Politics

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has said that the Federal Government has lost grip of security of lives and property following the continued killings and kidnapping across the country by bandits.

PANDEF expressed surprise that the government was not moved when it learned that law-abiding citizens were currently paying hoodlums huge sums of money in order to stay alive or have access to their farmlands.

Spokesman of the forum, Mr. Ken Robinson, told correspondents in an interview that apart from providing electricity through generators, drilling boreholes to get water, Nigerians were gradually taking the responsibility of securing themselves from …

The Federal Government has warned that there may be a second national lockdown over the rising cases of the COVID-19 in the country if Nigerians continue to ignore safety guidelines.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, gave the warning on Monday in Abuja, at the joint national briefing of the taskforce.

According to him, ‘the nation is in a very difficult position and must do everything to avoid a second national lockdown.

‘Let me remind you that the pandemic is raging and all tiers …

The supporting role being played by former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan towards reviving the stalled constitutional review process in The Gambia has begun to bear fruits with the political parties and parliamentarians determining to cooperate and resolve the challenges standing in the way of adopting a new constitution for the people of The Gambia.

Jonathan, who was invited to The Gambia last December as a well-respected eminent international statesman, returned to Banjul in the first week of January to continue to facilitate the consultations for advancing the interparty dialogue towards garnering the required parliamentary support for a draft constitution meant …

Incoming US Vice President, Kamala Harris has resigned from the U.S. Senate as she prepares to be sworn into office as the nation’s first female and first African American vice president.

She has formally submitted her resignation letter to Governor Gavin Newsom of California, dating it effective at noon.

Newsom said he will appoint California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace her. Padilla will be up for reelection in 2022.

‘This is not goodbye,’ Harris, the only African American woman in the U.S. upper chamber, wrote in an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle.

‘As I resign from …

Joe Biden’s goal of seeing 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine injected within his first 100 days in office is ‘absolutely’ achievable, top US scientist Anthony Fauci said Sunday, days before he is to become the new president’s chief advisor on Covid-19.

‘The feasibility of his goal is absolutely clear, there’s no doubt about it,’ Fauci, the best-known face of the government’s fight against the deadly virus, told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

‘That can be done,’ said Fauci, an infectious disease specialist who also has advised President Donald Trump.

While US health authorities succeeded in testing and …

‘Happy birthday to my love, my partner, and my best friend. Every moment with you is a blessing. Love you, Miche,’ Obama wrote on his Twitter account.

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No fewer than 62 shops and some residential buildings were left destroyed after fire gutted the Ijesha market in the Oshodi area of Lagos state on Saturday.

The fire incident, which according to eyewitnesses started at about 5 pm and was put out at 8.50 pm, affected 62 traders and about 28 households.

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According to the Southwest Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, ‘The fire was suspected to have started from a room, converted to shop while cooking and gas cylinder gutted fire.‘

He …

Family sources revealed to newsmen on Sunday that Mr. Martins-Kuye passed on on Sunday morning in his hometown of Ago-Iwoye. He was 78.

Mr. Martins-Kuye was trained as a chartered accountant, practicing for several years in Lagos and oversees before moving to politics where he brought his conservative bonafides to bear.

Mr. Kuye was first elected to the Nigerian Senate in the truncated Third Republic. When democracy returned in 1999, he ran unsuccessfully for governor as PDP candidate against Olusegun Osoba in Ogun State. He was subsequently appointed minister of state for finance by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, remaining …

Tunisia could potentially lose millions of dollars stashed in Switzerland by the family of ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a senior official said Saturday.

The funds are currently frozen by Swiss authorities but a deadline to claw back funds ends midnight on Tuesday and restrictions then cease, a presidential official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Swiss authorities imposed a 10-year freeze on the assets of Ben Ali and his clan amid a corruption probe on January 19, 2011, five days after the toppled leader fled to Saudi Arabia, where he later died.

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