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By Harrison Arubu New York, Sept. 14, 2020 The United States has imposed visa restrictions on some Nigerians involved in the run up to the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. The move also targets individuals it accused of working to undermine the November 2019 governorship polls in Kogi …

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has made significant progress in securing sea time berths for cadets trained under the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP), despite the limitations of the coronavirus pandemic. Director-General of the Agency, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, disclosed this in Lagos following a recent three-month extension …

… Okays annual course for 200 more … To increase doctors, nurses quarters Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the engagement of 84 medical doctors, 365 nurses and midwives, 45 pharmacists and 100 health technicians and other supportive staff, making 594 personnel being added to Borno’s healthcare sector. Zulum announced …

It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak to a national emergency, but the circumstances are starkly dissimilar. Nigerians that marched across the nation in the harmattan-scorched January of 2012 were actually protesting a touted rising economic tide …

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has announced September 21 date for reopening of primary and secondary schools in the state, ending months of school closure occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Fayemi who disclosed this in a state-wide broadcast on Sunday evening also directed that tertiary institutions in the …

By Harrison Arubu United Nations, Sept. 14, 2020 Outgoing President of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA), Ambassador Tijani Muhammad-Bande, has highlighted some critical lessons from COVID-19. This is as the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres and Diplomats from around the world paid glowing tributes to Professor Muhammad-Bande for his …

Federal government agencies in the Presidency have held consultations for the 2021 budget. The Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr Tijjani Umar, led the 2021 budget bilateral meeting between Government Agencies under the Presidency and officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning. The virtual meeting, according to …

Paris, Sept. 13, 2020 Olympique Marseille earned a smash-and-grab 1-0 win at Ligue 1 champions Paris St-Germain (PSG) on Sunday in a match which saw five players sent off and two goals disallowed. Forward Florian Thauvin struck in the 31st minute of a pulsating though ill-tempered match at the Parc …

turnpot@gmail.com Reports making the rounds on social media are to the effect that one Opeyemi Owatimeyin has been whisked into detention by security agents, specifically the DSS or SSS, after his arrest at Iyara, a town in Kogi state. His “offence”, the reports continue, was pamphleteering. Owatimeyin reportedly was distributing …

Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has rejoiced with Professor Florence Obi, who just broke a 45-year jinx by emerging the first female Vice-Chancellor-elect of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Cross River State, while expressing hopes that her tenure …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some Nigerian Elders “for standing up to save the country at its worst time in history.” Speaking against the backdrop of the National dialogue convened by the former President to address …

turnpot@gmail.com 0705 362 1058 The much talked-about Edo State governorship election comes up next Saturday, 19th September, 2020. The run down to the election has exposed the underbelly of the country’s politics, such that it not only leaves much to be desired but also leaves a sour taste in the …

The Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Campaign Council has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu and APC chieftains in Edo to rig and buy votes during the September 19 governorship election with N300 million pooled …

The Nigerian Presidency has unleashed a blistering counter-attack on former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying that he is the ‘Divider-in-Chief’ of the country and that his criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari and his government are born out of envy. A statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media …

A PREMIUM TIMES investigation has exposed a massive referral kickback scheme showing how the country’s top diagnostic service providers, medical doctors and hospitals steal billions of naira yearly from unsuspecting patients who pay for healthcare out-of-pocket. During the 20-month undercover investigation, a PREMIUM TIMES journalist posing as a doctor referred …

To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include a world faced with a pandemic the scale of which hasn’t been seen in 100 years. The crisis has crippled economies, destroyed global supply …

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia over the death sentence on Kano singer Sharif Yahya Sharif. Falana is asking the Commission to exercise its mandates and authority under the African Charter on …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila over “their failure to publish reports of all completed public hearings and corruption probes by the National Assembly since 1999, and failure to disclose …

Sympathisers trooped out at the weekend in Yenagoa to mourn the demise of the wife of the former Bayelsa Commissioner for Information, Chief Nathan Egba. The remains of late Mrs. Rosemarie Eneotse Egba were committed to mother earth at her husband’s residence, in Okaka, Yenagoa Local Government, on Saturday. Mrs. …

By Dennis Udoma, Uyo Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Ini Ememobong has taken the enlightenment campaign against COVID-19 to the traditional rulers in the State, and urged them to join the war by educating their subjects in their domains on the preventive protocols to end the …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has pledged to support ongoing initiatives by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to provide alternative energy source to Nigerians through aggressive activation of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) refill stations for motorists across the country. Speaking on TVC Business Show, Business Nigeria Live, the Group …

Minister of Transportation, Rt.Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has paid glowing tributes to his late older brother Dede Charles Amaechi (Oha) amidst funeral rites for the deceased as he was laid to rest, Saturday, in his country home, Ubima. Amaechi said his late elder brother was like a father to him …

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has cried out, that a planned protest against it in London, the United Kingdom, purportedly by individuals on the scholarship of the agency against the non-payment of their funds is actually the handiwork of those who want to rip it off to the tune …

In response to appeals by stakeholders from various parts of the Federation, the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has extended the submission of memoranda by two weeks. A statement issued by the Office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, who is …

Southern and Northern leaders of Nigeria have come together, led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to pull the country back from what they describe as the brink where it presently is as a result of governance, security and development issues, among others. A communique by Ambassador Ahmed Magaji, for the …