The leadership of the National Assembly led by senate president, Ahmad Lawan has convinced the Distribution Companies (DISCOs) in the country to defer the hike in electricity tariffs scheduled to take effect from July 1, 2020. This is according to a statement on Monday by the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media, Ola Awoniyi. He revealed that the lawmakers met with the Chief Executives of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the DISCOs and succeeded in persuading them to postpone the planned increase of tariffs until the first quarter of 2021. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Olabode George, has slammed former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, saying the All Progressive Congress party leader is responsible for the reported crisis in the ruling party Bode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, slammed Tinubu for allegedly mishandling the affairs of Lagos State, stating ”his time of reckoning was near and he’ll vomit everything he’s stolen.” Bode George was reacting to Tinubu’s Saturday statement addressing his purported 2023 presidential ambition and the crisis that has befallen the APC. In the statement, Tinubu said he hadn’t made up his mind…
The Court of Appeal has reserved judgement in the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate Engr Musa Wada, in the November 16, 2019 election, against the victory of Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress APC . The five man panel presided by Justice Adamu Jauro reserved judgement to a date to be communicated to the parties after listening to arguments from Engr Musa Wada lead counsel, JS Okutepa SAN ,and responses from JB Daudu SAN, Counsel to Governor Yahaya Bello and INEC counsel Chief Alex Izion. Engr Musa Wada is in court to challenge the…
The Federal Govt has commenced the process that will lead to the earlier announced recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians. On Monday, the federal government inaugurates the various committees in all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The inauguration is currently ongoing in Abuja by the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo. This was contained in the earlier statement obtained on Sunday by his spokesman, Olua Davidson. It said the committees would be in charge of “selecting the 1,000 persons per Local Government Area in respect of the Special Public Works Programme of the Federal Government”. The 36…
Ordinarily, I shouldn’t have descended so low to respond to a ‘Textual Puppet ‘ who is hiding under the court case between Abu Ibro and Engr Musa Wada to indirectly promote his ‘nepostical agenda’ but for the purpose of posterity and those who are not aware of his antics, let me, Sani Michael Omakoji respond to Issa Itopa Lucky accordingly. Before I proceed however, let me use this medium to congratulate my brother, Issa Itopa Lucky on these two outstanding issues: 1. On the emergence of _”Okene” as the main warehouse of “Illicit Drugs”_ in Kogi State according to NDLEA…
Nasir Ajanah, chief judge of Kogi state,has reported to have passed at Abuja on Sunday Morning According to TheCableNews who first broke the news, Nasir Ajanah died after suffering from COVID-19 infection at isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja. Meanwhile, all effort made to contact his family members as the time of filing this report proved abortive as all the phone lines linked to his family were not reachable. A brief biography of late Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Nasir Ajanah. Justice Nasir Ajanah was born in 1956 to the family of Alhaji MJ Fari Ajanah in Okene Local Government…
Nigerian Hipostar, Peter Okoye on Saturday revealed on Instagram handle how he and his family tested positive for COVID-19. Peter Okoye who looks emotional in a live said “It took me a lot of courage to say this”. For weeks “I was in prison in my own house. I was sick. I was COVID-19 positive. It took me a lot of courage to say this. I caught the virus. “I used to think this whole virus thing was a joke and I took it for granted.” Peter Okoye said his daughter and wife also later tested positive, including his cook…
Our attention has been drawn to the comical poesy by Egbira Youth Congress who out of shared of ignorance and odious misgivings have dabbled into a matter that had already been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction. We are not surprised over their infantile renditions as the he-goats who enjoys sleeping with his mother will not have respect for those of others. The aforesaid comical strophe at best could be a rhythm from a barking dog. Interestingly, we will not take away the right of a dog to bark, but one thing we will certainly not condone is the…
Npower has officially lunched the portal for 2020 in-take beneficiaries. The verified link web address according to Npower twitter handle is: http://npower.fmhds.gov.ng The Npower earlier instructed that interested candidate should make sure he or she enters correct Bio Data, especially BVN and Bank account among others. The registration which on 26th June 2020 at about 11:45am is expected to end on 14th August 2020 by 11:45pm Recall that Npower has earlier last week announced the transition of Batches A and B into the so much enhancement scheme. The decision which did not go down well with the beneficiaries have received…
What does a desecrated contraption provides if we resort to seeking redress between the core north and its rolls of insecurity? While we ponder on that, it is a miserable situation as the house of unconceivable power built by their leaders are being torn down and destroyed by the once-neglected children, whose flurries of killings and massacres won’t stop exactly the same way overflow from a collapsed dam won’t subside. What a discouraging challenge. The domination of the political denomination of the powerful north has consistently produced barons of the brigands; bearded wildlings; forest commanders’ and lords of the bush,…