Politics

The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has blamed the heightened tension in the state over the idea of grazing lands on those he described as the same political opponents he discredited and defeated in the last gubernatorial poll in the state.

The governor who had been reported to have earlier promised to establish grazing lands for herders, but in a swift twist, while speaking to State House correspondents after meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, at the presidential villa, Abuja, weekend, he said his government was only encouraging private citizens to do business …

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Governor of Lagos State,  Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has urged both Muslim and Christian clerics to channel their prayers, commitment, fasting, sermons towards promoting peace and stability across the country.

Tinubu, gave the charge on Friday while addressing the mammoth crowd at the eight days ‘fidau‘ prayer for the soul of the late first civilian Governor, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, LJK, held at his Bishop Street, residence, Illupeju, Lagos

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The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has ordered the arrest of cattle found loitering the streets of Akure.

Akeredolu said the order was to reiterate his administration’s resolve to ban open grazing in the State.

The Governor disclosed this in a chat with TVC.

‘We are banning open grazing. If I see a cow I will arrest it. They can’t move in Akure town. We wouldn’t allow it. It is not going to happen. We must put an end to it,’ he said.

The governor’s decision followed recent criminal activities linked to herdsmen in the State.

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Russian authorities would forward the CoviVac vaccine, which was developed by the Chumakov research center, for registration tomorrow.

The Vaccine which is Russia’s third is expected to be registered on Feb. 20, the official Russian website with Coronavirus (COVID-19) data and advice said Thursday.

‘The registration of the vaccine is expected on Feb. 20’, the website said.

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Phase 2 of the research is expected to finish at the beginning of 2021. ‘After that, a mass trial of the drug with 3,000 volunteers is planned,’ the …

The World Bank on Thursday announced that it has selected former finance minister of Senegal, Makhtar Diop to lead the IFC which is the agency saddled with the responsibility of overseeing private sector finance at a critical time for the global recovery.

Diop would now become the first African to lead the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which leverages financing to support private firms in developing nations.

The announcement comes just days after the World Trade Organization selected Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its new director-general, the first African and first woman to serve in that role.

An incumbent minister in Ivory Coast  on Thursday said he would be holding a meeting with ousted ex-president Laurent Gbagbo to discuss his return home with the aim of drafting him to help heal ‘national divisions’.

National Reconciliation Minister Kouadio Konan Bertin in an interview with AFP which our correspondent monitored said he would go to the Ghanaian capital of Accra next week to plan the modalities of the proposed meeting.

From there, ‘I am going to Brussels to meet Laurent Gbagbo,’ he further declared.

The ‘conditions‘ for the former president’s return will be discussed, he said, without …

Immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd.), on Thursday stated that the Boko Haram insurgency may not end in 20 years’ time. 

Explaining his reasons he said the terrorists have, for a long time, indoctrinated the people, making it difficult to defeat them within a short period.

Buratai spoke when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for screening as non-career ambassadors-designate.

The former army chief said though Nigerian troops in collaboration with their counterparts in neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, have been recording successes in the anti-Boko Haram war, military onslaught alone cannot …

The chairman of the National Peace Committee and former Head of State and Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, on Thursday, appealed to state governors to watch their utterances, urging them to analyze the issues at hand and work harmoniously to avoid setting the country on fire.

The former head of state spoke on AriseTV The Morning Show monitored by our correspondent.

While responding to questions on insecurity across the country, he said: ‘It is unfortunate that Governors have found themselves in such a difficult situation. It is their responsibility to govern the state regardless of who is living in their …

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lambasted most of his colleagues saying many of them are merely hiding under the guise of the COVID-19 pandemic not to perform.

According to the Ikwerre born Governor, no government should use COVID-19 as an excuse not to invest in infrastructural development that can foster economic development and prosperity.

Wike dropped this bombshell during a facility tour of the ultramodern Government House hospital and Administrative building in Port Harcourt in the company of the Senate Chief Whip and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu who paid him a visit.…

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said that he does not visit President Muhammadu Buhari to seek solution to insecurity in his State.

Bello said he would rather sit down with stakeholders in his state to proffer solutions than paying lip service by visiting the President in Abuja.

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Speaking on Channels Television, Bello stressed that he does not pay lip service, adding that stakeholders in the state collaborate with security agencies to analyse intelligence to forestall the breakdown of law and order.

‘The Nigeria Police that are

The Edo State Government has said it will not cede any part of its lands for cattle grazing.

Osarodion Ogie Esq., the Secretary to the State Government, made this known in a statement on Thursday.

Ogie said the position of Governor Obaseki’s administration on the matter is clear and has not shifted since it insisted that it would not cede its land to herdsmen.

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The statement read, ‘Our attention has been drawn to misleading and false media reports claiming that the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has agreed to

The Union Nations has condemned an attack by the Ugandan security forces that left several journalists injured warning of possible sanctions if the attacks continue.

The journalists were reportedly reporting on the opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine as he was highlighting allegations of human rights abuses in the country.

The police said security personnel were dispersing an uncontrolled crowd and said it was unfortunate that journalists were injured.

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It comes amid growing concern at the ongoing clampdown against the opposition following President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in a disputed election.

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