December 30, 2019

Buhari In Meeting With Security Chiefs

December 30, 2019 11:36 am

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with security chiefs at the State House.

The security council is made up of heads of security agencies in the country.

Some of those present include the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin; the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ibok Ekwe-Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique.

Others are the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mohammed Adamu; Director-General of Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi; and Director-General of the

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Oyo: Sacked LG Chairmen Dare Seyi Makinde

December 30, 2019 5:00 am

Local government chairmen who were sacked by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State under the umbrella of Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) have warned the newly inaugurated Local Council chairmen in the state against engaging in any transaction on behalf of their respective councils.

They made this declaration via a statement issued by ALGON Chairman, Prince Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye and the Secretary, Pastor Jesutoye Oluyinka, a copy of which was made available to DAILY POST on Monday.

In the letter addressed to the chairman, bankers to local government councils and Local Council Development Authority (LCDAs), Heads of Local Government

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2020: APGA Makes Demands, Task FG

December 30, 2019 4:59 am

The national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Victor Oye, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to factor the sufferings of the people into whatever programmes it plans to execute 2020.

The APGA chairman opined that anything outside of this would increase the hardship and hunger in the country.

Oye made his opinion known in a terse statement forwarded to newsmen on Sunday afternoon.

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The statement partly reads, “Despite the social, economic and political challenges facing our nation, we still have every reason to be grateful

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Technical Education, Best Antidote To Joblessness

December 30, 2019 4:59 am

The Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Dr. Hephzibar Oladebeye, has stressed the need for the country to encourage technical education through proper funding of polytechnics as well as other Science and Technology schools to train Nigerians in skills and vocations that can guarantee self employment.

Oladebeye said acquisition of skills remains the greatest antidote to unemployment and insecurity caused by youth restiveness and other forms of crimes in the Nigerian society.

The Polytechnic administrator lauded Governor Kayode Fayemi’s huge investment in education, saying the transformation under the knowledge economy , will definitely make Ekiti a fastest growing state in the country

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2020: Don’t Throw Nigeria Into Anarchy – Igbo Group

December 30, 2019 4:58 am

An Igbo socio-political organization, Igbo National Council (INC), has called on the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other northern political leaders to immediately call Yerima Shettima and his co-travellers to order before they throw the country into destructive political crisis ahead 2023 Nigeria Presidential election.

The group in a statement issued on Sunday by its President General, Chilos Godsent, urged Nigerians to ignore the false and misleading publications of Yerima Shettima, regarding the 2023 Nigeria Presidential elections.

Recall that the Arewa Youth leader, Yerima Shettima, was quoted in an interview with newsmen as saying that 2023

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LASU Speaks On Murder Of Student For ‘Ritual’

December 30, 2019 4:57 am

Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has called for caution from its students following the alleged murder of one of the institution’s final-year-female student.

The police in Ogun State had arrested a 23-year-old man, Adeeko Owolabi, for allegedly killing Favour Daley-Oladele, a final-year Sociology student.

The suspect, police said, was arrested together with a 42-year-old self acclaimed Pastor of a white garment church, Segun Philip, who, it was learnt, requested for the deceased’s heart.

The university’s spokesman, Mr Ademola Adekoya, said on Sunday in Lagos that the LASU’s Vice-Chancellor (V-C), Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, on behalf of the university’s management, assured the

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I’ll Open Can Of Worms, Edo People Will Stone Oshiomhole

December 30, 2019 4:57 am

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, yesterday, said he will open a can of worms that will make Edo people to stone APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, on the streets

He said the can of worms would seal the political fate of the Edo State former governor.

Adjoto also vowed to organise a national protest, tagged: ‘Oshiomhole Must Go’, against the former Edo governor in the New Year.

The immediate past speaker of the state House of Assembly, who told party members at his country home at Ikakumo in Igarraland in Edo, said the protest …