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By Akanimo Sampson Some of the development programmes of the Federal Government are suffering setbacks following opposition by the private sector. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, says opposition by the private sector to some policies of government has been a stumbling block in the successful implementation of some of the policies and programmes of government. According to him, the support of the private sector is most critical for the success of policies and programmes of Abuja for the economic development of the country. Gbajabiamila was speaking as a guest speaker at the Jackson, Etti & Edu (JEE)…

By Akanimo Sampson The Nigerian Army says it is high time Nigerians began to separate criminality from ethnicity. Chief of Civil Military Affairs of the army, Major-General US Mohammed, made this call while speaking at a public book reading organised by the Military Writers Society of Nigeria (MWSN) at Samuel Bill International Academy, Utako, Abuja. General Mohammed who was represented by Captain Veronica Williams, a Human Rights Desk Officer, urges Nigerians to separate criminality from ethnicity. According to the army chief, “crime has to do with the intent of the person not the ethnicity. “It is wrong to say a…

The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) has suspended church services in the affected areas to forestall an outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. The decision was contained in a statement after a state-wide broadcast on Thursday in Lagos and Ogun respectively. This was contained in a statement signed by the Assistant General Overseer (Administration), Pastor Gbesan Adebambo in the Church’s headquarters at Onike Iwaya, Lagos. The statement reads in parts: “We write to draw your attention to the directive from the Governments of Lagos and the Ogun States, respectively, banning all religious meetings and gatherings of more than fifty worshippers…

In what appears as a financial rip-off, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is expected to make N95 million on the short messaging system (SMS) from its candidates who are checking their 2020 results, an investigation by Straightnews has shown. Each of the approved telecommunication network providers such as MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9Mobile charges charges a candidate N50 on sms. More than 1,900,000 candidates registered for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination of the board. JAMB said Sunday, February 16 that the 1.9 million was the highest number of registration done in the history of the board and would still…

A six-week-old baby and mother are among the five new cases of coronavirus confirmed by Nigerian government. Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Wednesday said the five new cases of Coronavirus involve two Nigerians and three foreigners, showing four recorded in Lagos and one in Ekiti. “Of the five new positive cases, three arrived from the United States, while two came in from the United Kingdom,” the minister said at a briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. He explained that two of the three-week old from the US are Nigerians; a mother and child making the six-week-old baby the youngest COVID-I9…

By Akanimo Sampson The Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and gas region might not be a very safe area at the moment. Two oil governors: Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his Imo State counterpart, Hope Uzodinma, are locked in a seeming nasty partisan fight over the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. Uzodinma of the APC appears to be drawing the ire of Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He is alleging that Wike’s party is responsible for the attempted removal of the embattled Oshiomhole. Apparently piqued, the combative Governor Wike charged at the…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has ordered the closure of orientation camps across Nigeria as preventive and precautionary measures against coronavirus. The ongoing orientation for Batch A Stream 1 corps members, which was supposed to end March 30, 2020, has now been cut short 12 days earlier. They said they were expecting their posting letters to their various Place of Primary Assignments (PPA) Wednesday morning. A statement by NYSC management reads: “Sequel to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic which led to the cancellation of the national sports festival, management of the National Youth Service Corps Scheme wishes to…

By: Israel Umoh Death is a terminator of human life. It visits and takes away its prey. No one can question its intention or is able to reverse its visitation except God, the creator. Monarchs, peasants, the rich and the poor are equal before it. And they are equally afraid of it, a mystery to the human race. So, man dreads death and anything that leads to it. The spiritually conscious believe that their pious works on earth serve as a passport to their eternal abode. Some aged people who having fulfilled their earthly assignments do not worry about it.…

The initiative by Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel in signing a bill into law proscribing 65 cult groups is principally intended to stalk the rising menace and inadvertently dishevel the penetrating influence of secret cultism in the state. Of recent and on a daily basis, some cult groups have posed a serious threat to the security and peaceful co-existence of the hardworking people of the state. Some investors and innocent passersby have been the butt of their menacing activities. Where the cult groups do not engage in an altercation with some members of the public over flimsy issues, they turn…

By Akanimo Sampson The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted, from March 1, a one-year moratorium on all of its intervention funds. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele pointed out that the policy measures are to tackle the impact of coronavirus on the businesses and the country’s economy. The apex bank through the Deposit Money Banks has provided a total of N3 trillion to the Small and Medium Enterprises sector of the economy. This is as Lagos State Ministry of Health has confirmed that a 30-year-old Nigerian female who returned from the United Kingdom on Friday, 13 March 2020, observed…