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5Jul By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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FG, Oyo Govt. Inaugurate NADIS-Mobile App to Track Zoonotic Diseases

The Federal Government in collaboration with Oyo State Government on Tuesday, inaugurated a new software application National Animal Disease Information System (NADIS) Mobile Application, to track and report animal disease outbreak in Oyo State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Co-ordinating Director, Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Gideon Alade on Wednesday in Ibadan. NADIS is a platform for the animal health workers to report cases of disease outbreak in their environment. However, with recent intervention from the World Bank, the mobile application NADIS-mobile was launched, to accurately report disease outbreaks by animal health workers. In a training organized for private and public animal health workers, held at the Conference Room of the ...

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4Jul By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Gov Mbah Threatens To Shut Down Enugu Schools, Markets Observing IPOB’s Sit-At-Home Order

Governor Peter Mbah has threatened to shut down schools and markets observing the one-week sit-at-home order by the self-acclaimed factional leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa. On Tuesday, Chidiebere Onyia, the Enugu secretary to the state government, stated that the government had been alarmed by Mr Ekpa’s letter to all Igbos on June 14, declaring a total lockdown from July 3 to 10 excluding July 6. He, therefore, warned that any school that fails to open and function normally on Tuesday will have its licence revoked immediately. Mr Onyia added that the government also extended the same warning to market unions and shop owners. “The attention of the Enugu state government has been drawn to reports on social media this Tuesday morning that proprietors o...

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4Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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TMG criticizes INEC, FG for dismissing EU’s electoral report

The Transition Monitoring Group has expressed their concern over the dismissal of the European Union Electoral Report by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Federal Government. In a statement by the Chairman of the election monitoring group, Comrade Auwal Musa Rasfanjani, said local observers and civil society groups working on election observation and democracy monitoring had also raised similar concerns about gaps in the electoral process in Nigeria. "The recommendations by the European Union align with the views of many civil society groups and local observers. It is imperative that the government and INEC review those recommendations and work towards addressing the gaps in the electoral processes in order to make our electoral system more transparent, ac...

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4Jul By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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JUST IN: Bamidele, Umahi Named Senate Leader, Deputy

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced the principal officers of the majority party – the All Progressives Congress (APC) – in the upper legislative chamber. On the floor of the senate on Tuesday, Akpabio announced Opeyemi Bamidele, senator representing Ekiti central, as majority leader, and David Umahi, senator representing Ebonyi south, as the deputy majority leader. Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south, was named as chief whip of the senate, and Lola Ashiru, senator representing Kwara south, as deputy chief whip.

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4Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Community policing: Philanthropist (Uwajeh) donates vehicle to Vigilante Group in Delta

By News Agency of Nigeria A philanthropist, Mr Victor Uwajeh has donated a new Toyota utility vehicle to the vigilante group of Onicha-Ugbo community in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta. This is contained in a statement by Daniel Ebo, Consultant on Strategic Communication to Uwajeh on Tuesday in Abuja. Uwajeh who is also a community leader, said the donation would enhance security surveillance in and around the community. Uwajeh said his decision to donate another vehicle to the security outfit was to complement the one he donated years ago. “The donation was my continued show of love for my community and commitment towards contributing my quota to the socio-economic development and security of the area. “Security outfits needed to be equipped with gadgets, f...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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JAMB lied, I didn’t forge my result– Mmesoma

Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma, the Anambra student, has finally spoken out after the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) disowned her UTME result. She strongly refuted JAMB's claims and accused the board of lying. Initially, Mmesoma proudly declared that she had achieved the highest score of 362 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was met with disbelief from JAMB, who declared her result to be a fake and insisted that she had actually scored 249. However, Mmesoma has now broken her silence and is standing firm in her assertion that JAMB's claims are untrue. She is adamant that her original declaration is accurate and is questioning the board's credibility. Mmesoma, in a viral video said she never forged her result and that she printed out the exact...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Scientific analysis of Semovita shows it has no plastic material, says NAFDAC

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has said that its scientific analysis of Semovita content did not reveal any plastic material. A statement signed by the agency’s Director-General (D-G), Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, and issued to newsmen in Abuja on Monday revealed the position. Adeyeye said that NAFDAC’s post-marketing analysis was as a result of the claim by a woman in a video on the social media that she was washing Semovita content. According to the D-G, the woman claimed that the residue she got after sieving the Semovita content was plastic. Adeyeye added that the post-marketing analysis also followed a viral video circulated in 2020 showing a similar situation at a community in the country. The D-G said that upon receiving all the ...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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UTME score: My daughter has always come out best in her class, says Mmesoma’s father

Mr Romanus Ejikeme, the father to Mmesoma Ejikeme, has said that her daughter had always come out as overall best student from her nursery school days till date. Ejikeme made the disclosure while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Onitsha. NAN reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), had accused Ejikeme of using a software to manipulate her score to 362 as against 249. According to him, “my daughter has been taking the first position from her nursery school till now. Some of these results are still with me and I have shown them to some journalists who came to my house and they were surprised. “I showed her results to them and they were like wow. Those who have met with her will know she can’t manipulate results. “I am just e...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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SMEDAN seeks stakeholders’ support for MSMEs growth

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has solicited the support of stakeholders to ensure that the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector becomes more competitive. The Director-General of SMEDAN, Dr Olawale Fasanya, gave the advice in Abuja on Monday at a news conference to commemorate the 2023 World MSMEs Day with the theme “Building a Stronger Future Together’’. The United Nations General Assembly set aside June 27 each year as Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day. Fasanya recalled that the last survey jointly conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and SMEDAN in 2020, MSMEs in Nigeria did relatively well in their contributions to both employment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “MSMEs were responsible for ...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Halt candidates’ manipulation of results – VC urges JAMB

The Vice Chancellor, Salem University Lokoja, Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo, has urged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to urgently checkmate candidates’ manipulation of results. The vice chancellor, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Monday, said that suppressing such would save the education standard from dwindling. Recall that JAMB, in a statement on Sunday said it had withdrawn the result of a candidate of the just-released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result over alleged manipulation of her scores. The board had claimed that one Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, inflated her result and announced that she scored 362 in the 2023 UTME. She was awarded a three N3 million naira scholarship by Chief Innoce...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Senate resumes on Tuesday

The Senate is to resume sitting on Tuesday after the Eid-el Kabir holiday. As the upper chamber resumes, majority and minority leaders are expected to emerge. The All Progressives Congress (APC), with the largest number of members, is expected to produce the majority leader, while the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will produce the minority leader. While APC has 59 senators; PDP has 36; Labour Party (LP) eight; Social Democratic Party (SDP) two; New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) two; Young Peoples Party (YPP) one and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) one. This shows that seven political parties make up the membership of the 10th Senate, with 50 as opposition members. The ruling APC and the minority caucus are also expected to fill the vacant eight principal p...

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3Jul By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Assault: Magistrate’s Absence Stalls Seun Kuti’s Trial

The the trial of Afrobeat Musician, Seun Kuti could not continue today due to the absence of Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun of the Yaba Magistrates’s court. The registrar, Mr Babalola, in the absence of the chief Magistrate, Olatunbosun, adjourned the case till September 27, 2023, for the continuation of the proceeding. Magistrate Olatunbosun was said to have resumed her administrative leave and was thus absent in court today. Seun Kuti was charged with assault on a police officer, an offence contrary to Section 356 of the Nigerian Criminal Code Act. Meanwhile, on May 24, Magistrate Olatunbosun in her ruling stated that the police cannot be the complainant and also the prosecutor of the case. She, therefore requested the DPP’s advice to continue the prosecution. She sa...

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3Jul By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Anambra Commences Investigation Into Mmesoma Ejikeme’s UTME Result

The Anambra State government has set up a panel of inquiry into the controversy trailing the highest scorer in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the Commissioner for Education, announced this in a statement in Awka on Monday. A panel of inquiry has been set up to work with security agents to investigate the allegation of falsification of result levelled against Mmesoma Ejikeme, who had earlier been showcased in the social media as having scored the highest,” she said. The commissioner described the controversy on the girl’s actual result as embarrassing, especially when Governor Chukwuma Soludo repositioned the education sector in Anambra. Ms Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School Uruagu in Nnewi, had earlier been celebrate...

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3Jul By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Court: Police Service Commission Acted Illegally Retiring AIG Mbu To Pay N40 Million Damages

The National Industrial Court has ordered the Police Service Commission (PSC) to pay retired Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Joseph Mbu N40 million as damages. The court found that Mr Mbu’s retirement before the mandatory age of 60 was unlawful. Justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae stated, ”I hold that the claimant’s premature retirement through a press release on July 2, 2016, is unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void, and of no effect.” The court further set aside the purported retirement and declared that Mr Mbu remained an officer of the Nigeria Police Force ( NPF) until he attained the mandatory retirement age of 60 on May 10, 2018. Additionally, the court ordered the defendant to pay Mr Mbu his salaries, allowances, and entitlements from July 2, 2016, when he was wr...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Rotary club commited to impacting society via service – Rotarian

Mr Max Amuchie, immediate past President 2022/2023, Rotary Club Abuja, CBD, says the club is committed to impacting society through rendering service. Amuchie said this at the 7th Award and Handover Dinner of Rotary Club Abuja CBD, tagged Synergy to Hope, on Sunday in Abuja. He handed over leadership to his successor during the event. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the club’s year begins every July 1 as Amuchie’s tenure ended on June 30. As a new President, Rotarian Aisha Ali takes up the mantle of leadership after an election on July 1. The club conducts elections and change leadership annually. According to him, the humanitarian principles of rotary club is likened to the works of the Catholic Prophesion of mercy. “We are talking about shelter to who ...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Residents of Trademore Estate Protest Planned Demolition

Residents of Trademore Estate in Abuja staged a protest on Monday by closing the estate gates, in response to the planned demolition of structures by officials of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA). The protest comes after the estate was declared a disaster zone due to recent flash floods. Last week, heavy rainfall resulted in flooding of houses and roads, leaving residents trapped in their homes. The Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that over 116 houses were submerged in the estate. While no casualties were reported, the residents association through the Chairman of the residents association, Mr Adewale Adenaike, expressed concern over the recurring nature of the flash floods every year Adenaike, however, noted that alternative solutions could be ...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Group lauds MD of Rural Electrification Agency for enhancing sanity, transparency in the Agency

By Collins Yakubu-Hammer A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), known as Concerned Citizens of Nigeria (CCN), has lauded the efforts of the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, Mr Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, saying he has enhanced financial sanity, transparency and probity into the agency. This is contained in a statement by the Director of Public Relations and Cooperate Communications of the group, Mr Stephen John, on Sunday in Abuja. John said that Ahmad has demonstrated capacity and confidence reposed on him to take the agency to the next level. “We have monitored his system of administration in the agency and come to the conclusion that he has done so well and his efforts are worthy of commendation. “We have also observed that some corrupt officers involved ...

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3Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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CIEPUK offers university scholarship to wards of public, private sector workers to cushion fuel subsidy effects

By Victor Okoye The Chartered Institute of Educational Practitioners, United Kingdom (CIEPUK) on Monday said it was set to offer university scholarship to the wards of both public and private sector workers across the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that CIEPUK had earlier revealed that it was partnering several institutions and the National Association of Private School Proprietors’ (NAPSP) to award scholarship to outstanding students in the just concluded 2023 JAMB/UTME examinations. Prof. Marcel Ezenwoye, the National President of CIEPUK,however told NAN that the Institute had decided to extend its scholarship programme to students whose parents were either working for government or in the private sector. He said the gesture was a way of helping the worker...

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2Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Foundation congratulates it’s President,lauds him on achievements

By Bridget Ikyado The rising high profile Ior Gboko Foundation (IGF) has congratulated its pioneer and indefatigable President, Dr. Jimmy T. Ajim Ph.D on his Doctorate investiture. Dr. Jimmy T. Ajim was hosted by the members of Ior Gboko Foundation to a quality reception. The event was a pull - out of a 2-day IGF Presidential Sallah/working visit to Gboko. According to Mr Ter Akaa,IGF Public Relations and Media Manager (PRMM),Dr. Jimmy Ajim bagged a Doctorate in Singapore where his investiture on Leadership and Management was conferred on him and his colleagues from other countries is from the London Brigde Business School. His set conducted their research on the Transformational Leadership model of Singapore, the choice of the place for the investiture. The Foundation c...

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2Jul By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Sani Yerima Wants Tinubu To Dialogue With Bandits

A former Zamfara Governor, Sani Yerima, says though some bandits terrorising Nigeria are foreigners, President Bola Tinubu should dialogue with them as late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua dialogued with Niger Delta militants. Mr Yerima, who introduced Sharia law in Zamfara in 1999, made this call in an interview with BBC Hausa on Saturday. I’m advising the government to, first of all, find time to sit with these bandits, just like they sat with Niger Delta militants in the past. Because a majority of them are Nigerians, even though there are some foreigners among them,” Mr Yerima said. “But Nigerians among them can be convinced, as the Niger Delta militants were convinced and empowered to stop.” Mr Yerima added, “if that fails, then the government can use force on them w...

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