Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyano has issued a message to public officers in Nigeria,saying that power is transient. Keyamo cautioned public officers to make good use of their time in office. The minister made this known in a terse statement on his official Twitter page on Thursday morning. The post read: … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP),has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent comments on the nation’s electoral process is a clear admittance that 2019 general elections were not free, fair and credible. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan specifically challenged President Buhari to reciprocate the benevolence of Nigerians by recreating an electoral atmosphere … Read more
The Lagos State Government has said that it will shut PWD Level Crossing around Ikeja GRA axis tomorrow and Brewery Level Crossing along Iganmu axis on Saturday between 8pm and 6am. The Government said that this was in line with the Nigerian Railway Modernisation Project (Lagos-Ibadan section) which extends to Lagos Port, Apapa. Alternative routes … Read more
The Kano Public Complaints and Anti- Corruption Commission has said that it recovered N256, 014, 170.00 in the year 2019. According to the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Bar. Muhuyi Magaji Rimin Gado who briefed newsmen at the Kano Press Centre, said the Commission received a total of 3, 192 complaints. He added that 608 … Read more
Amidst the rising tension in the Middle East region, Kuwait’s defense minister said that it has received a letter from the Commander in Chief of a US military camp in Kuwait “declaring imminent withdrawal of all US military forces in three days,” state news agency KUNA said on Wednesday. “Receiving such (a) letter from Camp … Read more
Iran’s aviation authority said that it would not give to Americans the recovered black boxes of a Boeing 737 that crashed Wednesday, killing all 176 passengers and crew. “We will not give the black boxes to the manufacturer (Boeing) and the Americans,” Iran Civil Aviation Organisation head Ali Abedzadeh said, quoted by Mehr news agency. … Read more
The National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) in Bayelsa State has said that the scheme did not record any casualty in the shooting of a commercial bus driver and another individual by a policeman in Yenagoa. It was learnt that a mobile policeman on Monday evening shot a driver with Peace Mass Transit and one person at … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the reinstatement of Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA),Ms.Damilola Ogunbiyi. Her reinstatement was announced in a tweet by the Federal Government via the Twitter handle, @NGRPresident, today. “President @MBuhari has directed that the suspension of Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi from her role as Managing Director of @realREANigeria, be reversed. … Read more
Angry mob has stormed the police station, forcefully took a suspected robber away and set him ablaze, using petrol and tyres. A youth activist, Jiji Jack, who spoke to our correspondent, said that the police arrested the suspect, who had been a thorn in the flesh of the residents of Kornya town because of his … Read more
The suspected pirates have freed the three kidnapped expatriates from the creeks of Sigbene community, in Burutu Council Area of Delta State. A joint security operation, which embarked on a manhunt for the suspects, was said to have effected their release. Government sources, who pleaded anonymity, said the expatriates, two Russians and one Indian, were … Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will host Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to inaugurate a new gas pipeline, with tensions in Libya and Syria also on the agenda. Putin arrived late on Tuesday after paying a surprise visit to Syria his first to Damascus since the war began – at a moment of acute … Read more
A director and a cashier in the Office of the Secretary to the Katsina state Government Alhaji Muhammed Inuwa have been arrested by the police for the disappearance of N16m from the office. Sources said that police arrested the duo after it was discovered that the office had been burgled by unknown persons who allegedly … Read more
The U.S. Maritime Administration website has renewed its warning about threats to U.S. commercial vessels from Iran and its proxies in the Gulf and surrounding area. The notification, valid from Jan. 6 to Jan. 13, is not substantially different from an initial warning issued on Friday. READ ALSO: https://ekohotblog2.com/2020/01/07/iran-places-eighty-million-dollars-on-trumps-head/ “There remains the possibility of Iranian … Read more
Hundreds of Adamawa youths on Tuesday blocked the federal highway passing through Girei community to Yola, the state capital, and other parts of the state to protest against incessant kidnappings in the area. The youths, who are from Girei Local Government Area, rendered many travellers and motorists stranded. They vowed that they would not open … Read more
The Federal Government of Nigeria has filed charges against the President in Council, Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SCN), Joseph Olorunjuwon Agbenla for alleged abuse of office. Agbenla, who retired as the Permanent Secretary / Surveyor-General, Lagos State, is charged with receiving about N5million as allowances for conferences not attended. The four-count charge filed before the … Read more
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has reportedly appealed to a former member of the Ogun State Judicial Service Commission, Abayomi Omoyinmi, to accept out of court settlement in a suit filed against him. Ekohotblog garnered that Omoyinmi was appointed a member of the Commission through a letter by former Governor Ibikunle Amosun on February 2012, … Read more
A Kenya pastor stabbed his wife during a church service and then slit his throat in a murder-suicide witnessed by the shocked congregation, local police told CNN yesterday. On Sunday, Elijah Misiko, an assistant pastor with the Ground for God’s Gospel Church in Mombasa, left his front row seat and approached his wife, Senior Pastor … Read more
The spokesperson for the Buhari Media Organisation(BMO), Niyi Akinsiju, has said that foreigners will no longer be allowed into Nigeria without having at least $200 (N72, 000) once the visa on arrival policy takes effect. The BMO spokesman made this known while featuring on a Live TV programme on Monday. He said: “If we are … Read more
Ondo State Government has said that Dr Olusegun Mimiko-led Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) administration left N220bn debt at the end of its tenure in 2016. The state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo, made this known while featuring on a Channels Television programme on Monday. Ojogo said that the current administration in the state … Read more
An $80million bounty has been placed on Donald Trump’s head in Iran in the wake of General Qasem Soleimani’s assassination, Mirror.co.uk reports. During the televised funeral, an unidentified eulogist speaking on official state television said that one US dollar should be tabled for every Iranian in the country, with the cash going to whoever killed … Read more