The Presidency says henceforth, visitors to the State House will be required to undergo a rapid COVID-19 test at the entrance before gaining access to the seat of power. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu made the disclosure in Abuja. He said the aim is to check the recent…
Bandits have killed a farmer, Irimiya Musa, and five other people in Jauro Manu village, Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State. Daily Trust gathered the gunmen, five in number, stormed the house of the large scale farmer at about 4.30pm Saturday. The gunmen, each on a motorcycle, shot him in front of his house before shooting the…
The Caretaker leadership of Nigeria’s governing party, the All Progressives Congress, APC said it is committed to conducting a National Convention in 2022. In a new year message signed by the Secretary of the APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, the party also reiterated its commitment to free and fair elections. “As…
Nigerians have been tasked to support the government by making more sacrifices to end the insecurity in the country. The Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum, PGF, Mr. Salihu Lukman who said this in a press statement explained that one of the issue worsening Nigeria’s insecurity in insufficient funds to recruit and equip security personnel….
The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has inaugurated Sokoto Eastern Zone Development Association, SEZDA a non partisan organisation set to work with government and security to fight security challenges in 8 local government areas affected by Banditry and kidnapping. Inaugurating the Association in Gwadabawa local government, Governor Tambuwal commended the initiators of the Association…
The agreement on salary increases and subsidies in sectors subject to sectoral joint agreements entitled 2022-2023-2024 was signed today, Saturday January 01, 2022, between the UGTT and the UTICA. The agreement stipulates, according to Echaab News, the following: First: It is awarded to workers in sectors subject to sectoral joint agreements concluded between the structures…
The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has donated delivery kits and baby items to 600 mothers of new born babies in selected Primary Health Care Centres across the six Area Councils of the territory as part of activities to celebrate the New Year. She specifically offset the medical bills…
The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji has joined his ancestors. He was aged 93. He reportedly passed on at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Sunday. The Ekarun Olubadan, High Chief Amidu Ajibade, confirmed his demise. Oba Adetunji was crowned the 41st Olubadan on March 4, 2017. He took over after the demise…
Even in the grip of hopelessness, it will still be suicidal for a nation to be hopeless. This will seem to be the situation with Nigeria as she meandered into a new year yesterday. Same yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari was at the shrine to offer the rituals of a new year. In his 2022 New…
By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Practically everyone makes New Year’s resolutions at this period of the season – that is, towards the end of a closing year and the beginning of a new one. I made my own New Year resolutions for the “Triple T” year of Twenty Twenty-Two (2022) a fortnight ago….
