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We celebrate the transition to glory of our beloved Daddy, Rev. (Prof.) Jonathan Olujare Lawoyin. Rev. (Prof.) Jonathan Olujare Lawoyin lived his life in service to God and humanity, fulfilling his mandate in the dental practice as professor of oral pathology, as well as in ministry. Professor J.O Lawoyin attended Dallas Baptist University in the United States of America, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree. He then went on to dental school at Howard University in Washington, where he became a Doctor of Dental Surgery, and Glasgow, where he obtained a masters’ degree. On his return to Nigeria in the late ’70s, Prof. J.O. Lawoyin committed himself to advance the field of oral pathology, primarily at the University of Ibadan and the University College Hospital for nearly four decades. At different times lecturer, head of the department, and dean of the faculty of dentistry, Prof. J.O. Lawoyin taught many generations of students who went on to excel in the field of dentistry a...

Delta State Map Seven persons alleged to have been involved in the 2017 killing of indigenes of Idumuje-Ugboko community under Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State have challenged the decision of the Nigerian government to prosecute them in Abuja. According to the charge filed by the Office of Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar, alleged that the defendants including Nwochie Light, Aikhomo Omezi, Okey Ifejoku, Godwin Aniemeke, Nonso Omefe, Dennis Nwoko and Emeka Bidoku had in May 2017 unleashed terror on the community by burning houses. Delta State Map The government also alleged that Cyprian Kumaorun was killed during the violence. On November 2, 2020, the defendants pleaded not guilty to the amended three-count charge filed against them. During the trial, the defence lawyers notified the court that they had applied to the case file to be transferred to Asaba, Delta State. “We have a motion for transfer of the matter from ...

Lai Mohammed Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has boasted that nobody can stop the Nigerian government from prosecuting #EndSARS protesters. Mohammed gloated over the prosecution on Friday in Lagos during a meeting with newspaper editors. Lai Mohammed According to the minister, being a member of #EndSARS protest is not an immunity from being investigated or prosecuted for any offence. “Being a member of #EndSARS protest does not grant you immunity if you have committed any crime against the land,” he said. “The critical thing is that you must be treated according to the laws. “Even those whose accounts were frozen, the Central Bank of Nigeria went to court to seek permission to freeze the accounts. I am also aware that some of them, whose international passports were seized had them returned. “None can stop the government from investigating anybody, including #EndSARS protesters. Whoever you are and whatever you are doing, you must not take the laws into...

Dr Nasir Aminu As opined by Blinder, central banking is a dark art which requires a useful scientific approach, and we can agree that it requires more than previous banking experience to lead the institution. The current central bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor has not been successful in implementing a naira regime since he was appointed in 2014. One will not disagree that he met an inefficient and complicated system, and has also been inconsistent with currency regimes. The persistently low oil prices have limited the inflow of foreign exchange into the Nigerian economy. It has created a hole in the country’s budget, given the sector accounts for about 65% of the government’s revenue. The coronavirus pandemic has added to the problem which has pushed the country to obtain several types of external loans and funding, as the viable way to fund its budget. It is not a secret that the government has been borrowing to fund growth after a 2016 recession. It has been weakening its curre...

A private radio station, LOVE FM, 104.5 located at Mpape, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has been razed by fire. According to a worker, who confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters, she said she left the station a few minutes before the inferno started. It was gathered that it took the men of FCT fire service some hours before they arrived at the scene, but they could not put out the raging fire which had engulfed the entire building. The fire, which started around 7.30 pm, razed the computers, furniture and transmitters at the station. The cause of the fire could not yet be ascertained as of the time of filing this report. Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3ouSZHf via EDUPEDIA

The Christian Association of Nigeria on Friday added its voice to the growing condemnation of the massacre of at least 78 rice farmers by the Boko Haram terrorists last Saturday in Zabarmari community in Borno State. The association said mass burial without Nigeria being in a full-scale war was “unprecedented and unacceptable.”   In a statement by Pastor Bayo Oladeji, the Special Assistant, Media and Communications to the CAN President, Rev Dr Samson Ayokunle, the group noted that condolence visits after many souls had been wasted were unacceptable. CAN said, “The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria has condemned in strong terms the killing of no fewer than 43 rice farmers in Borno State by unknown persons suspected to be terrorists. We call on the security agencies to stop the unending mass killings by the criminals who now operate with impunity all over the country but more devastatingly in the North-East and North-West of the country. “We are shock...

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State Government has warned travellers coming into the country, who shun the required COVID-19 guidelines as stipulated by the Presidential Taskforce, to desist from such infraction or face serious consequences.  The state Commissioners for Information and Health, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, and Prof Akin Abayomi, in a joint statement, gave this warning on Friday. Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu The commissioners said, “It has been reported several times through notification from Port Health Services, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the Lagos State Biobank and accredited private laboratories carrying out COVID-19 tests that inbound passengers arriving Nigeria are breaching the COVID-19 protocols. “We have good authority that some passengers, having registered and paid for COVID-19 tests, have failed to report to assigned private laboratories after completion of their seven days isolation. Some incoming passengers even were unab...

Police officers at Batsari Local Government of Katsina State on Thursday protested against their unpaid allowances. According to Katsina Post, the police officers took to the streets and blocked a major road linking to Batsari market. According to the report, soldiers eventually arrived at the scene to remove the barricade, a move that provoked the police and caused an exchange of verbal abuses before the intervention of the district head of Batsari, Alhaji Tukur Muazu Rumah. “Yes, I am an eyewitness, they block our way when going for Batsari weekly markets, claiming that we won’t have a business today because the government has not paid them their allowances for six months,” a resident, Muhammad Wada Bakiyawa, said. However, the state’s police spokesman, Gambo Isah, said the story was not true. “It’s fake news, disregard it, it’s not true,” he said when asked by SaharaReporters. When SaharaReporters told Isah about the pictures and video of police officers mounting roadblo...

Despite denials by the Nigerian Army that soldiers did not fire live bullets at protesters during the t#EndSARS protest at Lekki tollgate on October 20, one of the protesters said that a bullet fired by the soldiers is lodged in his body. “I got mine in my thigh, and the bullet is still inside me,” the victim who did not mention his name told Arise TV on Friday. Twitter/EditiEffiong He said he became unconscious after the bullet hit him and was revived the following day at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. “The bullet in me is giving me discomfort,” he said. “It is affecting my leg, making it swell up every day, sometimes my leg gets stiff. Why is the government saying they didn’t shoot at us while I’m still having the bullet inside me right now?” A father of another victim, Tunde Odeyemi, said his son was seriously injured and he could not talk. “They told us to do the X-ray of the brain. So, when the doctor studied the X-ray, he noticed that there was blood at...

Boko Haram The last has not been heard of the Boko Haram terrorists’ onslaught on Zabarmari community in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State as the insurgents invaded rice farms on Thursday, shooting sporadically to scare away the residents. Some of the witnesses told SaharaReporters that the terrorists came to the area but nobody was killed or abducted as people fled their homes. File Photo: Boko Haram Google Last Saturday, Boko Haram inflicted one of the greatest casualty figures in the state by slaughtering no fewer than 78 rice farmers in the community – an incident that has attracted national and global condemnation. See Also Sahara Reporters We Informed Military Before The Attack But Nothing Was Done, Zabarmari Residents Say 0 Comments 4 Days Ago One of the residents, Ishaya Ahmed, said women who were on their way to farm on Thursday first caught a glimpse of the terrorists. “While some of our women and girls were on their way to the farm on Thursda...

A group of persons with visible injuries came to the premises of Lagos State Court of Arbitration, Lekki, venue of the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry, on Friday, to demonstrate that their injuries were caused by the soldiers who shot at them on October 20 during the #EndSARS protest. They arrived at the venue in a white bus, followed by a placard-carrying group, New Nigeria Network. “We have people with amputated legs. We have people with brain surgery in this van. We have dozens of them that are yet to be discharged,” said their spokesperson.  “This is from the Lekki tollgate massacre in 2020. We want justice. We don’t want to be silenced. We don’t want to be marginalised even in our own country.”  11:09 A banner is up in front of the court building. Dabira is up speaking. She was the one on stage telling people to sit down when the shooting started. pic.twitter.com/858K7cXhTa — Editi Effiòng (@EditiEffiong) December 4, 2020 While the Nigerian Army ...

Delta state governor Ifeanyi Okowa The Delta State government has threatened to punish any nurse or midwife who joined the strike by the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives in the state. The state’s Ministry of Health issued the threat in a circular dated December 3, 2020, and marked HNC3/T/15, to all principals of the state’s schools of nursing and other government centres where the nurses and midwives are employed. Delta state governor Ifeanyi Okowa Instead of implementing the demands of the health workers, the state government threatened to deal with any nurse or midwife who “flouts this directive” according to the rule of engagement and extant provisions. See Also Sahara Reporters Nurses, Midwives Begin Indefinite Strike In Delta 0 Comments 3 Hours Ago SaharaReporters gathered that the health workers commenced their strike on Thursday, based on a five-point demand. The strike stems from the demotion of principals of nursing and midwifery schools ...