agents. The apex bank disclosed this in a circular issued on Friday, December 13, 2024, signed by the Acting Director of the Currency Operations Department, Mohammed Olayemi. The circular revealed that the CBN is concerned about the increasing prevalence of mint naira notes being traded by hawkers, a practice the bank described as impeding efficient and effective cash distribution to…

Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has made dislodging the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State one of the party’s main targets in the 2027 general elections. Ganduje stated this while inaugurating the newly elected executive committee of the party in the state, led by Chief Tony Okocha in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday. He said though the South-South geo-political zone is largely controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party, the APC is making inroads in the zone, with Cross River and Edo states already taken by the ruling party. While congratulating the…

Road accident has claimed the lives of two female students of Kogi State. The two female students — one from the Federal University, Lokoja and another from the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja — lost their lives in a motor accident that occured in Lokoja on Friday. It was gathered that a heavily loaded articulated vehicle heading for Abuja along the Felele axis of the state capital (where the two schools are located) lost control and rammed into a tricycle popularly referred to as Keke NAPEP, that was carrying passengers heading to the main town. A source added that the two…

Tobi Adegboyega, a Nigerian pastor based in the United Kingdom, has dismissed claims that he was about to be deported from his current base. Adegboyega, who recently lost his battle against deportation from the UK over an alleged £1.87 million fraud, said the allegations levelled against him are baseless and should be dismissed. In December, an investigation by the UK Charity Commission found “serious misconduct and/or mismanagement in the administration” of his church. An immigration tribunal ruled that Adegboyega should be deported to Nigeria after investigations exposed the misuse of funds by his church. In an interview with the BBC…

South Korean lawmakers on Saturday voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, with the opposition declaring a “victory of the people”. The vote took place as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Seoul in rival rallies for and against Yoon, who launched a failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3.Out of 300 lawmakers, 204 voted to impeach the president on allegations of insurrection. 85 voted against. Three abstained, with eight votes nullified.With the impeachment, Yoon has been suspended from office while South Korea’s Constitutional Court deliberates on the vote. Prime…