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A group, New Era For Sustainable Leadership and Accountability Initiative (NESLAI) has alleged that, the selection process for the appointment of permanent secretaries in the recent past have been fraught with corruption, outright fraud and all manner of malpractices. The group also frowned at the appointment of non-career civil servants as permanent secretaries, which they say dampen the moral of civil servants that have risen through the ranks. The executive director of the initiative, Comrade Edwin Olorunfemi, spoke while addressing a press conference in Abuja on Monday on the skewed process in the selection/appointment of Permanent Secretaries to Federal ministries.…

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be out for at least two matches with a knee injury, just a month before the start of Euro 2020, AC Milan coach Stefano Pioli said on Tuesday. The Swede, who returned to international football in March after a five-year absence, suffered the injury during Milan’s 3-0 victory over top-four rivals Juventus at the weekend. Third-placed Milan, who sit three points above fifth-placed Juve in the race for the Champions League, visit Torino on Wednesday and face Cagliari this weekend. “He suffered a slightly sprained knee, he will not be available tomorrow (Wednesday) or Sunday against Cagliari.…

Among all Nigerian civilian presidents and military heads of state, there is something incomprehensible and inexplicable about the current President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Other presidents seemed to be doing something about turning Nigeria around or solving some specific problems. Most of them might not have got the results the masses expected, but one could see their efforts and signs that they were trying. Conversely, Buhari seems not to be concerned about Nigerian problems. He seems aloof and detached from Nigerian issues, especially the security challenges facing the country. Most importantly, he does not care that his nepotistic actions…

*Learn from India’s predicament, virologist advises Nigerians The Federal Government on Monday restricted gatherings at worship centres and banned night clubs as parts of measures aimed at preventing the spread of devastating strains of COVID-19 into the country. Amid concern about the strains of the virus in India, South Africa, Turkey and Brazil, the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 at its press briefing in Abuja reintroduced some measures which were put in place during the second COVID-19 wave in the country Eminent virologist and Chairman, Expert Review Committee on COVID-19, Professor Oyewale Tomori, and a virologist at the University of…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday demanded the immediate sack, investigation and prosecution of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as well as the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, over the recent alleged looting of over N165billions in the agency. The party also asked the transport minister to come clean on his reported connection in the alleged involvement of his wife, Mrs. Edith Amaechi, in the exposed N48 billion contract scam currently rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The PDP in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said:…

Remembering to read news notifications nowadays makes one’s heart to skip. Reason being that it will not end until reports from across the federation hits the pages or one’s screens of not a few people killed either by an inexplicable fatal accident, collapse of buildings (apparently constructed with substandard materials) and with human casualties, bandits, Fulani herdsmen or unknown gunmen ransacked, torched police or military formations particularly in the South East region. The mayhem is catastrophic. The government, whose primary responsibility is to secure life and property of its people is practically befuddled, bombarded and besieged inside out. The entire…

The emotional and lachrymose outburst of Senator Smart Adeyemi, among other senators, at the plenary session of the Senate on national security lately; as well as the affirmation by Senator Sani Musa (Niger East) that Boko Haram had captured and hoisted their flags in three local government areas of Niger State, have dramatically drummed home the worsening insecurity that is drowning this country. Nigeria, no doubt is under siege; and the citizens are mercilessly caught in it. Anarchy is threatening from every corner. The carnage, suffering, fear and trauma envisioned in recent years have now become signposts of existence in…

MR. SYLVA OGWEMOH (SAN) is a Lagos based commercial lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria. In this interview with BERTRAM NWWANEKANMA, he spoke on the recent revelation that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) may not remit money into the federation account domiciled at the Central Bank of Nigeria for lack of money. What is your reaction to the recent revelation by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it does not have money to remit into the federation account for the month of May? My answer to your question will be from two angles. First, is NNPC interested in…

• Sanwo-Olu rallies Lagosians on security • CP raises the alarm of IPOB’s threat to attack Lagos • Nnamdi Kanu: There’s no such plan • Yoruba youths warn separatist groups against attacking Lagos, S’West The 17 governors in the Southern part of the country under the aegis of Southern Nigeria Governors Forum will meet today in Asaba, Delta State, with insecurity and secession among issues forming the focal points. It is described as an emergency make or mar meeting for the future of the region and Nigeria at large. The governors had last week met virtually at the behest of…

• Call for Buhari’s impeachment invitation to anarchy, says BMO • NBA backs Afe Babalola’s ‘Summit of Hope’, says call not to topple Buhari The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), yesterday, threw its weight behind calls for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari, warning Nigeria cannot survive two more years under this regime. Speaking during AIT’s ‘Kakaaki’ programme, spokesman of the forum, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, called on members of the National Assembly to begin the process of impeaching the president, noting that the lawmakers must realise that the country is in a dire state. Baba-Ahmed, who pointed out that the challenges bedeviling…