Welcome to EKOHOTBLOG roundup of top Major Nigerian headlines for today, Tuesday, December 24th, 2019 1. Commissioner Wants Account Officers To Key Into T.H.E.M.E Agenda The Lagos State Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Rabiu Olowo has tasked Finance and Accounts officers of the State Government to ensure that their activities take cognizance of the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda … Read more
The Lagos State Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Rabiu Olowo has tasked Finance and Accounts officers of the State Government to ensure that their activities take cognizance of the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the present administration. Olowo gave the charge during a three-day retreat organized for management staff of the Finance Ministry and other offices under its … Read more
The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on relevant authorities to ensure proper regulation and monitoring of gas sales to reduce incidents of gas explosion in the state. The House Deputy Speaker, Mr. Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, who presided at the plenary on Monday, called on the state Commissioner for Environment to enforce … Read more
The Social and Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has strongly condemned the Monday attack on the protesters of the unconstitutional arrest of the Convener of the RevolutionNow movement Omoyele Sowore. SERAP made the condemnation known via a press statement issued on Monday. The statement reads “We strongly condemn the intimidation, harassment and attacks today … Read more
The South-South Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Emmanuel Ogidi has declared that democracy is dead in Nigeria. Ogidi predicted that those angling for political offices in 2023 will be disappointed because would be no election in the country in 2023. Addressing newsmen at the end of God’s Kingdom Society’s Feast of Tabernacles … Read more
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP, has unequivocally condemned the attack on the protesters of the unconstitutional arrest of the convener of the RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore by the officials of DSS. The peaceful protesters were attacked on Monday in Abuja by thugs chanting ‘Sai baba’ and were carrying placards with President Muhammadu Buhari’s image. … Read more
The former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that thugs sponsored by President Muhammadu Buhari, attacked the human right activist Prince Deji Adeyanu, and other protesters of the rearrest of the convener of the RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore. Fani-Kayode alleged that about 150-strong crowd of young, wild, drug-crazed youths attacked the peaceful protesters in Abuja … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has replied the Human Right Lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, over the alleged purported third term agenda. Buhari described the allegation that he was seeking a third term in office as means for the human right activist to gain free and cheap publicity. Adding that, there was no veracity in the allegation, saying … Read more
Western Lotto Limited has been granted an order by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, authorizing it to search 23 firms for evidence of violation of its Ghana Games patent infringement. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke gave the order recently pursuant to Western Lotto’s ‘Exclusive Right’ to use the trade names and trademarks associated with the … Read more
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has welcomed some members of the Allied Peoples Movement APM in Ogun State, led by Hon. Adekunle Akinlade to the party. Akinlade, a former chieftain of the APC had left the party for the APM in the heat of disagreement regarding who should fly … Read more
Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday, commissioned the school pencil project of the Projects Development Institute (PRODA) Enugu. This happened precisely four years after the minister, in 2015, charged the agency to, within the shortest possible time, commence production of pencils, warning that the country cannot continue to import the item from … Read more
Following a court’s declaration of Rivers state as the rightful owner of the Soku Oil wells, Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State over the weekend engaged in a verbal war. In this vein, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the two governors to “sheathe … Read more
Having learnt that some cult groups have been terrorising the Adatan, Enugada and Elega area of Abeokuta since Sunday, Ogun State Police said they would start treating cultists in the state as murderers and hired assassins if they refuse to desist from their evil acts. DAILY POST correspondent gathered that the rival cult groups belong … Read more
In recognition of his performance during the first term in office, President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina has been endorsed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for a second term. The decision was announced in a communique signed by Jean-Claude Kassi, the commission’s president, at the end of the 56th … Read more
Ekohotblog reports that Comrade Giwa Moshood Olasupo (GMO) on Saturday declared for the state chairmanship position of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN). Releasing his manifestos in front of over a thousand youths from different local governments within the state, GMO stressed the need to ensure that the youths are united and gainfully employed. … Read more
The Lagos State Government on Monday charged all residents to remain conscious of their environment as they celebrate the Christmas and New Year festivities. The State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello, advised during an interview in his office at Alausa, Ikeja. He stressed that it was necessary to enlighten Lagosians … Read more
An alleged cultist, Kayode Abe, was on Monday brought before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly shooting a man dead. Abe, 29, was charged on three counts of conspiracy, murder and belonging to an unlawful society. Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Dooney Raphel told the court that the defendant committed the offenses on … Read more
The Lagos State Government on has said the Imota Rice Mill at Imota, in Ikorodu Lagos, will be completed by the second quarter of 2020, with a production capacity of 32,000 tonnes per hour. According to the Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, the State Government-owned Integrated Rice Mill will be also created about 250, … Read more
The Lagos State government has met with stakeholders to discuss the planned relocation of the Computer Village from Ikeja to Katangowa in Agbado/Oke-Odo LCDA to get their commitment to the project. The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako, in his welcome address said the relocation process began with the exchange of … Read more
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday took on the chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Tunde Balogun, for reportedly saying the PDP was not destined to win in the state. Adedeji Doherty, the state chairman of the PDP, at the 8th day fidau prayers of a member of … Read more