Author: Festus Adeloye

The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, has announced that it has fixed the date to conduct local government elections in the state for October 5. The Commission, on Monday, released its guidelines in view of the conduct of the council elections in the state. This was coming as the police in the state have maintained the occupation of the local government area council secretariats following the leadership crisis rocking the councils. Following the expiration of the tenure of the elected chairmen and councillors of the 23 LGAs, the governor of the state, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, inaugurated Caretaker Committees pending…

The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Monday described as reports the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun was making moves to prolong his tenure as false. The proposed amendment to the Nigeria Police Act 2020, the police said, seeks to extend the years of service for Police officers from 35 to 40 years and the age limit from 60 to 65 years. NPF clarified that the bill was originally introduced during the 8th Assembly but did not progress beyond the initial stages before the Assembly’s dissolution. The police said it was standard legislative practice to review and update laws to…

Amid the ongoing hardship and high cost of living in the country, the Presidency has advised Nigerians to stop buying food items such as pepper and tomatoes at supermarkets. Tope Fasua, the Special Adviser on Economic Affairs in the office of the vice president gave the admonition after doing a market survey at Utako Market in Abuja at the weekend. He said Nigerians should stop complaining of high prices on social media and go to local markets to but their food items. Posting the pictures on his Facebook page, Fasua wrote “Market survey 29.06.24. Utako Market. Small portion of tomatoes…

The Acting Governor of Borno, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, has said that the fight against insurgency and terrorism must continue. Kadafur made this known when he visited victims of the Saturday suicide bomb blast in Gwoza, Borno. NAN reports that the attacks, carried out by suspected female suicide bombers, struck a wedding, a hospital, and a funeral in Gwoza, a town near the border with Cameroon. NAN reports that the Borno Police Command spokesman, Nahum Daso, said on Sunday that three blasts took place on Saturday in Gwoza. The deputy governor condemned the attacks on the people. He said the perpetrators…

A helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has reportedly crashed on Monday morning in Tami village of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Locals said the incident happened at about 5 a m when they heard a loud sound from the crash site, which made them rushed to the scene where they saw the pilot emerging from the wreckage. “A team of military officers from the Nigerian Air Force swiftly arrived at the scene to secure the area and conduct an initial investigation.” “They cordoned off the crash site to prevent unauthorized access and to ensure the…

Despite leaving Nigeria for the UK two years ago, Sabitu Adams gets paid each month as a junior official at a government agency back home. Adams, who now works as a taxi driver in the UK, had his name changed by a BBC report to protect his identity. The taxi driver has yet to resign from his job in Nigeria. Adams is one of the thousands of ghost workers, a rampant issue in the Nigerian civil service. Each year, the government carries out biometric verifications and reels out numbers representing discovered ghost workers, and money saved. But no one is…

The family of the late former Chief Executive of e-commerce giant, Konga, Nick Imudia has debunked reports that the Group CEO of D.light International committed suicide. It said that investigations were still ongoing on the cause of his death as suicide had been ruled out. Refuting news reports that Imudia had called his brother and daughter with instructions before his death, the family, in a statement signed by Dr. Anthony N. Imudia, said reportage of the news of the one-time Konga CEO’s death whilst the family was in the hospital trying to resuscitate him was suspicious. They said: “The family…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday visited the residence of former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in Abuja to condole with him passage of his mother, Mrs. Florence Saraki, who died on June 18 at the age of 89. Other dignitaries who visited Saraki are former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, former governor of Cross Rivers State, Donald Duke and non-executive chairman of Access Holdings, Aigboje Aig-Imokhuede. In a post on his official Facebook page, Sanwo-Olu said the late matriarch of the Saraki dynasty left behind a legacy…

The Lagos State Government on Sunday announced a significant improvement in daily Cholera cases, stating that it has not recorded any death from the disease in the last 72 hours. The state government also disclosed that there is evidence of ongoing low-grade community transmission, due to few cases still presenting to the hospitals. The State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, who disclosed these while providing an update on the cholera outbreak following the “One Health” Inter-governmental agency strategic meeting held over the weekend added that although no new cholera-related deaths have been reported in the last 72 hours, the…

President Bola Tinubu has strongly condemned the bomb attacks, which resulted in the loss of precious lives and the maiming of other citizens in the Gwoza local government area of Borno state. President Tinubu described the attacks as desperate acts of terror and a clear manifestation of the pressure mounted against terrorists and the success achieved in degrading their capacity to launch offensives. In a statement issued on Sunday, June 30, by his special adviser on media and publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, the president declared that the purveyors of wanton violence would have a certain encounter with justice. He added that…