Day: February 9, 2024

Tinubu Launches 3,112 Housing Unit Construction In Abuja

Ganiyu Amodu

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, performed the groundbreaking of the 3,112 housing-unit Renewed Hope City in Karsana, Abuja, and reiterated his administration’s resolve to provide decent and affordable housing for Nigerians. A statement by his media, Ajuri Ngelale, stated that the project was a part of 20,000 housing units to be delivered in the Federal Capital Territory under a Public Private Partnership Arrangement being implemented by the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and it represents the first practical expression of the administration’s desire to implement a New City…

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Health Workers Fault Nursing Council’s Verification Process, Plan Protest

Abibat Babalola

The Council in a memo dated February 7, 2024, outlined what it called the revised guidelines and requirements to be met by all applicants seeking the verification of certificate(s) to foreign nursing boards/councils. Nigerian nurses and other health workers have kicked against what they described as stringent conditions imposed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) on all applicants seeking verification of certificate(s) to foreign nursing boards or councils. The Council in a memo dated February 7, 2024, outlined what it called the revised guidelines and requirements to…

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Six Lagos Traders Arraigned For  Assaulting Actress, Liz Anjorin

Abibat Babalola

Six traders were arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos Island Local Government on Thursday for allegedly assaulting and blackmailing Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin-Lawal. The defendants—Qudus Jokogbola, Suru Olawale, Edu Shakirat, Fausat Mohammed, Kafayat Ahmed, and Opere Simiat Morenike—were charged while two other suspects are currently at large. According to the prosecution led by Sola Samuel, the six defendants and two others conspired to commit the offence by forcefully pushing and dragging Anjorin-Lawal, causing her grievous bodily harm around 1:30 p.m. on Monday inside Oba Akintoye Market in Lagos Island.…

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Nigeria Forms Inter-Ministerial Committee As Gas Supply Issue Threatens Power

Abibat Babalola

In a bid to address the challenges of low gas supply to Gas (Thermal) Power Generating Stations in the country, the Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, and the Honourable Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu on Wednesday 7th February 2024 in Abuja set up an Inter-ministerial Committee. Platforms Africa reports that the committee is expected to suggest ways and means of achieving steady and sustainable gas supply to Gas Power Generating Plants to meet both domestic and industrial needs of Nigerians. The Inter-Ministerial Committee was formed at the…

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Absence Of Defence Counsel Stalls Bamise’s Alleged Murder Trial

ADEOLA YUSUF

Hearing in the no-case submission proposed by Abayomi Omotubora, counsel for the Bus Rapid Transit driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, charged with rape and murder of a 22-year-old fashion designer, Oluwabamisaye Ayanwole, was stalled on Thursday. The hearing could not continue due to the absence of the defendant’s counsel at a Lagos High Court, at Tafawa Balewa Square. The defendant, Ominnikoron, is facing five counts bordering on alleged rape, conspiracy, felony, sexual assault, and murder preferred against him by the Lagos State Government. At the resumed hearing, the Director of Public Prosecutions,…

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Asagba Only Hospitalized, Not Dead – Palace

ADEOLA YUSUF

As anxiety mounts over the reported passing on of the Asagba of Asaba, Obi (Prof.) Chike Edozien, the Palace on Thursday, said the revered traditional ruler was only hospitalized and not dead, Vanguard reports. The paper quoted the Palace Secretary, Ogbueshi Ndili as making this clarification when contacted on telephone. First Class graduate “His Royal Majesty is only hospitalized. If the worse comes to the worse, we will make it open”, Ndili told Vanguard. Similarly, when contacted to respond to the rumours, the member representing Oshimili South Constituency in the…

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