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By: Politics Editor

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is always confident of being the next President, no matter what people say about his chances.
While keeping his game plans close to his chest, he tells all those that care to listen, that, all the other candidates are wasting their times.
Even when people dismiss it as empty boast,Tinubu never hides his confidence in the face of occasional gaffes.
There were Political permutations recently that actually predict a likely Tinubu Presidency in the next elections due to certain subterranean factors.
Although analysts predict a runoff election in the 2023 Presidential elections, they failed to narrow down on the two likely contenders in the event of that.
They mostly argue that, in the checkered history of Nigeria's democracy, the 2023 Presidential elections could be the most keenly contested and perhaps most difficult .

Read more

https://nationaltrailonline.com.ng/2023-how-tinubu-may-still-win-election/

The authorities of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria has announced the reopening of the university to academic and non academic activities

In a release issued by the University Management ( attached ) lecturers and other staff are to resume on 10th October 2022 while students are to come in on 17th October to start classes

ABU is among the public Universities in Nigeria that has been under lock and key since 14th February 2022 when members of the Academic staff union of Universities ( ASUU) embarked on industrial action which has lasted over 7 months



https://dailynewscraft.ng/ahmadu-bello-university-zaria-opens-oct-10/

The Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, William Ruto was earlier today, Monday, announced as the winner of the 2022 presidential election in Kenya, after narrowly defeating his closest rival, Raila Odinga to become the fifth president of the republic of Kenya since Independence.

After six days of delay in the announcement of results due to an alleged vote-buying claim by Raila Odinga’s camp, Mr Ruto, who polled 50.49 percent of the total votes cast, was declared as the winner of the election by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).



Read more

https://daybreak.ng/7-amazing-things-about-william-ruto-kenyas-president-elect/

A woman has hired a mistress to help please her husband sexually after posting the unusual job opening online.

The 44-year-old, named Pattheema from Thailand, took to TikTok with the strange job advert.

She explained in the advert that she wants to hire a mistress for her husband as she believed she wasn’t able to please him by herself.

The wife said in the video: “I want to hire three mistresses for my husband.”

Woman hires mistress to please her husband and places her on ?340 salary

Read more on http://daybreak.ng/woman-hires-online-mistress-to-satisfy-her-husband-places-her-on-340-salary/

There is commotion at the Bingham University located along Abuja Keffi road in Nasarawa state.

NationWide was informed Thursday evening by a parent that a reliable security personnel in the school disclosed to her that Boko Haram wrote to the university authorities, informing of an imminent attack on the school if certain conditions were not met as soon as possible.

The parent told NationWide that the school authorities, rather than inform students, of the troubling message from the terrorists, told them that a new security arrangement has been put in place and that should they hear any alert, the students should stay back in their hostels and not come out.

Read more https://nationwidenews.ng/breaking-boko-haram-writes-bingham-university-keffi-parents-withdraw-wards-in-panic/

John Hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate US president Ronald in 1981 has been freed from custody 41 years after the incident.

John Hinckley Jr., now 67, was found not guilty in the aftermath of the March 30, 1981 attack by a jury who declared him insane.

He subsequently spent two decades in a mental hospital.

In 2003, US District Judge Paul L. Friedman began allowing Hinckley to live outside the hospital with restrictions and by 2016, he was living in Virginia full-time.

Friedman indicated last year that all of Hinckley’s restrictions would be lifted by June 15 if he continued to do well, and confirmed that judgement Wednesday.

The judge said Hinckley shows no signs of active mental illness.

“John Hinckley tried to kill the president of the United States. He came very close to doing so. We came to learn President Reagan was very close to death. James Brady was damaged for life,” Judge Friedman said Wednesday, according to WTOP.

https://nationwidenews.ng/the-who-tried-to-kill-us-president-reagan-freed-41-years-after/

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The menace of cultism over the years has eaten deep into the educational system, as more Students are daily initiated into different cult groups across campuses. Unlike before, cult and cult related activities are now gaining ground in one of Nigeria’s most prestigious Polytechnic, Federal polytechnic Ede in Osun State.

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It was disturbing to have watched student-cultists’ demonstration in their uniform ( In touch of yellows), cruising with cars during their last paper in early August in the campus. The Student-cultists (Alora in yellow) rallied from the school maingate to the school sport complex, where they had their meeting, a gathering celebrating the last paper of their finalist-members. Worried by the evolving trend of cultism in the school, our Reporter learnt that some student leaders in the school secretly petitioned the management over the cultist-display in the campus. They appealed to the school management to bring the identified Students to book.


Despite evidences nailing the culprits, the management have chosen silence over action.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2021/10/05/special-report-inside-osun-fed-poly-where-cultists-get-clemency/

@NatureNews Africa

A German-Madagascan expedition team in Madagascar has discovered a chameleon subspecies that is the size of a seed.

The two of the tiny lizards were said to be the smallest reptile on earth, according to scientists.

The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, has a body of just 13.5mm.

This makes it the smallest of about 11,500 known species of reptiles, according to the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich.

Its length from top to tail is 22mm (0.86in).

The female is far bigger at around 29mm, the institute said, adding that other specimens were yet to be located, despite “great effort”.

Read more: https://naturenews.africa/smallest-reptile-on-earth-discovered-in-madagascar/

@NatureNews Africa

The FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Aliyu, has expressed worry over the frequent fire outbreaks in major markets across the territory, just as she sympathized with victims of the recent Gwarinpa Tipper garage market fire incident that claimed one life.

The minister who visited the scene alongside the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Sen. Gbenga Ashafa, the FCT Director of Fire Service, Malam Sani Sa’idu, among other top management staff, also called for an upgrade of the markets in line with global best practices.

Read More: https://naturenews.africa/gwarinpa-inferno-minister-sympathizes-with-victims-harps-on-redesign-of-markets/

A test of songbirds’ problem-solving skills has revealed how traffic noise impairs the animals’ abilities.

Scientists set zebra finches a “battery of foraging tasks” in the presence or absence of the noise.

They found that the sound of passing cars diminished the birds’ ability to find food.


The results, published in the journal Proceedings B, suggest that noise pollution has “previously unconsidered consequences for wildlife”.


Read More: https://naturenews.africa/noise-pollution-affects-birds-singing-abilities-test-reveals/

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has scheduled to hold its first virtual climate program of the year on Tuesday February 2021.

According to the statement obtained by NatureNews Africa, the program which is tagged ‘NiMet 2021 season climate prediction’ will be holding virtually by 10:00am on Tuesday.

According to NiMet, participants will be drawn to discuss extensively on climate change, challenges, forecast and predict a way forward.

Read More: https://naturenews.africa/climate-change-nimet-calls-for-urgent-meeting/

@NatureNews Africa

Livestock Guards in Benue State have arrested two cattle rustlers, Mr. Atsagba Ukua and his son for rustling six cows from herdsmen, The Nation reports.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Security Matters, retired Colonel Paul Hembah, who briefed journalists on Saturday said the suspects were arrested on their way to sell the cows at the cattle market in North Bank, Makurdi.

He explained that upon interrogation by Livestock Guards who were on routine patrol, the suspect said the cows destroyed his farm produce and out of anger, he took laws into his hands by impounding the animals in order to sell as compensation for his damaged farm produce.

Read More: https://naturenews.africa/benue-livestock-guards-arrest-suspected-cattle-rustlers/

@NatureNews Africa

Wuse Market-FCT
ITEM PRICES
Beans (Red) 650 Per Mudu
Beans (White) 500 Per Mudu
Rice (Foreign) 28,500 Per Bag
Rice (Foreign) 1,100 Per Mudu
Rice (Local) 24,500 Per Bag
Rice (Local) 800 Per Mudu
Garri {White } 350 Per Mudu
Garri{Red} 400 Per Mudu
Tatase 1,300 Dustbin Basket

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https://naturenews.africa/cost-of-food-commodities-in-nigeria-as-at-22nd-january-2021/

[b]NatureNews [/b]examines the impact the reopening of the borders has had on rice price and production

In August 2019, almost immediately after signing the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCTA), Nigeria unexpectedly closed its borders against its neighbours. Nigeria’s president Mr Muhammadu Buhari said the action was to catalyse an auspicious rebirth of the economy, ensure food self-sufficiency, strengthen the porous borders and prevent smuggling of rice and other products into the most populous black nation.
Since then, food prices unprecedentedly soared, reaching an all-time high of 18.3% while inflation in the country of the more than 200 million people rose to a three-year high of 14.9%, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The government promised that the closure would be brief and would be reopened before the end of the first quarter of 2020. It turned out to be an empty promise.

During those times, the decision from the federal government was met with flak and furore from Nigerians home and abroad as well as relevant stakeholders in the ECOWAS community and neighbouring countries benefitting from trade relationship with Nigeria.

Read More: https://naturenews.africa/rice-price-changes-as-nigeria-opens-her-borders/

@NatureNews Africa

Recently, 10 persons were sentenced to two-month imprisonment in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital for indiscriminate dumping of refuse. Is this the best way of tackling environmental mess? Should state governments employ this way of dealing with residents who pollute the environment?
In finding answers to these, NatureNews went to the streets in Abuja to guage people’s views.

Uchenna Innocent, a businessman in karmu market Abuja: Living in a dirty environment is dangerous to health. There are many ways to caution and discipline people, not jailing them. Jailing them will not solve any problem. The government should make available waste bins on all streets and roads including market places as an easy way to dispose trash.

Lovet Udofia: Jjailing people for dumping refuse won’t solve the problem. State and federal governments should provide general bins with strictly rules.

Ajayi Ayomide a resident at Jabi Abuja: There should be officially designated areas with properly integrated waste management systems, which should be
used for dumping refuse, rather than keeping someone away from their family for two months. Such won’t solve any problem.

What is your Opinion ?

You can read more here https://naturenews.africa/vox-pop-should-people-be-jailed-for-indisriminate-dumping-of-waste/

@Nature News Africa

Nigerian Diaspora Movement (NDM) says the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic truncated the annual social lifestyles for many Nigerians in the United States in 2020.

The Chairman of NDM, Prof. Apollos Nwauwa, made this known in a telephone interview on Monday in Abuja.

The NDM comprises 20 million Nigerians in the diaspora working together to build a progressive nation where every citizen is empowered to become and give the best.

Nnauwa, also the Secretary-General and Public Relations Officer, African Diaspora Congress (ADC), said that Nigerians indeed missed the fanfare often experienced during the yuletide.

Read More: https://naturenews.africa/covid-19-how-the-pandemic-altered-the-lifestyle-of-nigerians-in-us/

@ NatureNews Africa

A male nurse has been suspended in Indonesia after admitting that he removed his personal protective equipment (PPE) to have sex in a toilet with a COVID-19 male patient, according to reports.

“It is true that there has been a suspected incident of a same-sex relationship between a health worker and a COVID-19 patient at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital,” said Asep Gunawan of the National Nurses Association.

He said the nurse “must follow legal processing,” the Indonesia Expat reported.

The incident in Jakarta came to light when the patient took to his Twitter account to boast about the romp on Friday, according to the UK’s Sun.

According to report, he uploaded a screenshot of their WhatsApp messages, including details about lubricants and the size of their privates.

Read More: https://naturenews.africa/nurse-gets-suspended-after-removing-ppe-to-have-sex-with-coronavirus-patient/

@Nature News Africa
United Textile Limited (UNTL), the only textile company standing in Kaduna State appears to be on shaky ground with the disengagement of about 300 workers, which constitute 30 per cent of its staff strength.
Dozens of textile factories have closed shop in Kaduna because of many factors, including an unfriendly environment occasioned by the dearth of equipment and cost of production.

In March 2020, UNTL once again shutdown activities after a state-wide lockdown was imposed by the Kaduna State Government to curtail the spread of COVID-19 infection in the state.
Nature News gathered that pressure from the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) compelled the company to recall its workers in the last few weeks, which sources said led to a “restructuring” process.

Read More: https://naturenews.africa/56-year-old-textile-company-sacks-300-staff/

Let's take a look at today major newspapers cover stories

You can read more of the Newspaper cover stories on

https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/22/nigerian-newspaper-cover-stories-22-december-2020/

@ NatureNews Africa

As countries worldwide have banned the use of killer paraquat by their farmers, NatureNews has identified the 23 companies that are major importers and distributors of the harmful herbicides in Nigeria.

The companies that are spread across Nigeria are responsible for marketing the paraquat chemical, considered to be the most highly toxic herbicide in the world, under different brand names.

NatureNews investigation reveals that 13 of the companies are based in Lagos state while eight are based in Kano state, two in Oyo state and one each in Enugu and Niger states.

Leading the advocacy by the Coalition Against Paraquat (CAP), Professor Simon Irtwange traced the history of paraquat and how it became so pervasively used by farners.

Read more:
https://naturenews.africa/amp/revealed-23-companies-selling-killer-paraquat-herbicides-in-nigeria/

It's Monday 21st. Here are the top Newspaper Frontoage in Nigeria

@Nature News Africa

A recent report by the United Nations indicates that three out of ten people lack access to safely managed drinking water while six in ten people lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities.


The challenges are more prevalent in the developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, where lack of access to water for drinking and sanitation facilities may affect the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Read more
https://naturenews.africa/how-our-awg-dispenser-extracts-drinking-water-from-the-air-hoblot-md-anyanwu/

DAYBREAK
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has expressed concern about the decline in the standard of education in the country. Adamu, who spoke in Yola, Adamawa State, during the official commissioning of completed projects in the college, said a number of graduates can neither read nor write in a tolerable manner.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/12/many-nigerian-graduates-cant-read-or-write-applications-minister-of-education-laments/

@NIgerian Pilot

Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Saka Haruna Audu has been accused of allegedly enriching himself through award of contracts in a company he has vested interest.

This is contained in a petition addressed to Governor Yahaya Bello by an anti-corruption group, Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Transparency and accountability, which was made available to Nigerian Pilot yesterday.

Convener of the group, Comrade Ibrahim Kabir Dallah, disclosed that the commissioner was using his office to gain advantages in award of contracts to companies that belong to his school mates and allies.

The civil society group explained that the legal search on profile of two companies, AKH Premier Healthcare Limited and Marusa Integrated Services, have Dr. Musa Abdulkarim Omoniye, classmate of the commissioner, as director with majority share capital.
Dallah further explained that the Premier Healthcare Limited has other four shareholders, and that Omoniye works with the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, as obstetrician and gynaecologist, a situation he noted breaches the Kogi State Government Policy and Mandate of Transparency, Accountability and Open Contracting as contained in the Kogi State Bureau of Public Procurement Act.

According to him, the company, which was registered at the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, on March 14, 2008, has a share capital of N5million, wondering how such company could execute a contract worth N36million.

The group also expressed concern that the commissioner was also involved in contract splitting where they discovered a business name that was registered under part "B" of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990, as amended, a situation they alleged denied other limited liability companies during the symbolic bidding.

The petition read in part: "We have proof of reasonable suspicion that the Commissioner for Health in Kogi State is in the corrupt and immoral business of circumventing all established due process in the award of contracts in order to award it to himself through a corrupt front, one Dr. Musa Abdulkarim who we have been informed is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in the service of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.

"Both the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Audu and Dr. Musa Abdulkarim, who is director in AKH Premier Healthcare Limited and the proprietor, Marusa Integrated Services, are classmates, close friends and associates.

"These companies receive over sixty percent, 60 percent, of all the contracts in the Kogi State Ministry of health without any regard to Due Process and transparency.

"The said companies which an official search have been conducted on are in breach of the Articles and Memorandum of Understanding of its registration.

"But in one, out of the numerous jobs it has executed, it was awarded the contract of Supply of HIV Test Kits in the sum of N36,876,950 by the Kogi State Ministry of Health.

"Other clear violation of the Kogi State Government Policy and Mandate of Transparency, Accountability and Open Contracting as contained in the Kogi State Bureau of Public Procurement Act exist, with regards to the extent the Commissioner can go to confer undue advantage to these companies which are not eligible to undertake government contracts over eligible ones.

"These companies were registered as follows: AKH Premier Healthcare Limited in 2018 and Marusa Integrated Services in the same 2018.

"AKH Premier Healthcare Limited is a limited liability company while Marusa Integrated Services is a business name.

"They could not have done jobs in their years of registration, except in partnership with other companies.
“Dr. Musa Abdulkarim Omoniye and his wife or close family member are directors in the AKH Premier Healthcare Limited and are proprietors of Marusa Integrated Services. Dr. Omoniye is a civil servant, being a staff of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.”

They further noted that the Commissioner therefore was in clear breach of the ICPC Act 2004 (as amended), as Section 19 of the Act states clearly that “any public officer who uses his office or position to gratify or confer any corrupt or unfair advantage upon himself or any relation or associate of the public officer or any other public officer shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for five years without option of fine. He is also in clear breach of the Code of Conduct Act and Public Service Rules,” adding that Dr. Omoniye on his part was in excess breach of both the Code of Conduct Act and the Civil/Public Service Rules.

However, the commissioner could not respond to the allegations as his phone was switched of when Nigerian Pilot put a call to him neither did he reply text messages sent to him.
On his part, Dr Omoniyi refused responding to questions thrown to him when he was contacted on phone the first time, saying he knew nothing about the issue, while on a second call he said he was driving and refused picking another call put to him hours later, neither did he respond to text messages also sent to him.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), First Bank Nigeria PLC, Dr Adesola Adeduntan, said the bank will engage 500,000 agents across the country to ensure that its services were made available to people in every nook and cranny.

Adeduntan made this known on Tuesday at opening of the 12th Annual Banking and Finance Conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), in Abuja. The theme of the conference is “the future of Nigerian banking sector 360”.


https://dailytimes.ng/first-bank-to-employ-500000-agents/

Customers lament undue charges in commercial banks
*Accuse CBN of complicity in the dealings
*Demand reversals of the charges

Bank customers in Nigeria have cried out against what they term “fraudulent activities of commercial banks aimed at ripping them off.”
Some of the customers who spoke to Nigerian Pilot exclusively also alleged that “the Central Bank of Nigeria is colluding with these commercial banks to perpetrate the fraud.”
According to them, it is no more news that banks have continued to smile home with huge profits every year despite the harsh business operating environment in Nigeria.
However, the profits have been a subject of controversy due to the undue exploitation these banks have been perpetuating to fester their nest.

more> http://nigerianpilot.com/how-banks-defraud-nigerians-secret-deals-of-top-6-banks-exposed/

In its bid to curb child marriage in the country, Indonesia’s parliament has raised the minimum age at which women can marry to 19.

All factions in Indonesia’s parliament in a unanimous agreement adopted a revision to the country’s existing marriage law. according to a statement on Indonesia’s House of Representatives’ website, under the current laws, girls are allowed to marry at 16 and boys to marry at 19, while parents can also ask religious courts or local officials to authorize marriages of younger girls with no minimum age in such cases.

Indonesia has the eighth highest number of child brides in the world, according to Girls Not Brides, a global partnership committed to ending child marriage.

https://dailytimes.ng/child-marriage-government-raises-minimum-age-to-19/

Before we examine the meaning of the word ‘xenophobia,’ let me state that the attack on Nigerians and other blacks by South Africans in that country is motivated by greed and petty jealousy against their fellow blacks, who, due to hard work and dogged determination, are doing better than them, in their own country.


Another reason for the attacks is because South Africans know they can vent their anger on citizens of Nigeria and other African countries whose governments are weak, without any serious consequence; they cannot attack Americans, Germans, Chinese and nationals of countries with serious governments.


Learn more: https://dailytimes.ng/killing-of-nigerians-and-other-blacks-in-south-africa-is-not-xenophobia/

It’s being reported that Boris is set to prorogue parliament from 11th September, thereby preventing MPs from being able to table a vote of no confidence before the Brexit deadline.

The move, which is certain to infuriate Remain MPs, will be difficult to challenge in court as it is standard practice for the purpose of a bog-standard new Queen’s Speech. A new Queen’s Speech will be scheduled for 14th October, when Parliament will return with no time to stop No Deal…


More: https://dailytimes.ng/breaking-boris-to-suspend-parliament-ahead-of-no-deal/

A former Central Bank Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo about three years, warned Igbo leaders to take the issues of restructuring, debate on Biafra and other matters affecting the South East geopolitical zone seriously, to avoid been violently confronted by the youths in the nearest future.

Soludo gave the warning on Thursday, September 29, 2016 while reviewing a book titled THE POLITICS OF BIAFRA AND THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA written by a former House of Representatives member, Chike Ofodille. He stated that it was necessary for Igbo elite, intelligentsia and leaders of thought, to sit down and commence the debate on whether or not Biafra should be, instead of playing Hyde and Jekyll on the matter.

Read more: https://dailytimes.ng/ekweremadu-beating-soludo-warned-igbo-leaders-about-this-three-years-ago/

A yet to be identified middle-aged man on Thursday evening allegedly jumped into a popular Osun river in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, in an attempt to commit suicide.

According to our Correspondent, all efforts to rescue the man by the state Police and Fire fighters was proved abortive as his whereabout could not be ascertained inside the river.

Nigerian Pilot, gathered that the man removed all the clothes on his body before he concluded to jumped into the river

The incident however called for the attention of mammoth crowd in the area as they stopped to catch a glimpse of the incident.

It was learnt that the man allegedly resorted to the action in an apparent suicide attempt.

Read more: http://nigerianpilot.com/breaking-middle-aged-man-jumped-into-osun-river-body-yet-to-recover/