The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has described travel ban on Nigerians by governments of United Kingdom and Canada as arbitrary stigmatisation, calling for the intervention of the World Health Organization (WHO). The NGF Chairman, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State gave the charge via a statement titled: ‘Omicron: The NGF rejects arbitrary stigmatisation’, which led to the recent ban placed on Nigeria by Canada and United Kingdom. While stressing the need for WHO to set acceptable standards for all the country to comply with, Governor Fayemi urged Nigerians to be vaccinated as soon as possible. Only three cases of the…
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Members of the Oyo state chapter of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) on Tuesday declared that the National Secretary of the Association, Helen Udofa lacked integrity for her recent outburst over crisis rocking the state chapter of the association. In a statement signed by 52 members of the association in the state after it’s emergency meeting in Ibadan on Tuesday morning, they said the statement issued by the National Secretary of the Association, Helen Udofa on Monday indicated that the national Secretariat was interested in the crisis in the state. Udofa in a statement on Monday said the…
The National secretariat of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), on Monday, reaffirmed it’s stands that it only recognises the Comrade Jadesola Ajibola-led leadership in Oyo state having duly elected and sworn-in. It would be recalled that the election that brought in Jadesola Ajibola led executive was duly supervised by officials assigned by the national leadership. The national body in a statement signed by its national secretary, Helen Udofia, added that for the avoidance of doubt, “the Jadesola Ajibiola-led executive , having met all constitutional requirements of the NUJ constitution which is the grundnorm being used by the association…
The Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has said the state plans to expend N51billion in 2022 for the development and sustenance of physical infrastructure, as well as the construction and rehabilitation of roads and bridges. The governor, who recently presented the 2022 budget proposal to Edo State House Assembly in Benin City, said N30bn will be spent on improving roads and bridges and N21bn for building more physical infrastructure and maintaining existing ones. Reassuring the completion of all ongoing road projects in the state, Obaseki, reassured residents that his government remains committed to infrastructural development across the state. According to…
President Muhammadu Buhari sends warm felicitations to President Adama Barrow of The Gambia over his re-election for a second term of five years. The President congratulates the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for dutifully handling the electoral process, while commending the Gambians for their high sense of civility, maturity and patriotism. President Buhari assures President Barrow and all Gambians of Nigeria’s commitment and partnership as they collectively work on making the country better and stronger for posterity.
The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured that the leadership tussle rocking the Kano State chapter of the party would soon be resolved amicably. National Secretary of the APC CECPC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe gave the assurance on Monday while speaking with newsmen in Abuja. The APC State chapter in the North West state has been in turmoil following the battle for the control of its structures by the Kano state governor, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje an Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, which led to parallel congresses. Other leading members of the Senator Shekarau faction include four…
A group, Forum of Ibarapa Indigenes in Diaspora has told the Oyo state Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde that the Ibarapa zone of the state needs infrastructural development not birthday celebration. The group in a statement signed by its chairman, Adebayo Adedigba and secretary, Taiwo Kareem and made available to newsmen on Monday said they have gathered that Governor Makinde will be celebrating his birthday on 25th of December this year at Ibarapa zone. While lamenting the rate of insecurity in the zone, the group criticized the Seyi Makinde-led government for neglecting the zone while other zones in the state are…
Member of the House of Representatives, representing Ibadan Northwest/Southwest Federal Constituency, Ibadan, Oyo State, Hon. Adedeji Stanley Olajide who is popularly known as Odidi Omo is set to empower his constituents on Saturday, December 11. Odidi Omo in a release he personally signed and made available to journalists disclosed that the Mega Empowerment Programme has been scheduled to take place on next Saturday at his constituency office in Iyana Adeoyo, Ring-Road axis of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. The Federal Lawmaker disclosed that the empowerment programme would come into place in line with fulfilment of the promises made during…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Chief Adegboyega Adegoke, has threw its weight behind the National Assembly for adopting direct primaries for political parties to pick their candidates for elections. This is just as he said Nigeria need a benevolent dictator to turn things around in the country. Adegoke said these while participating on a political programme on an Ibadan-based radio, Solutions 93.9 FM, titled, Politics in Focus. The Senate and the House of Representatives recently passed the harmonized version of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which allowed for direct primaries as a means…
The Senate’s Committee on Local Content has walked out the Deputy Managing Director of Daewoo Engineering and Construction Limited, Mr. Yeon Seop Jung, who appeared in place of the Company’s Managing Director. Daewoo and Saipem’s Managing Directors had been invited by the Senate’s Committee, to give evidence following several petitions it had received on allegations of breach of Local Content Law in the execution of the Train-7 project. The Train-7 project is Nigeria’s largest gas project and valued as around $10bn (ten billion US dollars). The project is owned by the Nigerian Liquefied and Natural Gas Company (NLNG) and involves…