The Shell Global Upstream Director, Ms. Zoë Yujnovich, visited President Bola Tinubu. The meeting held on Momday at the State House in Abuja. Present at the meeting are former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Timi Alaibe, former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr Dakuku Peterside, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, amongst others
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Wike, Oyetola Among Tinubu’s Cabinet, Included in Ministerial List The former governor of Rivers state and People Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Nyesom Wike, has been listed among those to get ministerial post. According to a reliable source from the Presidency, both Wike name and the former governor of Osun state, Gboyega Oyetola will be appointed minister. Already, there had been rumour of Wike defecting to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). Wike played a vital role in ensuring APC wins Rivers state with a wide margin, after a disagreement with his party’s, PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Details shortly ….
The National Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has declared unconstitutional the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) mandate to banks to get their clients’ social media handles. Citing the Data Protection Act of 2023, the National Commissioner of NDPC, Dr Vincent Olatunji, stated that before such directives from the CBN can be carried out, banks and other financial institutions must obtain the consent of the data subject, which is the bank customers, and the owners of the social media handle. Olatunji who made this known during a virtual meeting yesterday with journalists said that directive of the CBN was inappropriate saying that…
The Labour Party (LP) leadership expressed dissatisfaction with the Federal Government for disparaging the European Union’s (EU) report on the 2023 General Elections. The globally respected agency stated in its final report on the Nigerian elections that faith in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had been badly harmed, particularly as a result of the failure to electronically submit the presidential election results. But responding in a statement on Sunday, Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, described the report as a product of a poorly done desk job that relied heavily on few…
Ex-Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed gets World Bank job Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the former Minister of Finance, has been appointed as an Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank. Barring any complications, she will return to the bank’s headquarters in Washington on July 10. However, there appears to be pushback from some groups who claim that the former minister did not follow due process. However, there appears to be pushback from some interests who alleged that the former minister did not follow due process. An online medium, today, quoted Washington sources as saying that Mrs. Ahmed circumvented appointment procedures by…
Ondo State government, weekend, approved the setting up of military and para-military stations in the Northern Senatorial Districts of the state to curtail the influx of kidnappers from neighbouring states. The stations are situated at Imoru in the Ose council area of the state. According to the state Commander of Amotekun, Adetunji Adeleye, the efforts were to protect the people of the state. Adeleye said: “The move would curtail the activities of criminals as well as kidnappers who reside outside the state “The criminals usually come through rivers to perpetrate crime and run back, that is why the government had…
The grandmother of a French teenager slain by police, which recently provoking rioting, begged for calm on Sunday, as the home of the mayor of a Paris suburb was attacked with a burning car in a new outbreak of violence. President Emmanuel Macron’s government has faced five nights of violent protests since Nahel M., 17, was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday. The shooting of Nahel M, who was of Algerian heritage, has reignited long-standing allegations of systemic racism within the French police, which rights groups claim…
The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has indicated that he will lead a massive protest in his hometown of Nnewi today, Monday 3 July against the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, (IPOB). He revealed this while he was presenting security equipment and gadgets to vigilante operatives from the four quarters of Nnewi, comprising Otolo, Uruagu, Umudim, and Nnewi-Ichi.at the Ifeanyi Ubah International Stadium, Nnewi, Anambra State, on Sunday. Ubah lamented that the sit-at-home order in the South-East, usually enforced by the gunmen believed to be loyal to secessionist group of IPOB has…
The Presidency has described as biased the verdict of the European Union on the February 2023 elections in Nigeria. The Presidency in a statement by Presidential spokesman, Dele Alake, said the report is bereft of facts and done in favour of opposition propaganda. The Presidency insisted that the election was the best since the return of democracy in 1999, adding that more credible local and international organisations had described the election as free and fair. The statement read in full: “Sometimes in May, we alerted the nation, through a press statement, to the plan by a continental multi-lateral institution…
Anita Brown had roughly five hundred and fifty thousand (550,000) followers on her Instagram profile prior to the issue that occurred about four days ago. Her follower count has now risen to almost nine hundred and forty-three thousand (943,000), with over four hundred thousand followers added. It’s worth mentioning that Anita Brown claimed in a series of tweets on June 30 that Davido fathered children with six different women. She went on to say that these women had suffered as a result of Davido’s inattentive actions as a father. Anita Brown stated her desire to take legal action to…
Fresh facts have emerged that the governors and National Assembly members elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are putting pressure on a former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to accept to lead the party in the capacity of national chairman, THISDAY has learnt. A Benue High Court had sacked Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as the national chairman, leaving the leadership of the main opposition party in the hands of Ambassador Illya Umar Damagun, who is in an acting capacity. The PDP, it was learnt, is planning for a total reorganisation of the party, if the…
In Netherlands, Family, Friends surprise Burna Boy with Early Birthday Gifts on Stage Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, a Nigerian Afrobeats singer, has received an early birthday gift from his family in the Netherlands. The Grammy-winning artist, who postponed a show in the Netherlands last month, turns 32 today, July 2nd, 2023. The video, which was widely circulated on social media, recorded the moment Burna Boy’s mother, along with other persons presumed to be members of his family and supporters, surprised him on stage.