Day: September 30, 2022

Atleast 29 Persons killed in Niger community Boat accident

Daniel Atori

MINNA: No fewer than twenty nine persons have died in Malale Waterfronts in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State following various accident in 2022. The National Inland Waterway Authority (NIWA), through its Managing Director, Dr. George Moghalu confirmed that the figure declined after several efforts to curb accidents compared to the over 100 deaths recorded in 2021. Dr Moghalu stated during the commissioning of PB Port Harcourt Fibre Patrol, Surveillance Boat at the Malale Waterfronts, Borgu Local Government Area of the state, that the reduction in the mishaps is…

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Insecurity: ‘Nigeria Needs To Increase Welfare Packages For Police, Others” – CAN

Daniel Atori

MINNA: As Nigeria search for lasting solution to the incessant insecurity challenges, the Christian Association of Nigeria CAN Niger state has on Friday called on the federal government to improve the welfare of all security agencies. Making this appeal during a familiarization visit to the Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, CP Monday B. Kuryas at the Police Headquarters, Minna State, the CAN Chairman, Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the security agencies with prayers. READ ALSO: My Father Was Not In Support Of…

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My Father Was Not In Support Of My Career – Kunle Afolayan

Ganiyu Amodu

Award-winning Nollywood actor and filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan has revealed that his late dad, Adeyemi Afolayan discouraged him and his siblings from acting or making films. The top Nollywood filmmaker disclosed that his late dad, who is highly regarded as one of the pioneers of filmmaking in Nigeria, discouraged him and his siblings from venturing into the make-belief world due to a lack of robust income. He said, “My father completely discouraged any of us from going into acting or filmmaking. He said do you want to be running around like…

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Ibrahim Gusau Replaces Pinnick As New NFF President

Ganiyu Amodu

Ibrahim Musa Gusau has emerged the new president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Gusau, a member of CAF Organising Committee and Chairman, Football Associations chairmen, garnered 39 votes to succeed Amaju Pinnick. READ ALSO: Oil And Gas Rediscovered: The Prospector, NCDMB, By Esueme Dan Kikile Oil-Rich N’Delta Communities, Poorest in Nigeria – SERAP PDP Erupts in N15bn Corruption Crisis BREAKING: Tinubu Absent As Presidential Candidates Sign Peace Pact In the first round of voting during the election held in Benin, Edo state, Gusau garnered 21 votes, defeating outgoing NFF…

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Oil And Gas Rediscovered: The Prospector, NCDMB, By Esueme Dan Kikile

Esueme Dan Kikile

A beneath-the-surface look into the six years of Engr Simbi Wabote’s appointment as the Executive Secretary of NCDMB   Twelve years of strategic planning and creative deployment of regulatory powers at the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board have literally reinvented Nigeria’s oil and gas industry to a degree that national aspirations, for decades elusive, have suddenly become realisable. Those aspirations, consecrated by evidence of how Middle Eastern countries with similar resource endowments got transformed almost overnight, derived from general consciousness of the possibilities for diversification of the nation’s productive…

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UK Varsity Lecturers Begin Strike

Ganiyu Amodu

4,000 members of the UCU at colleges across England, have taken up the industrial action over poor renumeration   University lecturers across the United Kingdom have begun a strike. Platforms Africa reports that the action being taken by the lecturers under the University and College Union (UCU) is a 10-day strike to protest poor renumeration. READ ALSO: ASUU Has Been On Strike for 1,744 Days in 16 Years — Report ASUU: How Govt Made U-Turn On Order Directing VCs To Reopen Varsities ASUU President And His Union of Quacks, By Lasisi…

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Oil-Rich N’Delta Communities, Poorest in Nigeria – SERAP

Ayobami Adedinni

A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has shown that communities in the Niger Delta are the poorest in Nigeria due to corruption and lack of effective governance and feedback framework. The report presented by Olubunmi Afinowi, a climate change expert at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lagos, disclosed that “the region remains deeply in the grips of squalor, poverty, and environmental degradation.” READ ALSO: ‘EU Sanctions Nigeria on Dearth of Anti-Money Laundering Legislation’ NUPRC, NNPC’s Crude Oil Theft Figures Outrageous, Impractical –…

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PDP Erupts in N15bn Corruption Crisis

Precious Ibekwe

Party leaders return slush funds secretly lodged in their accounts – Report   The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have reportedly been accused of embarking on a bazaar with the proceeds from the sale of forms in the recent primaries of the party that produced candidates for the 2023 general elections. This according to a report by whirlwind, is opening up a fresh wave of crisis in the party, already dogged with internal disputations amongs the top echelon. “Scandalised members of the National Working Committee (NWC), are currently…

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LUPAN Donates 3 Pickup Vans To SON, Strengthens Lubricant Standard Enforcement Ties

Aliyu Aliyu

Leaders of the Lubricants Producers’ Association of Nigeria (LUPAN) paid a visit to the Director General (DG/CE) Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mallam Farouk Salim at the SON Corporate Headquarters, Abuja. In his Welcome Address, the DG acknowledged SON’s existing collaborative relationship with LUPAN and appreciated the Associations efforts in the facilitation of a conducive business environment for its industry. READ ALSO: NUPRC, NNPC’s Crude Oil Theft Figures Outrageous, Impractical – Navy NNPCL Managers Lack Hands-On Experience, Competence – Ex-Director Ogedegbe Oil Theft: Fact And Figures Of A National Emergency,…

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Meet Idowu Ogunfayo, First Female Ag. Rector In Federal Poly Ilaro History

ADEOLA YUSUF

Before her appointment, Ogunfayo, a serial record breaker, was the Dean, Directorate of Students Affairs, and deputy Rector, the first female to be appointed into these two exalted positions in the polytechnic’s 43 year- history   The Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Southwest Nigeria, has appointed Engineer Mrs. Idowu Kaosara Ogunfayo as the first female Acting Rector in the 43 years’ history of the Polytechnic. The governing council of the institution established in July 25, 1979, announced the appointment of Ogunfayo with effect from Monday, September 26, following the glorious retirement of…

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