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Friday, 22 March 2019 04:50

Nigeria more divided now than during civil war - Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has raised the alarm that Nigeria was more divided and in danger over the current state of disunity in the country. Mr Obasanjo said the country was in a worse situation at the moment when compared to the period of the civil war. The former President stated this on Thursday while speaking at a one-day 2019 annual retreat/conference and general meeting of members of Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria held in Abeokuta. Obasanjo who was a guest speaker, spoke on five Ps. He urged Nigerians to partner one another and even go…

Friday, 22 March 2019 04:46

Canada varsity announces memorial fund, poetry contest for Pius Adesanmi

Carleton University has announced a memorial fund in honour of Mr Pius Adesanmi, a Nigerian-born academic whose death on March 10 has continued to elicit tributes from all corners. Adesanmi, a professor, died in the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa penultimate Sunday, all the remaining 156 passengers and crew were killed alongside the professor. He was 47. Although Adesanmi was born in Nigeria, Carleton University and Canada, where he had lived for many years, are mourning him as a national loss whose replacement would be difficult to come by. Adesanmi was director of Institute…

Friday, 22 March 2019 04:45

US endorses Israel’s Golan sovereignty in big shift

President Donald Trump abruptly declared Thursday the U.S. will recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a major shift in American policy that gives Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a political boost a month before what is expected to be a close election. The administration has been considering recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the strategic highlands, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967, for some time and Netanyahu had pressed the matter with visiting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just a day earlier. U.S. and Israeli officials said Wednesday they had not expected a decision until next week, when Netanyahu…

Friday, 22 March 2019 04:42

Europe offers UK a little more time for Brexit

Worn down by three years of indecision in London, European Union leaders on Thursday grudgingly offered the U.K. more time to ease itself out of the bloc, delaying by several weeks — but not eliminating — the threat of a chaotic British exit. After a meeting that stretched through the afternoon and over dinner, the bloc said Britain could postpone its March 29 departure to May 22 — if the U.K. Parliament approves Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the bloc next week. If the twice-rejected deal is thrown out again, the bloc says Britain has until April 12…

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 05:00

Senate passes N30,000 minimum wage bill

Workers, yesterday, won a major victory in their battle for N30,000 minimum wage. Senate passed the National Minimum Wage Bill, which the President is expected to sign into law. The approval of N30,000 contrary to the N27,000 recommended by Federal Government in a Bill it sent to National Assembly in January. The lawmakers urged Federal Government to initiate immediately the review of the revenue sharing formula to ensure seamless implementation of the minimum wage at the state and local government levels. Under the current revenue formula, the Federal Government receives 56 per cent from the federation account including four per…

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 04:59

FG to increase VAT, other taxes to pay new minimum wage

Federal Government is to increase Value Added Tax by 50 per cent to pay the new national minimum wage, Bugdet and National Planning Minister Udo Udoma said Tuesday. Mr Udoma said the raise, first announced by chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr Babatunde Fowler, will create the required funds to meet the new wage obligation being approved by National Assembly. Udoma and Fowler were amongst senior government officials who yesterday appeared before Senate Committee on Finance headed by Mr John Enoh. The officials were summoned by the Senate committee to explain details of 2019-2021 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and…

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 04:55

Akeredolu to rename varsity after ex-Gov

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, says Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), will be renamed after late Mr Olusegun Agagu, former governor of the state. Mr Akeredolu disclosed this during a tour of Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday. He urged the two newly-elected House of Assembly members representing Okitipupa 1 and 2 constituencies to move the motion for renaming the university. According to the governor, it is a decision that can only be taken by the House of Assembly and he urged them to move the motion as their first assignment. “You know…

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 03:54

FG to prosecute parents who refuse to enrol children in school – Minister

Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu, says Nigeria will soon effect policy to prosecute parents who refused to enrol their children of school age in schools across the country. Adamu made this known in Abuja on Monday while addressing journalists during the 9th edition of the weekend ministerial briefing. He said parents who sabotage efforts of government at reducing the number of out of school children would soon be criminalised and would be made to face the wrath of the law. “Unless the issue of parents who refused their children going to school is made a crime, and we start…

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 03:48

MASSOB condemns post-election killing of Christians by herdsmen

Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has condemned incessant killings in Christian communities in some parts of the country immediately after the general elections. In a statement yesterday, the group regretted that the killings commenced immediately after Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the February 23 presidential election. MASSOB also congratulated the Igbo for voting for its choice candidates in the general elections. The statement signed by its leader, Mr Uchenna Madu, in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, indicted Federal Government and tribal soldiers called Fulani herdsmen in the killings. The pro-Biafra…

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 03:46

Over 1,000 feared dead after cyclone slams into Mozambique

More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation’s president said. “It is a real disaster of great proportions,” President Filipe Nyusi said. Cyclone Idai could prove to be the deadliest storm in generations to hit the impoverished southeast African country of 30 million people. It struck Beira, an Indian Ocean port city of a half-million people, late Thursday and then moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi with strong winds and heavy rain. But it took days for the…

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Monday, 18 March 2019 03:59

Pius Adesanmi’s wife speaks about husband’s death

Mrs Olumuyiwa Balogun-Adesanmi, wife of late Mr Pius Adesanmi, has released the statement below about her husband’s death and condolences that have poured in. Adesanmi, a professor and columnist, was one of the passengers in the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last week. All the passengers and crew members in the flight died. Since his death, condolences have continued to pour in for Adesanmi including from President Muhammadu Buhari and his workplace, Carleton University in Canada. Read the full statement by Mrs Balogun-Adesanmi below: I have no words to describe the depths of my pain on the untimely passing of…

Sunday, 17 March 2019 04:41

Oyo NAWOJ honours INEC boss over successful election

Daniel Agbolade, Ibadan Oyo state chapter of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), has commended the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Mutiu Agboke, over what it described as successful conduct of the general elections. It said it deemed it fit to honour the electoral umpire and particularly, the REC for meeting the demands placed before him during an earlier visit about three weeks before the election. The state NAWOJ Chairperson, Mrs. Jadesola Ajibola, who led other executive members to the commission's Agodi office, said the award is to commend and encourage the commission on its efforts at achieving a…

Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:40

DSS, again, replaces Buhari’s Chief Securiity Officer

Department of State Services has removed Mr Bashir Abubakar as President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Security Officer. Abubakar was immediately replaced with Mr Idris Kazeem Ahmed. According to insiders in the Presidency, Abubakar will be proceeding on strategic course at National Defence University (Fadena), Buenos Aires, Argentina as a face-saving measure. Security source said DSS authorities had directed that the changes should take immediate effect. It was further learnt that Administrative Officer of Presidential Villa, Mr Abubakar Maikano, had also been directed to stand in, any time the new CSO is not available. This is the second time Buhari’s CSO will…

Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:36

Scores trapped as three-storey building collapses in Ibadan

Rescue operations were still on late Friday as scores of victims were trapped in a three-storey building that collapsed in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. This came barely four days after a collapsed building in Lagos led to the death of at least 20 people. The incident happened around 5:45pm in Sogoye area of Molete. Number of affected victims could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report. Oyo State Government spokesman, Mr. Toye Arulogun, said the government was on top of the situation. Arulogun said, “We have deployed two excavators there. Our officials are right there now,…

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