INEC deploys 3 National Commissioners, 7 RECs for FCT Council polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission has deployed three National Commissioners and six Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the February 12 council election in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this known on Tuesday while speaking at the stakeholders’ meeting ahead of the FCT area council election on Saturday. Yakubu added that the Commission has accredited 58...
FG closes 20 medical diagnostic centres in Nasarawa
The Radiography Registration Board of Nigeria (RRBN) has shutdown 20 illegal medical diagnostic centres in Nasarawa State. The head of Inspection and Monitoring Unit of the board, Mr Ebere Onwugbuchu, disclosed the development at the end of a two-day exercise organized to supervise medical diagnostic centres in the state. He said that the exercise was aimed at monitoring the activities of...
Former Ondo Deputy Governor, Olanusi, loses wife
Bejide, the wife of a former Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Ali Olanusi, has been confirmed dead. Bejide, it was gathered, died on Tuesday after a brief illness at the age of 77. Her husband was the deputy to former Governor Olusegun Mimiko between 2009 and 2015. Meanwhile, the Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commiserated with the...
FCT Polls: 100 candidates vie for 6 chairmanship, 6 vice chair positions
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has stated that 110 candidates are vying for the chairmanship and vice chairmanship positions at the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, at the February 12 council election. Yabuku added that 363 candidates are contesting for 62 councillorship positions. The INEC Chairman made the disclosure while speaking...
Murder in Kano school: I’m speechless, Hanifa’s father tells Osinbajo
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday, visited the family of Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil gruesomely killed after she was abducted in her school in Kano State. The Vice President visited and commiserated with the family of the slain girl after speaking at the National Law Teachers Association Conference held at the Bayero University in Kano. The father of the five-year-old...
TETFUND receives N189bn as education tax in 2021 – Bogoro
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has received N189 billion as Education Tax collection (EDT) in 2021. Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, the Executive Secretary of TETFUND, announced this at its 2021 Education Development Tax (EDT) forum on Tuesday in Jos. The forum, organised in collaboration with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), aimed at improving EDT in the country. The event tagged “Improving...
Senate confirms Prof. Omotayo as NIPSS DG
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Prof. Ayo Omotayo as the Director-General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos in Plateau. Omotayo’s confirmation was sequel to the consideration of a report by the Joint Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters and the Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs during Tuesday’s plenary. Vice Chairman of the...
Pastor defiles, impregnates teenage church member
An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Tuesday remanded a pastor with the Royal World Embassy Church, Rufus Olatunji, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old member. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. F.M. Kayode, who did not take Olatunji’s plea, ordered that Olatunji should be remanded at Ikoyi Correctional Centre. Kayode then adjourned the case to March 8 for mention. Olatunji, 45, is...
Julius Berger diversifies, goes into cashew production
Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, well known for the construction of roads in the country, has announced a diversification into the agricultural sector with the production of cashew. The company revealed that it would soon commission a cashew processing plant in Epe, Lagos State. The latest diversification of the company into agricultural sector was made known by the Cashew Project’s Commodity and...
Atiku to FCT residents: Let’s make Council polls referendum on APC
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged residents and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to come out en masse and exercise their franchise in the February 12th Council election. Atiku, in a press release signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, on Tuesday, said that this weekend's council election in the FCT...
