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GOVERNOR SOLUDO INAUGURATES HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Friday, September 16, inaugurates Council for State Action on Business Enabling Reforms Programme (SABER). Programme Background: 1- The SABER Programme is a 3-year performance-based intervention jointly designed by the World Bank Technical team and the PEBEC Secretariat with support from the FMFBNP Home Finance Department (HFD) and the  Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF) Secretariat, to incentivise and strengthen the implementation of business enabling reforms across Nigeria. 2- Riding on the back of SFTAS, which has created a mutual accountability platform between the Federal Government and the States, the SABER will further consolidate and deepen gains from EoDB reforms implemented across the country. 3- In line with the NDP’s objectives, an enabled business environment will facilitate crowding in private investment at scale, which is needed to achieve Nigeria’s development priorities. Result ...

ASUU STRIKE: PRESIDENT BUHARI MEETS WITH PRO-CHANCELLORS OF VARSITIES, PROMISES FURTHER CONSULTATIONS President Muhammadu Buhari Friday at State House, Abuja, met with the Chairman and select members of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities, promising to engage in further consultations with relevant stakeholders, towards ending the protracted strike by university lecturers, under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).   The President said without necessarily going back on what is already established policy, “I will make further consultations, and I’ll get back to you.”   The Pro-Chancellors were led to the meeting by Professor Nimi Briggs, who said they had come to meet with the President in three capacities: “As President and Commander-in-Chief, as father of the nation, and as Visitor to the Federal universities.”   He added that despite the pall cast by more than seven months of industrial action, “the future of university system in the country is g...

COURTS STOPS SPORTS MINISTER, PINNICK FROM CONDUCTING NFF EXECUTIVE ELECTION A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, and President, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick from conducting the NFF executive election scheduled for Sept. 30 in Edo. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on an ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the claimants, Celsus Ukpong, ordered the minister, Mr Pinnik or any person, acting on their instruction, to maintain a status quo pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. “Counsel for the claimants informed the court that the defendants are taking action that will adversely affect the subject matter of this case. “Parties are hereby ordered to maintain status quo ante pending final order of this court,” he ruled. Justice Ekwo then reverted the matter to Oct. 31 for hearing. RukotoTV gathered from the News Agency of Nigeria that, in the motion marked: ...

POLICE UNCOVER CANNABIS FARM IN ABUJA, ARREST SUSPECTED OWNER The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has uncovered a Cannabis farm and arrested the suspected owner, Thaddeus Joseph.  Spokesperson of the command, DSP Josephine Adeh, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, September 16, 2022, said the 32-year-old resident of Kado Estate Area of the FCT was arrested for the offence of being in possession of a commercial amount of leaves suspected to be Cannabis sativa. The suspect was arrested by a team of the Command attached to the Anti-Narcotics Section on September 7, 2022.  According to the PPRO, the arrest was based on credible information that the suspect cultivates a large farm of the prohibited plant at Godab Estate in the Life Camp Area of the FCT.  The spokesperson stated that the suspect in a voluntary statement confessed to having been in the practice for about two years. Adeh said necessary arrangements had been made to forward the name of the ...

BOKO HARAM CHIEF EXECUTIONER WHO SLAUGHTERED '1000' ABDUCTED MILITARY MEN AND CIVILIANS SURRENDERS TO TROOPS IN BORNO A senior member of the Boko Haram terror group, Bashir Bulabuduwaye, has surrendered to troops of the Nigerian army. According to Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in Lake Chad, West Africa, Bulabuduwaye was Boko Haram’s chief executioner who slaughtered all abducted persons condemned by the group.  It was gathered that the terrorist and his family including wife and children, surrendered to the troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Banki in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State on September 12, 2022. An Intelligence officer told Makama that Bulabuduwaye was known to be an official who carries out a sentence of death on a condemned persons, captured military men and civilians when Abubakar Shekau was a Leader of the Sect. group. The sources said that the former terror kingpin had appeared in many grisly footages showing fighters al...

Suspected cultists kill YABATECH student . . A student of the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) Akoka, Lagos, identified as Korede Paul, was on Thursday, September 15, at about 10 pm, shot dead by gunmen suspected to be cultists. A student of the school who witnessed the incident said the deceased was behind him when he was shot in front of the Art complex in the institution and is said to be the second person to have been murdered this semester. It was also gathered that a female student also sustained a gunshot injury and has been rushed to the hospital for medical care. A video shared on Twitter shows the victim in a pool of blood. The spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the killing said they are gathering more information about the incident. One more photo below. 

Police Operatives today 15/9/2022 at about 9am arrested one Chisom Nweke ‘M’ aged 26yrs of Umuawulu, Awka along Amawbia, round about. He confessed to be using charms to defraud POS operators within Awka and it’s environs.  Preliminary investigations reveals that the suspect cut plain white papers in size of money and give to the POS operator for deposit. Efforts are emplaced to arrest other gang members.  *DSP Ikenga Tochukwu PPRO Anambra  State.* One more photo below. 

IPOB DOESN'T KILL AND DOESN'T KNOW WHO KILLED SHEIKH IYIORJI We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership and command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to disassociate ourself from the murder of one Muslim cleric and Sheikh Ibrahim Iyiorji of Ebonyi state.  We therefore warn Daily Trust media outlet owned by Fulani bandits to stop propagating falsehood, fabricated, fallacies, and unconfirmed news against IPOB Worldwide.  We wish to let other media houses assisting them in their desperation to tarnish IPOB to beware of their evil reportage against IPOB.  IPOB does not engage in such barbaric  killings and cannot be part of such heinous crime against humanity. IPOB does not kill flies talk of human beings and an Igbo man for that matter irrespective of his religious belief.  Daily Trust and other compromised media should leave IPOB alone, get focused and stop encouraging Nigeria compromised Security Agencies on their stat...

‘Freedom Is Priceless’: Ice Prince says after being released from custody Nigerian artiste, Ice Prince Zamani, has said freedom is priceless after being released from the Ikoyi Prison. The “Oleku” singer was arrested for allegedly abducting and assaulting a police officer earlier in the month. Ice Prince on his Twitter page wrote, “Freedom is Priceless”. This comes days after the Lagos State Police Command spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, tweeted about Ice Prince’s arrest. “At 3 am today, @Iceprincezamani was stopped for driving without license plates. He agreed to be taken to the station,” Hundeyin said. “He, thereafter, abducted the police officer in his car, assaulted him, and threatened to throw him in the river. He has been arrested and would be arraigned today.” The artiste was released after meeting bail conditions on Thursday. Credit: Twitter  

El-Rufai Lauds Military’s Offensive Against Terrorists Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has applauded security agencies for mounting a sustained offensive against terrorists, kidnappers and other criminals in the state. The governor made the commendation on Wednesday in Kaduna while declaring open the 4th edition of the Kaduna Book and Art Festival. “In the last six weeks there has been improved offensive operation against criminals and we are confident if it is sustained, people can drive comfortably without any security or taking of the train to Kaduna,” he said. He thanked organisers of the festival for coming to Kaduna to hold the event, in spite of “what people say about the state”. El-Rufai said that his vision was to ensure that Kaduna remained a place where everyone feels at home, with no provision for indigene, tribe or religion. According to him, what should matter is common humanity, such that everyone who chooses to live, work and pay tax is indigenous to Kaduna. The...

Kaduna Journalist, John Femi To Donate Kidney To Ekweremadu’s Daughter The immediate-past Secretary of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State Council, Comrade John Femi Adi, has announced his readiness to donate one of his kidneys to the ailing daughter of a former Deputy Senate President, Sonia Ekweremadu. Adi, who made the announcement on his verified Facebook page in a post entitled, ‘Willing to Save a Soul’ on Friday morning, wrote: “I, Comrade John Femi Adi, a Kaduna based journalist and farmer hereby announce my ‘agape’ decision to donate one of my kidneys to Senator Ekweremadu’s beautiful daughter. “I am doing this on God’s order in the Holy Bible to Love our neighbours as ourselves “For further communications, reach me via my official phone number -: 08034210833.” LEADERSHIP reports that Sonia, daughter of the immediate-past Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, had few days ago appealed to the public to help save her life by donating a kidney to her in or...

MIDDLE BELT: GROUP ADVOCATES RENAMING OF NORTH CENTRAL REGION The pressure group made the call on Thursday in a press statement signed by Yakubu Solomon Sule and issued to reporters. Sule noted that the people of the Middle Belt have been marginalised and cheated when it comes to the political benefits of the country, saying the northern elite have always abandoned the Middle Belt states during the sharing of political benefits, only using the region to add their numbers during elections. “We’re not a shopping mall where the north and the south would come and do their shopping every four years, where our illustrious sons and daughters were deprived of becoming the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria due to our inability to define our real identity,” the statement read. “Most importantly, I want all Middle Belters to know that we’re not second-class citizens. We Are All Free Born.” According to the Statement, the Middle Belt area comprises a landmass of more than three hundred ...

PICTURES: GOV. BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU AT THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) SIGNING CEREMONY BETWEEN THE LAGOS STATE SPORTS COMMISSION & FRENCH EMBASSY IN NIGERIA AT LAGOS HOUSE, MARINA, ON FRIDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2022. PIX 1 R-L: Lagos Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Mr Segun Dawodu; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mrs Emmanuelle Blatmann, during the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) Signing Ceremony between the Lagos State Sports Commission & French Embassy in Nigeria at Lagos House, Marina, on Friday, 16th September, 2022. PIX 2 L-R: French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mrs Emmanuelle Blatmann; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Mr Segun Dawodu, signing a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) between the Lagos State Sports Commission & French Embassy in Nigeria at Lagos House, Marina, on Friday, 16th September, 2022. PIX 3 L-R: French Consul General to Nigeria, ...

𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫 As a family, we have grown up learning to share our parents, especially our beloved mama, with the Nation, her Realms and the Commonwealth. While it has been lovely to have spent time saying our own farewell privately at Balmoral, it is now time to allow others to be able to say their farewell. We have been overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed us and the sheer number of people who have gone out of their way to express their own love, admiration and respect to such a very special and unique person who was always there for us. And now, we are there for her, united in grief. Thank you for your support, you have no idea how much it means. The Queen’s passing has left an unimaginable void in all our lives. Sophie and I have taken huge pleasure in seeing our James and Louise enjoying the places and activities that their grandparents loved so much. Given that my mama let us spend so much time ...

MY LATE MOTHER WILL BE BURIED IN OWO-GOV AKEREDOLU  •Receives Delegation Of Olowo-In-Council  Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has continued to receive dignitaries and sympathisers from far and near over the death of his mother, Lady Evangelist Grace Akeredolu (JP). The Governor’s mother died yesterday at her Kopindogba residence in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.  Receiving the delegation of Olowo-in-Council in Ibadan on Friday, Governor Akeredolu appreciated the Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Gbadegesin Ogunoye for sending his chiefs to pay condolence visit to him. The Governor disclosed that his mother will be buried in Owo.  He noted that the late Lady Evangelist Akeredolu was more of Owo despite hailing from Igbotu in Ese-Odo local government area of Ondo State. Speaking on behalf of the delegation, Chief Amos Aladesawe extended the condolences of the Olowo of Owo to the Governor. “We bring greetings from the Olowo of Owo. He said we should extend...