President Muhammadu Buhari has on Friday being 22nd May 2020 announced the signing of Voluntary Offshore Assets Regularization Scheme (VOARS), into law. President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this on his official twitter handle @Mbuhari. According to President Buhari, the VOARS is an amendment to Excutive Order 008 which is to strengthen the implementation and enforcement of the Order that was originally signed in October 2018. In his separate tweets, Buhari says: “I have signed an Amendment to Executive Order 008, on the Voluntary Offshore Assets Regularization Scheme (VOARS). This Amendment will strengthen the implementation and enforcement of the Order, which I…
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The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress NWC/APC, has picked the direct primary method for the Edo State governorship primaries scheduled for June 22, 2020. It also granted a waiver to one of the aspirants, Pastor Ize-Iyamu, who is believed to be the preferred candidate of the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. Ourworldgist gathered this as the outcome of the APC NWC meeting, held at the party’s National Secretariat, in Abuja, on Thursday. The direct primary involves all registered card carrying members of the party in each local government of the state to participate in determining the gubernatorial…
The Federal Government ( FG ) on Thursday today 21st of May 2020,Officially Announced the proposed resumption date for schools In Nigeria, Universities, polytechnics and Others. The Federal Government of Nigeria (FG) has announced Monday, June 8,2020, the official resumption date for Universities,polytechnics, and other schools. This was disclosed by Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. He assured and raised the hope Nigerian students and the general public when he stated that president Muhammadu Buhari will open up all financial Institutions, schools and also spiritual houses after…
In one of our columns that went viral on social media last week, our dependable Columnist, Sani Michael Omakoji, had already brought to us on what he titled: “Expectations of Nigerians As Tribunal Sets To Deliver Judgement On Kogi November 16 Gubernatorial Election”. In a follow up to that painstaking article, he has this time around come up with another interesting write-up in what he titles, ” All Eyes On Nigerian Judiciary As Tribunal Delivers Judgement On Kogi November 16 2019 Gubernatorial Election ” Let us read his interesting write-up: ” The long awaited day for the good people of…
China has responded to the threat by the United States President, Donald Trump to cut trade ties with it due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, China stated that the two countries were better off as partners. Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, gave the position of the Chinese government at a media briefing. Lijian noted that China and America should cooperate to end the pandemic for the sake of reviving economies and rebooting industrial production. “The stable development of U.S.-Chinese relations is in the fundamental interest of people from both countries and is also favourable for global peace and stability,” Sputnik…
The Kogi State Election Governoship Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has set date to deliver judgement. According to the Tribunal on Wenesday, the Petition No EPT/KG/GOV/06/2019 Between MUSA ATAYI WADA & Anor. V. INEC & 2Ors seeking to determine the winner of the Kigi Governoship election has been slated for Judgment on Saturday the 23rd day of May, 2020 by 10am at the Federal High Court Headquarters Maitama Abuja. In a letter addressed to The Nigerianpost, signed by Umar Abubakar Secretary For Members of the Tribunal the respondents have been served already. Read Also: Opinion: Expectations Of Nigerians As Tribunal…
Coalition of Kogi State Likeminds ( CKSL ) in the United States of America ( USA ) has said that since Ibro and his son, Abu have regarded themselves as diplomats, Kogi people should go ahead and declare them as “Persona Non Granta”. In a statement made available by the chairman of the Association, Mr Frederick Attah, he said the call has become necessary as Ibro and his son, Abu have constituted themselves as semi gods in the struggle to reclaim Kogi’s stolen mandate from the hands of the enemies of Kogi State. He added that whether the dou have…
Nigerian students and prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps have urged the Federal Government ( FG ) to scrap the NYSC scheme, saying it has outlived its usefulness. Speaking with newsmen on how the outbreak of Coronavirus had affected their mobilization for the compulsory one-year national service, they lamented how their inability to take part in the programme had denied them of jobs. Following the outbreak of the virus in the country, the NYSC had abruptly ended activities at orientation camps across the country. The Director-General of the scheme, Ibrahim Shuaibu, in an interview with Economic Confidential, also…
Good of Nigerians on Tuesday morning reacted to the much talked about conspiracy theories of 5G network and Covid-19. Some social influencers led by one of Nigerian finest researchers, Sani Michael Omakoji argued for and against the so-called conspiracy theories. The argument for and against was made possible by Nigerian Television Authority ( NTA ) via her official twitter handle @NTAGMN on a popular program “Good Morning Nigerians”. The program starred on twitter came up this way “ON GOOD MORNING NIGERIA 19 MAY 2020, WE SHALL BE LOOKING AT COVID-19 AND THE 5G SCARE. RECALL THAT THERE HAVE BEEN CONSPIRACY…
President Donald Trump has late Monday evening threatened to permanently pull US funding from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) if it does not “commit to major substantive improvements in the next 30 days.” In a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in which he uploaded on his official twitter handle @realdonaldtrump, Trump said, “It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world. The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China. “My administration has…