Kunle Awosika

The Federal Ministry of Interior has given update on the fire inicident that took place at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Sunday, 10 January, 2021.

As several political aspirants in the northern part of the country begin to jostle for the Kano State governorship seat ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial elections, one of the prospective candidates, Barrister Abdulkadir Inuwa Waya, who has been in the civil service of the country at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for almost three decades recently showed interest in politics, as his campaign posters and other sundry campaign items have been flying around the streets of Kano. However, he has debunked claims that he plans to buy his way into the government house with money.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Hassan Danbaba as a part-time chairman of the governing board of the Sokoto-Rima River Basin Development Authority, SRRBDA.

The Permanent Secretary of Federal Ministry of Health, Abdullahi Mashi, has slumped during a Ministerial Tenders Board, MTB, meeting at the ministry’s head office, Abuja.

The Presidency has frowned at the reported plan by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to embark on a nationwide protest over the alleged President Buhari’s “inaction over the high-level of corruption uncovered at some Federal Government’s commissions.

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Ex-Governor of Delta State,  has debunked allegations that he was awarded contracts worth N429 million from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

The Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has refuted allegations of corruption, sexual and workplace harassments, pipelines bombings, secret cult activities, abuse of office, amongst others leveled against him by Mrs Joy Nunieh, the former Acting Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC).

The last may not have been heard about the sexual assault allegation levied against popular actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka alias Baba Ijesha.

The advent of talent shows in Nigeria and indeed Africa, has been moving in a progressive and very ground-breaking manner, and the FirstBank is really adding more spices to talent hunting as the foremost financial institution is poised to take the fast growing multibillion-dollar entertainment industry to the hilt, with potential to be a leading contributor to Nigeria’s GDP in the nearest future.