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Cook-a-Thon: Ghanaian Chef Arrested After Forging Guinness World Record
A Ghanaian chef, Ebenezer Smith, also known as Millennium Chef Smith, has been arrested and detained at the La Police Station for falsifying a Guinness World Record for marathon cooking. This comes after Chef Smith announced at a press conference held at the La Palm Hotel on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, that he is the new cook-a-thon record holder, presenting...
Senator Kalu Welcomes New BPE Director General, Ayodeji Gbeleyi (Photos)
Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, hosted the newly appointed Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi, in his office today. During the courtesy visit, Senator Kalu congratulated Gbeleyi on his appointment and expressed confidence in his ability to drive the commercialisation and privatisation of national assets,...
Kaduna Disco Announces Another Electricity Tariff Hike
Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company has announced another electricity tariff hike for Band A customers getting 20-24 hours of daily power supply. The disco announced the increment in a statement on Wednesday by its head of corporate communications, Abdulazeez Abdullahi. The firm said the tariff increased to N209.9 per Kilowatt-hour from N206.80. READ ALSO: Work Within Your Scope Of Operation – Ogun Govt...
Work Within Your Scope Of Operation – Ogun Govt Tells Traditional Medicine Practitioners
Alternate Medicine practitioners in Ogun State have been advised to work within their scope of operation, and know the rudiments, as well as limitations of their job to prevent complications. The Executive Secretary and Registrar of the state’s Alternate Medicine Board, Dr. Kafayat Lawal gave the advice on Tuesday during the graduation ceremony of Batch 19, African College of Traditional...
Harvard Business School: Nigeria’s Reputation At Stake – Peter Obi
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has lamented that Nigeria’s reputation and attractiveness to international institutions and investors has recently been severely impacted by major obvious drawbacks. Obi said this on Wednesday via his X while reacting to the omission of Nigeria from the Harvard Business School class of 2025 program, which selected...
Yobe Assembly Passes 8 Bills, 10 Resolutions In One Year
Yobe State House of Assembly says it has passed eight out of 10 bills it received, 10 resolutions, as well as petitions within one year. The Speaker of the House, Rt Honourable Chiroma Buba Mashio disclosed this while speaking at a one year anniversary celebration of the 8th Assembly held at the chambers of the House. Mashio said some of the...
Reps Move To Investigate Promotion Stagnation In Civil Service
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate promotion stagnation in the Federal Civil Service from 2013 to 2023. This followed a motion moved by Rep. Salman Idris, the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Agric Colleges and Institutions in Abuja. He said that promotion remained the progression of civil servants, as well as a motivational incentive for productivity. READ ALSO: LPPC Shortlists...
LPPC Shortlists 98 Lawyers For 2024 SAN Conferment
The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, (LPPC), has shortlisted 98 Nigerian lawyers comprising professors of law for elevation to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. Among the names shortlisted are former Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, National Officers, Monday Onyekachi Ubani, Kunle Edun, Dr. Rapulu Nduka and Stanley Imo. Also shortlisted is the Chairman of NBA Bwari Branch, Paul Daudu and...
Nnamdi Kanu: South East Governors To Meet Tinubu
The South East Governors’ Forum (SEGF) rose from a meeting in Enugu, yesterday, with a resolve to continue the push for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The meeting is coming barely 24 hours after a Federal High Court, Abuja, dismissed a N1 billion fundamental human rights suit filed by the IPOB...
Ignore Politicians In Gab Of CSO Seeking Bello’s Persecution, Focus On Court Process, Arewa Youths Urge EFCC
Youths from nineteen northern states under the auspices of Arewa Youth for Good Governance (AYGG) have called on the anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to listen to politicians masquerading as members of civil society organizations, who are bent on persecuting the former governor of Kogi State, Alh Yahaya Bello. AYGG instead told EFCC to focus...
