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PUBLIC NOTICE: “The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission hereby state unequivocally that NO approval has been granted for a 50% tariff increase in the Tariff Order for electricity distribution companies which took effect on January 1, 2021.” Read full statement 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽  click here to visit the website (twitter)

President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation in a broadcast on Monday following the end of the first phase of the gradual easing of the COVID-19 lockdown.  Aliyu Sani, the national coordinator of the presidential task force on COVID-19, made this disclosure when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. According to him, the president is to decide on whether or not the country should go ahead with the second phase of the easing of the lockdown. https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-buhari-to-address-the-nation-on-monday-2/amp

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has handed a property forfeited by the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, to the Lagos Government for use as an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients. The six flats of three-bedrooms and a boys’ quarter had been forfeited to the Federal Government, following an order of a Federal High Court in Lagos in 2017. Speaking during the handover ceremony on Friday, the Zonal Head of the EFCC in Lagos, Mohammed Rabo said the gesture is part of the agency’s support in curbing the spread of the virus. “This gesture is part of the Commission’s efforts in discharging its own social responsibility towards the fight against the spread of coronavirus. “The Commission is always committed and ready, alongside its mandate in fighting economic and financial crimes, to also render any essential service that may be required of it in the fight against the pandemic. “Therefore, the state should not hesitate to call ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed renowned diplomat and former Minister of External Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Gambari as his new Chief of Staff. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation Mr. Boss Mustapha announced the appointment before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. Following his appointment, Professor Gambari has arrived at the Presidential Villa for the FEC meeting which is presided by President Muhammadu Buhari and has Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in attendance. Other ministers at the meeting include, Ministers of information and Culture, Transport, Solid minerals, Power, Agriculture, and Budget and National planning are physically in the meeting while the remaining cabinet members will join the meeting virtually. Professor Gambari replaces the former Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, who died on April 17, 2020, due to complications from coronavirus (COVID-19). He served as the ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’s downstream subsidiary, Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) has announced that it sold petroleum products worth ₦211.62bn in February. It also announced that sales of the products for the period February 2019 to February 2020 stood at about ₦2.6 trillion with petrol contributing about 98.06 per cent of the total sales value of about ₦2.5 trillion.  The N211.62bn figure which is contained in the February 2020 NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR) is significantly higher compared to the previous month’s ₦151.79 billion. The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr Kennie Obateru, who confirmed the report on Tuesday in Abuja also disclosed that about 1.7 billion litres of white products were sold and distributed by PPMC in the month of February 2020 compared with about 1.2 billion litres sold in January 2020.  This comprised about 1.7 billion litres of PMS and 1.09million litres of AGO, he s...

The Anambra State Government has declared Monday, 18th November, 2019 work free day In commemoration Of Zik’s 115th Posthumous Birthday. The announcement was contained in statement by the Head of Service of Anambra State, Mr Harry Udua. The statement which was made available to News9naija reads; "This is to inform the public that Anambra state government has declared Monday, 18th November, 2019 as work free day for everyone in Anambra state. This is in commemoration of the birthday of Late Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (Owelle of Onitsha), former President of Nigeria. Announcer Barrister Harry Uduh Head of Service Anambra State" (Newsnaija)

The Supreme Court has said that the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, failed to call credible witnesses in their appeal filed challenging the victory of  President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 Presidential Elections. The Apex court which gave reasons for the dismissal of the appeal filed by the PDP and Atiku on Friday added that the Appellant failed to prove that Buhari is not educated up to secondary school level, A unanimous summary judgment delivered by Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Muhammad, on October 30, 2019, dismissed the appeal filed by Atiku and the PDP after the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal had earlier on in September 11, 2019, dismissed the petition against the election of Buhari on the grounds that the petitioners failed to substantiate the allegations made in  their petition. (channels tv)

H.E Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, recieved former Nigerian President, H.E Goodluck Jonathan and Dame Patience Jonathan at the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt. It is unclear what the former president and his wife came to do at Rivers State Government House but it may related to Bayelsa State governorship election Source :  http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2019/11/gov-wike-receives-goodluck-jonathan-and.html?m=1

‘Climate of fear’: Nigeria intensifies crackdown on journalists Fisayo Soyombo was eating an evening snack in Lagos in late October when a colleague called to warn him about a plan hatched by Nigerian government officials at a clandestine meeting to arrest him. Hours earlier, the second in a three-part undercover series by the Abuja-based investigative journalist on corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system had been published. “I made two more calls that night [to government sources] and it was clear I was in trouble,” Soyombo said. According to all three contacts, the government wanted to prosecute him under a law criminalising certain types of communication with inmates. Soyombo pulled out of a public event he had travelled to Lagos for, and went into hiding. Had he been detained, Soyombo would have been the latest victim of a crackdown on the media and freedom of speech this year in Nigeria, which is 12th out of 13 on the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Impunity Index, a...

A memo advertizing for job vacancy for forest guards to guard against the menace of Fulani Herdsmen in Enugu State was seen being circulated online.

By Anule Emmanuel Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, disclosed that he will assign portfolio to members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) who have been confirmed by the Senate at the point of inauguration. The President, however, did not mention any particular date for the inauguration of the new ministers. Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, commended the Senate for its diligence and prompt confirmation of his ministerial nominees. He said: “Specific portfolios shall be assigned with the inauguration of the cabinet.” Buhari also expressed satisfaction in the process which he described as swift and efficient. According to the President, the people of Nigeria want results, and with this list of ministers, we are confident they shall be delivered. “This is a fine, capable and committed group of individuals. Working together, they shall help achieve what we all want and labour toward: a secure, ...

A former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and the Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, have clashed on the status of President Muhammadu Buhari, Igbere TV reports. Momodu, a former presidential aspirant, had in a tweet, noted that only Buhari, who he described as the ‘father of the nation’, can stop the imminent collapse of Nigeria. According to him, “Only one man can stop the imminent explosion and that is the father of the nation, President Muhammadu Buhari.” In a swift reaction, however, Fani-Kayode countered Momodu, saying that Buhari cannot stop the imminent explosion. He also said that Buhari should not be called the father of the nation. Fani-Kayode tweeted, “Buhari cannot stop the imminent explosion because he is the cause of it! “Buhari is not the father of the nation: he is the father of the Fulani!” Source; http://igberetvnews.com/833499/fani-kayode-counters-dele-momodu-over-president-buhari/

SERAP drags senior Nigerian officials to ICC ‘for leaving 13.2 million children out of school’ Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), urging her to use her “good offices to investigate whether the problem of out-of-school children in Nigeria, and the failure of the Nigerian authorities over the years to address it amount to violence against children and crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the ICC.” The organization urged Mrs Bensouda to: “push for those suspected to be responsible for this problem, including current and former presidents and state governors since 1999, who directly or indirectly have individually and/or collectively breached their special duty toward children, and are therefore complicit in the crime, to be tried by the ICC.” In the petition dated 19 July 2019 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: ...

NASS set to embark on recess without cabinet list •Implementation of 2019 budget remains on hold •Perm Secs can’t approve beyond N5m By Onwuka Nzeshi, Paul Ogbuokiri and Abdulwahab Isa here are strong indications that the economy may slide back into another round of recession, given the apparent stagnation of government activities and the uncertainties surrounding its policy direction and priorities. It could be recalled that the 2019 presidential election was held on February 23 and the incumbent, President, Muhammadu Buhari, was declared the winner within a couple of days after the election. On May 29, he was formally sworn in as President for his second four-year tenure. However, there are apprehensions that the economy is currently at a standstill following the prolonged absence of ministers to drive government’s policies and programmes. In 2015 when President Buhari was first elected into office, he spent six months before appointing a cabinet, a situ...

Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has identified the late former military Head of State, Sani Abacha, as the biggest thief in world history, stating that 21-years after, more loots linked to the former dictator were still being uncovered. Omokri was responding to the claim by Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, that Northerners are rarely arrested for advance fee fraud, popularly known in local parlance as Yahoo Yahoo. Speaking at the Northern Youth summit organised by Northern Hibiscus Initiative in Kaduna on Saturday, El-Rufai said although the North was the most backward and uneducated region in Nigeria, it was a thing of pride that Northerners were rarely arrested for Yahoo Yahoo and other financial crimes. El-Rufai had said: “Nigeria consists of two countries; there is a backward, less educated and unhealthy northern Nigeria, and a developing, largely educated and healthy southern Nigeria. We have to speak the truth to ourselves and ask why i...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has met Nigeria’s oldest surviving soldier, rtd Amuda Aluko, at the grand finale of the 2019 Nigerian Army Day Celebration and Combat Support Arms Training Week, Igbere TV reports. Igbere TV reports that Osinbajo met the 104-year-old on Saturday when he represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the event held at Ikeja Cantonment parade ground in Lagos. Since 1976, Nigerian Army Day has been celebrated every July 6. The Vice President tweeted his encounter with the retired soldier. “Sometimes on the job, I get to meet incredible people. Today, I met perhaps Nigeria’s oldest surviving soldier, 104 year-old, RTD Private Amuda Aluko at the Army Day Celebrations. “He is almost as old as the Amalgamation of the the protectorates that became Nigeria,” Osinbajo said. At the event, Mr Buhari pledged his administration’s political will and determination towards ridding the country of insurgency and other forms of criminalities. He urged the judiciary t...