December 22, 2020

Yuletide: We Are Fully Prepared At All Airports – FAAN

Yuletide: We Are Fully Prepared At All Airports – FAAN

December 22, 2020 1:45 pm

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Monday assured Nigerians that the network of airports across the country are fully prepared for the usual surge in passenger traffic during the Yuletide.

Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs of FAAN, said this in a statement on Monday, in Lagos.

According to Yakubu, FAAN has heightened security in all its airports, especially the major international gateways in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano.

Read Also: FAAN Seeks Review Of Service Tariffs

She noted that necessary infrastructure have been put in place to aid compliance with stipulated protocols on COVID-19.

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Edo Head Of Service, Anthony Okungbowan Regains Freedom

Edo Head Of Service, Anthony Okungbowan Regains Freedom

December 22, 2020 4:08 am

Mr. Anthony Okungbowa, the Edo state Head of Service (HoS), who was kidnapped on Saturday evening along Oza Road, in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the state, has regained his freedom.

Okungbowan was released by his abductors on Monday night according to a family source, who pleaded anonymity.

The source said that Okungbowa was set free after payment of an undisclosed amount as ransom demanded by his kidnappers and that the HoS was hale and hearty since his release.

Read Also: 3 Killed, Village Head Kidnapped For The Second Time In Niger

The family source disclosed that the ransom …

Olu Of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli Is Dead

Olu Of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli Kicks The Bucket

December 22, 2020 4:03 am

The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli, is dead. The monarch died on Monday, Africa Daily News, New York reports.

The monarch was said to have died after contracting the deadly COVID-19 disease. His health was said to have deteriorated on Sunday evening.

Read Also: Arrest Of Warri Journalists: You Must Fish Out Your Squad – Group To IGP

As the news of the passage of the monarch spread on Monday, shops and offices in the Warri royal palace vicinity closed as people were seen in groups discussing the development in hush tones.

Aged 65 years, Ogiame Ikenwoli, ascended the …

Ekiti Is Your Home, Gov Fayemi Assures Herdsmen

‘2023: Ekiti APC Didn’t Endorse Fayemi’

December 22, 2020 3:59 am

As the politicians strategise for the 2023 presidency which is still 2 years away, the current Governor of Ekiti State and former minister, Kayode Fayemi has experienced numerous mentioning as regards contesting for presidency comes 2023.

Recently an unconfirmed news has claimed that the Ekiti State Chapter of All Progressive Congress, APC, has endorsed him for presidency but in a twist, a political forum known as Ekiti State Stakeholders Forum (ESSF) has faulted media reports claiming that Governor Kayode Fayemi has received the backing of the Ekiti state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 presidential race.…

Kankara: Boko Haram Didn’t Kidnap Us – Released Student

Kankara: Boko Haram Didn’t Kidnap Us – Released Student

December 22, 2020 3:57 am

Confusion has continued to trail the latest abduction and release of over 300 students in Katsina, North-East Nigeria. One of the hundreds of schoolboys who were kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State has claimed that their abductors were not members of Boko Haram.

The schoolboy made this known in a viral video, adding that they were told to say that the kidnappers were Boko Haram terrorists.

The student when asked if their abductors were bandits or Boko Haram, the students said, ‘I do not know who they are but I was told to say they’re Boko

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Court Orders RMAFC To Reduce National Assembly Members’ Pay

Court Orders IGP To Release Man Detained For Blasphemy

December 22, 2020 3:10 am

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the Nigeria Police Force, to release a Facebook user, Mbarak Bala, who was arrested in Kaduna on February 28, 2020 for alleged blasphemous posts against Islam.

His lawyer stated in the suit that the applicant was arrested on the basis of a petition written by some Kano-based persons based in Kano, alleging ‘that the applicant insulted the Prophet of Islam Mohammed (PBUH)’.

Read Also: Ex-Gov Asks Court To Free Him Or Reduce His 10-Yr Jail Term

The court delivering judgment in the …

Court Of Appeal: NJC Recommends 18 Justices To Buhari

NJC Sacks 2 Judges Over Forgery, Appoints 69 Others

December 22, 2020 3:08 am

Nigerian’s National Judicial Council (NJC) has suspended two judges, Grand Kadi Shu’aibu A. Talba, the Grand Kadi of Yobe State and Hon. Justice Abdulkareem Babatunde Abdulrasaq of Osun State High Court with immediate effect.

According to the report, the Council also said that it considered the Report of the Interview Committee and recommended the appointment of 69 Judicial Officers as Heads of Court, Judges of High Court of States, Kadis of States/ FCT Sharia Courts of Appeal and Judges of the Customary Courts of Appeal.

NJC in a statement signed by the director of Information of the Council, Soji …

Court Reinstates 32 Sacked Ekiti Varsity Workers

Court Reinstates 32 Sacked Ekiti Varsity Workers

December 22, 2020 3:08 am

The Nigeria National Industrial Court, sitting in Akure, Ondo State has reinstated 32 out of over 900 workers sacked by the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU) in December last year.

According to report, the institution’s management had on December 5, 2019 erroneously sacked over 900 of its workforce for alleged certificate forgery, irregular appointment, and overage among other sundry allegations that contravened its conditions of service.

Read Also: Ex-Gov Asks Court To Free Him Or Reduce His 10-Yr Jail Term

But in a suit number NICN/AD/03/2020, 32 technologists out of the 900 sacked workers dragged EKSU, EKSU Governing Council …

'Cabals in Buhari’s Government, Like Drunken Sailors'

‘Cabals in Buhari’s Government, Like Drunken Sailors’

December 22, 2020 3:04 am

The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, on Monday said that the cabal that hijacked President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration are like ‘drunken sailors’ who lacked the idea on how to navigate the affairs of the country.

Mailafia, who stated this in a column in one of Nigeria’s newspaper titled, ‘How to kill, skin and bury a country,’ said the so-called cabal has been ruling Nigeria on the basis of ‘nepotism and exclusion’ and plunged the nation into needless debt and the brink of destruction.

Read Also: 2023: How The APC Cabal Is Scheming

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