FORMER senator and current Kaduna governorship aspirant, Shehu Sani, has, following his defeat at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries in Kaduna State, compared the party’s delegates to bandits who collect ransom. “There is no difference between bandits who collect ransom and delegates who collect money to vote, he said in a statement after securing only two votes. He alleged that the voting process was marred by bribery and corruption with delegates collecting money to vote for unqualified candidates and vowed not to bribe delegates to vote for him. “No one should pay any delegate on my behalf…I don’t…
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THE Federal High Court, Abuja, has adjourned the trial of former Head of Service of the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye over alleged pension fraud until October 5, 2022. At the resumed hearing in the case on Thursday, Oronsaye was cross-examined by the prosecution counsel, Mr Oluwaleke Atolagbe. The former Head of Service reiterated that he was both Principal Secretary and Permanent Secretary, State House and that he was appointed Head of Service in 2009. When asked why he remained a signatory to an account he handled even while he no longer worked at the State House, Oronsaye told the court that…
IN the face of increasing harassment of journalists and media workers online, made worse by polarizing politics and the anonymity of social media, Unifor is launching a new website to help journalists and media workers get the help they need when they need it. “The harassment journalists face on the job is simply horrific. It is often racist and misogynist, and cannot be tolerated,” said Unifor Secretary-Treasurer Lana Payne, herself a former journalist. “This site will be there for them to help them in their moment of need.” More than 60% of Unifor journalist members have reported being harassed –…
THE Chief Whip of the Senate and former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, has described children as the nation’s most valuable asset. Kalu in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja in commemoration of 2022 International Children’s day, which comes up on Friday, May 27, also advocated severe punishment for violators of children’s rights. While urging parents and guardians to instil good moral values in their children and wards, the former governor of Abia said that the importance of raising responsible children could not be undermined in national development. Kalu, who urged the political class, policy makers and other…
THE National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has described the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act 2021 recently approved by President Muhammadu Buhari as a significant moment for all players in the Nigerian health insurance industry. Dr Omolayo Taiwo, Head, Health Insurance Department (States), Ado-Ekiti, made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. Taiwo said that the players included the Agency, the Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs), the enrolees and even the healthcare providers. He explained that every player in the authority had its roles and responsibilities well defined without any ambiguity…
PENSIONERS in Otun-Ekiti, Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti appealed to Gov. Kayode Fayemi on Wednesday to pay their outstanding entitlements before the end of his tenure on Oct. 16. Pensioners who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) lamented that some of their colleagues who retired between 2014 and 2019 had died without collecting their entitlements. One of the pensioners, Mr Taiwo Ajayi, a retired principal, appealed to Fayemi to consider the plight of the ageing retirees who needed to take care of their health and also take care of their children. Ajayi has five children, all unemployed…
A non-profit organisation, United Vessels of Love Foundation (U-VOL), has built a solar-powered borehole in Ojegbe Community of Obi LGA of Benue State with a population of about 1,500 people. The Founder of U-VOL, Ms Faith Adole, said this in a statement by the Foundation’s Public Relations Unit on Wednesday in Abuja, Adole said that the clean water project is powered by public support, donations, and a local project management team. The founder, who spoke at the inauguration of the solar-powered borehole, is a trained Nurse and an experienced Global Health Leader, currently pursuing her Doctoral studies at The Johns…
AN Area Court in Jos on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old tailor, David Ayuba, to one month in prison for forcibly collecting a phone from a boy. A panel of two magistrates, Ghazali Adam and Hyacinth Dolnaan, who sentenced Ayuba after he pleaded guilty to the offence, did not give him option of fine. The panel ordered him to pay a compensation of N27,000 to the complainant. They said the judgement would serve as deterrent to those who would want to indulge in such criminal acts. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported…
THE Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU), the country’s oldest trade union founded in 1912, is again facing another steep test following an order by the Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court restraining it (NCSU) from conducting its National Delegates Conference pending the determination of a substantive suit. The interim order, which was granted by His Lordship, the Honourable Justice S. Dalyop Pam, on May 18, 2022, followed a Motion Exparte filed on May 18, 2022 in a suit brought before the court by the plaintiff, Comrade Menele Ziadam Nzidee, against NCSU and three others. In the Exparte Motion…
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported five cases of Ebola virus disease amid the latest outbreak in the northwestern part of the country. The DRC office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said five cases of Ebola virus disease, including four confirmed ones, had been reported since the beginning of the 14th outbreak, which was declared in late April in the northwestern province of Equateur. The WHO noted that all five patients have died and 234 contacts have been identified and are under surveillance, while 1,013 people, including frontline workers, have been vaccinated. Patient Zero,…