Author: Asionye Augusta

The Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, has asked President Buhari to reschedule the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention slated for February 2022. Orji also allayed fears that the ruling party will implode if the APC’s National Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, holds the convention in February. This was stated in a letter he wrote on Thursday in Abuja to President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s national leadership. Kalu cited three difficulties that must be solved promptly before the convention: “election of National Working Committee (NWC); party crises at state levels; and…

President Muhammadu Buhari has on Thursday departed Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey, to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit. This was made known to the public by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement released on Thursday. According to the organizers, the conference titled ‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity,’ will examine African-Turkish collaboration since the last summit in 2014. “The third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit follows President Erdogan’s recent State Visit to Nigeria, during which many agreements in the domains of energy, defense industry, mining, and hydrocarbons were made to deepen existing…

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organization Afenifere, has described how he erected his Lekki house. According to him, the house erected at Plot 25, Ayo Adebanjo Close, Off Adebayo Doherty Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos State, was not financed by Tinubu. Chief Bisi Akande, a former Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, said in his book, ‘My Participations,’ that Adebanjo pestered Bola Tinubu to build the Lekki property for him. Adebanjo, on the other hand, rejected the accusation in a press release issued on Thursday, labeling Akande a “fool.” The Afenifere leader claimed to have sold…

Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, the wife of the Ondo State Governor, has launched the distribution of solar systems to rural women across the state’s 18 local government areas. It was reported that 300 rural women benefited from the gesture, which was powered by the BeMore Empowered Initiative in collaboration with the First Lady’s office, and it was conceived during the 2021 edition of the BeMore Summer Bootcamp, where 400 schoolgirls were given the solar system to power their houses. Akeredolu said at the distribution of the devices on Wednesday at the Government House site in Alagbaka Akure, the state capital, that 300…

On Wednesday, the Federal Government presented 15 suspected intruders of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili for arraignment at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The accused were carried into Court 11 by Nigerian Police Force agents from the Force Headquarters at 01:40 pm, where they will be arraigned before Justice Nkeonye Maha. On November 11, the Police High Command displayed 15 suspects in connection with the invasion of the Abuja residence of a Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, identifying them as impostors unknown to the nation’s security forces. The 14 suspects were paraded at the Force Headquarters Annex in Abuja,…

Rwanda has identified its first six cases of the rapidly spreading Covid-19 Omicron form, prompting the government to ramp up pandemic preparations like closing nightclubs and extending quarantines for overseas visitors. The government declared that visitors will now be forced to quarantine for three days rather than the current 24 hours, following the discovery of six cases of the Omicron variety in travelers and their contacts. A Covid-19 PCR test will be performed upon arrival, as well as an extra test on day three and day seven, at the expense of the visitor, the Ministry of Health stated in a…

Plan International Nigeria, a human rights organization, joined the fight for Middle Belt peacebuilding on Tuesday, targeting around 200 youths as drivers of the process in flashpoint areas in Kaduna and Plateau States. PIN’s Country Director, Usie Emmamuzou, revealed this during a close-out workshop in Abuja organized by the Middle Belt Youth Peace Building Academy Project in collaboration with PIN and the Centre for Peace Advancement in Nigeria. According to him, the initiative, which began two years ago, aimed to train selected young leaders in Kaduna and Plateau States to design and lead their own initiatives to promote peace and…

Concerned with the recent spate of violence in Nigeria, the AYATUTU Pentecostal Ministers Forum launched a forum on Monday to advocate the spiritual war against ethnic clashes and general instability in the country. While speaking at the forum’s inaugural event in Jalingo, Rev. Godwin Nyakule said that the concept arose as a result of the country’s glaring lack of social justice, particularly for Tiv and other ethnic minorities. This forum arose as a result of the ongoing crises in Tiv and other ethnic nations in Nigeria. Through this, the Taraba Pentecostal Tiv preachers were inspired by the Holy Spirit to…

Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State, has condemned bullying as a perversive culture that is incompatible with the virtues of education. He stated this in a statement signed by Gboyega Akosile, his Chief Press Secretary on Friday. During the inauguration of four new school infrastructure projects at Lagos State Model College in Igbokuta, Ikorodu division, Sanwo Olu condemned bully among pupils. Sanwo-Olu informed the school’s students that bullying is not a show of bravery, but rather acts of physical weakness, and urged them to report anyone frightening them right away. The choice of school projects we are providing…

The Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO has expressed worry over statistics showing that violence against women in Nigeria has increased intermittently to 297 percent since the COVID-19 outbreak began. The UN said it had obliged all of its member states to support the Secretary-‘UNiTE General’s to End Violence Against Women Campaign,’ with the theme “Orange the World,” which asks for global action to raise awareness, activate advocacy efforts, and share knowledge and ideas. Idowu Lateef Olagunju, the Secretary-General of NATCOM-UNESCO, expressed his worry on Friday in Abuja at the launch of Tabitha Cumi Foundation’s Flash Actions On Girls Safety project.…