The World Bank has said seven countries, including Nigeria, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are experiencing “catastrophic levels of food insecurity”, adding that this indicates the “threat of famine”. This was revealed in the apex bank’s latest food security update, titled, ‘Food security update: World Bank Response to Rising Food Insecurity’, published on Friday. The report also stated that the number of people experiencing crisis and worse acute food insecurity was the highest on record since the Global Report on Food Crises started in 2017. Drawing on research from International Food Policy Research Institute and other…
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The Rivers State Government on Friday began the demolition of a set of buildings belonging to the Bayelsa State Government on Akassa Street, Old GRA axis of Port Harcourt. The properties are on a large expanse of land at numbers 5 and 9 Akassa Street in the high brow Old GRA axis. Our correspondent gathered that the properties are the residential quarters for workers of Bayelsa State Government Liaison Office in Port Harcourt. Bayelsa was created out of Rivers State by late Military Head of State, Sani Abacha, on October 1st 1996. The vacation notice issued before the demolition read,…
A former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, is in the race for the Senate President’s seat with baggage of corruption allegations. Despite this, his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, picked him as its choice for the office. The party, which by convention stands to produce the senate president by virtue of its having the majority in that chamber of the incoming 10th National Assembly, now hopes that the would-be members of the Red Chambers would overlook Mr Akpabio’s pending corruption case, in addition to the task of convincing other five contenders for the…
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has declared that he must be president of Nigeria. Obi, who came third in the 2023 presidential election, said this at the presentation of a book entitled: “Peter Obi: Many voices, one Perspectives”, in Awka, Anambra State capital, on Friday. The book presentation was designed to raise fund to enable Mr Peter Obi pursue his ongoing election court case. “Anyone who thinks I’m on transit is wasting his time. Let me tell you, I must be the president of this country. I’m sure of that. If it is not today, it must…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has responded to a Federal High Court in Abuja decision prohibiting it from imposing fines on broadcast stations across the country. Justice James Omotosho ruled in a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Media Rights Agenda, MRA, that NBC lacked the authority to penalise broadcast stations. The judge overturned the N500,000 fine issued on 45 broadcast stations on March 1, 2019, arguing that NBC lacked such authority because it was not a court of law. According to the court the NBC Code, which vested the commission with the power to impose sanction, was in…
Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has explained why he and other Northern Governors supported President-elect Bola Tinubu’s presidential ambition. The governor made the revelation during a farewell visit to Daura’s Emir, Alhaji Umar Faruq-Umar, on Thursday. According to him, the northern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) supported Tinubu in order to adhere to the party’s zoning policy. He added: ”God had saved us from shame during the last general elections in the country where our party, the All Progressives Congress APC recorded huge successes. “Any one in this country with foresight, should thank God again because had…
Workers at an Arby’s restaurant in Louisiana, United States, discovered the body of a female coworker inside a freezer at their workplace. According to the Daily Mail, the body of a female employee was discovered around 6 p.m. on Thursday in one of the fast food chain’s locations in New Iberia. The cops said an investigation of the “suspicious death” after the remains of the staff member were found in the walk-in freezer was ongoing, as the cause of death had not yet been determined. While speaking with local news networks, New Iberia Police Captain, Leland Laseter, said, “So it…
One year after the untimely death of Al Jazeera’s journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, the Israel military and the Israel Defence Forces, have apologized for the first time. This apology is coming one year after Akleh was shot dead while covering an Israeli military operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, with another journalist Ali Al Samudi, who was also shot. Speaking with CNN, IDF’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said, ”I think it’s an opportunity for me to say here that we are very sorry for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.” This apology will be a first…
With only 17 days till President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s inauguration, five residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, have petitioned the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court for an order to postpone the ceremony. The plaintiffs, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/578/2023, applied for an order, restraining the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, any other judicial officer and/or any other authority or person from swearing in any candidate in the February 25 presidential election as President or Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, until it is judicially determined with finality or in accordance with the provisions…
In its effort to ensure decongestion of Correctional Facilities, Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola declared that the amended Act on Correctional Service had allowed state governments to establish their correctional facilities in their respective states. The Minister stated this during a high level conference on Decongestion and Correction Administration organised by Ministry of Interior at Intercontinental Hotel, Abuja. He reiterated that the amendment of the act was premised on the need to drive a reform of the country’s custodial facilities anchored on reformation and development of inmates. He encouraged state governments through their state Arthoney general and Commissioners of…
Figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), indicate that the federal government spent $112.35m servicing external debt in January 2023. Data from the apex bank’s Weekly International Payments showed that the amount spent in January was 146.17 per cent higher than the $45.64m spent in December 2022. This occurred as the Federal Government struggled to boost its revenue base despite its revenue generation efforts.
The National Industrial Court on Thursday fixed May 30 to deliver judgment in the suit filed by the Federal Government against the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. In the suit, the federal government dragged ASUU before the court to determine the substantive suit filed during the 2022 ASUU’s eight-month strike. When the matter came up before Justice Benedict Kanyip on Thursday, Ita Enang, the claimants’ counsel informed the court that the matter was slated for adoption of written addresses. Femi Falana SAN, the defendant counsel on his part however informed the court that he had filed a notice of…