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The former Nigerian financial minister Ngozi Iweala seem more now headed as the next World Trade Organization head as her only rival South Korean Moo Myung-Hee drop out of the race. The Korean in her pulling out statement stated she has underwent several consultation to come to conclusion that other position off life where he will better useful to his nation and World at large. Meanwhile, there are several calls for the USA president Joe Biden to rescind the position of the US by the former president Trump. The US has by Donald Trump refused support for the Nigerian candidate Mrs Ngozi Iweala. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Do you think of President Biden will bow to pressure to rescind the decision?

Hours after President Buhari extends by three months the tenure of IGP Mohammed Adamu who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 60yrs or 35yrs of service. There has been uproar in the society against the president's action. Prominent lawyers has weighed into the matter to give legal meaning to the order. However, all the lawyers agreed the president has the power to elongate or terminate prematurely the services of the service chiefs, but that must be done according to the prescription of the law. According to Barr. Lebrous Oshoma while answering questions on AriseTV also toe the line of Barr. Ubani who just granted interview to Nigerian Info radio, that the manner the president went about the tenure elongation nullifies it, and so in the eyes of the law as at February 2, 2021 Nigeria seizes to have an Inspector General of Police and any action carried out by Mr Mohammed Adamu is challengeable. Meanwhile, the president also has submitted to the National Assembly the names of...

Report according to Daily Sun says, barely 24 hours after negotiations between armed bandits and some communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, no fewer than 25 members of neighbouring communities have been killed by armed bandits. The killer bandits went away with about 50 members of the communities, mostly women and children in the attack which lasted over three hours, after killing about 25 people mostly men, while 30 others were seriously injured.   According to source close to one of the communities, the bandits, numbering about 100 invaded the villages in Kwaki in Kurebe/Kushaka Ward of Shiroro LGA on Monday morning to unleash terror on the people for their refusal to attend a meeting which was held on Sunday, a day before the attack. The source further said, said the bodies of those killed were still littered around the bush in these communities as at the time of filing this report 3:00pm (Tuesday) with nobody to bury them. The injured ones, about 30 of th...

THE National Association of Nigeria (NANS) has called on Sunday Adeyemo, aslo known as Sunday Igboho, to employ dialogue and consultations with relevant stakeholders to find lasting solutions to the activities of herdsmen in the South West. Addressing journalists, yesterday, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, NANS Chairman/Ogun Joint Campus Committee, Kehinde Simeon, urged Adeyemo to liaise with the appropriate authorities to find a solution to the crisis and not “to set the entire South West on fire and cause anarchy.” Simeon also called on the state government to consider the registration of herdsmen within the borders of Ogun State, ban open grazing and fast track the inauguration of Amotekun corps to further combat insecurity around schools in the state. “We understand Igboho, but it is our view that he should meet with Yoruba leaders, Afenifere and other stakeholders. This has become important so as not to set the entire South West on fire and cause anarchy. “We observ...

Aduekpe  Precious Edinaeval, 19, hail from Abi Local Government Area in Cross River State, born to Mr Samuel Adu Aduekpe and Mrs Grace Nkanu Aduekpe, became the star attraction at the fifth convocation ceremony of McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Ogun State. She graduated with Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.97, Department of Accounting. By her performance, Aduekpe set a new graduation record.   Her score is the best since the inception of the university eight years ago. She went home with 10 prizes, including the Visitor Leadership, Chairman Award, Board of Trustees, Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor and Vice Chancellor prize. She wrote her UTME in March 2016 and scored 301. I was very excited and thankful for the result. “WASSCE came in May/June. I obtained 7As in Mathematics, Economics, Financial Accounting, Government, Commerce, Computer Studies and Civic Education respectively, B2 in English Language and B3 in Data Processing and later emerged the Valedi...

The  judicial panel investigating cases of police brutality in Akwa Ibom State has summoned the leader of the disbanded IGP Intelligence Response Team, DCP.    Abba Kyari over an allegation on abuse of fundamental right, extortion and false accusation by Maxwell George Edum.  The petitioner, Mr Edum who is also a car dealer, in a memo, JPPB/memo/132, yesterday narrated to the Justice idiok Ukan led panel    how a team of Special Anti Robbery Squad led by one Inspector Friday whose operational code is MadDog invaded his car stand at No.164 Eket/Oron road, Eket and impounded his two vehicles, a Toyota hilux and a Toyota Tundra truck, supposedly at the instance of DCP Kyari.   He said the team also arrested his staff, Mr Sampson Etukudo and took him alongside the vehicles    to a police station at World Bank Estate, Umuahia in Abia State where he was detained over an allegation of the company buying stolen vehicles.   He further said during...

The  news of the death of former minister of Information and Culture, Prince Tony Momoh who passed on, yesterday, at the age of 82 threw shock waves across the country, especially among the media and political circles. The  veteran journalist, lawyer and politician, served as Nigeria’s minister of Information and Culture  between 1986 and 1990, during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. He was onetime Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Jos.  In January 2011, he became the National Chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change CPC, which later merged with other political parties to form the now ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In his reaction through a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the president, Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed sadness at the passing of the statesman who he described as his longtime ally, friend and political loyalis...

Federal Government, yesterday, declared that with Nigeria now experiencing a more virulent second wave of the coronavirus pandemic which has increased the number of COVID-19 related deaths from 1173 on November 29, 2020, to 1,578 on January 31, 2021, no one is safe except vaccinated.    Chairman of Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 and Secretary to  he Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said this at the sensitisation meeting on COVID-19 vaccine introduction with leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)  and scholars, held yesterday, in Abuja.   Mustapha noted that the death rate has increased to 34 percent, adding that the number of infections have also grown tremendously.  The PTF chairman explained that the arrival of vaccines has given hope that solution had been found.  He said: “As a nation, our national response has been very robust with significant positive results because we deployed non-pharmaceutical interventio...