Most Rev. Alfred Adewale-Martins, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, has unequivocally faulted the delegate method being used by political parties in the country to choose party flag bearers, ahead of the 2023 general election.
Adewale-Martins said this in an interview with NAN in Lagos on Tuesday.
The Archbishop said an arrangement where only a few party members are accorded the right to elect party standard-bearers would not give room for the best candidate to emerge and described it as utopian and defective.
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Adewale-Martins expressed disappointment in moneybag politics and …
Controversial Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Igboho Adeyemo who is also known as Sunday Igboho has completely condemned the killing of innocent Christians at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State.
Recall that scores were left dead on Sunday after gunmen attacked the church.
The gunmen were said to have thrown an improvised explosive device into the congregation before shooting at them.
Reacting in a viral audio clip, Africa Daily News, New York reports that Igboho said he had been vindicated.
He called on South-West leaders to support him and other courageous …
CP Monday Bala Kuryas who is the Niger State Commissioner of Police has given his assurance that the promotion of 460 senior police officers of the command will give a boost to the fight against banditry, terrorism, kidnappings and other criminalities and social vices in the state.
Speaking with journalists shortly after the decoration, CP Kuryas said the promotion would serve as a catalyst for more work in combating crimes in the state.
…” When you are in the paramilitary, any promotion like this gives you joy, you are motivated and given a higher responsibility. You are expected to do
The new addition of consumption taxes slammed by the State Government has seen the Oyo State Hoteliers Association of Nigeria kicking against the consumption tax.
The association expressed its misgivings in a communique issued in Ibadan on Tuesday at the end of its Board of Trustees meeting.
The communique was jointly signed by the association’s president, Chief Ayodele Ogundele, the vice-president, Chief Joseph Emoabino and Prince Adekunle Adesanya, the Public Relations Officer, and the Financial Secretary, Adetona Ibraheem.
It declared that the charge amounted to double taxation, as members …
Suspected militants killed at least 18 people in a village raid in eastern Congo as fighting resumed with the M23 rebel group in a neighbouring province.
A local chief and a local human rights group said fighters, believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), killed residents and burned down houses in the Otomabere village in Irumu territory, Ituri province on Sunday night.
Congolese army spokesman, Jules Ngongo, confirmed the ADF attack without giving a death toll and said Congolese forces were in pursuit of the assailants.
The ADF is a Ugandan militia that moved to eastern Congo in …
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has announced that it cannot sanction the suspended Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, over his alleged involvement in an ₦80bn fraud because he is not even a member of the body.
The institute made this revelation on Monday in a statement while responding to a letter written by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda asking ICAN to investigate and sanction Idris who is being probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
HEDA had called on ICAN to subject Ahmed to the institute’s Disciplinary Tribunal for thorough investigation and sanction.…
In response to the recent Church massacre in Ondo State and in a show of solidarity to the victims, the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has directed that flags should be flown at half-staff in all public buildings, facilities, and official residences for seven days.
This, he said, is in honour of the victims of the Owo terror attack on Sunday.
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Akeredolu’s Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde announced this on Monday in Akure.
…”In honour of the victims of this unfortunate attack, I hereby direct that all flags be flown
Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na-Allah, who is the Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, has reiterated that the institution has gone tough on lecturers sexually harassing students, as two professors were handed sack letters for the offence.
Na’Allah on Monday in New York that the university had introduced a policy on sex abuse on campus, which had been published.
Na-Allah, who was on a two–day visit to the U.S., to meet with the University of Abuja Alumni Association, USA chapter, to solicit support for the institution, said, “female students needed to be protected.”
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The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria also known as the IPMAN has squarely fingered the inadequate supply of petrol from the depots in Lagos for the scarcity being experienced in Abuja and other parts of the country.
IPMAN President, Mr Chinedu Okoronkwo, made this known on Monday in Lagos.
Okoronkwo spoke against the backdrop of resurfacing of fuel queues in some parts of the country, especially in Abuja.
He said that the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine had disrupted the smooth distribution of petrol, also known as, Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
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The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned in totality, the attack and heinous killing of many worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owa-luwa Street, Owo town, Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The students’ body, in its reaction, charged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government and the Ondo State Government under the watch of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to nip in the bud, the rising insecurity in Owo town and to ensure that the perpetrators of the “massacre” are brought to book.
The Executive Director, Campus Intervention, NANS National Secretariat, Comrade Oladimeji Uthman, in …
Information reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has it that the organisers of the Professor MarkAnthony Nze Scholarship with Apsley Business School London have announced the list of the 4th batch of selected candidates for the scholarship scheme. Among the beneficiaries of the 2nd batch were Ada Cliff Nwagbara, Atueyi Alex Nonso, and many others.
Recall that in the sequel to Prof. MarkAnthony Nze’s appointment as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management, the academic guru opted to invest all of his earnings into the institution for a year in exchange for a scholarship for Nigerians …
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned yesterday’s attack on St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, describing it as ‘outrageous’ just as it called for an overhaul of the country’s security architecture.
CAN’s comment was contained in a statement issued by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, Media Assistant to the CAN President, His Eminence, Rev Dr Samson Ayokunle.
“The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the unprovoked attacks and killing of several innocent worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo, and called on the security agencies to apprehend the perpetrators of the …
