The Nation Newspaper Today Headline Thursday 4th March 2021
The Nation Newspaper Today Headline and news Dailies Update on current affairs happening now in Nigeria today 04/03/21
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Osinbajo for Sokoto varsity convocation lecture
By Adamu Suleiman, Sokoto Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will deliver a Pre-Convocation Lecture for the Sokoto State University first, second and third combined convocation billed to take place on Saturday, next week. Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Muhammad Sani Dangoggo made this known in a statement signed by the Registrar, Amina Yusuf Garba. According
Two policemen killed in another checkpoint attack
By Nsa Gill, Calabar Two policemen have been shot dead in Cross River State as attacks on checkpoints mount. Last week four policemen were gunned down on the outskirts of Calabar, the state capital. The slain men’s rifles were taken away. On Tuesday night gunmen attacked two checkpoints in the Obubra area of the state,
#EndSARS: $2m, N17m stolen from my palace, says Akiolu
By Tajudeen Adebanjo Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu on Wednesday said that those who invaded his palace last October during the #EndSARS protest stole $2 million and N17 million. Youths vandalised the monarch’s Iga Idungaran, Lagos Island palace, and went away with some properties including the Staff of Office. Akiolu at the commissioning of the
Akwa Ibom court rules females can inherit property
By Bassey Anthony, Uyo The ancient tradition in Etinan council area of Akwa Ibom state which denied female children the right to inherit their father’s properties has been nullified. A High Court presided by Justice Pius Idiong quashed the practice yesterday while delivering judgment in a suit filed by eight children of the late Obong
Nine suspected attackers of Zango Kataf arrested
Our Reporter Troops of Operation Safe Haven have arrested nine suspects in connection with a deadly attack in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna, according to a statement by the commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs Samuel Aruwan. Read Also: Six fake soldiers arrested in Delta “Nine suspects have been arrested in connection
Court dismisses directors’s motion against oil firm
Our Reporter A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a motion by two directors of an oil and gas company, Green Energy International Ltd. The motion is seeking to discharge an ex parte order of the court granted in favour of the company ordering the directors to attend a board meeting and Annual
Osun Assembly approves Amendment Bill
By Toba Adedeji, Osogbo Osun State House of Assembly yesterday approved the Amendment of Local Government Administration Bill 2021. The Nation recalls that in 2016, during the tenure of former governor Rauf Aregbesola, he signed the Local Government Administration No. 6 law of 2016 into law, which has been the practice to date. The
Senate seat: Supreme Confusion over Cross River
Hardball if the lower courts in Nigeria can fail to deliver justice, what do we say when the baba of all courts, the Supreme Court, runs away like a hen at the sight of a fox? We can see that in the case of Senator Stephen Odey and Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe. For Nigerians not familiar
Waste pickers to govt: consider us first for vaccination
By Adeyinka Aderibigbe Waste and scrap pickers have urged the Federal Government to consider them first for vaccination as Nigeria received the first vaccine consignment on Tuesday. They cited the vulnerability of their members to COVID-19 infection. The waste pickers under the aegis of the National Union of Scraps and Waste Workers of Nigeria (NUSWON)
Veteran actor, Sadiq Daba, dies
By Alao Abiodun Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor Sadiq Daba is dead. He died on Wednesday evening. The Nation learnt he battled with leukemia and prostate cancer before his demise. Read Also: Celebrities mourn as popular music producer, Dokta Frabz dies Confirming his death, popular filmmaker Kunle Afolayan, said he spoke with his wife and
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