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Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said he will commence his medical leave on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, as a follow-up to his initial medical treatment.
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Wednesday, presented the 2024 Appropriation Bill to five members of the state House of Assembly.
Troops of Exercise GOLDEN DAWN III have raided camps of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Orsumoghu general area of Anambra. The troops, who achieved the feat in conjunction with personnel of the Nigerian Navy, the Nigeria Police and local vigilante operatives, also naturalised one armed ESN member and recovered one pump action rifle. This is contained in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Tuesday by Lt.-Col. Jonah Unuakhalu, acting Deputy Director, 82 Division Army Public Relations. Unuakhalu said that…
The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has visited Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, where victims of the recent accidental military air strike in Tudun Biri village are receiving treatment. The former Anambra State governor, however, underscored the need for the government to support the military to ensure that incidents like accidental bombings do not happen again. Obi noted that adequate funding for the military is key in tackling the contemporary and emerging security challenges confronting the nation. He supported calls for the investigation of the military air strike, just as he advocated the setting up of…
The Minister of State for Defense, Bello Matawalle said the alarming trend of medical professionals leaving Nigeria, known as the “Japa syndrome,” has extended beyond the civilian population and now impacts the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) as well. Matawalle disclosed this during the 11th Stakeholders Meeting 2023 organized by the Defence Health Maintenance Limited (DHML) in partnership with Military Health Care Providers. Tagged: “Expanding the Scope of Nigerian Insurance Coverage for Armed Forces of Nigeria Military,” the meeting addressed critical issues affecting military healthcare. Speaking on behalf of the Minister, the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar, expressed concern…
Victor Osimhen has been crowned the 2023 African Footballer of the Year in a momentous event that solidified his status as one of the best players in the world. Monday’s award capped off a sterling year for the Super Eagles forward whose historic feat in the imperial Moroccan city of Marakesh ended Nigeria’s 24-year-old wait for Africa’s top individual prize. Legendary Kanu Nwankwo was the last Nigerian to win the award and that was in 1999. The prize is a recognition of Osimhen’s exploits for his Napoli club side and the national team where he is a key member.…
Edo State Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, has warned those destroying his campaign billboards to desist from such an act, describing it as inimical to the growth of democracy. Speaking on Lagos Street on Monday after inspecting one of the dismantled billboards, Shaibu said the destruction would not help anyone as it was the Edo people that could decide who would become the next governor of the state Shaibu, who was visibly angry when he went to see the destroyed billboard on Lagos Street, around Ring Road, said his campaign billboards were dismantled on two different occasions in the same…
The organised Labour and the Federal Government are on a collision course over the government’s failure to sustain the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers. Workers in the Federal Civil Service, in separate interviews with our correspondent on Monday, noted that the Federal Government only paid N35,000 wage award for September. Following the removal of the fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu on his assumption of office, the Federal Government agreed to pay N35,000 to each of its workers to reduce the hardship caused by the subsidy removal. The government, in a memo signed by the Chairman, National Salaries…
A team of security operatives on a patrol exercise have been attacked by armed bandits in Niger State, PRNigeria reports. This is just as a wanted terror kingpin, Ali Kawaje alias Ali Kachalla, may have been eliminated after air strikes by aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force near Mangoro in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State. PRNigeria gathered from defence intelligence source that Ali Kachalla had attacked a detachment of security operatives deployed at Mangoro Community in Munya LGA of Niger State. The military intelligence source said when alerted, NAF aircrafts under Operation Whirl Punch swiftly responded to…
national grid system, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), collapsed in the early hours of Monday,
One Mr. Samuel Soyemi has recounted how some men who claimed to be police officers from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State invaded his house and drove him and his family away in their vehicle. In what Soyemi described as both an abduction and armed robbery, he said the cops transferred the sum of N1,025,000 from his account before he, his wife and other family members were let go. Soyemi told PUNCH Metro on Thursday that the incident happened at around 11 p.m. on October 10 when the armed men invaded his house in the Osiele area of Abeokuta, the Ogun…