Author: VOP Lagos

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, to steer clear of Rivers State, saying the party should perish thoughts of forcefully taking over the state. This is even the as the PDP claimed that the recent statement by the APC on the ongoing political crisis in the Rivers State has further exposed its hallucinating and manipulative plots to force itself into government in the state against the will of the people. PDP spoke in a statement by Debo Ologunagba, its National Publicity Secretary, on Saturday. Ologunagba said APC laboured without success to subvert the Constitution…

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, on Saturday, called on Compliance Officers of Banks across the country to desist from unauthorized disclosure of EFCC’s investigation activities and request from banks to their customers. Olukoyede, in a statement by Head, Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, decried the unhealthy support fraudsters received from the banking sector in Nigeria. Oyewale stressed that it is posing considerable challenges and concerns to the commission. The EFCC chairman made this call through the Acting Zonal Director of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the agency, Hauwa…

The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has assured Nigerians that the fuel crisis being experienced in the country will soon be a thing of the past. Bamidele gave this assurance in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the Oil Technology Conference in Houston, Texas on Friday. He said the legislature is working tirelessly to ensure that fuel scarcity and frequent queues at filling stations are resolved. He said there were plans to involve more private-sector players in the construction of new refineries. Bamidele said the Senate had received an assurance from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited that two…

Barely 16 days after Dana Air was shut down by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authorities, another aircraft belonging to XEJET Airlines also skidded off the runway and landed in the grass at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos on Saturday. Following this development, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has shut the 18/Left runway of the airport The Airbus with registration 5N-BZZ with 52 passengers on board departed Abuja and landed in Lagos at 11.29 am. Just last month, Dana MD-82 aircraft was involved in a skidding off of the runway, necessitating the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo,…

President Joe Biden has warned Israel that the US will stop supplying some weapons if it launches a major ground operation in the Gaza city of Rafah. He added that he would “continue to make sure Israel is secure”. Despite firm and vocal US opposition, Israel appears poised to mount a large-scale invasion of Rafah. The congested part of southern Gaza is Hamas’s last major stronghold in the territory. US officials have warned that an operation in the city – where the population has swelled with refugees from other parts of Gaza – could lead to extensive civilian casualties.

The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has revealed that his committee will be proposing the removal of Value Added Tax on some basic food, educational and healthcare items. Oyedele stated this on Wednesday via his X handle as he clarified comments earlier made at a policy exposure and impact assessment session organised by the committee. Denying claims that his committee is proposing a rate hike, Oyedele said that his committee had instead proposed full input VAT credit for businesses to reduce their cost of doing business and minimise the strain on their…

A member of the House of Representatives from Borno State, Ahmed Jaha, has called on the Federal Government to recruit military mercenaries to address the security issues in the country. Jaha suggested that the government recall the mercenaries used during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The lawmaker, who represents the Chibok/Domboa/Gwoza Federal constituency, made this appeal on Tuesday during a parliamentary session where Ginger Onwusibe presented a motion on insecurity. Onwusibe had moved the motion on the heels of the killing of a civil servant in Abia State, Onegbu Ifeanyi, allegedly by five naval officers. In his contribution to the…

Prof Khalifa Dikwa, the Dean of Borno Elders Forum, has said that most of the appointments by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu are either weak or lopsided. Dikwa stated this while commenting on the 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy on electronic transactions recently introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. He accused the present administration of provoking Nigerians by introducing harsh policies. He urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to withdraw the policy. Professor Dikwa revealed that the Northern elite are not happy with President Tinubu because each of these policies affect the north entirely. He also noted that there is…