Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has determined to fight corruption in the country to a stand-still. In view of the president’s determination, Turkish authorities on Monday detained 102 people, including 60 traffic police officers, as part of an investigation into alleged bribery and abuse of safety regulations in the construction sector. Authorities took into custody 42 people for allegedly bribing the police to avoid inspection and allowing a concrete mixer and earth moving trucks into normal traffic flows, in violation of the law. No fewer than 24 people, including six children, were killed in the past year by construction vehicles. Security…
Author: Alaba Rotimi
Not less than 25 countries and 150 exhibitors will grace the 10th African Arts and Crafts (AFAC) Expo scheduled for Abuja, Nigeria. The Director-General of National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Otunba Segun Runsewe, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. Runsewe said that participants from these countries and the exhibitors were expected to showcase their unique cultural identities at the expo which is holding from Aug. 27 to Sept. 17. He expressed commitment to justifying his appointment by using culture as the only tool to change the narratives…
The Germany’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Bernhard Schlagheck, has disclosed that his country is ready to support a more united and prosperous Nigeria devoid of wrangling and urged the people to respect the constitution. Schlagheck spoke during an interactive session with the leadership of the Enugu State Chapter of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, in Enugu on Monday. The ambassador also said that the Federal Republic of Germany had confidence in Nigeria’s ability to deal decently with the call for the restructuring of the country for a more equitable nation. He, therefore, advised all stakeholders to respect the…
The Ogun State Police Command disclosed on Wednesday, July 26 that its officers shot dead five suspected kidnappers on Tuesday night after a failed attempt to collect a N100 million ransom. Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), said this on Wednesday while parading the corpses of the suspected kidnappers to journalists at the Egba Owode Divisional Police Headquarters in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area. Oyeyemi said the kidnappers had engaged the police in a shootout during the rescue of the victim who had been in captivity for five days. He said the suspects had on Friday waylaid the…
The publishers of the controversial book, “Mandela’s Last Years” have withdrawn it from the shelves and immediately stopped issuing copies following the protest by Graca Machel, the widow of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. Machel had threatened legal action against his late husband’s personal doctor, Dr. Vejay Ramlakan, over a book that reveals previously undisclosed details of his patient. According to Africa Review, Dr Ramlakan, headed the former South African leader’s medical team until his death in December 2013 at the age of 95. He released his book, “Mandela’s Last Years’’ last Tuesday to coincide with Mandela Day on July 18, in…
The G20-backed Global Infrastructure Hub (GIH) has said on Tuesday that the world needs to spend around $94 trillion in global infrastructure by 2040 to eliminate infrastructure deficit. The GIH said to close the spending gap, annual infrastructure spending needs to rise to 3.5 percent from 3 percent of global gross domestic product. The report details how much each country needs to spend on infrastructure to 2040, which sectors need it the most and how they far they are from meeting these needs based on current spending trends. “We believe this information will be key to governments, and indeed those…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Marshall Boboye Oyeyemi has disclosed that the agency’s Traffic Radio Station will go on air very soon. Oyeyemi told our correspondent in New York that the radio station would be fully dedicated to traffic information in the country. “All over the developed countries, you see you’re on the highway, you just tune to the Traffic Radio, on the spot and get the traffic situation. “When the station takes off, every 30 minutes, you should be able to tune on. “I should be able to give you the situation between Abuja-Kaduna, Lagos-Ibadan, Enugu-Port Harcourt and…
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government had set aside the sum of N1.6 billion for women empowerment programme called the National Women Empowerment Fund (NAWEF). She made this disclosure at a town hall meeting with women groups in Dutse, Jigawa State. Alhassan said that NAWEF is part of the FG’s Social Investment Intervention Programme known as the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP). She explained that the programme was being implemented by the ministry in collaboration with the Bank of Industry (BoI), the administrating bank for the…
The Federal Government would soon start the implementation of a comprehensive rebuilding plan for the North-east areas of Nigeria that were ravaged in recent years of Boko Haram terrorist-insurgency. According to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, who presided over a government-wide meeting that included the Governor of Borno State, federal ministers and service chiefs “the plan is a very clear, we all know what direction we should be headed,” regarding the reconstruction of the North-east. While the whole region is intended to be covered eventually, the plan opens with Bama Local Government including several towns in an initiative that would…
The House of Representatives’s Committee on Public Petition on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 asked National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for identities of informants whose tip-off led to raid on former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan’s property. The committee gave the order on Wednesday in its session on a petition on incessant harassment of herself and family sent to it by the former first lady. It also summoned the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Police to appear as defendants in the petition. A Director in the NDLEA, Mr Femi Oloruntoba, had told…