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  • #EndSARS promoter, Modupe Odele finally picks up her passport

    #EndSARS promoter, Modupe Odele finally picks up her passport

    EndSARS promoter and one of the members of the Feminist Coalition, Modupe ‘Moe’ Odele, has finally picked up her passport.

    Modele was stopped from traveling outside Nigeria on November 1. She was on her way to the Maldives for her birthday when Immigration officials stopped her at the airport and seized her passport. According to them, she was being investigated.

    In a recent update shared on her Twitter handle on Monday afternoon, November 8, Modupe said she has been handed her passport and has been told she can travel now.

    ”Passport now picked up. No issues. I’m told I can travel at any time. Thank you so much everyone for the help and concern”she tweeted

    #EndSARS promoter, Modupe Odele finally picks up her passport
  • BREAKING: Oyo residents panic as herdsmen ‘invade’ Ibadan community

    BREAKING: Oyo residents panic as herdsmen ‘invade’ Ibadan community

    Residents of the Maje, Soka area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital are in panic following the alleged invasion of the area by about 300 suspected herdsmen.

    The Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress in Oyo State, Mr Rotimi Olumo, who told our correspondent that residents of the area alerted him, said he went to the area and saw the three luxury buses that brought the suspected herdsmen to the area.

    Olumo said the people, who suspected that the herdsmen had a suspicious mission in the area, prevented them from disembarking from the vehicles.

    He said he alerted the police and some policemen from Sanyo Police Station were deployed.

    The OPC coordinator said he was surprised to see a large number of Fulani people in the area, saying the area is not Sabo – a popular settlement for northerners.

    Asked if the passengers came with their cattle, he said no but stated that they were suspected to be herdsmen.

    Olumo said, “I received a series of calls this morning that some luxury buses brought some Fulani and Bororo herdsmen numbering about 300 to the area. They came around 07 am today. I went to the place and discovered that all the passengers in the vehicles are Fulani and Bororo.

    “There is no Igbo, no Yoruba among them. This made the people suspicious and we have to be vigilant because of the security situation all over the country. We asked them questions but they refused to disclose their destination. So, we invited the police to come and see them.

    “Policemen came from Sanyo Police Station and their response was very prompt. They took the buses to their station and parked them there before I left. One of the Fulani people came down to talk with the police but I didn’t know what they discussed. But everybody must be vigilant.”

    The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, when contacted by our correspondent did not pick the phone and was yet to respond to the text message sent to him on this matter.

  • Ondo Resident doctors begin nationwide strike

    Ondo Resident doctors begin nationwide strike

    The Resident Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences in Ondo State, have embarked on an indefinite strike. The strike follows the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum, given to the state Government.

    The doctors had last week embarked on a three-day warning strike to draw the government’s attention to their plights.

    The doctors took the decision to go an indefinite strike at the end of a meeting in Akure on Monday, November 9.

    Acting president of the Association of Resident Doctors in the state, Sanni Oriyomi, said that the decision became imperative because the state government failed to address their demands.

    The doctors lamented that they are being owed four months salary arrears by the state Government.

    Speaking to newsmen, the Acting President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, UNIMEDTH Ondo, Dr. Sanni Oriyomi, said his members could no longer work without being paid. He claimed that the government was still owing them four and a half months salaries, COVID-19 allowance, and other entitlements.

  • Nasarawa MSMEs in high hope as Sule Unveils Business plan in the state

    Nasarawa MSMEs in high hope as Sule Unveils Business plan in the state

    By Abel Leonard/ lafia

    Governor of Nasarawa state Engr. Abdullahi Sule, has unveiled the Nasarawa business entrepreneurs plan for interested Micro Small and Medium Entrepreneur (MSMEs) in the State.
    The governor who open up the plan in Lafia, the State capital at the city centre shandam Road Lafia, said it is in line with his administration policy of the Nasarawa Economic Development Strategy, adding that  his administration will continue to promote these kind of programmes with the objective of increasing revenue generation of the state.
    In his word,” We will continue to promote and support this kind of programme and partner with them. That was reason why we have Nasarawa Economic Development Strategy which inaugurated by Mr Vice President.
    The only way to empower people is to support this kind of programme in order to reduce over depending on government for anything in the State. He stated.

    Earlier in his remark, the Executive Director, Nasarawa Business Entrepreneur Mr Kefas Tigga said  the programme is aimed at showcasing  the various  business opportunity found  in the state and its benefit  to the people of the state and country at large.
    Tigga however, narrated that apart from showcasing and promoting Nasarawa state, it will also aid the  exportation of the Nasarawa state mineral resources across the glob.

  • Kano State Government Called Upon To Rehabilitate Waziri Gidado Hospital

    Kano State Government Called Upon To Rehabilitate Waziri Gidado Hospital

    By Jabiru Hassan, Kano.

    Kano state government has been called upon to rehabilitates the popular Waziri Gidado hospital to a higher standard due to the capacity of the patients that trooped into the hospital seeking  various medical services especially when the place is having more recognition.

    The call was made by some people that were interviewed by our correspondent when Daybreak news paid a visit to the hospital, where the interviewers disclosed that Waziri Gidado hospital is now getting more visitors seeking medication and there is the need for kano government to rehabilitate the place for conducive working atmosphere.
    Malam Ya’u Bachirawa said that Waziri Gidado hospital has a qualified staff that are also professional in taking care of the patients and the place needs complete rehabilitation in order to wear new look and have a good working atmosphere as one of the best healthcare delivery services centre.

    Similarly, Malama Wasila Adamu lamented that ” the hospital is good especially on maternal and neo-natal services where pregnant women are being treated with satisfaction and we hope that our dynamic governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje would answer our call by renovating the place to look more conducive”. She added.


    Daybreak news gathered that the issue of water scarcity has been overcomes at the hospital, while some well meaning citizens often contributed to the provision of an additional buildings so as to enable the hospital accommodate more patients.

  • FG moves to draft social protection Bill

    FG moves to draft social protection Bill

    By Joyce Remi-Babayeju

    The Federal Government in collaboration with stakeholders like  Save the Children, UNICEF, UNDP and others  is set to produce a draft bill that would legalize social protection in Nigeria.

    The Bill is expected would also harmonise all existing bills on social protection to produce an all-encompassing draft bill that would take care of both contributory and non-contributory social protection programmes in Nigeria. 

    According to a press release made available to Daybreak today the Permanent Secretary, Budget and National Planning, and Chairman, Technical Working Group (TWG) on National Social Protection Policy, Mrs Olusola Idowu, represented by the Director, Social Development, Mr Sa’adu Bello, made this known at a five-day capacity building workshop for members of the TWGs on the review of the National Social Protection Policy(NSPP), recently, in Lagos.  

    The statement said the  workshop was aimed at deepening the understanding of members on the concept of social protection as well as the commencement of the review process.

    Idowu said that the group had been divided into five different sub-committees which included: the Central Working committee, Technical Review, Legal and harmonization, Cross cutting, as well as the Stakeholders Consultation and Sensitization sub-committees, who would present their diagnostic reports to the TWG.

    She appreciated the Development Partners and relevant MDAs involved in the social protection project, while hinting that the current policy on social protection, would be coming to an end at the close of the year  2020.

    The Permanent Secretary reminded recalled that the Ministry had inaugurated a Technical Working Group (TWG) for the review of the National Social Protection Policy 2021-2025. 

    The main essence of the review was to accommodate some emerging issues on social protection programme across sectors at both the national and sub-national levels of government, the release stated.

    Senior Social Protection Specialist, Save the Children, Sheila Nkunika,  present at the Workshop, highlighted the importance of the principles of inclusiveness in drafting the new policy and the vulnerability of children which had become worrisome. 

    She advocated Social Protection as a platform to carter to the vulnerable children.

    Emerging issues as highlighted at the workshop were: the need for robust a Monitoring and Evaluation framework; need for an inter-ministerial dialogue and negotiations on the roles and responsibilities of MDAs on the revised NSPP, need to strengthen the NSPP shock responsiveness; need for inclusiveness in the NSPP to take care for all vulnerable groups; and need for coasted work plan (implementation strategy and operational Manual), among others.

  • #ENDSARS: Account for your action – NGO tells FG

    #ENDSARS: Account for your action – NGO tells FG

    Abel  Leonard/ lafia
    The National Coordinator, advocacy for Quality  Leadership and Health awareness  Foundation, Eng. Anselm Ijebor has  blamed the federal government  for the loss of innocent Nigerian youth and properties at the wake of the ENDSARS protest in the country.

    According to the National Coordinator of the NGO, who said  the Nigerian government did  not show concern or  any sign of meeting the demand of the protesters at the given  time .
    Engr. Amsolem Ijebor while addressing Journalists in Lafia, the Nasarawa state Capital, maintaining  that  the #ENDSARS protest  should not have escalated  given that the Nigerian government had shown signs  of meeting the demand of the protesters
    He said the new attempts by the government to further muzzle the democratic rights of the people sparked off the youth  organising themselves and demanding for their rights.
    “People must have the socio-political consciousness that  the youth have  the right  to protest and make demands to reclaim the country. What happened during the #EndSARS protest is  a signal that the federal government  has failled  the nation and must live to meet the yearning, aspirations and desires of the people”, Eng Ijebor declared.
    The National coordinator who is a member of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, Fellow of Nigeria   Technologist in Engineering  said nothing is wrong  with ENDSARS  protest, but what led to the violent  protest was administrative incompetence in handling the agitation of the youths.
    “Why the  youths resorted to violent protest was as a result of the government inability to manage the situation. It is either we fix Nigeria or we die trying to have a better country for the generations yet unborn. 
     The mood should be that we want to reclaim the country, the country belongs to us. All resources in the country belong to us and not a few rich,” he said.
    “An average Nigerian should be inspired by those that died during the protest, those martyrs that laid down their lives and the desire ultimately is to transform Nigeria into a socialist state,” Eng. Ijebor stated.
    While accepting that  diologue and nagotiation are veritable instrument of peace, Eng Ijebor said ‘aluta’ change  should be  redefined  to reflect  the emerging  circumstances in the country and decry the unacceptable level of banditry,  kidnapping and robbery cases in the country

  • Northern Governors Mourn Late Ali Kwara

    Northern Governors Mourn Late Ali Kwara

    The Northern Governors Forum has commiserated with the people of Bauchi State and family of the legendary hunter and crime fighter, Ali Kwara who died recently. 

    Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State Simon Bako Lalong in a message described the late Ali kwara as an outstanding hunter who devoted his gifts and energy in the fight against crime in various parts of the country. 
    He recalled his exploits against bandits, armed robbers and terrorists in most parts of the country particularly the 19 Northern states, saying his efforts assisted greatly in addressing some of the security challenges of the country.
    Governor Lalong said the services of the late Ali Kwara will be seriously missed particularly because of the assistance he rendered to law enforcement officials in the apprehension of criminals, many of whom were successfully prosecuted. 
    While praying God to grant the late Ali Kwara eternal rest, the Governor said President said his legacies will continue to be remembered in the history of crime fighting in Nigeria. 

  • Govt. Extols The Potentials, Creativity Of Kogi State Council Of Arts, Culture

    Govt. Extols The Potentials, Creativity Of Kogi State Council Of Arts, Culture

    From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja

    The Kogi state Commissioner. For Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Comrade Salifu Idachaba over the weekend in Lokoja lauded the capacity and the creativity of Kogi State Council for Arts and Culture (KSCAC).

    The Commissioner who made the remarks at the Mini Exhibition of Arts and Craft organized by KSCAC, expressed satisfaction for the capacity and creativity embedded in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of Kogi State Council for Arts and Culture.

    He extolled the giant strides and performance displayed by the Performing Arts Department of the council, during state, national and international competitions.

    Comrade Idachaba who admitted that the Council remained the engine room of cultural matters, in the state assured that the state government would give priority to arts theatre and a cultural village, where the artistes could fully   manifest their talents.

    The Commissioner commended the Director, KSCAC, Mrs Wosilat Owuda and her team for putting up the event, promising that the state government would do everything possible to ensure that the council ranks among the best in the country.

    He commended the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello for his support and encouragement for the cultural sector of the economy.

    Comrade Idachaba expressed gratitude to the Director General, Kogi State Broadcasting Corporation, Alhaji Ayila O Ozovehe for his brotherly love and adequate publicity for the event.

    In their separate remarks, the Invited guests pointed out that they were thrilled by the arts exhibition, referring to it as the first of its kind, in the state.

  • #EndSARS: The law will rule on looters of public, private properties — Presidency

    #EndSARS: The law will rule on looters of public, private properties — Presidency

    The Presidency has stated that looters of public and private properties during the #EndSARS protest will face the law for the destruction of lives and properties in the country.

    Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, made this known on Sunday while featuring on Channels Television’s programme, Sunday Politics.

    He said, “This country has only one president and has only one constitution. President Muhammadu Buhari is responsible for his government. The buck stops on his table.

    “We are a country governed by law. There is a constitution —under section 33— that clearly defines the rights of citizens to freely protest in a peaceful way but where a peaceful protest turns into riot, violence and looting, there is a law and order duty to be performed.

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    “Everyone witnessed the massive looting of public and private properties particularly in Lagos, Calabar, Plateau, Taraba and some other states, even the FCT.

    “Now, the laws of the country must be allowed to decide, to rule on wrongdoing on the part of anybody.

    “I am not particular about any celebrity or promoter but this country has been harmed enormously and people should be prepared to account for what they did.”

    He added that some politicians who promoted the #EndSARS demonstrations including those of the Peoples Democratic Party should “publicly denounce” the attendant destruction caused by the protest.

    Recall that the Central Bank of Nigeria froze the accounts of 20 #EndSARS champions while another promoter of the movement, Modupe Odele, was prevented from travelling last week and had her passport seized by the Nigeria Immigration Service.