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Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege on Tuesday said former Political Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, was in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on a national assignment when he was killed by gunmen on Sunday, May 30, 2021. The former presidential aide was on his way to the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport in the town to connect a flight to Abuja, when he was killed. Omo-Agege spoke at plenary after citing Order 43 to notify the Upper Chamber of Gulak’s death. The Deputy Senate President said the former presidential aide was on a national assignment on behalf…

The Federal Government on Tuesday said tolling will soon return to the highways after a public private partnership was reached. It noted that 75 companies have submitted concession bids for 12 highways under the first phase of the Highway Development Management Initiative (HDMI). Head of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mrs Abimbola Asein, said the roads are Benin-Asaba, Abuja-Lokoja, Onitsha-Aba-Owerri, Shagamu-Benin, Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga, Kano-Maiduguri, Kano-Katsina, Lokoja-Benin, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Ilorin-Jebba, Lagos-Abeokuta and Lagos-Badagry. Asein, in a statement by Director of Press and Public Relations Boade Akinola, said the HDMI was designed to attract investment and…

Insecurity will not define President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the Federal Government said on Tuesday. Rather, the administration will be defined by massive achievements, the government declared. It insisted that Buhari’s legacy is assured, despite the negative comments of those it described as naysayers. Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the claims at a media briefing on the mid-term report of the President Buhari administration. Also on Tuesday, at different fora, governors, the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and other leaders suggested ways on how to halt insecurity. He said while more attention has been given,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said he has had enough of the attacks on national infrastructure especially the buildings of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Although the President did not mention the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) he inferred that he will deal with them. “I receive daily security reports on the attacks on critical national infrastructure, and it is very clear that those behind them want this administration to fail. Whoever wants the destruction of the system will soon have the shock of their lives. We’ve given them enough time. “I received a briefing today from the Chairman…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that legislative interventions must be stepped-up by the National Assembly to protect Nigerians against the heightening spate of insecurity in the country. Lawan made this known on Tuesday when the upper chamber held one-minute silence six times during plenary to honour Nigerians who lost their lives to various forms of insecurity in the country. According to the Senate President, it is imperative for the National Assembly to step up legislative interventions to reduce the number of deaths caused by criminal activities. He added that such interventions would be backed by collaborative efforts between the…

The Senate on Tuesday received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya. The request was contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and read during resumption of plenary. Buhari in the letter said Yahaya’s appointment was in compliance with the provisions of Section 18 subsection 1 of the Armed Forces Act 2004. The letter reads in part: “In compliance with the provisions of section 18(1) of the Armed Forces Act Cap A20 laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, I hereby forward for…

The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer National Examinations Council, (NECO) Professor Godswill Obioma was not assassinated but died after a brief illness, his family has stated. It was gathered from a close family friend that the Registrar slumped in his room and was discovered by his wife and driver. The duo drove him to the hospital where he was certified dead. In a message sent to the Director, Human Resource Management in NECO, Mustapha Abdul by son of the late Registrar, Prince Godswill Obioma the 2nd, the family confirmed that the Registrar died after a brief illness. The message reads:…

Gunmen on Monday night besieged the residence of NECO registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma, strangling him to death in what his wife claims is an assassination. Peoples Gazette claimed that in a telephone conversation on Tuesday morning with Elizabeth Obioma, wife of the NECO boss, she said, “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything.” Mrs Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, lurking in his compound, descended on him and strangled him. Ahmed Gulak, Goodluck Jonathan’s ex-aide assassinated in Owerri A police spokesman did not…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given another two-week extension to candidates who genuinely had issues in completing their registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The deadline for registration was May 29, 2021. A statement yesterday by JAMB’s Head of Information and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, reads: “All prospective candidates with genuine proof(s) of failed efforts to register before the closing date, are to, between Monday, May 31 and June 15, 2021, visit any of JAMB’s offices (including JAMB-owned professional test centres, PTCs) across the nation to: “(I) obtain, at no cost, and complete a…

The sit-at-home directive by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) turned bloody on Monday in parts of the Southeast. No fewer than three policemen were found dead in Enugu State. Two suspected IPOB members were feared dead in Ebonyi State. Commercial activities were grounded in the five Southeast states as well as parts of Delta and Rivers states as residents complied with the directive, some out of fear of being harmed. Policemen bodies strewn Enugu The bodies of three policemen were found in different parts of the state. One of them was killed near the Central Bank of Nigeria…