The Arewa Youth for Peace and Security (AYPS) has called on the Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal, to stop unwarranted attacks against his predecessor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, who currently serves as the Minister of State for Defence. The organisation asked the governor to face governance and allow the minister to concentrate on his own job too. The group in a statement by its president, Abubakar Kankia, noted that Lawal has been consistently using the name of Matawalle, to deflect blame on the insecurity bedeviling the state, which was supposed to be his major focus. He stated that an online platform…
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I am compelled to ask this question because of what I knew before I came in contact with my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola in July, 2019, and even afterwards. I am aware that Oyetola reluctantly accepted to serve as the Chief of Staff to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. I am equally aware that he served him diligently and was brutally loyal to him. Not many people would accept the change of role and never laced it with some form of arrogance. Aregbesola himself admitted publicly that when people say they struggled to plant the seed of the progressives in Osun, there were…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dared the Governor of Rivers state, Siminilayi Fubara to test his popularity by conducting the local government elections in the state. TheHintsNews reports that the conduct of the local government elections was part of the resolutions reached at the meeting summoned by the President Bola Tinubu during the political crisis in the state. Having implemented six out of eight resolutions, the APC wondered why the governor had refused conducting the election. The Chairman of APC in Rivers state, Tony Okocha, while addressing a press conference at the national secretariat of the party on Friday…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the minimum capital base of banks to N500 billion. The CBN in disclosed this in a circular titled, “Review of minimum capital requirements for commercial, merchant and non-interest banks _in Nigeria”, issued to all commercial, Merchant and non-interest banks; and promoters of proposed banks on Thursday. It reads: “The prevailing macroeconomic challenges and headwinds occasioned by external and domestic shocks have underscored the need for banks to raise and maintain adequate capital to enhance their resilience, solvency and capacity to continue to support the growth of the Nigerian economy. “Consequently, in furtherance…
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has blamed the power outage currently experienced in the nation’s capital on system failure from the national grid. It added that the system failure from the national grid was causing power outages being experienced across all its franchise areas. The Abuja disco in a statement issued Thursday appealed to its customers, while assuring that they are working hard to restore normal supply. It said: “Dear Valued Customers, Please be informed that the current power outage is due to a system failure from the National Grid. “The system collapsed at about 16:28 hours today 28…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, (EFCC) on Monday, March 25, 2024 arraigned Sufiyanu Yahaya and Mudassir Idris before Justice ibrahim Karaye of the Kano State High Court. The duo were arraigned on one-count separate charges bordering on misappropriation of funds to the tune of N20,500,000. The agency in a statement issued Thursday said while Yahaya allegedly misappropriated a sum of N11,500,000 belonging to a petitioner meant for the supply of rice, Idris allegedly misappropriated the sum of N9,000,000 belonging to a petitioner meant for the purchase of 360 pieces of solar panels. The charge against Yahaya reads: ‘’That you…
The Inter-Party Advisory Council of Nigeria (IPAC) has called for public funding of the nation’s registered political parties to deepen democracy and good governance. The National Chairman of IPAC, Yusuf Dantalle, made the call on Wednesday in Abuja, at the formal unveiling of the ‘IPAC Strategic Action Plan 2024-2028’ on deepening democracy in Nigeria. The event was organised by IPAC, the Westminister Foundation for Democracy (WFD) under the Nigeria Open Political Party (NOPP) project. He said that the action plan cover the goals and aspirations of political parties in Nigeria, as it contains actions to be taken to ensure public…
Troops of the Nigerian army deployed for counter terrorism operations in the North East in conjunction with Hybrid Forces on Wednesday 26 March, 2024 neutralised one terrorist, recovered arms, ammunition and rustled cattle during a clearance operation in Gori, Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. In a statement issued Wednesday, the troops during a fierce firefight overpowered and neutralised one terrorist, rescued several rustled cattle and recovered arms and ammunition from the terrorists. The stroops recovered arms included 2 AK-47 rifles, 38 rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition, AK-47 Magazines, one Improvised Explosive Device and one motorcycle. The statement…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje has inaugurated a six-man committee of governors to coordinate the party activities in all the geo-political zones. Ganduje while inaugurating the committee on Wednesday in Abuja said the six governors have the mandate to initiate periodic interface between the governors of the zones and the leadership of the party. He added that they have also been mandated to liaise with the party to commence immediate process for genuine reconciliation of aggrieved party members in the z.ones. To this end, Ganduje said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State will…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it would publish the personal particulars of candidates for the Edo State governorship election on Saturday. The electoral body, therefore, appealed to Nigerians to scrutinise the documents, saying any aspirant who participated in his/her party primaries with reasonable grounds to believe that the information provided by the candidate was false could challenge the nomination in a Federal High Court as provided in Section 29(5) of the Electoral Act 2022. TheHintsNews reports that the Edo State governorship election is scheduled to hold on Saturday 21st September, 2024. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman,…