A delegation of the Nigerian Youth Parliament (NYP) condoled with the family of late Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a University of Benin (UNIBEN) undergraduate who died after she was gang-raped by unknown men inside a church in Benin. The delegation was received by the mother of the deceased, Mrs Omozuwa and other members of the family, at their residence, on Monday. The NYP House Minority Leader, Hon. Uwadia Daniel Didi who led the delegation, expressed his sadness over the death of Miss Vera and promised to ensure the Parliament does everything within its powers to get justice for the deceased.…
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Egypt has opposed against President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of former Niggeria’s finance minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). MERIDIAN SPY reported earlier, President Buhari wrote, in a letter dated June 4, 2020, to all member countries of the African Union (AU), embassies and permanent missions, announcing his decision to withdraw the candidacy of Yonov Frederick Agah, Nigeria’s permanent representative to WTO and request their support to favour the candidacy of the former Nigeria economic minister. But in a letter dated June 5, 2020 addressed to the candidature committee, the North African country…
The Deputy Governor of Bauchi State, Baba Tela has tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus disease. According to a statement by his media aide, Mukhtar Gidado, on Tuesday, Tela, who also is the chairman of the state task force on COVID-19 is now in isolation as samples of all his primary contacts have been taken by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for test. “This is to inform the General public that His Excellency Sen. Baba Tela, Deputy Governor of Bauchi State who is also the Chairman, State Task Force on COVID-19 was confirmed positive of coronavirus,” Gidado stated. “Consequently,…
While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national life which require equal attention both now and after COVID-19 – the increasing spate of insecurity in the country is one, the crisis in the country’s electricity sector is another, but COVID-19 is such an all-consuming pre-occupation that other issues have been pushed to the back-burner. More people have died in Nigeria from attacks on communities by terrorists nicely referred to as bandits since January raising a question about the country’s capacity to win the war against terror…
A former governor of Anambra state, Chukwemeka Ezeife says only a Nigeria president of Igbo extraction can fix the many challenges facing the country. The elder statesman made the statement while commenting on the influx of northern youth, particularly the almajiri kids into Southern Nigeria in an interview with The Sun. “I have told you my view about Almajiri. Not only Almajirai, but also the Talakawas. Talakawas and Almajarai, I think what they should pray for is Nigeria’s president of Southeast origin,” he said in the interview. “A president of Igbo origin will end Almajarai by effective training of the…
The Federal Executive Council, FEC approved the sum of N623.7 million to the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS for the purchase of computers for its zonal and area commands. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed told newsmen after the FEC meeting at the State House on Wednesday that the approval was made after a memo was presented by the Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed. “The Minister of Finance presented a memo for the award of contract for 1, 200 units of coloured printers and desktop computers for human resources and accounting management systems across zones and area commands of the Nigeria Customs Service,…
Three doctors and five nurses have reportedly tested positive for coronavirus at Mushin General Hospital in Lagos State, The Punch reports. An official of the hospital, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that a health worker had fallen sick about two weeks ago and was being treated for malaria when a nurse suspected that they were handling a coronavirus case. Punch gathered that some personnel of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC took the samples of the sick worker and the two officials (the nurse and a doctor) who attended to her. The results of the patient…
A former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has said hydroxychloroquine, which was touted by US president, Donald Trump as a remedy for coronavirus, was among the medications he used to treat the disease. Okupe who, together with his wife, recently recovered from the virus disease, after about two weeks receiving treatment at an isolation centre in Sagamu, Ogun State, made the disclosure late night Wednesday while stressing that there has not been a consensus yet amongst scientists on a particular treatment method for the lethal virus. He said in a post on Twitter: “My medications for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine…
President Muhammadu Buhari, President Of Nigeria 200 years ago the Aare Kakanfo of the ancient Oyo Empire and the self-proclaimed Oba of Ilorin, Aare Afonja, rebelled against the Alaafin of Oyo and entered into a military alliance with a Fulani advisor, sorcerer and mercenary by the name of Alimi. Predictably Alimi betrayed him and he ended up being tortured, dethroned and murdered. Not only did Alimi and his Fulani warriors kill him but they also murdered all his sons in the most cruel and barbaric fashion. Alimi and his family took the throne for themselves and consequently the Oyo Empire,…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, has affirmed Duoye Diri as the duly elected governor of Bayelsa State. Timi Alaibe, an aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, had filed a suit challenging the emergence of Diri as the legitimate winner of the party’s primaries held on September 3, 2019 and described the election as ‘a flawed process’. But the court on Tuesday threw away the suit filed by former PDP Bayelsa governorship aspirant for lacking in merit and upheld the earlier judgment of a Federal High Court in Owerri. More details soon.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the probe of the Chairman, Five Star Group, Emeka Okonkwo popularly known as E-Money, over his flamboyant lifestyle and flagrant abuse of police escorts, The Punch reports. An order was issued to the Lagos State Police Command to also withdraw the six policemen attached to Okonkwo over his alleged abuse of the personnel as domestic servants. “We received a signal from the Force headquarters on Monday that the police detail of music executive, E-Money, be immediately withdrawn and an investigation into the man be launched, a police officer told The Punch. “The…
The Presidency announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has lost a nephew, Muritala Dauda. Presidential media aide, Garba Shehu made the confirmation in a statement in Abuja on Friday but gave no details on the cause of the deceased. Shehu said: “President Muhammadu Buhari has consoled the members of his extended family and Daura community at large following the death of his nephew, Alhaji Mutari Dauda, Mallam Mamman Daura’s younger brother. “May Allah forgive his gentle soul and reward his goods deeds with aljanna.”