February 7, 2020

food security

Food Security: Gov Ortom Meets Agric Minister, Nanono

February 7, 2020 2:17 pm

The Federal Government is to support Benue State in developing the agricultural value chain, to create greater job opportunities for the youths and improve food security.

This was the outcome of a meeting on Friday in Abuja between Governor Samuel Ortom and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono.

The meeting focused on various aspects of collaboration between the Federal Government and Benue State in developing the agricultural value chain from cultivation through processing and packaging to distribution.

Governor Ortom stated that agriculture, if well harnessed, has the capacity to solve the problem of unemployment in Nigeria.

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MASSOB

Kanu: We’ll Shame FG, Army With Peaceful Burial – MASSOB

February 7, 2020 8:56 am

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB) has promised to conduct a peaceful burial for parents of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the shame of the Federal Government and army.

Leader of MASSOB,  Uchenna Madu, in a statement in Owerri, yesterday, decried the harassment and intimidation of Kanu’s Afaraukwu community by the army following the burial announcement accusing the army of trying to create a chaotic atmosphere to prevent Igbo and foreign dignitaries from attending the burial.

He said the burial of Eze Israel Kanu and his wife was …

I Was Forced To Implicate Buhari, Abacha’s Loot Is False

February 7, 2020 8:55 am

Hamza Al-Mustapha, a former National Security Adviser to late ex-Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, has revealed that he was forced to implicate President Muhammadu Buhari in a case of public funds looting.

Al-Mustapha disclosed that he was forced to implicate the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, under the leadership of Buhari of looting.

Featuring on Voice of Nigeria, VOA, on Thursday, Al-Mustapha insisted that stories of Abacha looting public funds were lies, stressing that those who took over when the former Head of State died were thieves.

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He stated that when late

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Trump Just Getting Started – Ivanka Trump Tells Democrats

February 7, 2020 8:53 am

Ivanka, Daughter to president Donald Trump has told Americans to expect more from her father following his acquittal by the Senate on Wednesday.

This is coming after the acquittal of Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.

President Trump was on Wednesday absolved of any wrongdoing by Lawmakers of the America’s upper legislative chamber

The lawmakers vote were 52-48 in favour of the Republican on the allegation of abuse of power against Trump.

Trump was accused of obstructing Congress’ investigation of the affair. However, the Republicans won the fight to keep their President in power.

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Ex-Taraba Governor, Jolly Nyame To Remain In Prison

February 7, 2020 8:53 am

The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and 12-year imprisonment handed to the former Governor of Taraba State, Reverend Jolly Nyame by the Court of Appeal, Abuja.

DAILY POST recalls that the Court of Appeal in a judgement on November 16, 2018 upheld Nyame’s conviction.

But a five-man panel of the Supreme Court in a judgement on Friday upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal.

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The panel, however, set aside a section of the judgement which imposed millions of naira fines on the ex-Governor.

Giving the reason for the judgement, Justice

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Nigeria Reduces Visa Application Fee For US Citizens

February 7, 2020 8:53 am

The Federal Government of Nigeria has slashed visa application charges for citizens of the United States from $180 to $160.

NAN reports that this was contained in a memo marked NIS/HQ/CGI/806/7 and addressed to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The old amount comprised $160 as visa fee and $20 as “processing and expedient fees.”

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Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, said the reduction followed a review of the visa reciprocity fee slammed on Nigeria last August.

The decision is one of the four taken against Africa’s

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IPPIS

IPPIS : We’ll Stop Work If FG Stops Our Salary

February 7, 2020 8:52 am

National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, has said the union would stop work should the Federal Government halt the payment of salaries of  members over issues pertaining to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Ogunyemi stated this in Nsukka, yesterday, at a press briefing after addressing ASUU members at the  University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).

He said he was in UNN to brief, interact and share ideas with members on  recent developments in the union waring that public universities would lose their autonomy if they were enrolled in IPPIS.

“ASUU will continue to say …

ECOWAS

S’Leone Dragged To ECOWAS Court Over Missing Ebola Funds

February 7, 2020 8:49 am

The Sierra Leonian government has been dragged before the ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja over allegation it mismanaged millions of United States Dollars donated to fight the deadly Ebola virus, which killed about 4,000 people the country.

The plaintiffs, a non-governmental organisation – Centre for Accountability and the Rule of Law, and two nurses affected by the virus while giving treatment to affected people, Hawa Jalloh and Fatamata Sesay, had claimed that after Ebola arrived in Sierra Leone in 2014, the government mismanaged and lost millions of US dollars of financial resources earmarked specifically for combating the disease.

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NECO

52% Fail English, Mathematics As NECO Releases Results

February 7, 2020 8:48 am

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released its November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with 33,576 candidates, representing 48.68 per cent, scoring credits in both English and Mathematics for 2019, while 52 per cent failed the two subjects.

NECO’s Acting Registrar, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed Gana, made this known in a statement released yesterday.

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According to the acting registrar, 70,140 candidates registered for the examination.

He further stated that 50,057 candidates, representing 72.57 per cent of the total, got five credits and above irrespective of English and Mathematics in NECO.

Gana, in the …

Windows 7

Nigerian Govt Warns Citizens On Use Of MS Windows 7

February 7, 2020 8:45 am

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has advised users of Microsoft Windows 7 to take steps to protect their data.

This was contained in a statement of Friday by Mukhtar Sadiq, his Technical Assistant.

It said with the official End of Support (EoS) of the Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System (OS) which came into effect on 14th January 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support and security or software updates for the platform.

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“Systems running on Windows 7 OS will continue to work, however, they will be progressively more

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House Of Reps Takes Action Against Trump After Acquittal

February 7, 2020 8:44 am

The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution seeking to end America’s support for the Saudi-United Arab Emirate war in Yemen.

This was passed by 241-177 vote at the House and will now go to the Senate where lawmakers of both the Democratic and Republican will decide its final fate.

This is the first major action against President Donald Trump’s administration by the House after the Senate acquit him on the impeachment trial on Wednesday.

A similar bill that was passed in December 2019 by the Senate died when Congress adjourned for the year.

Democratic lawmaker, Jim McGovern, while

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DSS Invites Na’abba After Blasting Buhari Over Insecurity

DSS Speaks On Terrorists Movement In Abuja, Other States

February 7, 2020 8:43 am

The Department of State Services (DSS) on Friday debunked reports of movement of terrorists into the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other states in Nigeria.

DSS also said the claim that luxury buses of three major transport companies were hijacked on the Lokoja-Okene road was an ethnic agenda.

The Police had earlier dismissed circulating information that GUO, Ezenwata and Young Shall Grow vehicles were hijacked by bandits.

The spokesman, Peter Afunanya, in a statement said the alert on Boko Haram movement was fake and has been in circulation since 2013 “when it was first created by mischief makers whose handiwork

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