Kano Pillars forward, Ahmed Musa has urged his teammates to maintain their impressive run of form in the league.
The Sai Masu Gida are unbeaten in their last three fixtures in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL).
The Usman Abdallah side are sixth in the NPFL table with 18 points.
“Let’s keep the momentum going and chase more wins together!,” Musa wrote on X.
Elder statesman and legal icon, Aare Afe Babalola has declared that Nigerians must fear and respect the Police the way they regard the military, in order to guarantee order and security in the country.
Alternatively, he said Nigeria’s laws should be amended so that the military would be saddled with the enforcement of law and order in the country.
Babalola spoke on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti, at the 4th edition of the Aare Afe Babalola Distinguished Personality Lecture Series, entitled, ‘Insecurity, leadership and peace building in Nigeria: Dynamics and challenges’.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented a certificate of return to Lucky Aiyedatiwa, governor-elect of Ondo state and his deputy Olayide Adelami.
The certificate was presented on Wednesday by Kunle Ajayi,
INEC supervising national commissioner for Ondo and Toyin Babalola, Ondo
resident electoral commissioner (REC) at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.
Aiyedatiwa, the incumbent governor of Ondo state and
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the election in all 18
LGAs with 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival, Agboola Ajayi of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 117,845 votes.
Nejo Adeyemi, candidate of the African Democratic Congress
(ADC), came a distant third with 4,138 votes.
Uba is facing a two-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/538/2024
alongside two others – Crystal Uba and Benjamin Etu.
The charge, dated October 8, was filed before Inyang Ekwo,
judge of a federal high court in Abuja.
In count one, Uba, Crystal, Etu and one Hajiya Fatima (now
at large), were alleged to have conspired amongst themselves to commit the
offence in 2022.
Doyin Okupe says Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, does not have any policy document to back his consumption-to-production mantra during the campaign.
Okupe, a former director-general of the LP presidential
campaign, spoke on Tuesday while assessing President Bola Tinubu’s
administration.
He argued that Tinubu has a superior policy document
compared to his challengers in the 2023 elections.
Okupe added that Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), based his plans on theoretical loan
arrangements.
The federal government has set up the National Engineering and Innovation Fund (NEIF) to support local innovation and encourage entrepreneurship.
President Bola Tinubu, represented by Bello Goronyo,
minister of state for works, announced the development on Tuesday at the 2024
International Engineering Conference Exhibition and annual general meeting in
Abuja.
The conference was organised by the Nigerian Society of
Engineers (NSE) to address issues around sustainable engineering solutions to
food security and climate change.
“I am proud to announce the establishment of the National Engineering and Innovation Fund,” Tinubu said.
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has uncovered the widespread presence of substandard and unregistered sugar products in Nigerian markets, particularly in the Southwest and Northeast.
The spokesperson of FCCPC, Ondaje Ijagwu, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
According to him, the fake products are particularly smuggled brands from Brazil, including Grupo Moreno, Terous, USI S. Joao, Alvean, and Arapora Bionergia.
He noted that the products were smuggled through Nigeria’s porous borders, particularly from neighbouring countries including Cameroon and the Benin Republic.
Tinubu also approved the removal of Mrs Rosemary Ifoema
Nwokike, Nnamdi Azikiwe University registrar.
The Council, led by Ambassador Greg Ozumba Mbadiwe, includes
five other members: Hafiz Oladejo, Augustine Onyedebelu, and Engr. Amioleran
Osahon, and Rtd. Gen. Funsho Oyeneyin.
A statement issued by Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu’s Special Adviser
on Information & Strategy, said the sacking of the Governing Council and
officials followed reports that the Council illegally appointed an unqualified
vice-chancellor without following due process.
Momodu posted this on his personal X account on Tuesday
night.
His clarification comes amid claims on a social media report
that Adenuga, one of Nigeria’s oil barons is dead.
According to him, the 71-year-old Adenuga is hale and hearty, urging Nigerians to “ignore the fake news.”
The president has been receiving backlash over the
increasing number of his media aides, with Daniel Bwala being the latest
addition.
The former governorship aspirant in Ogun State, in a
statement titled “President Tinubu’s Cacophony of Media Aides,” expressed his
disappointment on Wednesday.
The statement reads, “If the President cannot put a simple
media team together, can anyone be surprised how he will motivate them to get
the job done?
Miss Universe runner-up, Chidimma Adetshina, has announced her decision to quit pageantry.
Speaking during a recent interview with Silverbird TV, Adetshina said pageantry has been a traumatic experience for her.
She said she’s quitting for personal reasons and relocating to Nigeria from her estranged country, South Africa.
“Finishing in the top 2 [at the Miss Universe competition] is still a shocker for me… Honestly, I am done. Pageantry was a real traumatic experience for me,” she said.
The Nigerian Senate has removed the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar from office.
The removal followed the two-thirds majority of Senators required to validate the resolution of the legislative Chamber.
The Senate Leader, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele had sponsored a motion seeking the “invocation of the provision of Section 157(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended for the removal of the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.”
Imo citizens have expressed mixed reactions to the vote of confidence passed on Governor Hope Uzodinma by the State House of Assembly on Tuesday, November 19, in recognition of what they described as his solid and outstanding achievements.
Some residents have criticized the move, arguing that it was unnecessary and questioning the legislators’ role as the governor’s mouthpiece.
They called on the lawmakers to focus on legislating solutions to pressing state issues such as rural road rehabilitation, security challenges, and the rising cost of food items.
Speaking to our correspondent, retired principal Osondu Hyacinth Eriaja stated, “I don’t think passing a vote of confidence is one of the legislative functions of lawmakers. They have much to do rather than reducing their duties to mere praise-singing.
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has called for peace following a protest on Wednesday morning, which preceded the police shooting of Wakeel Nurudeen Iyanda Alowonle on Monday night in Osogbo.
Adeleke, in a statement by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, said the call for peace was necessary to allow the authorities to investigate and deliver justice regarding the attempted murder of Alowonle Iyanda, the Osun State Transport Management System Chairman.
A protest was staged on Wednesday morning around Aregbe Park along the Gbongan-Ibadan road in Osogbo.
As a result of the protest, commercial transportation and mini buses, Korope, had not been operating at the time of filing this report.
A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the ministry of foreign affairs and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) to bring back about 270 Nigerians currently imprisoned or detained in Kaliti prison, Ethiopia.
Inyang Ekwo, the presiding judge, granted the order of
mandamus while delivering judgment in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/303/2024.
The suit, instituted by Sunday Mmaduagwu, Henry Anyanwu and
Leonard Okafor, on behalf of Nigerians imprisoned in Ethiopia prison claimed the inmates were being subjected to
poor living conditions after the authorities declared that it had no budget to
take care of them.
The applicant had joined NIDCOM, ministry of foreign
affairs, senate, house of representatives, Federal Republic of Nigeria and the
attorney-general of federation (AGF) as 1st to 6th respondents respectively.