The Nation Newspaper Today Headline Monday 1st March 2021
The Nation Newspaper Today Headline and news Dailies Update on current affairs happening now in Nigeria today 01/03/21
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2023: Bello’s posters flood Yenagoa, Port Harcourt, Warri
By Emmanuel Oladesu, Deputy Editor Posters and billboards announcing the presidential ambition of Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello have flooded Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa states. The posters and billboards in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, are sponsored by the Niger Delta GYB Support Group. They adorn major roads in the three states. An activist, Comrade Temple
IBB’s SAP responsible for worsening insecurity – Okechukwu
By Jide Orintunsin, Abuja The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu has blamed the increasing rate of insecurity in the country on the extreme poverty imposed in 1986 by the military administration of President Ibrahim Babangida through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sponsored Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). He maintained the insecurity
LASU selects nine professors for VC position
By Damola Kola-Dare The Governing Council of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has shortlisted nine professors for the vacant vice chancellor seat. Prof. Oyedamola Oke is the acting Vice Chancellor of the institution. Following the close of submission of application, it was learnt that 13 professors from within and outside LASU applied for the position. The Governing Council had
Oba’s body ‘hijack’: Three daughters sue Ogboni Society for N50bn
By Robert Egbe Three daughters of the late the Alaye-Aba of Aba, Aiyepe, Ogun State, Oba Rauf Adebayo Raji-Suleimon, have sued the unincorporated Osugbo Society of Ijebuland (known as the Ogboni) over the alleged hijack of the late monarch’s corpse. In a suit filed at the Federal High Court, in Abeokuta, they are seeking N50
Police arrest over 200 in raid of Cubana Night Club
By Precious Igbonwelundu About 200 clubbers and workers were Saturday night arrested at popular Cubana Night Club for alleged breach of COVID-19 protocols. Detectives attached to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Monitoring Team at the wee hours of Saturday, busted the gathering following a tip-off on large gathering in the club house. Saturday’s raid
‘Govt should arrest Gumi for aiding banditry’
The Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj ji, has urged the Federal Government to arrest Sheikh Ahmad Gumi for aiding and abetting banditry and terrorism. Maharaj ji, in a statement he signed and issued yesterday, said the utterances of Gumi in a television programme, justifying kidnapping by the Fulani, showed him as somebody
PHOTOS: Okonjo-Iweala resumes as WTO DG
28 policemen killed in three months
By Precious Igbonwelundu, Nsa Gill, Sunny Nwankwo, Damian Duruiheoma, Mike Odiegwu, Kolade Adeyemi, Okungbowa Aiwerie, Augustine Okezie, Chris Njoku, Rosemary Nwisi and AbdulGafar Alabelewe No fewer than 28 cops have been killed in three months, The Nation’s checks have revealed. They were either shot by gunmen, hacked to death or set ablaze by hoodlums who
Imo crisis: Okorocha’s son-in-law to be flown abroad after failed surgeries
By Okodili Ndidi, Abuja Son-in-law to former Governor of Imo State, Dr. Uzor Anwuka, who was allegedly shot in Owerri, the Imo State capital, when suspected hoodlums attacked the former Governor, will be flown abroad for treatment after three failed surgeries. Uzor, an American trained medical doctor, was shot on the left leg by the
‘We condemn ethnic profiling’
Our Reporter The Human Rights Monitoring Agenda (HURMA) has urged Nigerians to shun ethnic profiling of crime. It said crime and criminality should be condemned irrespective of the ethnicity. HURMA made the call on Sunday in a statement, ‘Threat to Peace in a failing state: a timely call for United front against insecurity’. It further
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