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Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has bagged a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from Baze University, Abuja. Amaechi studied at Baze University owned by Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed. Datti is the running mate to Labour Party (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The former Rivers Speaker and Governor was among the 504 students who graduated in different fields. Amaechi left his ministerial position after joining the race for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket. He lost to party co-founder and ex-Lagos governor Bola Tinubu, but finished ahead of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Prominent Nigerians, including former Minister of Aviation,…
China said on Sunday it is open to a meeting with the U.S. defence secretary on the sidelines of a regional security forum in Cambodia this week, in a sign of thawing relations after the countries’ top leaders met earlier this month. China Defence Minister, Wei Fenghe and U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin Lloyd previously confirmed separately that they would attend the forum with Southeast Asian countries, the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus. On Sunday, China’s defence ministry issued a statement featuring a question about whether the two would meet, with spokesman Tan Kefei quoted as saying, “China holds a proactive…
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has lamented that Nigeria has resorted to begging for survival due to crude oil theft. The minister also hinted that stealing the country’s main source of revenue was worsening the spate of unemployment in the country. The minister made the disclosure in Abuja at the 8th meeting of the National Employment Council. According to a statement yesterday by the ministry’s head, press and public relations, Olajide Oshundun, the minister noted that the menace of crude oil theft has hampered the efforts of the federal government towards creating jobs for the country’s teeming…
A group of Nigerian professionals based in the United States of America, USA, has pledged to mobilize thousands of its members to support the presidential aspiration of Mr. Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, for the 2023 general elections. The group, known as ‘Naija We Can’, said in Awka that the amount of support they intend to give would be the first of its kind in Nigeria since the commencement of the current democratic dispensation. Mr. Conway Ekpo, a successful New York – based FinTech lawyer, who serves on the Naija We Can board, described…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving all the monies accruable to the Niger Delta states since 1999. Wike explained that part of the money was used for the numerous projects activated by his administration. The governor was speaking on Friday during the commissioning of the Doctor Nabo Graham Douglas Law School built by the state government. He commended the president for not playing politics with the money despite being in a different political party. According to him, “monies that were not paid since 1999, the 13% deductions, Mr. President approved and paid all of…
The number of Nigerians living in poverty stands at over 133 million, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday. Similarly, the report said the poorest States are Sokoto, Bayelsa, Jigawa, Kebbi, Gombe and Yobe, but we could not say for sure which of these is the poorest, because their confidence intervals overlap. In general, the NBS said the incidence of monetary poverty is lower than the incidence of multidimensional poverty across most states. “In Nigeria, 40.1 per cent of people were poor, based on the 2018/19 national monetary poverty line, and 63 per cent are multidimensionally poor according to…
A 20 billion naira suit filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has been withdrawn. Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, fixed November 18 for hearing of the suit, which also had the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar, as a defendant. But Kanu’s counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, announced the discontinuation of the suit on his verified Twitter handle on Thursday. Ejimakor wrote, “UPDATE on #MNK outstanding cases in which I’m directly involved: “The United Kingdom case…
The presidential candidates of All Progressive Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar; Labour Party, Peter Obi and the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, are scheduled to meet with private school owners in the country. The meeting slated for November 30, would take place in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. It would be organized by the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) in Nigeria. NAPPS is the umbrella association for proprietors of private schools in the country with over 50,000 members nationwide. The National President of NAPPS, Yomi Otubela, made this known on…
…. Asuku dedicates Honor to Gov. Bello ….Vows to remain grateful and loyal to his leadership forever The Ata Igala and Chairman Kogi State Council of Traditional Rulers, His Royal Majesty (Dr) Matthew Alaji Opaluwa Oguche Akpa II is to confer the chieftaincy title of “Ogochi Ata Igala, on the Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Pharm. Abdulkareem Mohammad Jamiu Asuku on Thursday, 17th November 2022 at the palace of Ata Igala, Idah LGA at 10 am. This was formally disclosed via an official letter addressed to the Chief of Staff on Monday 14th November, 2022, by the highly…
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Sobur Olayiwola Olawale has slumped and died in Jos, Plateau State. The lawmaker has the nickname ‘Omititi.’ Olawale was in Jos where he attended the APC’s presidential campaign flag-off. He was said to have died on his way back to Lagos, but still in Jos, sources said on Tuesday. The late Olawale was born in 1964. He represented Mushin Constituency II at the State House of Assembly. Last Friday, during a novelty football match to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, the late lawmaker played…