CGC WALE ADENIYI BY GODWIN OBI Not all land borders shut by the Federal Government across Nigeria in 2018 have been reopened, the acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Wale Adeniyi, has said. He said only six strategic land borders were reopened in 2021. Adeniyi stated this onContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Tackling Climate Change – Cutting GreenHouse Gas, GHG emissions from ships – including adoption of the revised IMO GHG Strategy was the focus at the just concluded 80th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee MEPC of the International Maritime Organisation that took place in London. Nigeria’sContinue Reading
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo BY GODWIN OBI Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said it is unconstitutional for lawmakers to decide their salaries, saying those who should uphold the law were the ones undermining it. He said fixing of salaries for elected officials is the responsibility of the Revenue Mobilisation AllocationContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI For failing to provide details of the projects executed or being executed with the $5 billion returned Abacha loot, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, weekend, ordered the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to account forContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI It was a Black Sunday in the Badagry area of Lagos State as an 18-seater commercial bus filled with partygoers crashed, killing all passengers onboard. The driver of the bus and his motor boy also died in the tragic accident. It was gathered that the deceased passengersContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI After 35 years of being in Christian ministry and active evangelism, General Overseer and Presiding Bishop of Wordbase Assembly, Dr. Humphrey Erumaka, has been ‘walking the talk’ in terms of expressing the other dimension of evangelism – the ministry of help, which entails providing for the sustainableContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The committee of inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government to look into the examination fraud involving Mmesoma Ejikeme has confirmed that she manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, giving herself a score of 362 as against an actual score of 249. The Committee inContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, Friday, restrained the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, from inviting or arresting the immediate past Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The Court presided over by Justice A. M Liman gave the restraining order upon an exContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu has formally asked the House of Representatives to confirm the newly appointed service chiefs. The Speaker of the House, Abass Tajudeen opened Thursday plenary by reading the President’s letter seeking the confirmation of the appointments of the heads of security agencies. On June 19,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set on collision course with lawmakers elected on its platform in the National Assembly as it disowned the list of principal officers announced by the leadership of both chambers, yesterday. The party’s National Chairman, AbdullahiContinue Reading