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…
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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…
The Federal Government has budgeted N142.3 billion to feed 9.86 million children, deworm seven million children and recount the pupils in 2021 under the Home-Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSFP). According to Premium Times the N142.3 billion is meant to cater to the feeding of about 10 million, deworming of seven million primary 1-3 pupils in 35 states and FCT and 60,000 out-of-school children, enumeration of pupils and training of cooks and farmers. It was further gathered that the proposed allocation for the NHGSFP accounts for 40.5 per cent of the total recurrent expenditure of the nation’s social investment programmes, NSIP, domiciled under the ministry of humanitarian…
The Nigerian Army has expressed its displeasure over Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s denial that he did not invite soldiers to restore peace and order in the state. Recall that after the shooting of peaceful ENDSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate Plaza in Lagos allegedly by security operatives, Governor Sanwo-Olu had said forces beyond him were responsible for the killings. But Ahmed Taiwo, a brigadier general of the Nigerian Army, told the Lagos judicial Panel on Saturday, that the Governor requested the support of the military on October 20, the day of the shooting, after the #EndSARS crisis degenerated into…
The Kogi State Government has imposed a levy on each loaf of bread produced in the state. This was made known in a memo from the state’s Ministry of Commerce to the state chapter of the Association of Master bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN). Confirming the development, Kingsley Fanwo, the state Commissioner for Information, said, in a statement on Friday, that the levy was already in place but modified to protect indigenous bakers in the state who complained of the activities of bakers from outside the state. Fanwo explained that the move will ensure that the external bakers “who…
United States election officials have rejected claims of electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election by incumbent President and Republican candidate, Donald Trump. Joe Biden, Democrat candidate in the election, was projected as the winner of the polls after securing 290 electoral college votes against Trump’s 217. While the incumbent President is yet to come to terms with the outcome of the polls, the election officials said “there is no evidence of compromised ballots or corrupt voting systems in the United States presidential elections”. “The November 3 election was the most secure in American history,” senior US federal and…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has submitted a bill to the state house of assembly to revoke the payment of pension and entitlements to former governors. Jubril Gawat, the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant on New Media, made the disclosure on Tuesday via his official Twitter handle. “Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu has announced his intention, through executive bill, to repeal the public office holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension & other entitlements to former governors and their deputies,” Gawat wrote. More details soon.
Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali’s former president, has died at the age of 72. A family member and a doctor confirmed the death of the ex-Malian leader on Tuesday. “Amadou Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey,” where he had been taken for health reasons, his nephew Oumar Toure told the news agency AFP. The former army general ruled for 10 years and was celebrated for enacting democratic reforms in the West African nation, before being ousted in a military coup in 2012. Toure came to power in 1991, when he led a coup against dictator…
Amid continued closure of Nigeria’s land borders, the Federal Government has granted Dangote Cement exclusive access to resume export of its product across the country. According to Bloomberg, Michel Puchercos, chief executive officer, said on an investor call in Lagos that President Muhammadu Buhari‘s administration gave the authorization for Africa’s biggest producer to export cement to Niger and Togo in the third quarter for the first time in ten months. The export was made possible “through authorization given by this administration,” said Pucheros. The government had in August 2019 shut the land borders to check smuggling of arms into the…