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The Association of Table Water Producers (ATWAP) has raised the price of pure water also know as sachet water from 200 to N300 per bag. National President, Clementina Ativie made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday. The decision was unanimously reached during the ATWAP national convention in Abuja. Ativie explained that the increment was due to current prices of material and Nigeria’s economic situation. “The price of sachet water popularly known as pure water is now N300 per bag as the company price. “There will be no extra bag or extra pieces henceforth for wholesale or retail buyers,” she said. The President added that the cost  of  production had gone far beyond what they can bear. She said the new rate would help them to keep up with bills and remain in business. The statement appealed to citizens to be understanding and bear with the association. Meanwhile, the association had in September 2021, increased the price of sachet water from N180 to N200 over claim

President Buhari on Thursday afternoon November 24, departed Abuja for Niger Republic where he will be attending an African Union (AU) summit. According to a statement released by Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, the President will attend the ''African Union Summit on Industrialisation and Economic Diversification, as well as the Extraordinary Session on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA),”   “The President will also attend the launching of French version of the Book entitled ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’, as well as inaugurate the ‘Muhammadu Buhari Boulevard’, named after him by the Government of the Republic of Niger. The naming of the Boulevard and launch of the French version of the Book, written by John Paden, a Professor of International Studies at George Mason University, northern Virginia, United States, on Thursday precedes the AU Summit on Friday, November 25, 2022. President Buhari is expected to deliver his

A socio-political activist, Reno Omokri has said the newly unveiled Naira notes were redesigned for economic and security reasons and not for beauty. He also said that the Dollar is powerful because of its value and not beauty. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, launched the redesigned Naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. DAILY POST reported that mixed reactions have trailed the unveiling, with many showing dissatisfaction with the new Naira notes’ appearance, while some have taken to social media to make jokes with them. However, Omokri has come out to criticize those who had shown dissatisfaction with the appearance of the Naira notes. Taking to his verified Twitter handle, he wrote, “The Naira was not redesigned for beauty. It was redesigned for economic and security reasons. And it achieved exactly that. Naira appreciated. Bandits were flummoxed. The dollar is powerful, but not beautiful. Emefiele and the CBN board deserve kudos, not hubris!”

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately resume the continuous voters registration (CVR) until 90 days before the 2023 general elections. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, also directed the INEC to ensure that eligible Nigerians are not deprived the opportunity to have the voter’s card for the forthcoming poll. Justice Ekwo held that it was the constitutional responsibility of the electoral umpire to make adequate provision for the exercise in accordance with the Nigerian laws. “The case of the plaintiffs succeeds on merit,” the judge declared. NAN reports that Anajat Salmat and three others had sued INEC as sole defendant in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1343/2022. In the originating summons filed before the court, the plaintiffs argued that INEC cannot stop the CVR contrary to the stipulated provisions of the constitution. They urged the court to order the electoral umpire to resume the exercise in

Presidential candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has warned that persons undermining the capability of Governor Nyesom Wike and his Integrity Group do so at their peril. Kwankwaso spoke just as Wike, yesterday, pledged logistics support for his presidential pursuit. They spoke at the inauguration of the Mgbuitanwo internal road in Emohua Council of the state, performed by Kwankwaso. The governor, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, expressed concern that  the  diversity of the country had been  threatened by persons campaigning on ethnic and regional sentiments. According to him, such parochial tendency will make Nigerians more divided along religious and ethnic lines than ever before. He said: “It is not to say don’t vote for a Yoruba man, don’t vote for an Igbo man. That is not what we require in this country now; what we require is a man that will put Nigeria together. We, of integrity group, will continue to s

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has warned that it is risky to neglect other ethnic groups in leadership consideration in the country, stating that he will not support anybody who believes that other ethnic groups cannot produce the president of Nigeria except them. While chiding the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, for propagating the ideals he does not practice, Governor Wike argued that no ethnic group has an exclusive right to be the president of the country. The governor stated this yesterday at the inauguration of the Rivers State PDP 2023 election campaign flag-off rally held at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Omagwa, Ikwerre Local Council of the State. The G5 Governors from Abia, Benue, Enugu and Oyo States, attended the inauguration as Wike boasted that no matter the manipulations on the governors by the powers that be, none of them will lose the governorship seat to another party in their respective states. Wike

2016 was one of the years Plateau  People groan helplessly over the killing of a Paramount  ruler in Bokkos by the Popular  unknown  Gunmen, this to many was the hight of the enemies plans to desecrate  the Plateau  heritage. Citizens  sort out ways to draw government attention on the need to do the needful in arresting a situation  that has left citizens in fear, like every other time a protest was staged against  the killing  of Saf Ron Kulere, a paramount  ruler from Bokkos. Alot of Plateau  youths took part in the protest with the like of Mashat Alfred Makut , Amos Mabur Yamtal , Taller Digitalsoja , Myself and other notable Plateau  youths, The protest started from old airport  Junction  through Dadin Kowa, down to Zaramaganda  Junction  to the old government House where we met a team of security personnel  stationed ahead of us, the protest was peace until the security  ran out of patience and he'll let loose.... we were teargased  and pursued like rats and dogs u

Plateau State Governor Simon Bako Lalong has ordered security forces to go after terrorists who attacked Maikatako village in Bokkos Local Government Area leading to the death of 11 persons and others injured.  Governor Lalong who condemned the attack said the killers must be fished out and brought to justice for the dastardly act. Lalong said the rising incidences of attacks and destruction of farm crops, livestock and other properties within the general Bokkos area is becoming worrisome and must be checked immediately.  While sympathising with the families of the victims, the Governor reiterated that his administration will not allow terrorists and bandits to take foothold in any part of the State as all security agencies have been directed to be firm and hard on any person or groups behind the criminal acts. He again appealed to communities to always be security conscious and report any suspicious movements to the security agencies for immediate action particularly durin

RESIGNATION AS SPECIAL ASSISTANT ON ICT TO GOVERNOR SIMON LALONG. On the day I got my re- appointment as a Special Adviser to Governor Simon Bako Lalong, 31st August,2021, I also signed my resignation letter. It will be recalled that on the 18th of July,2016 our paramount ruler,Saf Ron/Kulere  DAH LA'AZARUS AGAI was murdered in cold blood. 7 years after no one has been arrested or brought to book despite all the protests,pleas, litigations and concerns of the people of Bokkos. I was one of the Youths that led a protest to little Rayfield on 20th July,2016 and ended up been arrested with two of my Brother's. On 28th January 2020- Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen attacked Kwatas Village killing 15 persons - I wrote an epistle lamenting with my pen,why Governor Simon Bako Lalong will not visit the family of the Victim or even attend the mass burial. On the day of APC campaign FLAG-OFF in Jos, Maikatako village in Bokkos was attacked at night by thesame marauding Herdsme

My brother this country hard pass Olumo rock. To survive wan come hard pass to die.  Why you still dey for di country na? Why you no kuku japa your thing?  Tah! you think say e dey easy like that? Ask Immigration pipo weda you fit get passport. dem go tell you say rapture don carry dem but if you get #250K passport go comot. People wey dey work for embassy sef don waka sake of di insecurity. To say you hold your passport and visa for hand sef to get dollar na double wahala. Wetin remain now na to roast for here till dem finish election for 2023. Na dat time we go know weda na real hell or semi-hell we don dey inside already.   Sense dey inside your yarn. But you no think say di CBN redesign of naira fit make money comot from where e dey hide? Plus, I hear say America wan recall all dem old-old dollar before early next year. Maybe Government fit use that opportunity to nap all the pipo wey dey tif-tif our money.  Make I hear word! Na today? you know hear say dem lok di EFCC

1. SANI DANGOTE – from Dumbarum Village. Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. 2. BELLO TURJI GUDDA from FAKAI Village of Zamfara State. 3. LEKO from MOZOJ VIllage, Mutazu Local Government Area of Katsina State. 4. DOGO NAHALI from YAR TSAMIYAR JNO Village in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. 5. HALILU SUBUBU from SUBUBU Village in MARADUN Local Government Area of Zamfara State. 6. NAGONA from ANGWAN GALADIMA in ISA Local Government Area of Sokoto State. 7. NASANDA from Kwashabawa, Village in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamara State. 8. ISIYA KWASHEN GARWA from KAMFANIN Daudawa Village of Faskari, Katsina State. Read Also: Troops clear camps, neutralise two terrorists in Kaduna 9. ALI KACHALLA aka ALI KAWAJE – from KUYAMBARA VILLAGE in Danaadau MARU Local Government Area of Zamfara State. 10. ABU RADDE from VARANDA Village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. 11. DAN-DA from VARANDA Village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina S

Worried by the condition of Nigeria’s road network, the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has painted a gloomy picture of the roads and highways, saying they have expired, with little or no capacity needed to utilise. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nuruddeen Rafindadi, said some of the roads, regrettably, had exceeded their lifespan. Rafindadi spoke through the Kaduna Head of FERMA, Atiku Sadiq, at the weekend, on the topic ‘Utilisation of Our Highway Capacity, Prospects and Challenges’ at the 10th public lecture and presentation of awards organised by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Kaduna branch. He said: “Most of the nation’s highways have expired. What we are doing now is managing expired highways that are supposed to last 15, 20 and at most 25 years. But we are having highways that were built to last for 40, 50 to 60 years. We need to devise a way of maintaining our roads and it requires planning. “Despite the noticeable benefits of highw

10th November 2022 The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said that he is highly connected to the aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party governors. Mohammed, who said this on Wednesday when the aggrieved governors paid him a solidarity visit in Bauchi, said he shared his fears and worries with the governors during the visit. The governor hosted his Rivers, Abia, Benue and Enugu state counterparts-Nyesom Wike, Okezie Ikpeazu, Samuel Ortom and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, was absent as he was said to be out of the country. The governors arrived the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport, Bauchi in four chartered aircrafts – 5N- BZS, 5N-RSG, 5N-AOO and 5N-IZY, and were driven straight to the Presidential Lodge also known as Ramat House. During their meeting, Mohammed bared his mind on the developments in the state chapter of the party as well as the personal issues he had with the PDP flag bearer.

A Nigerian man identified as Chinedu Ogugua Bosah has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for sm¥ggling coc@ine into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). President Fadıl Aksun, who read the decision, on Wednesday, referred to the seriousness and prevalence of the crime committed by the accused and said, “The legislator prescribes a prison sentence of up to 18 years for the most severe type of case in which the accused is convicted.” Aksun underlined that the dr¥gs imported by the accused and kept in his possession are coc@ine type and are among the d@ngerous drugs in Class A.  He stated Chinedu was just a courier hence the lighter sentence. “The role of the accused before us is that of a courier. As a requirement of this role, the accused is the person who imports the drug subject to the lawsuit himself. Its role should be regarded as primary in terms of import crime. When evaluating the issue in terms of the crime of saving, we see that the role of the accus

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama has convicted the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa for contempt of court in relation to his agency’s failure to comply with an earlier order of the court. Justice Chizoba Oji, in a ruling, held that “the Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is in contempt of the orders of this honourable court made on November 21st 2018 directing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abuja to return to the applicant his Range Rover (Super charge) and the sum of N40, 000,000.00 (Forty Million Naira). “Having continued wilfully in disobedience to the order of this court, he should be committed to prison at Kuje Correctional Centre for his disobedience, and continued disobedience of the said order of court made on November 21st, 2018, until he purges himself of the contempt. “The Inspector General of Police shall ensure that the order of this honourable court is

No respite yet for the embattled former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, over his trial on alleged organ harvesting case as the Central Criminal Court in London, the United Kingdom, yesterday moved the trial date from May, 2023 to January 31, 2023. According to Channels TV, the Old Bailey agreed that arguments would be heard on the 16th or 19th of December 2022 before the commencement of the trial in January. He was said to be absent in court yesterday, but his wife, who was released on bail in July and Sonia, the couple’s daughter, were present. Ekweremadu’s travails increased barely five days ago, when Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the interim forfeiture of his assets following an ex-parte motion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, subsequently described the court’s ruling as “hasty” and a “selective judgement.”

The Federal Government has provided an explanation for why it did not pay lecturers employed by  the  Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) their full salary. The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment issued a statement, on Saturday, November 5, noting that ASUU members had received a pro-rata payment of their October salaries. According to the statement, pro-rata was used since it is impossible to pay for work that has not been completed. The statement went on to say that  Chris Ngige ,  the honourable minister of labour and employment, never gave the Accountant General of the Federation instructions to pay university professors half wage. The statement reads in part,  “Following the ruling of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the order of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, asking ASUU to go back to work, the leadership of the union wrote to the Minister, informing him that they have suspended the strike. The Federal Ministry of Education wr

Sequel to the just concluded extraordinary meeting held in Washington DC on Nov. 2nd 2022 between the United States Federal Reserve Bank, Office of the Comptroller of Currency, IMF, World-Bank and Governors of Africa's Central Banks, the United States Govt has set date for restriction on acceptable legal tender note of US Dollar which will commence on Jan. 31st 2023. The restriction implies that any US Dollar note below 2021 printed date will no longer be accepted or be a legal tender anywhere in the world... This effort is to curb billions of illegal monies in dollar bills warehoused around African continent emanating from drug related, terrorism, kidnapping and money from corrupt politicians. As part of the enforcement of the strict action plan, African central banks will be assigned with a special agent from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Administrator of National bank United States of America to checkmate all inflows and outflows of dollar transactions.

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday gave permission to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to temporarily seize 40 properties traced to Ike Ekweremadu. The order comes as Mr Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President, is being held in the United Kingdom for allegedly trying to harvest David Nwamini’s kidney for their ailing daughter. The judge, Inyang Ekwo, handed down the interim forfeiture order for his properties after hearing an ex-parte application filed by the EFCC. An EFCC lawyer, Ibrahim Buba, moved the application for the confiscation of the assets, saying they were suspicious proceeds of crime. The lawyer told the judge that the landed properties comprise 15 in Abuja, 10 in Enugu (Mr Ekweremadu’s home state), one in Lagos, two in the United Kingdom, three in the United States, and nine in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The EFCC claimed the assets were allegedly acquired with proceeds of fraud. Temporarily forfeited assets provided

The presidential candidate of the Action Alliance Congress, Omoyele Sowore, on Thursday addressed the annual  conference of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, which held in Jos, Plateau State. He shared pictures from the event on his Twitter handle on Friday. He captioned them, “Yesterday in Jos at 95th Annual Conference Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria! ‘They’ve learned nothing and forgotten nothing.’” Credit: Twitter | YeleSowore

The Chairman and members of the Commission during the launching of the e-recruitment portal   ln furtherance of the preparation for the forthcoming Trial Census across all the States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the National Population Commission has launched an e-recruitment portal for the exercise. While declaring open the Trial Census recruitment platform at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja, the Chairman of NPC, Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra, stated that the e-recruitment became imperative to ensure fairness and transparency in the recruitment process for the Trial Census. He said, “the need to be fair and transparent in the recruitment process has led the Commission to introduce the e-recruitment process and train the officers that will supervise this important census recruitment process.” Hon. Kwarra, noted that the quality of the recruitment process will reflect on the quality of the data to be collected and ultimately the success of the 2

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Thursday, visited the Indian High Commissioner, Shri G. Balasubramanian in Abuja.   He shared pictures from the visit via his Twitter handle.   Obi stated that he discussed Nigeria-India relations and perspectives on the 2023 elections.   He tweeted, “It was a pleasure meeting with the Indian High Commissioner H.E. Mr G. Balasubramanian. We had an animated conversation on Nigeria/India relations, shared perspectives on the forthcoming elections and on other issues of common interest. -PO”   Credit: Twitter | PeterObi

The Federal Government has said that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will stand by the deployment of the Bimodal Voters’ Accreditation System for credible, fair and transparent elections in 2023. This was disclosed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday, while delivering his goodwill message at the 2022 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, with the theme, “Media, Civil Society and Violence-Free Election in Nigeria.” Adesina was reacting to the recent alarm raised by some civil society organisations and the Spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Ikenga Ugochinyere, about plans by some political actors to remove the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, through the National Assembly and also deactivate BVAS from being used in the 2023 election and ultimately stop electronic transmission of results. The SA said, “How many tim

EFCC, have arrested Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi with N326million and $ 140,500 cash. Atumeyi, who is seeking to represent Ankpa 11 Constituency in the Kogi State House of Assembly was arrested on Sunday, October 30, 2022 alongside one Joshua Dominic, an alleged serial fraudster, in a sting operation at Macedonia Street, Queens Estate, Karsana, Gwarinpa, Abuja. Also arrested in connection with the Fraud is Abdumalik Salau Femi, a former bank employee, who allegedly supplied the inside information that facilitated the attack on the bank by the syndicate. He was picked up on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at Radisson Blu Hotel in Lagos. Following his arrest, a search was conducted on his home in Morgan Estate, Ojodu where a total of $470,000 USD was recovered. The arrest of the suspects followed months of investigation into the hacking of one of the commercial banks by a syndicate of fraudsters who pulled off