Author: Festus Adeloye

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…

In a swift response to a late-night robbery, police apprehended two suspects in the Imude area of Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos state. The incident occurred around 11 p.m. when 30-year-old Musa Ibrahim and 22-year-old Ibrahim Danjuma allegedly robbed a woman in her shop. Alerted by an emergency call, a patrol team from the Ilemba Hausa Division was dispatched to the scene. With the assistance of vigilant community members, the suspects were quickly apprehended, and a locally-made firearm was recovered from them. Residents of the area have expressed gratitude to the police and community members for their prompt action,…

The chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele has proposed a tax exemption for poor, vulnerable people and believes the country does not need to increase taxation to generate revenue. Oyedele stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. He said, “Sadly, the system we have today is trying to tax everything and everybody. You know, if it moves, tax it; if it moves again, tax it even more. That seems to be the approach we have today. “You would imagine that those who are selling sachets of water, which we…

A Kai Havertz penalty and a Jamal Musiala strike gave Germany a 2-0 win over Denmark as the host nation reached the Euro 2024 quarter-finals after a dramatic game that was delayed by almost half an hour in the first half due to a violent storm. Havertz stroked home from the spot early in the second half in Dortmund following a handball by Joachim Andersen, the unlucky Danish defender who had a goal disallowed at the other end only moments earlier. Musiala, of Bayern Munich, then ran away to stroke in the second goal midway through the second half as…

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has described the Executive Order just signed into law by President Bola Tinubu as a significant step towards transforming Nigeria’s health sector and one that would give local manufacturers a chance to excel and be competitive. On Friday, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, announced the signing of the Executive Order in a statement titled “Revitalizing Nigeria’s Healthcare: President Tinubu’s Bold New Executive Order”. Pate, who announced in a post on his X handle, said the…

A Bayelsa State High Court, sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced a 41-year-old father, Baridapsi Needam, to 14 years imprisonment for raping and impregnating his daughter. The victim, however, gave birth to a baby girl in the pendency of the trial. The accused, Needam, in the suit numbered YHC/14C/2022 was charged with the offence of rape contrary to Section 1(1) of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law of Bayelsa State, 2021. The State Prosecuting Counsel and Deputy Director in the Bayelsa State Ministry of Justice, Pere Amanda Egbuson, told the court that investigations revealed that the accused, Needam began defiling his…