The Osun state government has disclosed plans to distribute rice palliatives in order to ease fuel subsidy removal crisis. The government said that it will issue a template for the distribution of rice palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel Subsidy removal. According to Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed in an audio broadcast on Thursday noted…
The Country Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund(UNICEF) in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, has urged the Federal Government to apply relevant laws to prosecute bandits for their atrocities committed against humanity. Cristian made the call during a press briefing preparatory to the commemoration of World Humanitarian Day in Maiduguri on Friday. She noted that it…
Daniel Bwala, an aide to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in the last general election, Atiku Abubakar, has said that some of the positions President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assigned to his ministers are mismatched. Tinubu had on Wednesday assigned 45 portfolios to ministers-designate who will be sworn in Monday. But Bwala,…
After a two-day meeting and following months of negotiations between seven South African opposition parties, the Multi-Party Convention agree to work more closely as the country heads towards elections in 2024. During the ceremony, leaders of the various parties sign the Multi-Party Charter, saying this will pave the way to oust the ruling African National…
Amid Niger’s political crisis, citizens of the west African nation are struggling to get by day to day. Many who fled their homes due to jihadist attacks have ended up in the country’s capital Niamey, where they are trying to find food and work. Niger has been in crisis since mutinous soldiers overthrew the country’s…
Governor Adeleke’s Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, has clarified the appointments of two Senior Special Assistants appointed for Goverment House Pool and Oranmiyan New Town. Olawale, in a statement he made available to newsmen on Friday, stated that the attention of Adeleke, has been drawn to a deliberate and mischievous misrepresentation and misinterpretation of these two appointments….
Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani, the former speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will rule Nigeria for 60 years. Zailani stated this when he visited the APC national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, in Abuja on Thursday. The now late Chief Ogbulafor had boasted that the PDP was poised to…
The WHO classified the new variant as one under surveillance “due to the large number (more than 30) of spike gene mutations it carries”, it wrote in a bulletin about the pandemic late Thursday. The World Health Organization and US health authorities said Friday they are closely monitoring a new variant of Covid-19, although the…
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has approved the immediate replacement of medical doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who exit the state health facilities in search of greener pastures abroad. Dr AbdulRaheem Malik, the Executive Secretary of the State Hospital Management Board, disclosed this on Thursday in Ilorin while featuring on the 38th edition of…
Femi Falana, a popular Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria has said the Federal Government’s N5 billion fuel subsidy removal palliatives are diversionary and a waste. Falana disclosed this on Friday during an interview on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST. According to him, Tinubu should address the root cause: the dollarization of…
