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Daily Monitor reports that the Niger state government has declared Monday to Friday next week, March 18 to 22, as a public holiday. The public holiday, according to a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Binta Mamman on Monday is to enable civil servants and political officeholders to participate in the distribution and monitoring of the palliatives and Ramandan feeding in their various local government areas. The government enjoined the people of the state to seize the opportunity to pray for the peace and tranquility of the state and the nation as a whole. Mamman appealed to civil servants and political…

EFCC Uncovers How REA MD, Top Officials Misappropriated N12.4 Billion [PHOTO]     As part of the ongoing probe, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced 27 accounts to the suspended Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad. It said Ahmad only declared two accounts to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The commission said it was also investigating alleged “gross misappropriation of N12.4billion COVID 19 funds, which were disbursed to the agencies in two tranches. The investigators have suspected that N6bilion out of N12. 4billion could have been diverted. It also revealed that about N1.2billion,…

    First-class traditional ruler, Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has been invited by the Delta State Command of the Nigeria Police Force following a petition allegedly written against the monarch. According to a security source privy to the issue, the petition involved alleged cases of attempted murder among others. A police invitation letter obtained by SaharaReporters titled “Police Investigation Letter: Re: Case Of Attempted Murder, Assault Occasioning Harm, Malicious Damage And Conduct Likely To Cause Breach Of Peace”, signed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Abubakar, Warri Area Command headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force, Warri, Delta…

Officials of the New Orleans Police Department in the USA have made a startling revelation.The officers said the rats infesting the department’s headquarters are “all high” from eating marijuana stored in the evidence room. Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told the City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee the building is infested with cockroaches and rats, and the rodents in particular seem to be having a good time destroying evidence, UPI.com reports. “The rats eating our marijuana, they’re all high,” Kirkpatrick told the committee during a this week’s meeting.Kirkpatrick spoke in support of a $7.6 million proposal to temporarily relocate police headquarters…

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has directed its members to proceed on strike from Monday, 18th March. The labour union said the strike is due to the failure of the federal government to address issues raised and the expiration of the ultimatum earlier issued to the government. The statement, signed by NASU general secretary, Peter Adeyemi and SSANU president, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the strike is coming into effect due to the government’s decision to withhold four months’ salaries of…

The coronation process for the Olubadan designate is poised to begin following the conclusion of a 21-day mourning period, during which residents have continued to gather at his Alalubosa residence and ancestral home in Itabaale Olugbode, Ibadan. Prior to the burial of Late Oba Lekan Balogun on Thursday, the Olubadan Advisory Council, led by Otun Olubadan High Chief Rasidi Ladoja, held a closed-door meeting. While there exists a traditional protocol for electing a new monarch, subject to the approval of Governor Seyi Makinde, the Council must convene to deliberate on the nominee. A palace insider revealed, “We are awaiting…

Having sex requires only horn*y people. Making love requires two people in love with each other 2. A man keen on having sex sees women as sex objects, a man keen on making love sees her as a woman, a queen. A king makes love to his queen, an immature male sexes women and brags about how many women he has slept with or how the trophy woman fell for him easily in bed. 3. Two people having sex can fail to kiss; but when making love, kissing should be involved 4. Having sex can lead to regret. Making love…

As part of deliberate efforts to tackle security headlong, the 63 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Asaba, has recorded a major breakthrough in his fight against terrorism, banditry and illegal gun running among others by successfully busting illegal arms and ammunition factory in Onicha Olona forest in Delta State.  The Army raided the factory located inside the forest and recovered drones, explosives and a catche of arms and ammunition. The commander 63 Brigade, Asabz, Brigadier General Ogochukwu Unachukwu conducted journalists round the factory. The suspects, a family of 8 including the parents confessed to the crime of gun running saying…

Mr Echi Michael, a quack medical practitioner has been arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, South-South Nigeria. Mr Michael had been kept under surveillance by the Rivers State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA). He was accused of operating with fake documents and claiming to be a medical doctor. A statement signed by Dr Hope Avundaa, Secretary of the Rivers State NMA chapter, said its Antiquackery Committee led by the Chairman, NMA RS, Dr. Ebbi Robinson, Secretary, Dr. Hope Avundaa, and VC2, Dr Edmund Anufuro coordinated the arrest of Mr Michael when he went to apply for a…

Temitope Ilori in February set a rare precedent at the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) as she became the first female director-general ever appointed in the 24 years of the organisation’s history. It is unclear if President Bola Tinubu had it in mind to rejig what had become an enduring legacy of gender imbalance in the leadership of NACA when he appointed Ilori, a well-rounded public health expert. What is certain is that Ilori’s appointment now places women on the path to paddle Nigeria out of the scourge of an illness that disproportionately affects women than…