The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed 10 personnel for indiscipline who were among 81 officers tried for various offences, the report says. This was made known in a statement by Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Olumuyiwa Adejob. He noted that the action was taken in other to promote discipline and core values of policing in Lagos state.
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‘In its bid to promote discipline and core values of policing in Lagos State, the Police Command has tried 81 personnel for various criminal and disciplinary offences that
The former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, has died at the age of 73. He died Thursday morning at the Korle-Bu University Hospital in Accra, where he had been admitted a week earlier.
He came to global prominence in 1979 when, as an army lieutenant, he ousted General Frederick Akuffo as president in his first military coup d’état.
It was a failure: he was arrested, brought before a court-martial – a court in which he chose to defend himself alone and he was freed a few weeks later by a group of officers whose common dream was fighting a …
He was elected governor of Kaduna state in 1979 on the platform of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP).
Balarabe Musa, 84, was elected governor of Kaduna State in 1979 but was later controversially impeached and removed from office.
Born August 21, 1936, Mr Musa was the first civilian governor of Kaduna State in Nigeria’s Second Republic before he was impeached on June 23, 1981.
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Nigerians that have clocked the age of 18 can now register and vote as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would resume the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise throughout the country by the first quarter of next year.
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Acting Chairman of the Commission, AVM Ahmed Mu’azu (Retd), made the disclosure in his opening remarks during the virtual meeting with leadership of political parties, yesterday, in Abuja.
Appreciating political parties for the commendable role they played during the recently concluded Edo and Ondo states governorship elections, Mu’azu said …
Lagos State Government said it will prosecute a man named Emmanuel Ben who led an assault on an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) Ismaila Lukman.
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LASTMA general manager Olajide Oduyoye in a statement said Lagos State attorney-general Moyosore Onigbanjo has directed Ben’s prosecution for assaulting Lukman “at the Jakande Junction in Lekki while on his lawful duty around 2:20 pm on Sunday 8th November 2020.”
He said Ben will “be made to face the full wrath of the law for the assault to serve as …
Reports have shown that the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) Workers have said it would not join the strike embarked on by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
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The groups were supposed to embark on an indefinite strike on Monday following what it claims to be the inability of the Federal Government to meet up with the agreement it reached with the organizations on Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
This was made known by the …
A Republican Ally of Joe Biden, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who is known for his bipartisanship, in an interview with CNN on Tuesday claims that his Republican Senate colleagues Privately “accept” the results and “call me to say ‘congratulations, please convey my well-wishes to the president-elect.’”
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Chris Coons who was defeated for re-nomination by a more socially conservative challenger in June when asked by CNN host Erin Burnett Tuesday evening if he’s had similar exchanges with Republican colleagues, Riggleman, who is among the eight GOP House members who have publicly congratulated Biden, …
A former Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, a critic of Mohammed Buhari Administration and passionate Trump supporter has disclosed the reason the All Progressives Congress, APC, wants US President Donald Trump to lose, the report says.
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While speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode said the reason APC wants Biden as the next US president is because it hoped to receive help from the Democratic to win the 2023 election. It will be noted that the Obama administration helped the then opposition party, APC to unseat ex-President …
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has directed its members not to participate in the upcoming Convocation ceremony of University of Ibadan reports say. The decision may not be unconnected with the ongoing strike embarked on by the union.
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ASUU in a statement by the Chairman, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, said the position of the union is that holding convocation is a violation of the principle of the ongoing strike. He said the union is constrained to “advise members not to be in attendance or participate in …
In the face of benefitting from proceeds of alcohol sale through the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), Kano State Government, for religious reasons, destroyed 1,975,000 bottles of beer worth over N200 million last weekend. The products were confiscated within Kano metropolis and destroyed publicly.
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The value of destroyed alcoholic beverages represents 7.5 per cent of the State Government’s September Gross VAT allocation.
While Kano might have openly destroyed the products, many Northern states have penal codes prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in line with the Sharia law.
Kano Hisbah …
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has issued a Draft Consultation Document on the deployment of fifth-generation (5G) Mobile Technology in Nigeria.
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NCC Director, Public Affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
Adinde said that the Draft Consultation Document for the deployment of the 5G in Nigeria has been produced and uploaded on NCC’s official website (www.ncc.gov.ng).
He explained that the document defined the implementation plan for the deployment of 5G in Nigeria.
The NCC wishes to draw the attention of the general …
Two more people close to US President Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19, media reports said Monday.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. 69, has contracted the virus, his deputy chief of staff Coalter Baker told NPR.
“He is in good spirits and feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery,” Baker said in a statement.
According to a media report, Carson was briefly treated at Walter Reid military hospital outside Washington DC, where Trump himself was treated for the …
