Day: November 29, 2023

Tinubu Approves Recruitment Of 30,000 Policemen Yearly

Abibat Babalola

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, has said he has secured the approval of President Bola Tinubu for the recruitment of 30,000 policemen yearly. Egbetokun made this known during a working visit to Adamawa State on Tuesday. The previous administration headed by former President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the recruitment of 10,000 policemen yearly. The new approval will triple the number of cops recruited in the country each year. The IGP explained that complaints that police officers are overworked will become a thing of the past once the…

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Oyedepo To Son: Don’t Bring Down Any Ministry

Ganiyu Amodu

The Founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, has admonished his son, Isaac, not to malign or bring down any ministry while discharging his ministerial duties. He said this in a YouTube video Isaac shared on his X account on Tuesday. In the video titled, ‘Unveiling of the Isaac Oyedepo Evangelistic Ministries.’ Oyedepo addressed a congregation believed to be members of his son’s newly-founded ministry. He said, “My son, His times are not in your hands, your times are in His hands. Don’t be part of maligning or…

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OAU Wash-a-thon Record Breaker, Enitan Subair Bubbles With Excitement

Ganiyu Amodu

Miss Enitan Subair, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), who completed a record-breaking wash-a-thon in early hours of Monday, is bubbling with excitements of the applause that have greeted her courageous task. Subair, a 200-level student of Linguistics and African Languages at the first generation university, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State set a new world record after she competed a 58-hour wash-a-thon by 12.05 AM on Monday, November 27, 2023; surpassing her initial target of 50 hours. In the new video obviously recorded a day after her historic feat, Subair,…

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NUGA President Ogbu Is Dead

Ganiyu Amodu

Mr Emeka Ogbu, the President of the Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA), is dead. Prof. Mohammed Bawa, the acting president of the association, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Jos. Bawa said that Ogbu died on Monday after a brief illness. READ ALSO Tinubu Presents N27.5trn 2024 Budget BREAKING: Supreme Court Okays Indefinite Use Of Old, New Banknotes Ondo: Tinubu Asks Deputy Governor, Aiyedatiwa To Submit Undated Resignation Letter The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogbu was the Director of Sports at the Enugu State University of…

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Tinubu Presents N27.5trn 2024 Budget

Ganiyu Amodu

President Bola Tinubu has presented the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N27.5 trillion before a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The appropriation bill was christened the “Budget of Renewed Hope.” President Tinubu entered the Chamber of the House of Representatives at 11.13 a.m. The National Anthem was recited upon his arrival. The President of the Senate and Chairman of the National Assembly, Godswill Akpabio, called the House to order at 11.15 a.m. Akpabio began the reading of the welcome address at 11.20 a.m. READ ALSO BREAKING:…

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Okays Indefinite Use Of Old, New Banknotes

Ganiyu Amodu

ABUJA – The Supreme Court has ruled that both the old and the redesigned Naira banknotes remain valid legal tenders in the country beyond December 31. The apex court, in a ruling by a seven-man panel led by Justice Inyang Okoro, on Wednesday, said the banknotes should remain in circulation, pending when the Federal Government, after due consultation with relevant stakeholders, takes a decision on the matter. It made the order after hearing an application that was moved on behalf of the federal government by the Attorney-General of the Federation…

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Ondo: Tinubu Asks Deputy Governor, Aiyedatiwa To Submit Undated Resignation Letter

Abibat Babalola

President Bola Tinubu has reportedly asked the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to sign and submit an undated resignation letter. The Ondo Speaker, Rt. Hon Olamide Oladiji, made this known during Tuesday’s plenary while presenting the report of the resolutions reached at the Abuja meeting to the people of the state. Oladiji said Aiyedatiwa’s resignation was part of the resolution reached during the peace meeting brokered by President Tinubu on the political crisis in the Sunshine State. READ ALSO: Lagos Gov’t Seeks Public Help Over Boy Who Boasted Of Raping Girl…

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Lagos Gov’t Seeks Public Help Over Boy Who Boasted Of Raping Girl In Viral Video

Abibat Babalola

The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has reacted to a viral video of a boy boasting to his friends about raping a girl, urging the public to help locate the suspected rapist and the victim. In the  video, which went viral on Tuesday, the boy was heard narrating how the girl refused to have sex with him and told him she was afraid of getting pregnant. READ ALSO: 113 TASUED Graduates Bag First Class  Death Toll From Kenya’s El Nino Floods Hits 120 BREAKING: Court Adjourns Emefiele’s…

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113 TASUED Graduates Bag First Class 

Abibat Babalola

A total number of 12,700 students of Tai Solarin University of Education graduated at its combined 13th, 14th, and 15th convocations held on Tuesday at the OGD Hall of the University, out of which 113 bagged First Class. 329 of the graduates are from its Postgraduate College. The graduation covered three academic sessions, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, and 2022/2023. Sunday Oluyemi Gbodogbe of the Mathematics department with a 4.89 CGPA emerged overall best-graduating student for 2020/2021, Elibe Ogadima Patricia with a CGPA of 4.89 from the Biology department picked up the prize…

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Death Toll From Kenya’s El Nino Floods Hits 120

Ganiyu Amodu

Severe flooding caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon has killed 120 people in Kenya, while people in almost 90,000 households have been forced to leave their homes, the government said on Tuesday. The latest estimated death toll in Kenya has doubled as heavy seasonal rains following the worst drought in four decades have submerged towns and villages across East Africa, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Thousands of homes have been washed away or are marooned, while farmland has been submerged and tens of thousands of livestock drowned,…

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