Buhari: Massive investment in Lake Chad’ll check poverty, insecurity
Massive investments are needed through strong public-private partnership to recharge the waters of Lake Chad to address the challenges of poverty and insecurity in the Lake Chad region. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this at the Fifth Edition of the Future Investment Initiative Summit holding in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday. The Nigerian leader drew the attention of world leaders to the...
Fani-Kayode: My estranged wife employed 12 nannies for our children
Former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has joined issues with his ex-wife, Precious Chikwendu, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Fani-Kayode stated that her former wife employed 12 in-house nannies to cater to the children. He said Precious did not extend maternal care to the children on account of her medical condition. Precious instituted a fundamental rights enforcement suit against Fani-Kayode, the Inspector-General...
N780m fund: Anyim regains freedom after 48 hours in EFCC custody
Former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim has regained his freedom from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over N780 million aviation fund. The Star learnt that Anyim was set free on Tuesday afternoon after his lawyers perfected his bail conditions. Anyim, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) in the Goodluck Jonathan administration, was...
FG vows to end casualisation of Nigerian workers
The Federal Government has expressed sadness over the alarming rate of casualisation in the nation’s workforce and vowed to put a stop to it. Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige said this at a one -day Public Hearing on the three labour bills by the Senate Committee of Labour and Employment on Tuesday in Abuja. The bills include the...
Match fixing: FIFA slams 2-year ban on Nigerian coach
The coach of Cofine Football Club of Uyo in Akwa Ibom, Remi Amadi, has been slammed with a global ban of two years from all football-related activities. Ademola Olajire, the Director of Communications at Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), in a statement on Tuesday said the ban was imposed by world football governing body FIFA. “The world body’s Disciplinary Committee conveyed this...
COVID-19: NYSC to administer vaccine on corps members in camps
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has said that corps members will henceforth be vaccinated in camps. Ibrahim gave the disclosure on Tuesday at the Permanent NYSC Orientation Camp, Emure-Ekiti, in Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti. The NYSC DG, who spoke through the Ekiti Coordinator, Mrs. Mary Chikezie, said the move was to ensure...
BUA Cement rakes in N74.33bn profit in nine months
BUA Cement Plc has posted a profit before tax (PBT) of N74.33 billion for the third quarter ended September 30. This was contained in the company’s unaudited financial statement released by the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Ltd on Tuesday. The result was signed by the company’s Managing Director, Engr. Binji Yusuf and the Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Jacques Piekarski. According to the financial...
Borno to raise primary school teachers’ pay from N11,000 to N30,000
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has promised to raise the salary of primary school teachers from N11,000 to N30,000 minimum wage. Zulum attributed the low payment to the activities of ghost teachers in the state. He also declared that no primary school teacher would be retrenched in the ongoing move to improve the standard of primary education in the state. “One major...
Guber poll: IGP deploys 2 DIGs, 5 AIGs, 14 CPs, others to Anambra
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered a major overhauling of the security landscape in Anambra State ahead of the November 6 governorship election in the state. Two Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) and other strategic commanders have been deployed to the state for effective supervision of security personnel and operations in the governorship election. Other...
#EndSARS: Nigerian system ‘begging’ for transparency, accountability
In October 2020, the eyes of the World were on Nigeria as the #EndSARS protests – the largest anti-government protests in a generation – took on corrupt elites. The demonstrations began as a movement against police brutality but rapidly snowballed into wider calls for government reforms – in particular, greater accountability. If nothing else, the protests did succeed in ending SARS,...
