The incidences of drug counterfeiting has gone down in Nigeria, according to Dr Paul Orhi, Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). In a message at the formal destruction of counterfeit drugs worth N100 million in Enugu on Tuesday, Orhi said that counterfeiting in the country had been reduced to 6 percent. The drugs were seized from Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi States. The success achieved, according to the NAFDAC DG, was made possible through strategic developments by the agency to check the menace. “Statistics of counterfeit drugs have reduced from more than 40…
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Mohammad Wakil, the Minister of State for Power, on Monday expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will win Borno State in the 2015 gubernatorial polls, going by recent developments. Mr. Wakil said this at a news conference attended by all PDP senior officials in Maiduguri. He said that those in attendance had decided to abandon their differences, with a view to uniting to fight a common front. “We in Borno are in a state of mourning over the insurgency that has claimed so many lives. “But we are also working towards bringing a lasting change come 2015 general…
ADEWALE OMIRIN The Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party members in the assembly connived with Governor Ayodele Fayose to import three thugs to form a quorum at Monday’s sitting. According to Omirin, none of the 19 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, attended the “illegal sitting”, where three commissioner-nominees were confirmed for appointments. The Deputy Speaker, Taiwo Orisaleye, said he and a few other members of the APC lawmakers were barred from gaining access to the Assembly Complex by security operatives. Addressing journalists on Monday night in Ikere-Ekiti, the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission said it has taken measures to track campaign expenditure incurred by political parties as it lifted ban on election campaigns. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, on Monday in Abuja stated this in an interview with newsmen following the lifting of the ban on election campaigns. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that in line with the electoral timetable released by INEC, presidential and National Assembly aspirants of political parties were allowed to commence campaign from November 16 (Sunday). Similarly, the ban on campaign by governorship and state House of Assembly aspirants…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said the ground-breaking ceremony for the Gas Revolution Industrial Park at Ogidigben in the Warri South West Local Government Area earlier slated for last Friday was postponed to allow for dialogue among warring stakeholders. He said the decision was not an anti-Itsekiri agenda on his part as being alleged by some stakeholders. It would be recalled that the project, which was due for commissioning by the president last Friday, was aborted following severe threats by ex-Niger Delta militant, Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo and other Ijaw indigenes. While the Itsekiri leaders called the president a…
Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has denied that the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, was impeached Monday by Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers loyal to him. There were reports that seven out of 26 members of the House reconvened Monday without the speaker or the deputy, and named a speaker pro tempore, before approving nominations sent in by the governor. The lawmakers ratified the appointment of three commissioners, 12 advisers and reconstituted the caretaker committees of the 16 Local Government Areas in the state. The All Progressives Congress-dominated House claimed the action of the…
Nyesom Wike, former Minister of State for Education and PDP gubernatorial aspirant in Rivers, on Tuesday said that the party would reclaim its stolen mandate in the state in 2015. Mr. Wike made the statement during his consultation with PDP delegates in Okrika Local Government Area. He said that APC had always been a failure in elections against the PDP, assuring that the PDP had the capacity to defeat APC in all elections in the state. “I assure you that PDP has the capacity to win both the governorship and presidential elections in this state by 2015. “We are the…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives congress (APC) John Oyegun, has slammed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for causing so much havoc in the country, with the condition now so pathetic that the country celebrated the recapture of Chibok town earlier lost to Boko Haram insurgents. “Boko Haram drove you out of Chibok, and you manage to reinforce and come back to retake it and you are celebrating? What is there to celebrate?” he asked, pointing out that such action showed the extent to which Nigeria has degenerated. Oyegun spoke when he received former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who…
Most of you must have heard about the sad event surrounding Ghanaian rapper — Itz Tiffany. If you haven’t, well here is a peep into what happened. It’s been about a week now since videos showing her completely unclad were leaked on the internet allegedly by her former husband, Frank Kwame Gambrah. Tiffany Owusu simply known as Itz Tiffany, has released an official statement to address the issue. In the statement, the ‘Forever’ rapper apologized for the leaked s*x tape and revealed the effect the unsavory episode has had on her since the release of the s*x tape online by…
The Presidency yesterday said its pre-election survey has revealed an overwhelming victory for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election. It also claimed that the support base across the nation for President Jonathan show his acceptability and possible win in not less than 30 states of the federation. The Special Adviser on Political Affairs to the President, Prof. Ahmed Rufa’i Alkali made this known yesterday in Abuja while speaking with journalists. Prof. Alkali said nobody should be surprised by the wide margin by which Mr. Jonathan will win the next presidential election because all his supporters will work hard to…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Abuja launched the $50 million Venture Capital Fund also known as the YouWin! Small and Medium Enterprise, SME,-Growth Fund. Mr. Jonathan launched the fund alongside the fourth round of the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWin) programme at an event held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa. The fourth edition is expected to support additional 1,500 entrepreneurs along with the SME-Growth fund, which is a private equity fund for entrepreneurs. Speaking at the launch, Mr. Jonathan said the new enterprise fund would enable those who won previous grants from the YouWin…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday withdrew his suit challenging the withdrawal of his security details by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Suleiman Abba. The IGP had withdrawn the speaker’s security aides following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC. At the resumed hearing of the case on Monday, Mr. Tambuwal’s counsel, Tunji Abayomi, brought an application for discontinuance of the suit. Mr. Abayomi informed the court that he was instructed by the speaker to make the withdrawal. The counsel to the IGP and Attorney-General of the Federation,…
Wow, If I see who will give me N100 I will be so grateful ooh. Sha, what you are reading happened to Sound Sultan 2 days ago. According to him, he had given N100 to a young man who was begging him for money only for the guy to rudely stuff the cash on Sultan’s car as he drove off. Post continues below: –
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has been endorsed by the Adamawa All Progressives Congress executive members and the 21 local government chairmen for the 2015 presidential election. The endorsement came on the heels of the former vice president’s submission of his expression of interest and nomination forms for the 2015 presidential election to the National Secretariat of the APC in Abuja yesterday. The Adamawa APC executives, led by Binta Masi-Garba, who declared their support for Mr. Abubakar’s bid at a news conference in Yola on Monday, lauded the presidential aspirant’s philanthropy and social obligations. “His marriage and business ties cut across…
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Oyegun on Monday said it was a disgrace for the Nigerian military to celebrate the recapture of Chibok from Boko Haram insurgents. Oyegun said this while receiving completed presidential expression of interest and nomination forms, from former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in Abuja, on Monday. The party chairman noted that Nigeria has been so mismanaged that the rag tag Boko Haram sect was having a field day while the Peoples Democratic Party-led federal government was busy encouraging impunity in Ekiti State. He said, “Today, we are celebrating a victory, how disgraceful?…
Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has expressed fear that the $1bn loan the Federal Government requested the National Assembly to approve so that it can purchase military hardware to effectively tackle the Boko Haram insurgency, may be diverted for the 2015 elections. He said this at the weekend during a national symposium to commemorate the first memorial anniversary of late Pro-National Conference co-founder, Baba Omojola. Falana said the nation’s military had been incapacitated by massive corruption and internal fraud within the system that saw trillions of naira meant for procurement of arms looted for lack of…
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Monday accused the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party of importing mercenaries into the state for the ongoing continuous voter registration ahead of next year’s elections. Oshiomhole, who made the allegation shortly after he monitored the exercise at Ward 10, Iyamho, in Etsako Central Local Government Area of the state, claimed that “bus-loads of mercenaries” were imported into the state and were offered protection by men suspected to be soldiers. The governor said that such illegal actions were capable of undermining the entire exercise, which was introduced to create opportunities to those who…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah should explain to Nigerians the rationale behind the mass deployment of soldiers to protect the former Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, while the incumbent, Governor Kashim Shettima was stri*ped of soldiers’ protection. A former member of the House of Representatives, Dr Haruna Yerima, who challenged the army chief in an interview with Daily Trust on Monday, said the incident is “an insult to the people of Borno and North East states ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency”. He said: “it is very unusual for the Army to deploy elaborate security,…
The Niger State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Amore, on Monday debunked rumours of the presence of Boko Haram in Minna, the state capital, explaining that some residents were mistaking the activities of rival gangs that clashed near a public school in Kpagungu area of the capital for terrorist activity. The police chief made the clarification while reacting to the Boko Haram scare and the panic that ensued following the between the Soje and Kpankungu communities area boys within the premises of Limawa Primary and Secondary School in Minna. We had earlier reported on Monday that pupils and students of the school…
The Sokoto State Government says it has spent over N50 billion to construct over 2,000 kilometres of road network across the state in the last seven years. Gov. Aliyu Wamakko said this on Monday at Milgoma, Bodinga Local Government Area of the state when the former Governor of the old Sokoto State, Malam Yahayya Abdulkarim, inaugurated the 7-kilometres Milgoma-Bagarawa-Saulawa-Zangalawa road. Wamakko said that the road network covered the 23 local government areas of the state. He said the road, which cost about N198 million, linked several towns and villages in the area and was constructed through direct labour. “Contract for…