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The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has decried ongoing calls for the disintegration of the country, even as it rolled out planned to fortify the unity of Nigeria. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday on the state of the nation and plans put in place for the success of the forthcoming NUJ Conference scheduled to hold between June 6 and 8 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the National President of the Union, Comrade Chris Isiguzo, said: “The Union is perturbed that the national politics is seeking to divide the country and the Media should brace up to unite…

The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, was told yesterday to return to Abuja and constitute the board of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). One of the ex-militant leaders in the region, Chief Government Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo, was said to have insisted that the seven-day ultimatum for the constitution of the board still stands. Sources told THISDAY that the ex-militant leader also cautioned that all the ethnic groups in the region must also be carried along in the commission affairs. According to the sources, “At the meeting with the minister, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo and other…

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says 17,382 persons have received the second dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in the state as at May 31. Abayomi made this known through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi, on Friday while giving the state’s COVID-19 vaccination update for May 31. He said 12,288 persons received the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on the reported date. According to him, 300, 534 persons who received the first jab of the vaccine were yet to get the second shot. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commissioner had earlier stated…

Dr Olusegun Mimiko, the immediate past governor of Ondo State, has denied rumours that he has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mimiko in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, John Paul Akinduro, said that partisan politics is the least of his concerns now. The former governor said in a situation where the nation is tottering on the precipice as a result of widespread insecurity, he was more concerned about how to pull the nation back from the brinks, and not defection into another party. Akinduro said the report on Dr Mimiko’s supposed plan to defect to…

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has expressed determination to explore tourism potentials in the state for its economic development. Makinde made the pledge when he led top functionaries of his government on an inspection tour to Ikere Gorge Dam at the outskirt of Iseyin town on Thursday. Addressing newsmen at the site, Makinde said his government was targeting the tourism potentials of the Gorge Dam, saying its potentials was not limited to electricity generation alone. “We are also looking at tourism potentials, actually that’s the meat for us, this may be our own Sun-City resort, like the one in…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has challenged the Nigerian media as agenda setter, to provide positive context that would engender progressive assured future for the Nigerians. Lawan made the call while was speaking at the 10th Anniversary and 2020 Impact Series Awards of Blueprint Newspapers in Abuja. Lawan noted that the role of the media, being critical stakeholder in the Nigerian project, was crucial in averting national crises and anarchy. He said its positive actions could douse tension across the country and ultimately stabilize the polity. Lawan, who was Chairman at the event said efforts must be made by the media…

To convince Nigerians that she did not call one of her constituents a thug last week, Senator Oluremi Tinubu told interviewers the following: “… she kept screaming and I said what is going on, are you a thug? I am not going to take that. Are you a thug? Am I talking to a thug? Then, her eyes were popping and popping. She is younger than I am, why would I call her a thug outright?” At the end of it, Mrs Tinubu’s explanation wasn’t a denial of the fact that she employed the word “thug” on a Lagosian, who…

The so-called investigation by the Nigeria Police Force over the assassination of former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, is highly unsatisfying. Their synopsis of what transpired is riddled with so many holes and hardly sensible. The NPF’s reports are customarily frustrating to read. They are habitually riddled with typos and flawed logic. Read their statement describing an accident, and you will be amazed by how many laws of physics they break through an illogical description of events. Their rehashing of Gulak’s murderers’ “arrest” is no different, and that shoddiness does not bode well for a country going through tense times. Demonstrations…

•Accuses microblogging site of double standards The federal government yesterday accused the social media giant, Twitter, of double standards in its treatment of issues affecting Nigeria. It warned that it would not allow the microblogging site to dictate to President Muhammadu Buhari his views on national issues. The accusation followed the decision of Twitter to delete a controversial post by Buhari on the Nigerian civil war. The president, in the post on Tuesday, had warned against insurrection, saying that those fomenting trouble in the South-east are in for a rude shock. Buhari, in a series of tweets on Tuesday via…

The Peoples Democratic Party has said it handed over a united and stable Nigeria to the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari. This is in response to a statement issued by the APC which claimed that the insurgency which its government was facing was inherited from the administration led by the PDP. In the response, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, berated the APC for attacking Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, for exposing the failures of the APC and its administration, particularly their ignoble roles in the escalation of violence, killing and other acts…