Massive Job Loss Looms Over Sachet Water Ban Some residents of Lagos State have expressed concerns over the proposed move by the state government to ban single-use plastics (SUPs) and sachet water, saying that it will lead to loss of jobs and disrupt economic activities. The residents, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, appealed to the state government to rethink the proposed ban. Recall that Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, during a stakeholders’ workshop, recently announced plans to ban SUPs and sachet water by January 2025. Wahab said…
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Enough Is Eπough: El-Rufai’s Wife Tackles Shehu Sani Hadiza El-Rufai, former First Lady of Kaduna State, has tackled Senator Shehu Sani on X, formerly Twitter. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Assembly, had made a post about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In the post, he opined that President Tinubu’s traveling out of the country has a way of affecting taxes and prices of commodities. Reacting, El-Rufai, who is known for correcting bad English on X, spotted the post and corrected the former lawmaker. She said Sani’s post should have read ‘’go up” and not ‘’goes up.” Following this,…
BREAKING: Terrorists Shoot General Bandits, Sunday shot the Director General of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards (CPG), General Lawal B. Muhammad (rtd). It was gathered that General Muhammad was shot by the bandits during an attack on motorists at Kucheri village in Tsafe local government area of Zamfara state. The bandits were said to have blocked the busy Funtua-Tsafe road late evening, and attacked motorists including the CPG’s DG. Out reporter gathered that scores of passengers were abducted by the bandits during the operation. A source from the Zamfara State Ministry of Internal Security, who preferred anonymity because he…
Popular Nigerian Gov Fires Aide Over New Minimum Wage One of the governors in the northern part of the country, Gov Umar Namadi of Jigawa, has suspended his Special Adviser on Salary and Pensions, Bashir Ado, over alleged premature statement on N70,000 minimum wage. The government deemed the statement premature and embarrassing since the committee tasked with advising on the wage has not yet submitted its report. This is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Bala Ibrahim, in Dutse, on Saturday. Ibrahim said the government viewed with serious concern, a statement circulating in…
FBI Uncovers $6b, Already Written 2027 Elections INEC Result Sheets From Wike’s London House? Operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were allegedly said to have uncovered $6 billion and 2027 election results in the residence of the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike in London… • A Facebook user, Igbo Times Magazine, claimed that FBI operatives uncovered $6 billion from FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s residence in London, United Kingdom. • According to the post, already written election results sheets for the 2027 elections were also uncovered from the house. • But a fact-check on the…
Drama As VIO Cries Out For Help, Pledges Not To Impound Vehicles, Impose Fines The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), popularly known as the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO), has suspended the impounding of vehicles and the issuance of fines in Abuja following a recent court ruling that questioned the legality of its enforcement practices. This suspension comes in the wake of a 2 October judgment by the Federal High Court in Abuja, which found that the VIO lacked the authority to stop vehicles or impose penalties on motorists. In a phone interview, the acting spokesperson of the DRTS, Funmi…
BREAKING: Former Minister Shot Dead It was a thing of shocked when information reaching Ibom Focus says that Former Minister Shot Dead A senior politician in India’s financial capital Mumbai was shot dead on Saturday, weeks ahead of key state elections, with police probing the role of a notorious crime gang. Baba Siddique, 66, a local lawmaker and former minister in Maharashtra state, was shot multiple times in the chest outside his son’s office in Mumbai, Indian media reported. Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, from the same party as Siddique, said he was “shocked” by the “cowardly attack”. The…
Nigerians Storm NNPCL Towers, Demands Immediate Sack Of Mele Kyari, Directors The Transparency Advocacy for Development Initiatives, TADI, has called for the Immediate and urgent dismissal of Mele Kyari as the Group Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, along with his entire leadership team. According to the group, Kyari’s tenure has been a catastrophic failure, marked by broken promises, gross mismanagement, and alleged systemic corruption. It said all this has left Nigeria reeling from an enduring fuel crisis and a crushing debt burden. “The time for deception is over – Nigerians demand accountability and…
EXPOSED: LG Autonomy: State Govs, Council Chairmen Enter Deals To Bypass Order Some governors in the country may be getting more desperate to share in the monthly allocation to local governments if revelations by some sources, including a council chairman and a party candidate, are anything to go by. Findings showed that some governors have devised means to continue cornering council funds through secret oath-taking deals and agreements with elected chairmen. The Supreme Court granted financial autonomy to the 774 LGs on July 11 and directed the Accountant-General of the Federation to pay allocations directly to their accounts. Consequently, the…
UΠBELIEVABLE: Nigerian Government Imposes Tax On Dead Bodies The Enugu State Government says the tax it imposed on corpses in mortuaries across the state was not spurred by a revenue generation drive. The Executive Chairman of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, said this while reacting to the Mortuary Tax circular addressed to all the Mortuary Attendants. According to the circular, ESIRS in line with the provisions of section 34 of the Birth, Deaths and Burials Law Cap 15 Revised Laws of Enugu State 2004, approved the implementation of the Mortuary tax. “The sum of N40.00 only…