EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has weighed in on the crisis rocking the party over the choice of Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a reconciliatory committee to meet with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over the fallout of the party’s presidential primary and crisis trailing the nomination of a running mate.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, recently stated that the Rivers State governor, Wike Nyesom is an important member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and shouldn’t be ignored and undermine ahead of the 2023 elections.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that to close the industry’s skills gap, the Lagos State government and EbonyLifeCreative Academy (ELCA) produced another group of 128 young filmmakers over the weekend.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Gbolahan Oki, general manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, has lamented the alarming incidence of faulty buildings in various areas of Lagos Island and stated that the organization will coordinate efforts with other organizations to get rid of the state’s distressed buildings.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr. (Mrs.) Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has charged Lagos State Christian Pilgrims to see the pilgrimage exercise as a spiritually rewarding journey rather than for site-seeing and relaxation.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that at the third edition of the Lagos Waste Forum, hosted by the Statewide Waste and Environmental Education Program, SWEEP Foundation, at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, LAWMA Academy, the academic division of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), was recognized with an award as the “Government Agency of the Year.”
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Freee Recycle Limited, a waste recycling company has said that Lagos State generates 870,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year
EKO HOT BLOG reports that gunmen have kidnapped two Catholic priests in Edo State, amid the continued abduction of clergymen in the country.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that a gunman has killed three people and wounded others, three of them critically, at one of Denmark’s biggest shopping malls.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine’s military has confirmed that the eastern city of Lysychansk has fallen to Russian forces.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Foreign Secretary Liz Truss pledges Britain’s support to Ukraine for the “long haul” to resist Vladimir Putin’s invasion and to rebuild the nation.
To all intents and purposes, Nigeria shouldn’t be compared with Australia. Because there’s nothing to compare. But if a crazed member of Nigeria’s ruling feudal class or any of their serfs feels otherwise, such an unfortunate fellow should be handed an apple and a pebble.
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Typhoid fever is a severe infection characterized by ulceration and inflammation of the intestines. The bacteria that contaminates food or water and causes typhoid is called Salmonella typhosa.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Erik ten Hag will urge Manchester United’s hierarchy to break the bank to sign Ajax winger Antony if the club decide to bow to Cristiano Ronaldo’s transfer request, according to reports.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Manchester United are set to announce the arrival of Tyrell Malacia after the second part of his Old Trafford medical is completed today, according to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Raheem Sterling is closing in on a switch to Chelsea with Thomas Tuchel’s side holding fresh talks with Manchester City.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the week 52 pool results are for forty-nine (49) football matches for UK football 2021/2022 from the pool agent.
The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party has described the ruling All Progressives Congress as “a haven for treasury looters” following the alleged connection of a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, with the N1.8billion recovered by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission in a property in Abuja.
In a statement released late Sunday and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to recall Buratai to face investigations over the allegation.
The statement titled, ‘N1.8bn: Recall Buratai for investigation, PDP tasks Buhari…insists APC is haven for treasury looters’, partly read, “The Peoples Democratic Party calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately recall the former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Ambassador to Benin Republic, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), to face investigations and clear his name over alleged connection with the N1.8bn recovered in a property in Abuja by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC).
“The PDP’s demand for the recall and investigation of Gen. Buratai is predicated on the earlier assertion by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Babagana Monguno, after the exit of Gen. Buratai as COAS that the $1bn drawn from the national coffers under the All Progressives Congress administration for the purchase of arms to fight terrorism in our country could not be traced.
A man believed to be in his early 50s on Sunday at Eyenkorin in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State allegedly set his own house on fire.
The house located at Lekki Phase One, Eyenkorin Area in the outskirt of Ilorin, the state capital was deliberately set on fire by the man whose identity was yet to be ascertained and claimed to be its owner.
Punch Metro gathered that the couple who had about four children quarreled and had been leaving separately for about two years.
It was gathered that after the man had left the building, he also asked his wife and the children to pack out of the building. But the wife allegedly ignored her husband’s directive, claiming the house was a joint venture between her and the man.
Gunfire in a Copenhagen mall Sunday left several dead and several wounded, Danish police said, adding they had arrested one person in his twenties.
Images from the scene showed parents carrying their children as they fled the building and ambulance personnel carrying people away on stretchers.
“We now know that there are several dead,” Copenhagen police chief Soren Thomassen told a Sunday evening news conference, adding that there were also several wounded.
Thomassen described the apprehended suspect, as a 22-year-old “ethnic Dane”, but said it was too early to establish a motive.
AS the search for the Presidential running mate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, continues, Commercial Tricycle operators have joined the call to the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to consider the choice of Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd) as his deputy.
Writing under a coalition of Keke Marwa Coalition (consisting of several Commercial Keke Marwa Operators Associations), the group, in an open letter to the APC’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, said, “Marwa is the choice of the common people.”
According to the letter signed by the Zonal FCT Chairman of the association Kabiru Usman Akula and the Secretary, Babangida Isa, the group acknowledged Marwa’s contribution to creating livelihoods for millions of people through the tricycle transport system.
The letter reads: “We are members of a coalition of Commercial KEKE MARWA OPERATORS consisting of different Keke Marwa operators Associations.
DESPITE the abysmal performance of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Ekiti State governorship election, a former member of the House of Representatives, has said that the main opposition party has “a new formidable coalition for Atiku Abubakar.”
Honourable Arokodare, who was in the House of Representatives between 2003 to 2007, said notwithstanding the alleged former Governor Ayo Fayose’s withdrawal of support for Alhaji Abubakar, the PDP Presidential candidate in the 2023 election, the party in Ekiti is bigger than any individual, and would bounce back to reckoning.
Recall that the former lawmaker had warned his party ahead of the Ekiti governorship election that it would come a distant third after alleging that Fayose sold out to the All Progressives Congress, APC, by preventing a more popular candidate, Segun Oni, in the PDP.
He, however, commended the foresight of the PDP leadership and National Working Committee, NWC, for “aborting the Ekiti PDP mega rally after seeing through the subterfuge concocted to exploit the party.”
THE Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins has condemned in very strong terms the stoning and killing of Deborah Yakubu in Sokoto State by a mob of overzealous students for alleged blasphemy.
He also charged the law enforcement agencies to quickly swing into action to investigate the matter to identify the culprits and bring them to justice according to the Nigerian criminal law.
He said that the alleged killing of young Deborah Yakubu a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education is appalling, provocative, and inhuman.
Such acts, if not checked forthwith, he warned, are capable of further exacerbating religious tension, thereby causing disaffection amongst the peace-loving people of Nigeria.
The ongoing Nigeria Army 84 Regular Intake plans to open screening of 1,560 indigenes of Zamfara.
The Zonal Recruitment Supervisor, Brig.- Gen. Mohammed Kanoma, disclosed this while receiving Zamfara Deputy Governor, Sen. Hassan Nasiha who visited the training centre at the headquarters of 1 Base Brigade Garrison of the Nigerian Army along Kaura-Namoda Road in Gusau.
Kanoma who took the deputy governor round the facilities, said necessary arrangements had been concluded for the success of the exercise.
He said 1,560 indigenes of the state would undergo the screening to enable the state to meet its quota in the exercise.
Nasiha expressed appreciation over high level dedication demonstrated by the applicants in joining the Nigerian Army.
There was apprehension at Archangel Raphael Catholic Church, Garki Abuja, Police Barracks, on Sunday when an unidentified turbaned man invaded the church premises.
According to eyewitnesses, the man who wore sunglasses and a hat that had the inscription ‘POLICE” on it, did not have a tenable explanation when he was apprehended by those in the church.
He was also wearing a faded suspected US Army Fashion type camouflage trouser.
He drove a silver coloured Peugeot 406 with an Abuja number BWR-417HF.
The incident, it was gathered, happened shortly after Mass.
Brigadier General Mohammed Fadah, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has issued a stern warning to corps members against drug abuse and other related offences.
The DG gave the warning on Sunday while addressing corps members deployed to Yobe State at the Permanent Orientation Camp in Dazigau, Nangere Local Government Area of Yobe State.
He reminded them that, “The orientation camp is like a semi regimented environment, please, conduct yourselves in an orderly manner and be good ambassadors of the scheme”.
Brig. Gen. Fadah also added that the NYSC scheme has zero tolerance for cultism while admonishing them to also shun misuse of social media.
In what could best be described as a major milestone and a significant boost ahead of the commencement of port operations, Lekki Deep Sea Port, on Friday, 1st July 2022, took delivery of 3 Super Post Panamax Ships to Shore (STS) Cranes and 10 Rubber Tyred Gantries (RTGs) and also witnessed the arrival of the first vessel to berth at the port. The cranes and the RTG equipment will be used in the container terminal, which will be operated by Lekki Freeport Terminal, a subsidiary of CMA CGM Group.
The vessel “ZHEN HUA 28,” which conveyed the STS cranes and RTGs to Nigeria, left Shanghai, China, on May 17, 2022, and arrived at Lekki Deep Sea Port at about Noon Nigerian time on 1st July 2022.
Speaking after the vessel berthed, the Chairman of Lekki Port, Biodun Dabiri, expressed his great joy at the arrival of the STS cranes and RTG equipment at the port. He stated that the Zhen Hua 28 vessel could only berth in Lekki Port and nowhere else in the country due to the depth of the draught at Lekki Port.
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