Yoruba social-political group, Afenifere Renewal Group has called on President Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of urgency, decentralise the Police. Afenifere, in a statement issued Friday by its National Secretary, Jare Ajayi, said that the two albatrosses of insecurity that is daily ravaging the country and corruption that is thwarting the efforts at developing the country and enhancing the welfare of Nigerians. The group said at the moment, the greatest hindrance to achieving Tinubu’s lofty aim for Nigeria is insecurity. It said reports afield now have it that eight youth corpers from Akwa Ibom State were kidnapped in Zamfara…
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The House of Representatives will resume from its annual recess on Tuesday to continue the first legislative year of the 10th Assembly. TheHintsNews reports that the 10th Assembly proceeded on the break on Thursday, July 27, 2023, following a plenary session during which the Speaker, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, announced the leadership of the standing committees of the House. The spokesperson of the House, Akin Rotimi, in a statement issued Friday said this was conveyed in a correspondence to lawmakers by the Clerk of the House, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria on Friday. The 10th Assembly has been very prolific, and in about…
My attention has been drawn to a statement credited to President Olusegun Obasanjo in which he called me an impostor and raised a lot of issues beneath his status, including telling the world that my mental health is questionable. For the records; I want the world to know that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is the greatest impostor of all time, the liar, the cheat, the deceiver who now equates himself to the Almighty God and who now arrogantly believes that he has the unchallengeable power of life and death and to render totally useless whoever tries to point out any error…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Olayemi Cardoso on Friday assumed office as the governor of the apex bank. Cardoso, was recently nominated by President Bola Tinubu, formally assumed duty on Friday in an acting capacity, as the Governor of CBN, pending his confirmation by the Senate. The Director, Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, in a statement issued Friday, said his assumption of office followed the resignation of Mr. Godwin Emefiele as Governor of CBN. He said: “Similarly, the Deputy Governors designate have also assumed duty, in acting capacities, sequel to the formal resignation of Mr. Folashodun…
A group under the aegis of The Natives, has said that President Bola Tinubu has no agenda to ‘Yorubanise’ the nation through his appointment contrary to insinuations in some quarters, Its leader, Smart Edwards, in a statement issued Friday maintained,there was no such thing as Yorubanisation, saying it was not like anything in the past, adding that it’s a government of competence, excellence and balance. He said that the President has been fair, just and implementing the era of Renewed Hope he promised the nation. Edwards noted that nobody could fathom the choice of a young lady as Minister of…
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank has described as embarrassing the desperation by President Bola Tinubu to stall the release of his academic records from the Chicago State University (CSU). Tinubu had pleaded before a United States judge to save him from suffering “severe and irreparable damage” by placing an emergency hold on a recent Court order for his university records to be released. The President through his lawyer claimed that the damage he would suffer would be impossible to mitigate if the order directing the release of his academic records to…
Troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) have uncovered a gun manufacturing factory in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The discovery, it said in a statement, issued on Friday, followed a week long intelligence operations that finally led to the capture of a wanted gunrunner, Napoleon John who has been on the wanted list of OPSH. It said the suspect who confessed to the crime led troops to a concealed factory where arms of different calibre were sold by another miscreant identified as Monday Dunia, who confessed to having been in the business for more than five years…
President Bola Tinubu has filed an emergency application with the District Court to stall the Magistrate Court’s order directing Chicago State University (CSU) to release his academic records to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku. The magistrate court had given Chicago University 48 hours ending Thursday evening Chicago time to release Tinubu’s records to Atiku. However, Tinubu, alleged in a fresh application on Thursday that Judge Jeffrey Gilbert breached the constitution by acting as a final court in such matters of discovery. He contended that a Magistrate should only report and recommend to the district judge in…
The federal government has inaugurated a joint audit committee on Aviation fuel activities following about four incidents of contaminated Jet A1 fuel in the country in 2023. The Director General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu, while inaugurating the committee on Thursday in Abuja said the primary responsibility of the agency was to ensure the safety of aviation activities in Nigeria. Nuhu, who was represented by the Director, Operations, Licensing and Training Standards, Capt. Ibrahim Dambazau, said recently, there had been a series of incidents relating to fuel contamination, in particular, that of Max Air fuel contamination…
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has approved the immediate revocation of 165 plots of land in the serviced districts of FCT. The Director of Information and Communication, FCT, Muhammad Sule, in a statement issued Thursday, said the revoked plots belong to individuals and corporate organisations, who have continually failed to keep to the terms of agreement as contained in Section 28(5) (a) & (b) of the Land Use Act. He added that the revocation was premised on the failure of the allotted owners to develop the plots. Sume stressed that notice for the revocation, as compiled…