Niger State governor, Mohammed Umar Bago, has said the state government would provide free transportation for pupils and students in public schools in the state to encourage enrolment and checkmate children dropping out of school. He said the move was due to the high cost of transportation following the removal of fuel subsidies by the federal government. Bago said this Friday when he received officials of the National Examinations Council (NECO) led by its Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, at the Government House Minna. The governor explained that the free transportation for the children at the…
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Nigerian actress, Akinyanju Omobolarinde, professionally known as Ashabi Simple has debunked a viral claim, stating that she and controversial street artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable are married. The Singer had days ago welcomed his fifth child with his fourth baby mama, actress Ashabi Simple and had a naming ceremony on Tuesday, June 13. At the event, Portable made a statement about the Yoruba actress finally being a housewife which made many conclude that they got married. He said: However in a recent interview with Saturday Beats, Ashabi Simple who earlier spoke on dating Portable despite knowing people will taunt her…
The Nigerian Navy has challenged Niger Delta leader and former agitator, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, to produce the names of officers involved in crude oil theft. Dokubo, had on Friday, alleged that the bulk cases of oil theft recorded in the oil-rich region were traceable to the Nigerian Army and Navy. He said this while briefing State House reporters after meeting President Bola Tinubu behind closed-doors at the Aso Rock Villa. “The military is at the centre of oil theft and we have to make this very clear to the Nigerian public that 99 per cent of oil theft can be…
Protest in Zamfara Varsity Over Kidnapping of 7 Students in Three Week Students of Federal University Gusau have blocked Gusau to Zaria road to protest the kidnapping of about five of their colleagues, on Friday night. The students were abducted at Damba, an off-campus community close to the school, Politics Digest gathered. It would be recalled that three weeks ago, two students were also kidnapped and N10 million ransom was requested for their release, by their abductors. The students are calling on the authorities to secure their colleagues’ release, as the university has fixed the 19th of June to commence…
The Adamawa and Taraba Area Command of the Nigerian Customs Service have seized smuggled items with a duty paid value of N22.89 million in the last six weeks. The Area Comptroller, Salisu Abdullahi-Kazaure, made this known while briefing newsmen in Yola on Friday. The seized items, according to the area comptroller, included fertiliser, which was confiscated because some criminals were using it to manufacture improvised explosive devices. According to him, the command made 16 seizures from May 6 to June 16. Abdullahi-Kazaure said the seized items included 494 bags of NPK fertiliser, 14,980 litres of petrol in jerry cans and…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered the Department of State Services’ director general, Yusuf Bichi, to allow suspended Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele access to his family and lawyers. After being suspended by President Bola Tinubu on Saturday, Emefiele had been taken into custody by the DSS. Justice Hamza Muazu of the FCT high court made the order on Friday even as he emphasised that access is a constitutional right of Emefiele. The enrolled order dated June 16, 2023, reads: “The lawyers of the applicant shall have access to the applicant immediately. And regularly at a…
The National Economic Council has considered recommendations from the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission to pay N702bn as cost of living allowance to civil servants as part of intervention plans to mitigate the effects of the discontinuance of petroleum subsidy as announced on May 29, 2023. The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after the inaugural National Economic Council meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Thursday. Mohammed also revealed that the intervention included a recommended sum ranging from N23.5bn to N45bn per month as a petroleum allowance for civil servants.…
World Health Organization (WHO) has urged the health legislators in Nigeria’s 10th National Assembly to improve Nigeria’s poor health outcomes and ensure that citizens have access to quality healthcare without falling into poverty, as well as improve their health outcomes. Walter Kazadi Mulombo, the WHO representative in Nigeria made the call at a strategic Health Legislative Retreat. He noted that there are areas of the health sector that require attention towards the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC), health security and alleviating poverty. Molumbo said many opportunities exist in the reimagining Primary Healthcare Initiative, the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund, State…
The Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during Thursday’s proceedings at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, presented Eric Ofuegbu, a professor of Mathematics at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, as their 4th witness. The petitioners challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 presidential election, also presented the ARISE News Director of Operations, Lummie Edevbie, as a subpoenaed witness and 5th overall witness for the petitioners so far, according to ARISE News. However, Abubakar Mahmoud, the lead counsel for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) informed the Court that he had just…
Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo, on Friday met with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, insisting that crude oil theft is perpetuated by notorious cabals in the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Navy. Speaking with correspondents after the meeting, he said the people of the Niger Delta have now resolved to ensure zero crude oil theft in the region. The former militant leader argued that ordinary Niger Delta citizens who are often blamed for the action are not responsible as they do not have the wherewithal to perform the stealing. According to him, there…
Even the worst of President Bola Tinubu’s critics will admit that he has proved to be a man on a mission. Within two weeks of assuming duty, he has removed subsidy on fuel causing the price to rise by over 150 per cent. He has announced the unification of FX window putting an end to multiple exchange rates; suspended the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and signed into law the Student Loan Bill, among others. The student loan act is worthy of attention because it is the first major…
At least 15 people have died after a truck collided with a bus carrying senior citizens in a rural area of Canada’s Manitoba province on Thursday afternoon. Local authorities disclosed that the bus was headed south on Highway 5 toward a casino near the town of Carberry, while the truck was headed east on Highway 1. According to Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Rob Lasson in a new conference, the truck hit the bus at the intersection of the two highways north of Carberry, roughly 170 kilometres (105 miles) west of Winnipeg. “Immediately it became apparent that this was a…