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16Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Tinubu Unveils Ministerial Portfolios

President Bola Tinubu has assigned portfolios to the ministerial nominees recently cleared for appointment by the Senate of the National Assembly. Appointing the portfolios, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu named former Nyesom Wike as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Other portfolios as released by the President on Wednesday are as follows: Ministers of Defence Mohammed Badaru, Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong. Also named by President Tinubu are Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tuani, Minister of State, Environment and Ecological Management, Ishak Salaco, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Wale Edun, Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Bunmi Tunji Minis...

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16Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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There Will Be No Further Increase In The Pump Price Of Petrol-Tinubu

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and publicity, Ajuri Ngelale has said that his principal has promised there will be no further increase in the petrol pump price. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, Ngelale said the proposed strike by the NLC is premature. “The president wishes first to state that it is incumbent upon all stakeholders in the country to hold their peace. We have heard very recently from the organised labour movement in the country with respect to their most recent threat,” he said. “We believe that the threat was premature and that there is a need on all sides to ensure that fact-finding and diligence is done on what the current state of the downstream and midstream petroleum industry is before any threats or conclusions are arrived a...

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16Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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NDLEA Seizes Hard Drugs Worth N56.9 Million In Abuja

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) FCT command says it intercepted about 3,091.032kg of suspected illicit drugs with a monetary value of over N56.9 million from January to date. Kabir Tsakuwa, NDLEA’s FCT commandant, disclosed this in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. Mr Tsakuwa said the drugs seized included suspected cannabis sativa, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, tramadol, Rohypnol, diazepam, ecstasy, and megadon. He also stated that 343 drug suspects were arrested within the period, adding that they comprised 328 males and 15 females. Mr Tsakuwa also mentioned that the NDLEA prosecuted 188 drug offenders, with 126 convicted. According to him, out of the 3,091.032kg of hard drugs seized between January and now, cannabis sativa accounted for the largest se...

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15Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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FG Drops illegal Firearm charge Against Emefiele, Filles fresh charges against Emefiele

The illegal possession of firearms charge that was filed against suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the Federal High Court in Lagos has been withdrawn by the Federal Government. Initially, Emefiele was granted a N20 million bail by Justice Nicholas Oweibo and was ordered to be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre until his bail conditions were met. However, on Tuesday, August 15, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mohammed Bakodo Abubakar, approached the federal high court in Ikoyi with an oral application to withdraw the charge of illegal firearm possession. Joseph Daudu (SAN), the defense counsel, opposed this move and accused the government of disobeying the initial court order that granted Emef...

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15Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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HAJ. LAMI ADAMULO CONFERRED WITH HUMANITARIAN AWARD.

By Marian Okpe, Abuja The National President of National Council For Women Society, (NCWS) Hajiya Lami Adamulo has been conferred with a prestigious Humanitarian Award, the Award was conferred on her by a reputable Non Governmental organization known as Association For Orphans and Vulnerable Children NGOs (AONN) during her Annual General Scientific Meeting at the Green Mind Hotel, Utaku Abuba. AONN is an organization that is saddled with the responsibility of championing the course of orphans, vulnerable children and the physically challenged people in the society. According to the Board Secretary of the organization, Dr. Grace Dafiel sqr, Hajiya Lami was found worthy of the conferment because of the relentless efforts in Humanitarian services rendered over the years. Responding ...

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15Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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AONN HELDS HER 17th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

By Marian Okpe, Abuja The Association For Orphans And Vulnerable Children NGOs In Nigeria (AONN) held its 17the Annual General Scientific Meeting in Abuja, with the Theme: Improving the Quality of VC Programming By NGOs in Nigeria. AONN is a non governmental organization that supports Orphans and Vulnerable children in Nigeria, it is a care giver establishment that it goal is to ensure quality of life for all the aforementioned people, and improving their well being. The two days event which was held on the 10th of August 2023 at the Green Mind Hotel, Utako Abuja was a huge success as members organizations from the thirty six states of the federation turned out immensely to grace the loadable event. The high point of the event was the presentation of various categories of Awar...

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15Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Troops Kill Two Suspected Robbers, Arrest 62 Gun Runners, Others

Troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), a special military task force maintaining peace in Plateau and parts of Bauchi and Kaduna States, have killed two suspected armed robbers in Amere-Ududu, Tudun Wada community in Southern Kaduna. Capt. James Oya, the spokesperson of the operation, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Jos. According to him, troops of the operation also arrested 62 other suspected criminals over gun running activities, kidnapping, banditry, and other heinous crimes in parts of Plateau and Kaduna states. “As part of efforts to eradicate armed banditry and criminal elements from our joint operation area, our troops have neutralised two armed robbers in Amere-Ududu, Tudun Wada village in Southern Kaduna. “They have also arrested 62 suspects in connection ...

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15Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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The Call to Reward Party Devotion and Loyalty. The Case for Hon. Nelson Alapa.

Political party should be of the people that are devotedly attached to it, admired it and champion it cause. And the reward or return should be of them that have invested their time and resources to open up the party to victory. In other words, political party need to reward the real loyal members not the Intruders that are loyal to their needs and when the ship is down they find there way. The continuation of monkey they work and baboon they chop politics in our nation is becoming worrisome and vexatious. This unnecessary political setback need rethink. We have seen the Ministerial nominees, Special Advisers and Assistance of the President and precisely Benue State Governor. The lists was very surprising to party faithfuls who over the years have committed themselves to the growth ...

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15Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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FCT Correctional Service hands over Borstal Training Institution to Principal

By Gami Tadanyigbe  The Nigerian Correction service FCT Command, has  formally handed over the structure and personnel of the proposed Borstal Training Institution, Gwagwalada Abuja, to its Principal Controller of Corrections, Caroline  Ekemezie. This was disclosed in a press statement issued to newsmen in Abuja and signed by the Public Relations Officer Borstal Training Institution, ASC Theresa Obi. According to the statement, the official handing over held on the 9th of August 2023, was done by the Controller of Correction FCT Command Ibrahim Idris esq in company of some very senior officers from the Command and this was done after the inspection of site and structure to ascertain its readiness. The Controller of Corrections FCT Command Ibrahim Idris Esq, while handing o...

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14Aug By Kayode FasuaNo Comments

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Niger Coup: ‘Why all Nigerians, Lawmakers Must Support ECOWAS Resolution’

A socio-political organisation, Social Rehabilitation Gruppe (SRG) led by Nigeria-born United States-based medical doctor, Dr. Marindoti Oludare, has thrown its weight behind a decision of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) to intervene in the military take-over in Niger Republic should the coupists refuse to restore democracy to that country. Oludare, in a statement on Sunday, noted that he was bewildered by the failure of some of Nigeria’s lawmakers to grasp the full weight of the abortion of democracy in neighbouring Niger Republic, at a time military rulership is abhorred globally. The SRG Convener/ National Coordinator stated, "I have watched with a great deal of bewilderment some TV interviews and social media posts made by some Nigerian senators that se...

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14Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Peter Obi In Attendance As Abure Inaugurates Labour Party Caretaker Committee In Lagos

The embattled national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has inaugurated caretaker committee for the 20 local government areas in Lagos State. Inaugurating the 16-member executive for each council area Sunday evening in Lagos, Mr Abure expressed confidence that the party would be victorious at the presidential election petition court. Mr Abure, in the company of some party members, including the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi and Pat Utomi, said the 2023 general election was “a struggle to liberate Nigeria.” The chairman decried the current economic hardship resulting from the fuel subsidy removal and the spate of killings in some parts of the country, especially Plateau. He said the LP’s participation in the 2023 general election has changed the poli...

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14Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Oyo Heads Of Traditional Religion Commend Makinde, Oyo Lawmakers For Approving August 20 As ‘Isese Day’

The Heads of Traditional Religion in Oyo state have expressed appreciation to the governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde and the members of Oyo State House of Assembly for approving August 20, as 'Isese Day'. The Oyo Heads of Traditional Religion, in a statement signed on behalf of the group by Araba Olu Isese of Ibadanland, Chief Ifalere Odegbemi Odegbola II, expressed appreciation to the governor of Oyo state and the lawmakers in the State House of Assembly for approving August 20 of each year as 'Isese Day'. The statement reads: “The approval of August 20 of each year as 'Isese Day' by the Oyo State House of Assembly and our amiable Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde is something that gladden our hearts. This is an indication that both the Governor and the lawmakers in State are for al...

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14Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Foundation empowers over 500 Women on entrepreneurial skills in FCT

By Gami Tadanyigbe Ever-Giving Hope Empowerment Foundation (EGIHEF) have empowered no fewer than 500 women including widows, with skills acquisition at the Women Entrepreneur and Empowerment Summit held in Kuje Area Council, FCT, for self reliance and socio-economic development of the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Empowerment Summit with the theme titled "START FROM WHERE YOU ARE" had beneficiaries made up of young women, widows and the less-privileged, who were engaged in skills acquisition programme in Kuje. After an intensive days of training in soap making, catering, confectinaries, makeup, fashion designing, hat making among others, all trainees were over the weekend given starter packs to enable them get engaged with their acquired skills. Th...

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Special Report: Nigeria Correctional Service Corruption Conundrum (Part 1)

By Ruby Cornie and Susan Ajibuwa Facts continue to emerge about the deep rot at Nigeria Correctional Service as Senior Officers due for retirement continue to dig in, refusing to leave and perpetuating scandalous unlawful elongation of service aimed at stifling the career advancement of subordinates. Sharpedgenews through the efforts of its investigative team uncovered efforts by some officers in the leadership hierarchy of the agency refusing to go after being due for retirement, they have perfected a disinformation and misinformation machinery of casting the government of Nigeria in a negative light, by asserting that president Ahmed Tinubu exists for the protection of institutional entitlement for moslems only. According to investigations, a Deputy Comptroller-General, Mr. A.A...

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14Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Niger: Coup Leader Settles For Dialogue With ECOWAS

Niger Republic coup leader, General Abdourahmane Tchiani has agreed to dialogue with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) after his meeting with Nigerian Islamic scholars led by the national leader of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau in Niger Republic. According to Niger Republic’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, General Tchiani gave the green light for talks with ECOWAS and was optimistic the talks with ECOWAS would take place in the next few days. We have agreed and the leader of our country has given the green light for dialogue. They will now go back and inform the Nigerian President what they have heard from us. we hope in the coming days, they (ECOWAS) will come here to meet us to discuss how the sanct...

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13Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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AMAC Chairman lauds Tinubu on FCT ministerial nominee

Mr Christopher Maikalangu, Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) has commended President Bola Tinubu over the nomination of an FCT native, Zaphaniya Jisalo, as minister in his cabinet. He said this on the sideline of the inauguration of the 10th executive members of the Youth Progressive Forum (YPF), in Abuja. Maikalangu who described the nomination as a "feat", added that it has been their yearning since the present democratic dispensation in 1999. "The people of FCT are happy, this is the first thing the President has done to us and we will always appreciate him for that", he said. On the newly inaugurated executives of the YPF, Maikalangu urged them to be open to advice in other to achieve the objectives of the forum. He added that on his part, he would contribut...

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Lagos: Tribunal Reserves Judgement In Petitions Against Sanwo-Olu’s Re-Election

Lagos State election petition tribunal has reserved judgement in two petitions against the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat. The three-man tribunal led by Justice Arum Ashom, on Saturday, said it would communicate the date for the judgement to the parties in the petition. Mr Ashom made this known after counsel to the parties adopted final written addresses. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) and Abdulazeez Adeniran (a.k.a. Jandor) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are challenging re-election of Messrs Sanwo-Olu and Hazmat of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is the first respondent in the petition, while Messrs Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat are the second and third respondents,...

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Man Who Sold Granddaughter for N700,000 Arrested In Oyo

Police in Oyo State have arrested a grandfather for seizing his daughter’s day-old baby in Oyo town and selling the same to a baby factory in Abia for N700,000. Five accomplices of the grandfather were arrested at the baby factory. Commissioner of police in Oyo state, Adebola Hamzat, told newsmen in Ibadan on Saturday that the grandfather took the baby girl from her teenage mother, Sarah Chukwuka, on July 10. He was later arrested at his hideout in Ibafo, Ogun. “The suspect, who identified himself as the biological father of the teenage mother of the day-old baby girl, confessed to the crime. “He explained how he took the baby from the mother, pretending that he would hand the baby over to a caregiver. “The suspect also explained how he moved the baby to Abia, where he s...

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12Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Gov. Sani Commiserates With Families Of Worshippers Killed In Zaria Mosque Collapse

Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has commiserated with the families of victims of Friday’s partial collapse of Zaria Central Mosque. This is contained in a statement by Muhammad Shehu, the chief press secretary to the governor. Mr Sani expressed sadness at the news of the collapse of the iconic mosque and the attendant loss of lives due to the incident. He thanked Emir Amb. Ahmed Bamalli, the Emir of Zaria, for his fatherly role in rallying his subjects to carry out rescue operations and assist the injured. The governor also commended the efforts of Zaria’s first responders, medical personnel, and residents in rescuing the survivors. Mr Sani said some government officials, led by Balarabe Lawal, Secretary to the State Government, had visited Zaria to assess the situation a...

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Military Killed 38 Terrorists, Apprehended 175 Gunmen In One Week-DHQ

The Defence Headquarters says the Nigerian Army have, in the last week, neutralised 38 terrorists, apprehended 242 others and rescued 89 kidnapped hostages in different operations across the country. The director of defence media operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Mr Buba said the apprehended suspects comprised 175 gunmen, 20 kidnappers, 30 collaborators and 17 pipeline vandals. He said the troops denied the oil theft saboteurs the sum of N607 million being the value of seizures and recovery of 38 assorted weapons and 186 ammunition. Giving the breakdown, Mr Buba said the troops recovered 14 AK 47 rifles, one G3 rifle, one PKT, three AK47 rifles loaded with 23 rounds of 7.62mm special, one SMG, 10 Dane guns and five locally-fab...

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