Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to honour his oath of office on combating the insecurity ravaging the Northern part of the country. Emmanuel Yawe, ACF National Publicity Secretary, made the call in a statement on Tuesday, lamenting the worsening state of insecurity in the country. Yawe urged the President to do the needful in arresting the rising insecurity before it is too late. “Even as the Minister was claiming falsely, whether in ignorance or deliberate, victory over bandits, 12 Police Superintendents on official duty from Zamfara to Kano were overpowered by superior tactics and force while…
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“My brother, how you dey?” “What can we do?” “E ku recession” “Excuse me?” “I said er ku recession…” “Are you Yoruba people alright at all? You people always make a joke out of everything. Does recession look like a joke to you? Second recession in the last five years, the worst in Nigerian history in 33 years, and all you can think of is some meaningless local greeting. Someone at your level should be above such provincial fixation that instinctively compels a Yoruba man to create one form of greeting or another out of every situation. That was how…
Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has predicted that the current economic recession being faced in the country will end soon. Ahmed gave the prediction while speaking at the 26th edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) on Monday, explaining that the pandemic was responsible for the recent entry into recession. She said the current economic growth trend and the many complementary fiscal, real sector and monetary interventions proactively introduced by the government to forestall a far worse decline, suggest the nation will exit the recession before the end of the first quarter of 2021. “Let…
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) urged the Federal Government to stop the victimisation of individuals who sponsored the #EndSARS protests in the country. Rev. Felix Omobude, PFN President, made the call in a statement on Saturday, while appealing to the government to deal with the crisis in a more conciliatory style rather than confrontation. Omobude also condemned the freezing of bank accounts of people linked with the protests, adding that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) should not give the impression that they are acting in furtherance of a different agenda. “PFN recognises the right of the Central Bank of Nigeria…
Ayodele Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor, says he would not join other politicians in attacking Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking during an interactive session with journalists as part of the events marking his 60th birthday in Ado Ekiti, Fayose described Tinubu as one of the greatest builders of men in Nigeria. “I am not championing the course of Tinubu, I am not in the position to do that. But there is no denying the fact that Tinubu is a prominent Yoruba leader both in APC or PDP. There is no denying the…
The Justice Ayo Salami-panel has recommended the sack of Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Justice Salami-led panel also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a new chairman in an interim position for two years. The recommendations were contained in the panel’s report presented to the President on Friday. The panel also asked Presisent Buhari to look outside the police force in appointing the next chairman. More details soon.
Amaka Ndoma-Egba, Wife of the former senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba has died in an auto crash along Benin-Akure road. MERIDIAN SPY learnt Amaka was going for a function in Akure when the accident occurred. Vanguard reports the ex-senate leader could not speak but broke down in tears when a telephone call was put to him. More details soon.
Amid claims that no ENDSARS protester was killed during the demonstration, the Lagos State Government has called for residents of the state or anyone, who lost relatives during the protest, to come for the identification of their loved ones. This was made known in a notice issued by the state government and seen by Sahara Reporters. The state government said the victims must be those missing between 19th and 27th of October 2020. “This to notify the general public that the Chief Coroner of Lagos State, Hon Justice M. A. Dada (Mrs.) pursuant to section 15, Coroner’s System Law of…
Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, says the reform process for effective policing can only work when officers are held accountable for their actions, The Cable reports. President Muhammadu Buhari had, on September 16, assented to the Police Reform Bill, 2020, which repeals the Police Act, 2004. The bill limits the tenure of the inspector-general of police (IGP) to four years, and makes provisions for funding and accountability in police operations. Speaking on Wednesday at the house of representatives public policy dialogue series, themed “Policing and Human Rights in Nigeria”, Gbajabiamila said the reform process would cover training, recruitment,…
The Economic Advisory Council (EAC) says Nigeria needs to create 19 million jobs annually to solve the problem of unemployment in the country. Doyin Salami, EAC Chairman, gave the projection at a webinar on privatisation organised by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), in collaboration with the Nigeria Governors’ Forum(NGF) and the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC). Salami said most Nigerian youth are either underemployed or completely unemployed. “When you look at it in terms of the youth element of our labour force, it is somewhere around 64%. More than half of Nigeria’s labour force is either unemployed completely or underemployed,…
If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven beyond doubt, it is how humanity depends on science for its survival. Every confounding development that has been thrown up by nature or biology since the days of the prehistoric man has been resolved, and humanity has advanced on the back of scientific discoveries, from the argument by Galileo, who paid dearly for it, that the Earth travels around the Sun and not the other way round, to the equally transformative discoveries and innovations from Pythagoras to Copernicus to the present. Research resulting in new levels of epistemology may have…
David Umahi, Ebonyi State Governor, is reportedly set to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressive Congress (APC) this week. A source close to the Governor confirmed to The Nation the rumour of his defection to the APC during a meeting with stakeholders in Umahi’s country home in Uburu Ohaozara local government area of the state on Sunday, November 16. The meeting which was attended by political bigwigs in the state, according to the cource, was to fine tune the planned defection which is said to be gathering momentum as many party chieftains have also indicated their…