Day: November 10, 2020

NNPC stocks, flaunts 2.9bn Litres of Petrol for Yuletide

Efe Wellington

  . GMD NNPC discourages panic buying over NUPENG strike threat The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday dismissed mounting insinuation of possible scarcity of petroleum products following ongoing disagreement between the Federal Government and members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN). The disagreement is on the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Dr. Kennie Obateru, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Corporation, quoted Mallam Mele Kyari as saying, in a release, that the industrial action embarked upon…

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Popular Nigerian Pastor, Davido, 48 others, dragged to Court over #EndSARS

Precious Ibekwe

  A Nigerian, Kenechukwu Okeke, has filed a criminal suit at the FCT High Court against a popular Nigerian Pastor, Sam Adeyemi, music superstars; David Adeleke popularly known as Davido, Burna boy and 47 persons who participated or promoted the #EndSARS protest online. The Court documents filed by Okeke, according to a report by Politics Nigeria, also have names of Aisha Yesufu, Deji Adeyanju, Ayo Sogunro and some other activists as defendants. The list also include Sam Adeyemi of Daystar Christian Centre, hip hop singers; Damini Ogulu known as Burna…

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Lagos Gov Sanwo-Olu To Abolish Pension For Jakande, Tinubu, Fashola others

Gbenga Adeoti

  Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday announced his intention to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former Governors and their Deputies. He made this known while presenting the 2021 Budget to the Lagos State House of Assembly. Those who will be affected by this move include Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and their deputies. Others in this list are Babatunde Raji Fashola, his deputy as well as Sanwo-olu’s direct predecessor, Akinwunmi Ambode…

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Top Palestinian Negotiator, Saeb Erekat, Dies Of COVID-19

Aoko Benjamin

  Veteran Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has died from Covid-19 complications. He had announced on October 8 that he tested positive for the virus. His condition deteriorated and he was transferred to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem from his home in Jericho in the West Bank 11 days later. According to Palestinian officials, the 65-year-old passed away at the Israeli hospital. Erekat was secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and an adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. He was the Palestinians’ chief negotiator in peace talks with…

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US General Services Agency yet to recognise Biden as President-elect

Wonuola Olujobi

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is considering legal action over a federal agency’s delay in recognizing the Democrat’s victory over President Donald Trump in last week’s election, a Biden official said on Monday. The General Services Administration (GSA) normally recognizes a presidential candidate when it becomes clear who has won an election so that a transition of power can begin, reports Reuters. That has not yet happened despite U.S. television and news networks declaring Biden the winner on Saturday after he secured enough electoral votes to secure the presidency. The…

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Yellow fever kills 8, rattles entire Nigeria’s Bauchi Community

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHCDA) says that an outbreak of yellow fever has occurred in Ganjuwa Local Government Areas (LGA) of Bauchi State, Northwest Nigeria, with eight deaths and eight samples testing positive. Chairman of the agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, stated this while briefing newsmen in Bauch on Monday. “Our polio team were in communities in Ganjuwa for routine exercise and they found out that eight people died of unknown disease, so they reported back. “Eight samples were brought for lassa fever and yellow fever tests…

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Goodbye, Mr. Trump… By REUBEN ABATI

Reuben ABATI

The most exhilarating part of the US Presidential election 2020 is the fact that President Trump lost the election. It is what many observers thought would happen. They prayed for it. They wished it. In the end, that is what happened on Saturday, November 7, 2020. The major news networks called the election and announced Joe Biden as the President-elect of the United States. Whatever level of excitement that the election may have generated however, it was after all, an American election. It was one of the closest and most…

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Corpse of 6-year old ‘victim of defilement,’ recovered from Kaduna Cemetery

Aliyu Aliyu

  The corpse of a six-year-old, Aisha Ya’u, suspected to have been defiled before being killed, has been recovered from a cemetery in Kurmin Mashi area of Kaduna, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The corpse was discovered by a farmer, returning from his farm, and who alerted passers-by, NAN learnt. Eye witness accounts as at the time of filing this report indicated that the girl returned from Islamiyya school on Sunday at around 11 am, changed into her playing clothes, and went out to play in the neighbourhood…

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