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13Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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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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12Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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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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12Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Nigeria Debunks Reports Of Attack On Embassy In Niger

Nigeria has debunked social media reports that its embassy in Niger's capital Niamey had been attacked amid the ongoing coup crisis in the region. This comes after videos emerged on social media purportedly showing the Nigerian Embassy in Niamey on fire allegedly attacked by a mob angry at Nigerian government position on the coup. It is ''not true. This is not Nigerian embassy,'' the Nigerian ambassador to Niger, Mohammed Sani Usman, told TRT Afrika on Friday morning. He said more security personnel have been deployed to protect the embassy and its staff and to ensure the safety of other Nigerians living in neighbouring Niger. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu is the current chairman of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS which has threatened to use force against the military j...

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12Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Resident doctors suspend nationwide strike

Resident doctors under the aegis of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have suspended the indefinite strike embarked upon on July 26. Its National President, Dr Innocent Orji, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja. According to him, a review will be made in two weeks. He said “we just suspended the strike. Work to resume by 8 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday, Aug. 12). “We will review progress made in two weeks.” This comes after series of interventions by various stakeholders for the association to either embark on the industrial action in the first place or to suspend it earlier. To avert the industrial action, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas on July 24 urged the resident doctors to suspend the strike. Abbas made the call at a meetin...

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11Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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CEPASD tasks FG on entrepreneurship 

By Gami Tadanyigbe  The Centre for Peace Advocacy and Sustainable Development (CEPASD) has called on the Federal Government to invest adequately in Entrepreneurship to enable youths become self reliant and for economic development of the country. The Executive Director of (CEPASD), Mr Igweshi Augustine, made the call during the Nigerian Youth Summit 2023 held at Merit House in Abuja on Thursday.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the youth summit titled "Advancing Youth Innovation in Entrepreneurship" brought together youths and major stakeholders in Nation Building.  Augustine said if the government had done enough on entrepreneurship, the high rate of unemployment and youth restiveness wouldn’t have been high the way it ...

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11Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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FHA@50 : CEO performs groundbreaking of 7000 housing units in Abuja

By Perpetua Onuegbu The Chief Executive Officer of Federal Housing Authority (FHA)  , Sen. Gbenga Ashafa on Thursday performed the groundbreaking ceremony  of 7000 housing units in Mbora District, Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Ashafa, who said the ceremony was to commemorate FHA  50th anniversary, said the agency was committed to its core mandate of providing housing solutions for citizens. “In recent times we successfully inaugurated the Zuba Housing Estate, currently advancing the Bwari Project, and are on the verge of initiating the development of our Smart City/Diaspora Estate in Maitama II. “The FHA Golden Jubilee Estate will contribute approximately 7,000 district residential units to our national housing inventory upon completion. The meticul...

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11Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Food Security: NGO pledges to empower 20,000 FCT female farmers

SheFarmers Initiative, an NGO, has pledged to empower no fewer than 20,000 female farmers in the FCT, in other to boost agriculture businesses and mitigate food insecurity. Mrs Kudirat Ande, President of the Initiative, said this at the inaugural launch of the FCT chapter of the organisation in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event with the theme "Embracing Technology, Panacea for women in rural areas", also featured the inauguation of the SheFarmers Advisory Board members as well as Executives for the FCT chapter. Ande, who was represented by Samera Abdullahi, Vice President 1, said that the organisation, established in 2021, was committed to creating an enabling environment for female agric-entrepreneurs to thrive in Africa. Also speaking, Hajiya Lad...

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11Aug By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Census: Army Chief Lagbaja Pledges Deployment Of Troops To Support NPC

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has pledged to deploy troops to provide security for personnel of the National Population Commission (NPC) ahead of the population census in the country. The COAS pledged when an NPC delegation led by its chairman, Nasir Kwarra, paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday in Abuja. According to him, besides support in terms of security and availability of troops, the Nigerian Army is open to offering the necessary assistance to NPC in transportation and other areas. “The troops, formations and units deployed in the field will provide security to ensure that your personnel are protected and allow access to areas where they need to conduct the census. “We will rely on our previous experiences to ensure that those areas that are ...

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10Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Abuja hotel owners task Tinubu on stand-alone Ministry of Tourism

By Collins Yakubu-Hammer The Hotel Owners Forum Abuja (HOFA) has urged the President Bola Tinubu’s administration to establish a stand-alone Ministry of Tourism, to strengthen the regulations of the hospitality industry. The President of HOFA, Mrs Funmi Kazeem, gave the advice on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Kazeem said that having a stand-alone Ministry of Tourism would help the Federal Government to strengthen regulations of the hospitality industry to checkmate crimes in the sector, especially in hotels. “Proper regulation of the hospitality sector would checkmate crimes in the sector, especially in hotels. Though there are criminals everywhere and crimes are not only committed in hotels but outside hotels. “As a matter of fac...

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10Aug By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Tinubu: We Must Prioritise Diplomatic Negotiations In Resolving Niger Crisis

President Bola Tinubu says leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must prioritise diplomacy in their approach to resolving the crisis in the Republic of Niger. Tinubu spoke on Thursday in Abuja while delivering his opening remarks at the second ECOWAS extraordinary summit on the socio-political situation in Niger. ECOWAS held its first session on the development, presided by Tinubu, its chairperson, on July 30. At the meeting, a resolution was reached to impose several sanctions on Niger over the coup. Some of the sanctions include a closure of all land and air borders between member countries and Niger, a freeze of all service and energy transactions and deals with all financial institutions in Niger, a travel ban and an asset freeze of the military...

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10Aug By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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We Can’t Leave Niger Crisis To Tinubu, ECOWAS, Foreign Governments, Says Lamido

The former Emir of Kano and spiritual leader (Khalifah) of the Tijaniyah Islamic movement in Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, says he used his personal connections to arrange and meet with the head of the Nigerien military junta, Abdourahamane Tchiani. Interventions are ongoing,” Mr Sanusi said. Mr Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, met on Wednesday with Mr Tchiani in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Mr Tchiani is the president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) following the illegal overthrow of the government of President Mohamed Bazoum. The coup leader had rebuffed efforts by the U.S., AU, ECOWAS and other Western allies to meet with him. Mr Tchiani also refused to see the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III. Speaking with St...

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10Aug By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Abia: Police Arrest Suspected Child Trafficker

The police command has announced the arrest of a suspected child trafficker, Obinna Ibe, for kidnapping three young girls and moving them to Ghana. The news of the arrest was contained in a statement signed by police spokeswoman Maureen Chinaka. The suspect, arrested on March 8 by Isuochi Divisional Police Headquarters, is an indigene of Achara Isuochi in Umunneochi LGA. The arrest was made possible through the information that the victims’ parents relayed to the police, said the statement. “Onyekwere Christian (male) and Nneka Nwokoma (female), both from Achara and Amuda Isuochi, reported that their daughters had been missing for over a week. The missing girls were identified as Goodness Onyekwere, 15, Ezinwanne Onyekwere, 16, and Viviane Ndukwe, 13,” said the police statemen...

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9Aug By Samuel AlongeNo Comments

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Edo Politician Cries Out Over Threat to Life

A 39-year old man, Mr. Cletus Anegbode Inedegbor, has raised the alarm over threats to his life by political thugs suspected to be loyal to a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his Esan native home of Esan North-East Local Government area of Edo State. Inedegbor, a graduate of Business Education from Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma Edo State, is a building materials trader and a politician. He is a member of the opposition Labour Party (LP) and exclaimed, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, that he feared being killed following repeated threats from the chairman of the APC (names withheld) in his community. The said chairman, according to him, has dispatched political thugs to hack him down, wherever he is sighted in the country, noting that his 'crim...

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9Aug By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Makinde Appoints VC For Emmanuel Alayande University Of Education

Oyo State governor, 'Seyi Makinde, has appointed Professor Olanrewaju Olaniyan as the Vice Chancellor of Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo. The Governor made the announcement on Wednesday while receiving the reports from the Chairmen of the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital and the Emmanuel Alayande University of Education Planning and Implementation Committees, at the Executive Council Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan. Makinde assured that recommendations of the separate committees would be implemented in no distant time, appreciating the chairmen of both committees, Professor Juwon Arotiba and Professor Ayodeji Omole, and their members, who he said performed beyond expectations on the assignments given to them. Speaking on the...

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9Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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AMAC boss lauds hospital for providing free eye checks, treatment to residents

Mr Christopher Maikalangu, Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) has commended the Tulsi Chanrai Foundation Eye Hospital for providing free eye checks and treatment to residents of the council. He said this when he led a delegation of senior staff of the council and some of his political appointees on a visit to the hospital on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that following the kind gesture by the hospital to residents and other Nigerians, his administration would ensure it waives tax payment by the hospital to the area council. He however appealed to the management of the hospital to provide same services to people in rural communities in AMAC. "This hospital is doing a wonderful job in offering free eye care services to thousands of Nigerians and we have to support you i...

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9Aug By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Tinubu Imposes Fresh Sanctions On Niger Junta, Says Military Option ‘Remains’

A new set of sanctions have been imposed on groups, organisations and individuals identified as giving support to the military junta in the Republic of Niger. Ajuri Ngelale, the special adviser to President Bola Tnubu on media and publicity, revealed this on Tuesday in Abuja while briefing State House correspondents. He said Mr Tinubu has already directed the acting governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to implement this directive in accordance with the ECOWAS protocol. ‘’I can report that following the expiration of the deadline of the ultimatum and standing on the pre-existing consensus position of financial sanctions meted out on the military junta, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered an additional slew of financial sanctions. “The sanctions are being carried ou...

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8Aug By Samuel AlongeNo Comments

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Ondo College Grants Scholarship to 500 New Students

Ondo State Acting Governor, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has commended the philantropic gesture of Prince Peter Fasua, proprietor of All States College of Education, Ero-Akure, for granting a three-year tuition-free scholarship to 500 newly admitted students of the college. The acting governor gave the commendation on Tuesday in Ero-Akure during the matriculation ceremony of the college. Aiyedatiwa, who was represented on the occasion by the governor's deputy chief of staff, Prince Segun Olujiwa, remarked that the gesture was in accordance with the education policy of the state government as encapsulated in the REDEEMED Agenda of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu's administration. "Let me specially commend the immense contribution of the proprietor, Prince Peter Oyeleye Fasua, to the advancemen...

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8Aug By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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NAF: Airstrike Destroyed Boats Carrying Stolen Crude Oil

The Nigerian Air Force says the air component of Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) destroyed boats laden with stolen crude oil as part of efforts to thwart oil theft in the Niger Delta region. NAF spokesman Edward Gabkwet disclosed this in a statement on Monday. He said the air component had on Saturday bombarded three boats carrying stolen crude oil at about four nautical miles southeast of Bille, a riverine area located west of Bonny Island and south of Port Harcourt, in Rivers. Mr Gabkwet explained that the boats were sighted tapping crude oil from a pipeline. He added that the crew observed an active illegal refining site with tanks and reservoirs loaded with suspected illegal refined products, about 4 miles southeast of Idama, also in Rivers. According to him, the site has been su...

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