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 Immediate-past National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has weighed in on the crisis rocking the party is his home state, Edo, accusing his successor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of anti-party activities. Oyegun spoke as current National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, weekend, in view of the current crisis in the State House of Assembly, said he would not need short-cut to sustain his position in the system, when asked by newsmen if he was not bringing pressure to bear on his god-son, Governor Godwin Obaseki. However, Odigie-Oyegun said the state governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, must…

The Federal Government has taken the verification and payment of ex-workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways Limited, NAL, in Diaspora to London, United Kingdom (UK). Federal Ministry of Finance officials stated that the exercise would last two weeks, beginning Monday. The exercise to be conducted by an inter-ministerial team would take place at the Nigerian High Commission Complex in London. The Inter-Ministerial Team is being coordinated by the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit, PICA, under the Federal Ministry of Finance. Its members included the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission, ICPC, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Auditor General Office,…

Kano State emirate council has vowed to sue the state anti-corruption agency for contempt of court. In a letter dated June 20, addressed to the chairman of Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, counsel to the emirate counsel, N.A. Dagiri, said the commission had defied subsisting court orders to invite elderly members of the council for investigations. Some of the invited members of the council, according to him, were Mukhtar Adnan, 93; Isa Hashim 92, and Yusuf Bayero, 84. The anti-graft agency also sent invitations to the wife of Muhammadu Sanusi, Emir of Kano, and two widows of Ado…

Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, has sealed a $200 million deal with the World Bank for the development of agribusiness in Nigeria. The Memorandum of Agreement and Action, MoA, was signed on the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support, APPEALS, project. The spokesman of NIRSAL, Ms. Anne Ihugba, stated in Abuja, Sunday, that under the project development objective of APPEALS, NIRSAL would bring its Tools, Techniques, Methodologies and strategic Partnerships, TTMPs, to bear on its Mapping to Markets-M2M The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, has sealed a $200 million deal with the World Bank…

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a thorough investigation to determine what was responsible for the gas pipeline tragedy in Kom Kom, Oyibo local government area of Rivers. Buhari, in a statement by Malam Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,  in Abuja on Saturday, however, condoled with the people and government of Rivers over the death of some workers in gas pipeline tragedy in the state. He also condoled with the families of the victims over the reported fatalities. The President said he was extremely pained by the loss of lives as a result of the incident.…

By Gab Efo President Muhammadu Buhari is a very painstaking and hardly a loquacious person. As a leader, his delay in taking smart decisions on issues has made many to unwittingly tag him “Baba go slow.” However, his love for country cannot be diminished by this tag. His passionate pursuit of his set goals has continued to bring results that benefit the down trodden despite a cacophony of voices of the elites. Currently, the President is in the final phase of assembling his cabinet list of 36 as was in his first term or 42 – 43 if he chooses…

By Akanimo Sampson Participants at the opening of the 41st Session of the FAO Conference on the challenges and opportunities of reaching Zero Hunger have a damning radical message from an international advocate for children’s and women’s rights, Graça Machel. This was Machel’s message: Considering the challenges of migration, the scourge of hunger and malnutrition, and the lack of investment in rural development, there is an immediate need to “change the way we do business”, scale up hunger-ending initiatives, and “disrupt the agricultural sector as a whole”. Delivering the McDougall Memorial Lecture on food security, Machel condemned “The shameful failure of…

By Akanimo Sampson Urolithin A, a metabolite of biomolecules found in pomegranates and other fruits, could help slow certain aging processes, a Rael-Science post has said, pointing out that EPFL spin-off Amazentis, in conjunction with EPFL. The post says the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, has published a paper in the journal Nature Metabolism outlining the results of their clinical trial. It is a fact of life that skeletal muscles begin to lose strength and mass once a person reaches the age of 50. A recent clinical trial involving two EPFL entities—spin-off Amazentis and the Laboratory of Integrative Systems Physiology (LISP)…

By Akanimo Sampson Parties currently locked in a seeming bitter dispute over the Oil Mining Licence (OML) 25 in Rivers State have just seven days to resolve their conflict and reopen the oil facility or brace for the wrath of the Government. Already, Governor Nyesom Wike has directed Dr Tammy Danagogo, the Secretary to the State Government, to convene a meeting of all key stakeholders in the presence of security chiefs in the state, for the host communities to outline their grievances to  the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major, Shell, to address pressing development concerns. Wike spoke at a meeting with Shell,…

By Akanimo Sampson A United Nations agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has launched a new Corporate Framework on Rural Extreme Poverty to accelerate the agency’s and its partners’ efforts towards eradicating extreme poverty for all people by 2030 – target 1.1 of Sustainable Development Goal 1 – end poverty. This is coming as the Tripartite – a joint effort by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), launched the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Multi-Partner Trust Fund, which is being supported by an initial contribution of $5.00 million from…