The National Bureau of Statistics, [NBS] has announced that prices of selected food items in the Nigeria have remain in the increase in the month of November. The report was contained in the agency’s Watch Report for November 2022, released in Abuja on Monday. The report said that the average price of 1kg boneless beef on a year-on-year basis, increased by 29.00 per cent from N1,812.03 recorded in November 2021 to N2,337.46 in November 2022 The report has it that the average price of 1kg bonlees beef on a year-on-year basis, increased by 29.00 per cent from N1,812.03 recorded in…
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Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto State Governor, has asked service chiefs to honourably resign from their office due to the worsening security situation in the country. While the calls for the sack of the service chiefs have continued to gather steam, the President, Muhammadu Buhari has remained in keeping them in office. Speaking at a webinar organised by the Emmanuel Chapel, themed, “Rebuilding our lives: A case for hope and determination to succeed,” Tambuwal insisted that either the President sacks the service chiefs or they do so themselves. He added that it was ironic that security agencies were short of personnel even…
Joe Biden, United State President-elect, has named Osaremen Okolo, a Nigerian-American, as his COVID-19 policy advisor. Okolo was listed in the 100 additional members of the White House staff by the Biden transition team on Wednesday. Biden is expected to be sworn-in on January 20. Okolo, born to Nigerian parents, currently serves as a Senior Health Policy Advisor at the US House of Representatives. She graduated with honours from Harvard University in 2017 with degrees in medicine and African-American studies. She has also worked as a legislative aide for health policy at the United States Senate.
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 appropriation bill of N13.588 trillion into law. More details soon.
Emmanuel Waye, the National Publicity Secretary of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), says he has lost faith in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle insecurity in the North. Waye who featured as a guest on Channels Television programme, Politics Today on Wednesday, said members of the forum are depressed over the level of insecurity in its region. “We are very very depressed. We are very sad in the ACF. Nobody is happy because of what has been happening to our people,” he said. “How can I have faith in someone who presides over this kind of thing? I had faith…
Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife, has urged the Federal Government to take responsibility and introduce policies that will help the nation recover from the current economic recession being faced in the country. The Ooni of Ife gave the charge in his Christmas/New Year message issued by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Moses Olafare. “We started this year 2020 with a lot of hopes and aspirations, particularly on the country getting it right economically towards the prosperity of the entire citizenry, but unfortunately the COVID-19 pandemic crept in, sinking the economy in another recession. It has…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called for the resignation of Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, from the General Abdul Salaam-led National Peace Committee over his Christmas message that was critical of President Muhammadu Buhari. Kukah had, in his 2020 Christmas message, accused President Buhari of nepotism, saying there could have been a coup if a non-northern president did a fraction of what Buhari has done. But Arewa Youths labelled the Catholic clergy’s comments as “treasonable felony against the Nigerian state”, while calling for his arrest and prosecution. Similarly the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) accused Kukah of attempting…
The Arewa Telecommunication operators have claimed that over two million Nigerians were made jobless due to the suspension of sim card registration and activation in the country. The association made the claim while addressing newsmen in Kaduna on Monday. While acknowledging the government’s intention to curb insecurity through linkage of National Identity Number (NIN) with mobile numbers, they, however, feared that rendering two million youths jobless might worsen the security challenges. “As a registered association under the Corporate Affairs Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with registration number CAC/IT/NO131761 and with the Nigeria Communications Commission volume number as NCC/CAB/2019/VOL.1/011,…
Two doctors have of complications from coronavirus in the nation’s capital, Abuja. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) confirmed this in a statement issued by Anthony Ogunleye, the Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minister, on Tuesday. Ogunleye said a female doctor with the Gwarimpa General hospital, passed on two weeks ago while a private medical doctor died last week. “Since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in the FCT on March 27th, 2020, a total of 4 doctors working in both public and private hospitals have regrettably succumbed to the disease,” the statement partly reads. “The latest, being…
Gunmen, suspected to be bandits, have killed a man identified as Ahmodu Mohammed, said to be a chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kampala ward, Bosso local government area of Niger state, The Cable reports. Three daughters of the deceased were also reportedly kidnapped by the gunmen. Mohammed was said to have been killed on Thursday when the attackers, said to have numbered about 15, invaded his house around 2am, after two previous raids in the community and at a neighbourhood market. The ward chairman has, however, been reportedly buried according to Islamic rites. Wasiu Abiodun, the police…
Chioma is having troubles with her mother-in-law. I know because she made it headline news on her social media page. She does not share her concerns with the other party in the nuptial contract or with a trained counsellor, but with aliens on social media who are sweating on the treadmill of their own problems and who have no understanding of the situational context. Hear Chioma: ‘’It has been uncomfortable living with my mother-in-law. She insists I do my husband’s laundry which I never did even while we were dating and in our first few years of marriage. My husband’s…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has lamented over the current economic and security situation in the country. Speaking at the inauguration of the Woji Road, and Obagi Road at GRA Phase 2, Obio Akpor local government area of the state, Wike lamented that every facets of life in the country including security and economy have collapsed. He said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) must admit its failure in governance and take responsibility for the insecurity challenges being faced in the country. “I hear the Progressives Governors Forum saying that there is insecurity. Who is responsible? They should come…