Belgian champions Club Brugge have blocked Raphael Onyedika from joining Galatasaray, DAILY POST reports. Galatasaray have already agreed personal terms with Onyedika and were hoping to reach an agreement with Club Brugge. According to Voetbalkrant.com, Club Brugge have, however, refused to sell the Nigerian to the Turkish Super Lig champions. Brugge believed getting a worthy replacement for the defensive midfielder would be difficult. The transfer window in Belgium is also closed, which means they can’t even sign a replacement. Also, the registration for the UEFA Champions League closed last Wednesday. So the earliest Onyedika could be allowed to move will…
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The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on University Education, Abubakar Hassan Fulata has promised that his committee will take necessary steps to address the challenge arising from the non-implementation of presidential directives removing universities and other tertiary institutions from IPPIS. Fulata made this known after the committee’s meeting with the Chairman, Conference Committee of Vice-Chancellors in Nigeria, Professor Lilian Imuetinyan Salami at the National Assembly on Wednesday. Salami is also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin. Salami, who is the first indigenous female Vice Chancellor of UNIBEN, had told the committee that despite the presidential directive removing the universities…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had assured stakeholders in Edo State of its readiness for the September 21 governorship election. The Chairman of the Commission, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, gave this assurance on Wednesday in Benin, appealing to the stakeholders to cooperate with the commission to ensure credible election. Yakubu noted that the meeting is traditionally convened on the eve of major off-cycle governorship elections and jointly addressed by the INEC chairman and the Inspector-General of Police. According to him, the purpose was to interact with political parties and candidates, accredited observers, the media and other stakeholders on the preparations…
The Federal Competition and Consumers Protection Commission, FCCPC, has urged stakeholders in the production and distribution value chain of the economy to support it in curtailing price fixing and other unethical practices. The Executive Vice Chairman, FCCPC, Mr Tunji Bello, made the appeal at a town hall meeting in Lagos tagged ‘Stakeholders Engagement on Exploitative Pricing’. The event was attended by captains of industries, leaders of market associations, transport operators and service providers. Bello said he called the meeting as a result of findings discovered by the Commission during a survey conducted nationwide. “We discovered that some traders form cartels…
Segun Sanni, the Chief Economist of Afenifere, on Wednesday suggested that the government should probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, the way Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was investigated. This is even as Sanni accused the NNPCL of being the most corrupt and inefficient organisation in the world. He stated this while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday. Sanni explained that the company does not own Nigeria’s oil, but only trade it for Nigeria and collect the money. According to him, if the NNPCL is investigated for the oil Nigeria is losing, the country…
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure that the upcoming Edo State gubernatorial election, slated for Saturday, September 21, 2024, is conducted free, fair, and peacefully, devoid of rigging or malpractices. HURIWA, in a statement signed and made available to reporters by Emmanuel Onwubiko on Wednesday, stated that the credibility of INEC is under scrutiny following the controversies surrounding the 2023 general elections. The Edo election, they emphasized, offers the commission an opportunity to redeem its image under the leadership of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. The rights group…
The people of Edo State have called for the neutrality and professionalism of the electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the forthcoming governorship election in the state. They urged the Commission to be neutral to ensure a free and fair election come September 21, 2024. A concern group, the Edo Youth Collectives, warned that all eyes are on INEC to remain neutral and not to take side with any political parties. Musa Iyoha, Secretary of the group, said the allegations that faulty BVAS machines were sent to strongholds of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should be addressed. Iyoha…
A student on the scholarship scheme of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Kemien Egbekun, has graduated with a CGPA of 4.77 (First Class) in Law at the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University (MCIU), Agbara-Otor, Delta State. Two other students sponsored by the PAP – Oladapo Damilola and Toikumo Prosper – also made a second-class upper-division grade in Law at the same university. They all participated in the university’s 6th convocation ceremony on September 6, 2024. So far, about 60 students sponsored by the PAP have made first class in different disciplines between 2016 and 2023 at various universities. This was…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS machines used for the mock accreditation and the training of officials will not be used on Election Day. INEC boss, Mahmood Yakubu gave the assurance on Wednesday during a meeting with the stakeholders at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub, Benin City ahead of the governorship election slated for September 21, 2024. “We are deploying the BVAS machines for voter accreditation at polling units and for the upload of results to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal,” he added. DAILY POST reports that the Commission conducted…
Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has weighed in on the United States presidential election debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. In a post on his X handle on Wednesday, Moghalu said Harris clearly won her debate with Trump last night, adding that she was underestimated going in for the event. However, the former CBN deputy governor suggested that Trump probably would still win the presidential election because of the Electoral College system. “@KamalaHarris clearly won her debate with @realDonaldTrump last night. She was underestimated going in, but was very prepared…