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Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu Barely 48 hours after the reopening of schools for graduating students, two schools have been shut by the Ondo State Government for violating the COVID-19 guidelines for resumption of classes.  The schools, C.A.C Grammar School in Akure and the Akure Academy Secondary School in Oba Ile, were sealed during the monitoring of schools in the state to see their level of compliance for COVID-19 rules.  Mr Akin Asaniyan, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in the state, made the disclosure in Akure shortly after the tour of some schools in the state capital.  Asaniyan said the two schools were closed after the students were seen at separate locations roaming the street and staying in an unclean environment in total disregard for the guidelines for reopening of schools.  Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu He said, “There is no single preparation in the schools, therefore they will remain sealed until the b...

The Independent National Electoral Commission says it has set up a dedicated portal where election results from polling units can be viewed in real time. Festus Okoye, INEC spokesperson, disclosed this on Thursday. Okoye said the use of the portal will start with the Nasarawa Central Constituency election after which it will also be deployed in Edo and Ondo governorship polls. He further said the portal will strengthen the transparency in the election result management system. Elections Internet Politics Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2XC7YEb via EDUPEDIA

Azu Ishiekwene I’ve been amused by the strenuous efforts to explain exactly what Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, meant or did not mean when he said last week that rotating the Presidency was no longer useful. I thought what he told the BBC Hausa service, which has existed for decades without any translation problems, was clear enough: When the time comes, the next president should be chosen on merit, not on a “turn-by-turn” arrangement. But the statement caught fire. Afenifere said it was Buhari giving a hint through his nephew that the North may wangle a Northerner as the next president. Ohaneze cried foul. Why didn’t Daura talk about competence when his nephew was contesting? The group described Daura’s comment as an unacceptable indication that the South east may wait till thy-kingdom-come before taking its own turn for the country’s top job. In the midst of it all, Chief Edwin Clark, who some thought was missing in the trough of the Niger Delta Developme...

Fredrick Nwabufo What makes a revolution? Knowledge. Information. Awareness. Awakening. The Biblical Moses was a prince in the ménage of the persecutors of the Hebrews – his people. He did not know their toil because he was far removed from them. He lived in the cloistered world of princes while his people retired to a night of torment and awake to a morning of labour. But one day, a bolt of epiphany hit Moses – the prince of Egypt. He saw his people in servitude – and I guess the prince knew he was not free himself if they were in manacles. Conscience-smitten, he committed a homicide.  He became a fugitive, and eventually the liberator of his people. Awakening! Anyone can be Moses – in the case of Nigeria. Like the people of Israel under captivity in Egypt, most Nigerians have retreated into a carapace; they have become tepid and so disillusioned that they are living through each day listlessly. They have seen state violence. They have read how active citizens were torture...

Man wearing face mask. Ahead of elections coming up in Nasarawa, Edo and Ondo states, the Independent National Electoral Commission has given a note of warning to political parties against the use of branded face masks at polling units. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, gave this directive at a town hall meeting in Nasarawa State with political parties and other election stakeholders in preparation for the bye-election coming up in the state on August 8. He said INEC has chosen to use the bye-election to test its preparedness in conducting an election during a pandemic. Man wearing face mask. Google Yakubu said, “We are on course for the Saturday elections, every material that ought to be delivered has been delivered, including the sensitive materials “We have had a good interaction with the political parties and security agencies, my overall assessment is that we are good to go. “This coming election is very important for us because this is the first election in Nigeria to ...

Leo Igwe Today marks a hundred days since the police in Nigeria disappeared Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria. The police apprehended Bala following a petition that his comments on Facebook insulted the prophet of Islam. Before his ‘abduction’, Bala’s exercise of his freedoms had not gone down well with many Muslims in Northern Nigeria. A free Mubarak Bala elicited anger; hatred and hostility especially from Muslims socialized to value their faith more than a free human being. Bala came out as an ex Muslim in a dramatic way in 2014. His renunciation of Islam attracted international attention because Bala’s family consigned him to a mental hospital. The family members thought that he must be out of his senses to renounce Islam and to openly and publicly do so. Bala was born into a Muslim family and was expected to remain a Muslim for the rest of his life. But he chose to exercise his freedom. He left Islam. To many Muslims in the region, his renunciat...

Police have taken over the Edo State House of Assembly complex in Benin City, the state capital. This is coming few hours after the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Yekini Idiaye, was impeached by the state lawmakers.  Idiaye was impeached on Wednesday during plenary. He was accused of collecting N40m from a former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, to support the party’s candidate Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the September 19 election. Dozens of the security officials stormed the complex on Thursday morning while patrol vehicles were stationed there. It was gathered that the police took the action following a reported threat of an attack on the facility. The police officers were led to the Assembly by a Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations), Ayoola Ajala. Police Politics News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift...

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai The Nigerian Army has dismissed a soldier for getting pregnant after she was raped by suspected bandits while travelling to Ogbomoso, Oyo State. The rape victim was charged with one count of ‘conduct prejudicial to service discipline,’ found guilty and dismissed from the regiment. Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai She, however, declined to speak on her ordeal when contacted on the phone on Wednesday, saying, “I have not asked you to publish anything, but we are working on the appeal,” ThePunch reports. Her lawyer, Johnson Oyewole, expressed the conviction that his client’s unlawful dismissal would be overturned and she would be recalled to continue serving her fatherland. According to an appeal to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, filed by her lawyer, the victim enlisted in the Army in March 2012 as a member of 67 Regular Recruits intake and was serving with 56 Signal Command, Mile 2, Lagos, before t...

File Photo: Pensioners in Nigeria protesting non-payment of pension Nigeria Correctional Service retirees in the Ondo State have appealed to the Federal government to pay their promotional arrears.  The pensioners, in a letter written to the Minister of Education, Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday, said since 2013 and 2014, many of them had not gotten their entitlements.  They lamented that they have had “sleepless nights” following the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to pay their funds.  File Photo: Pensioners in Nigeria protesting non-payment of pension The letter, entitled, “An open letter to the Honorable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on the select payment of 2013 and 2014 Promotional Arrears”, was signed by Mr Dauda Balogun, on behalf of the protesting retirees. The retirees asked the Nigerian government to urgently “save our souls” and prevail on the authorities concerned to pay their arrears.   They alleged that few...

Residents of Ondo State, who joined the nationwide #RevolutionNow protests on Wednesday, have called for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over poor governance and hardship that have characterised his tenure. The residents trooped out into streets, brandishing placards to demand good governance and an end to insecurity in the country.  The demonstration was held at the Benin-Ore-Lagos road. The protesters were accompanied by armed policemen drafted to strategic locations to prevent violence.  The protesters brandished placards with inscriptions such as “We can’t continue to serve the need of the greedy, while the needy suffer”; “We demand an end to poverty and insecurity”; “Enough is Enough of this senseless killings”; “Insecurity, killings everywhere you go, Buhari must resign now”; “Where there is right, there is a remedy.”  Among the protesters were civil society groups, trade unions, artisans and human rights activists.  Speaking in an int...

The Miyyeti Allah Association of Nigeria in Kachia, Kaduna State has decried the attack on three Fulani herders, allegedly by natives in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Southern Kaduna. The Secretary of the Fulani association, Muhammed Musa, told journalists that the victims were ambushed on their way home by the natives who had asked them not to graze in the community. He said the victims had been hospitalised at a private clinic in Kachia town.  “One of them named Suleiman sustained a gunshot wound while the remaining two also sustained various degrees of injuries after they were ambushed. They are presently hospitalised at a clinic in Kachia.  “They were ambushed by angry youths at Goragam community in Zongon Kataf who asked them to vacate the community with their cows while grazing.”  “The victims are from Kurmin Gwaza village in Kachia but went to Goragam Area for grazing. They are presently receiving treatment in Kachia‎ town,” Vanguard quoted him t...

Osmund Agbo Even though this current news cycle is already saturated with the whirlwind of corruption allegations against Buhari administration officials, it has continued to deliver on its promise to be stranger than fiction. Every passing day, Nigerians wake up to yet another shameless specter that smacks of a crime plot hatched in the make-believe world of Hollywood. Concerned citizens shudder as scores upon scores of President’s men are caught in a web of unbriddled graft that could make even the rank and file of a Sicilian mafia look like players in a JV team. An oft-described austere man sold twice to the Nigerian public as the poster child for upstanding leadership is today superintending a sleaze-fest with the stench of a rotten fish. Not too long ago, a pan-Nigeria group under the auspices of the Nigerian Young Professionals Forum(NYPF), had petitioned the US Congress over alleged multiple scams at the Central Bank of Nigeria under the Buhari administration. The gr...