December 2019

Disregard ‘Fake News’ About Situation In North East – GOC

December 22, 2019 1:40 pm

The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Odogbo Ibadan, Maj-Gen Anthony Omozoje, has advised soldiers to remain focus and “disregard fake news on the social media about the situations in the North East Nigeria”.

Omozoje gave the advice on Saturday in Ibadan during the 2 Division Nigerian Army West African Social Activities (WASA) to mark the end of year 2019 activities of the Nigerian Army.

The GOC said that the intent of the maker of such news was to undermine the progress made so far by the Nigerian Army in the fight against terrorism.

Omozoje said, “It is …

4 UNIPORT Teaching Hospital Nurses Die In Six Months

December 22, 2019 1:39 pm

National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) has raised concern that it lost four Chief Nursing Officers within six months due to stress from work overload.

Chairman of the Association in UPTH, MacDonald Uchendu, said the affected Nursing Officers were within the ages of 48 and 56 years.
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She complained that they were understaffed and urged the management to look into the matter of recruitment of more nurses.

Investigation revealed that due to a recent directive by the management to all heads …

‘Don’t Open Nigeria For Africans Without Visas’

December 22, 2019 1:39 pm

A Rights group, Human, Right, Liberty Access, and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to plunge Nigeria into dangerous religious war with his new foreign policy of opening Nigerian borders to Africans without visas.

The group made the call after its national executive end of the year meeting, expressing shock that President Buhari who few months ago closed border ahead of 2019 Christmas will immediately open it for people from other parts of the continent to troop into.

The group urged Buhari to immediately stop the policy, or carry on with it at the risk …

Osimhen, Chukuweze, Oshoala Make Final Three-Man Shortlist

December 22, 2019 1:38 pm
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has unveiled the final three contenders for the 2019 Awards.

Three Nigerian players made the cut in their respective categories.

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Villarreal winger, Samuel Chukwueze and Lille’s Victor Osimhen will battle for the African Youth Player of the Year, along with Borussia Dortmund’s Achraf Hakimi.

Barcelona forward, Asisat Oshola, is in contention for the Women’s Player of the Year, with Ajara Nchout (Cameroon & Valerenga) and Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa & Beijing Phoenix FC).

Riyad Mahrez (Algeria and Manchester City), Sadio Mane (Senegal and

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Salah, Mane & Mahrez Make Top 3 For Top African Players

December 22, 2019 1:37 pm

Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Riyad Mahrez are the Top 3 finalists for African Player of the Year award.

Liverpool duo Salah and Mane led the Reds to clinch the Champions League title last season, before winning the UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup.

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Mahrez helped Man City defend their Premier League title, while on the international level he led Algeria to beat Mane’s Senegal and win the AFCON trophy.

The winner will be announced on January 7th.

 

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Buhari: Falana Makes Revelation On ‘Third Term Agenda’

December 22, 2019 12:11 pm

Legal luminary, Femi Falana, has alleged that there was a third term agenda for President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria stated that soon, Nigerians will start seeing manifestations of the ‘plot’.

He spoke in reaction to a suit by a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the National Assembly should amend the constitution to allow Buhari to contest again.

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Falana told Sunday Tribune: “I hope Nigerians have not forgotten that when the Babangida-led junta was going to extend its tenure, we had the …

2023: If Presidency Goes To North Again, So Be It

December 22, 2019 4:22 am

–Umar, Buharist and APC stalwart

What is your reaction to the recent face off between Aisha Buhari and Mamman Daura, as well as the Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu?

The wife of the President should stop distracting Mr President. She should come to terms with her husband, his relations and friends who are very close to the government. It is embarrassing the way she dragged the name of the president in the mud. I feel she should tailor all her complaints to the president himself or even his nephew Mallam Mamman Daura.If she does that I am sure they will address …

Sokoto’s 2020 Budget Prioritized To Meet Citizens Yearnings

December 22, 2019 4:16 am

Sokoto State House of Assembly has described the 2020 Appropriation Bill presented before it by the State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, as a realistic budget that has been prioritised to meet citizens’ yearnings.

Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Hon. Malami Ahmed Basakwacha, stated this during a Citizens Townhall meeting with members of the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations in Sokoto State (CONSS) at the House chamber.

The CONSS members were in the House to present a documented review of the appropriation bill to the House, being the resolutions of their three-day intensive meeting to study, review and identify necessary observations …

Fela’s Republic And The Kalakuta Queens’ Returns

December 22, 2019 4:16 am

The Bolanle-Austen-Peters Productions (BAP) is bringing back to stage the musical, Fela’s Republic and the Kalakuta Queens during this Yuletide in a 10-day marathon show in Lagos. The play, which had won the hearts of many theatre enthusiasts in Lagos, Abuja, Cairo and South Africa in the past two years, is based on the true life story of women who are behind the music of the legendary Afrobeat musician and Pan-African, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the life in his commune known as Kalakuta Republic.

The electrifying musical, which started yesterday, runs untill Sunday January 5, 2020. It is scheduled to hold …

Nigerian Govt Reveals Plans For Diaspora Voting

December 22, 2019 4:14 am
Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), under the presidency, has said that the commission was seeking an amendment of the Electoral Law to enable more than 20 million Nigerians living abroad to vote in the country’s general election.

She spoke in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday at an event organised by the state government in conjunction with some youth organizations.

Dabiri-Erewa, represented by the Head, Media and Public Relations of the commission, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun, explained that Nigerians living abroad were contributing enormous resources to national development.

Dabiri-Erewa said it was only normal that they were

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Ojezua’s Attack On Oshiomhole, Act Of Insubordination

December 22, 2019 4:14 am

The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, said Anselm Ojezua’s call for the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to resign was an attack on his person and exalted office, and a clear demonstration of the highest level of insubordination and unbridled arrogance.

The party, in a statement issued by the State Publicity Secretary, Chris Azebamwan, said: “Traits such as these made him almost run our party aground within the last three years. This was one of the reasons other members of the State Working Committee came to the rescue and removed him with …

James Bond Star, Claudine Auger Is Dead

December 22, 2019 4:13 am

Popular French actress, Claudine Auger, best known for her role as a Bond Girl “Domino” in 007 film ‘Thunderball’ is dead.

She died at the age of 78, Metro Uk reports.

Auger who featured in the 1965 James Bond movie, ‘Thunderball’ alongside Sean Connery, died at her home in Paris.

The first French star began her career as a model and represented France at the 1958 Miss World competition.

She took acting lessons at that time and got small film roles including 1962 film, The Iron Mask, about the Three Musketeers.

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