The Presidency has listed about 16 initiatives established in 5 years of President Muhammadu Buhari in office as part of his goodwill for the Nigerian youths. Among the initiatives are N-Power, NYSC monthly allowance, the Special Public Works Programme, the 75 billion Naira Nigeria Youth Investment Fund, the $20 million […]
Year: 2020
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, investigator Olamide Sadiq said that former Senate President Bukola Saraki used Kwaraa State Funds to acquire two choice properties in Lagos. The properties are at 17 and 17A McDonald Road, Ikoyi, Eti-Osa Local Government Area. Bukola Saraki was former governor of Kwara State, […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has fault the poor state of roads in hampering the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency. According to Buratai, the dilapidated washed off roads, which were built 40 years ago, are sited in Borno and Adamawa states. The over a decade long […]
The Committee on Legislative Compliance and Communications on Wednesday has been mandated by the Senate to summon the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami. The committee was asked to impress on him the need to implement the resolutions of the Senate regarding security related to the mandate […]
Olumuyiwa Johnson, a father of two on Tuesday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 24-year-old marriage with his wife, Omotayo, on grounds of unrepentant infidelity and threat to life. Olumuyiwa who lives at Eleta area in Ibadan testified before Chief Ademola Odunade, the court’s president that […]
The 63rd annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, Jan.31 on CBS from Los Angeles— but not much else is known about the ceremony, one of the many awards shows taking place as the coronavirus pandemic and its resulting restrictions continue. Nigeria Burna Boy gets a second Grammy award […]
A hit-and-run driver killed a woman near Toronto Hospital, Onitsha, on Tuesday while she was trying to cross the Onitsha-Awka road. The State Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Andrew Kumapayi, who confirmed the incident in Awka, said that the incident occurred “around 9.20 a.m.” “According to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the appointment of Farouk Aminu as a full-time Commissioner of the National Pension Commission from Senate. In a separate letter read on the floor during plenary on Tuesday by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan is the request contained. Umaru Farouk Aminu as full-time Commissioner […]
Egbe, a quite agrarian community of about 50,000 inhabitants in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State witnessed a controlled display of anger on Monday morning when farmers in the community gathered in their hundreds to protest against the incessant destruction of their crops by herdsmen. It was […]
( Published in Pointout News ) It has come and gone, its zephyr still drops like an ice with cool splendour. The protests and rages on the streets, the media hullabaloo and outcry, the burning and looting, everything has ended and what is left of the struggles is freezing […]