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President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate dissolution of the governing boards of all federal government parastatals, agencies, institutions, and government-owned companies. In a statement released on Monday by the Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey, said boards, commissions, and councils listed in the third schedule, part one, Section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, are excluded from the president’s directive. Tinubu sacks IGP Usman Baba, service chiefs, appoints their replacements Judicial Council, Code of Conduct Bureau, Council of State, Federal Character Commission, Federal Civil…

The clergy are not immune from Britain’s cost-of-living crisis, which has now forced Church of England vicars to make a formal pay claim for the first time in their nearly 500-year history. The trade union Unite, which represents more than 2,000 clergy and lay officers in the Church of England, said on Monday that it has demanded a 9.5% increase in the stipend that clergy receive, to be paid in April 2024. “The Church of England has billions in the bank and can fully afford to pay its clergy the modest increase in their stipend they are seeking,” Unite general…

Nigeria’s immediate past Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Chairman of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), has called for credible and peaceful Sierra Leone general elections that will reflect the will of the people. He stated clearly that the COG will be guided by the principles of neutrality, impartiality, objectivity, and independence. At a press conference today, the Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), H.E. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, former Vice President of Nigeria, urged all citizens in Sierra Leone to do their part to ensure that a peaceful and credible process takes place during the elections on June 24.…

An Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, staffer, Mr. Emmanuel Igwe, has been reportedly shot dead by gunmen along the Ivo Local Government Area axis of the state. The victim, an assistant electoral officer in Afikpo North LGA, encountered the assailants while on his way back from Abia State. Gunmen attack Okorocha, kill security detail Reports gathered that the victim’s wife was equally kidnapped. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO Ebonyi State Command, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, revealed that the incident occurred on Sunday around midday and said the gunmen shot the victim through his car’s windscreen. “We have begun a manhunt…

President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting behind closed doors with the Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Chronicle NG reported that Bola Tinubu would host the duo today (Monday). The Chairman of the Dangote Group had met with the President at the State House on Friday last week and told journalists that he would come again on Monday with Bill Gates. Dangote had told journalists that he would brief them on the agenda of the meeting after the Monday visit.

Quelea birds have caused a huge loss to Nigerian farmers in Kebbi State. It was revealed in a video tweeted on the Nigeria Television Authority’s official Twitter page. Guardiola to leave Man City, Arsenal close to £100m Rice deal “Quelea Birds Wreak Havoc in Kebbi State.” “About 75 thousand hectares of dry-season rice plantations were attacked by Quelea birds in Argungu, Kebbi State.” “An estimate of a hundred farmers have lost their farms already while the birds are still raging.”

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudiness and thunderstorms from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Sunday predicted a cloudy atmosphere on Monday with patches of clouds over the northern region and prospects of morning thunderstorms over parts of Adamawa, Kaduna, and Taraba states. NiMet forecast thunderstorms over parts of Sokoto, Zamfara, Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Bauchi, Jigawa, Gombe, and Kebbi states later in the day. “A cloudy atmosphere with intervals of sunshine is envisaged over the North-Central region, with prospects of morning thunderstorms over parts of the Federal Capital Territory, Plateau,…

The new electricity tariff takes effect on July 1, 2023. Nigerians may need to brace up for tougher times as the electricity tariff is set to increase by over 40 percent in the coming days, a development that may eventually end all forms of energy subsidy in the country. With a monthly subsidy of about N50 billion still in the electricity sector owing to revenue shortfalls, the tariff hike due on July 1 may be another acid test for the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration’s market reform. The administration has already removed subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and floated the…

A Dutch court has sentenced Spartak Moscow striker Quincy Promes in absentia to 18 months in jail for assault in connection with a fight in 2020 in which he stabbed a cousin in the knee. Court jails property agent 5-years for land sale with forged documents Dutch broadcaster RTL reported Promes would appeal, citing his lawyer. Promes, 31, is currently living in Moscow, and it is not certain he will return to the Netherlands. Last month, prosecutors charged him additionally with drug trafficking. Promes previously played with Ajax and the Dutch national football team.

The Police Service Commission has approved new policy guidelines for the deployment of management and tactical commanders in the Nigeria Police Force. In a statement by the Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Solomon Arase notes that the Nigeria Police Force will be guided by the principle of federal character in both recruitment and placement of its personnel at management and tactical levels to ensure balance, equity, and fairness in the system. Don’t lecture us on nuclear weapons deployments, Russia tells US The chairman observed that the current placement of Commissioners of Police to state commands does not reflect the principle…