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Three family members have lost their lives after lightning struck in Ethiopia’s Amhara regional state, located in the northern part of the country.Dejen Wodage, Chief Police Inspector of Waghimera zone in Amhara regional state, on Wednesday, said a lightning strike on a residential house on left a father and his two children dead. Ethiopia News Agency quoted Wodage as saying a four-year-old child, who was badly injured in the lightning, is currently being treated in a nearby medical facility. Ethiopia is in the midst of a rainy season, which started in July, and is expected to last until early October.…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday urged financial institutions and organisations to embrace technology to remain competitive. Mr Adebisi Shonubi, Deputy Governor, CBN, stated this at Greenwich Registrars and Data Solutions Ltd seminar held in Lagos with the theme: Big Data in Nigeria. Shonubi represented by Hajiya Rakiya Mohammed, Director, Information Technology Department, said many organisations had gone out of business due to their inability to adapt to current trends in technology. He stated that organisations must harness the power of data and wind of change in their environment to remain competitive in product development and services. To…
Nigeria’s Senate President Ahmad Lawan said on Wednesday that the Production Sharing Contract Act of 1993 will be reviewed. Lawan spoke while declaring open a public hearing convened by Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committees on Finance on 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP). Lawan said the Senate has earlier in the day decided on the need to review the Act to boost revenue for the government. “For long, Nigeria has been shortchanged and of course, we blame ourselves for that. “Since the price of crude went beyond 20 dollar, Nigerians should have benefitted from…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has kicked against plans by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to return toll gates on highways in the country. In a statement issued on Monday by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said “such insensitive idea, in the midst of excruciating economic hardship and high costs of living occasioned by the harsh policies of the Buhari administration, is completely ill-conceived and anti-people.” It continued: “The PDP insists that at best, such idea amounts to executive bullying which cannot be justified under any guise as it will lead to more increase in costs of goods and…
Residents of Sokoto, mostly youths, trooped to the streets bearing posters of the Peoples Democratic Party to celebrate the judgment of the Governorship Election Tribunal which affirmed the victory of Gov. Aminu Tambuwal. NAN reports that the three- member tribunal dismissed the petition of the APC and its governorship candidate, Ahmed Aliyu, for lacking in merit. Delivering judgment, the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Abbas Bawale held that the petitioners failed to establish their claims on non compliance with the Electoral Act and the issue of over voting.Bawale also held that the evidence of the petitioners’ witnesses especially witness number…
For 45 minutes on Tuesday, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, explained the efforts of his administration in the last four months to bring about sustainable solution to traffic challenge in the State. Beyond a short-term fix that resulted in the ongoing rehabilitation of highways and arterial roads, the Governor said Lagos would be expanding the capacity of its water transportation and leveraging Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to address the observed disorderliness in the mass transit system. To this end, Sanwo-Olu said his cabinet had approved the deployment of a six-kilometer wide metropolitan fibre optic cable to be laid…
The Oyo State Government said on Wednesday that it was ready to empower its indigenes who are returning from South Africa as a result of xenophobic attacks. The state’s deputy Governor, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan, who made the declaration on behalf of Governor Seyi Makinde, while receiving 30 indigenes of the state who were victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, said that the State would not just give them fish, but teach them how to fish. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the government of Oyo State had expressed its…
The Federal Government has concluded designs for the return of toll plazas on Federal roads, Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has said. Fashola disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The minister said that, though the government dismantled toll plazas in the past, there was no law abolishing tolls. “Let me just clarify this impression about toll gates; there is no reason why we cannot toll; there is no reason. “There was a policy of government to abolish…
Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinabajo on Tuesday at an Independence Anniversary Gala, thrilled audience when he listed many trending Nigerian dance steps. Osinbajo who was speaking on how Nigerian’s stood out in a very unique way, listed many of the dance steps originating from Nigeria and now trending beyond Nigeria. The Vice President wrote on his twitter handle @ProfOsinbajo: “One of the attributes of the Nigerian people is the uniquely confident way we stand out – what many call the Nigerian swag. With dance, whether it is skelewu, shakitibobo, shaku-shaku or zanku, every Nigerian can dance and where necessary “Gbe…
The Oyo State House of Assembly says the police have arrested two security guards in connection with the theft of an electrical fuse in the complex. The Clerk of the House, Mrs Felicia Oyediran, said this at a press conference on Wednesday. She said that the police arrested the two guards who were on duty when the theft occurred. Oyediran, who denied reports that the thieves carted away electrical cables worth over N500,000, said the only stolen item was an electrical fuse in the generator worth N40,000. “The stolen fuse was from the generator and not an IBEDC(Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company) cable.…