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New governors are being chosen for 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states as the opposition continues to reject the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu from the West African nation’s ruling party. On Friday, armed security forces were seen patrolling the streets across the states where elections were to be held. “Ahead of the elections, the security situation across the country appears tense, with reports of violence, kidnap and assassination in several states,” Situation Room, a coalition of civil society groups, said in a statement. Observers have said that the presidential vote was peaceful for the most part, but there are still…
Everton legend, Pat Nevin, heaped praise on Alex Iwobi for his performance in the first half of Everton’s Premier League meeting with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening. Everton showed character, coming from behind to salvage a point in the dying embers of the game with an 89th-minute equalizer. After a goalless first half, Joao Felix broke the deadlock with a low effort that went in off the post in the 52nd minute, but two goals in the last twenty minutes, one from Abdoulaye Doucoure, one from Ellis Reco Simms made Kai Havertz’s goal ultimately worth a point. Despite…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were attacked in Kaduna State on Saturday. The team were on election monitoring duty at School Road in Unguwan Rimi, when vote buyers and their supporters blocked them from arresting a suspect. EFCC spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren said one Kabiru Musa was seen in a video allegedly inducing voters by using his phone to transfer money into their accounts. By the time officers got to the location to pick him up, Musa became unruly and screamed to attract the attention of his “syndicate members.” They descended on the operatives with different weapons,…
Bauchi State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Bala Mohammed, has won in all the three Local Government Areas where a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, represents, in his re-election bid. There has been a long running political battle between Dogara, who is ending his fourth term representing the Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency in the Lower Chamber, prompting him to vow to work towards ensuring that Mohammed was not re-elected. He had come out to support the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (retd), a former Chief of Air Staff. Dogara had…
Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Unilever Nigeria, has said that it will be exiting the home care and skin cleansing markets to reposition its business for sustained profitability. This was revealed in a corporate notice to the Nigerian Exchange Limited and signed by its Company Secretary, Abidemi Ademola. The company said that it was changing its business model to accelerate the growth of the company and meet the needs of consumers, shareholders, and employees better. Part of the statement read, “This will involve repurposing the portfolio by exiting the home care and skin cleansing categories to concentrate on higher growth opportunities.…
Professor of Clinical Neurology and Internal Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Ikenna Onwuekwe, tells LARA ADEJORO about the causes and prevention of meningitis What is cerebrospinal meningitis? Cerebrospinal meningitis is inflammation or injury of the immediate outer covering of the brain called leptomeninges (made up of two separate tissue membranes). This injury also affects the fluid surrounding the brain and bathing the leptomeninges called the subarachnoid space thereof. Because the brain continues downwards through the skull as the spinal cord, the same inflammation in the brain (cerebrum) also affects the spine, hence the name cerebrospinal…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Ezza North Local Government Area, Peter Nweke, who was allegedly beaten by thugs suspected to be loyal to the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ebonyi State, is dead. Nweke reportedly died from injuries he sustained from attacks by hoodlums on Saturday, during the governorship and state Assembly elections. The State’s Police Public Relations Officer, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, confirmed his death on Sunday. She said Nweke was beaten up and rushed to the hospital unconscious where he was later pronounced dead by a doctor. She said the police had launched an investigation into…
EVIDENCE emerges regularly that governance at the sub-national level in Nigeria is particularly dismal and marked by lack of accountability. The situation is ironic. While monthly statutory receipts from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee to the 36 states are increasing, poverty is also expanding among Nigerians. As the statutory institutions (especially the federal and state parliaments) have failed to undertake this assignment, the onus is on the citizens themselves to interrogate this gnawing contradiction by demanding accountability from the governor for the public funds they have been collecting on their behalf. Rising poverty among Nigerians belies the sums the 36…
Ahead of Nigeria’s presidential and National Assembly polls on 25 February, presidential candidates of the leading parties have promised to revamp the country’s ailing agriculture and mining sectors if elected. Before now, agriculture was the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy. The sector, according to the World Bank, employed over 70 per cent of the labour force, accounting for as much as 62.3 per cent of the nation’s foreign exchange earnings. Since independence, several agricultural policies have been implemented to achieve food security in Nigeria but the nation still struggles to attain food sustainability. Food inflation has remained high, making it difficult…
The top football club tournament in the world, the UEFA champions League will have Nigeria’s Burna Boy as a stage performer in the lead up to the final at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul on 10 June As per the UEFA website, “GRAMMY Award-winning and multi-platinum selling singer, songwriter, and producer Burna Boy will co-headline the 2023 UEFA Champions League Final Kick Off Show by Pepsi®, at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul on Saturday 10 June.” The draws for the quarterfinal and semifinal contests between Manchester City, Chelsea, Napoli, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Benfica, Real Madrid, and Bayern…
