Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 11th February 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 11th February 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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Power: Deadline on 10,000MW generation flops
T he Federal Government has failed in its target to generate 10,000 Mega Watt (MW). Former Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who set the target, maintained that the Buhari administration was determined to realise 10,000 megawatts target by the end of 2019 in order to ensure adequate power supply. The minister said that the 10,000 megawatts target, given by the Buhari administration, needed to supply the country with adequate electricity by the end of 2019 was achievable, saying “sometimes when we sustain energy over 4,000 MW or…
We need stronger partnership between govt, private schools – Proprietress
Mrs. Iyiola Olatokunbo Edun is the Executive Director of Grace Schools, Gbagada, Lagos. She speaks with KAYODE OLANREWAJU about private school education, the need for well-meaning Nigerians and corporate organisations to fund education of the less-privileged in the society, the annual Indigent Scholarship Award of the schools in which over N100 million had so far been spent, among other issues What is your assessment of the nation’s education system? The Nigeria’s education system has gone from worse to worst since independence. While we were growing up, someone…
ECOWAS leaders set up c’ttee on Nigeria’s border closure
T he Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee, headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso, to study the challenges posed by Nigeria’s land border closure with her neighbours. The decision to set up the committee was agreed on Sunday night at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during an extraordinary session of ECOWAS leaders convened on the margins of the 33rd AU Summit to discuss the issue and other pressing regional matters. Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, told journalists after the three-hour closed door…
Smoking increases risk of complications after surgery
R esearchers have found that tobacco smokers were at significantly higher risk than non-smokers, for postsurgical complications. According to a study findings, which was based on a new evidence brief in the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tobacco Knowledge Summaries series, postsurgical complications tobacco smokers risk include impaired heart and lung function, infections and delayed or impaired wound healing. Previous studies have shown that smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis…
Niger moves to sanitise private school operations
NAPPS: We’re burdened by 25 different taxes Commissioner: Govt’ll harmonise tax policy for schools SANITY The Niger State Government has warned operators or proprietors of private primary and secondary schools operating below approved standards to improve their schools or close shops O perators of illegal and sub-standard private nursery, primary and secondary schools in Niger State may soon be out of job, if the warning by the state government that all schools without approved requirements and standard to meet the set standard or close shop is…
Affordable housing: Low-income earners still in dilemma
Despite efforts towards achieving affordable housing for Nigerians and closing the accommodation deficit of 17million units, low-income group, according to experts. might not be able to build or buy houses of their own except through government subsidy. Dayo Ayeyemi reports I t has been estimated that Nigerian government would need to build 900,000 housing units annually for the next 20 years to bridge the current housing deficit in the country. Currently, annual construction of houses in the country (both government and private) is not up to 50,000 units annually,…
Bayelsa: Dickson bows out on a high note
As the curtain falls on the tenure of Hon. Seriake Dickson as governor of Bayelsa State on Friday, February 14, there is no doubt that people of the state will not forget his eight-year administration in a hurry, WALE ELEGBEDE reports L ike a colossus, Hon. Seriake Dickson has bestrode Bayelsa politics since 2012, when he emerged as governor of the oil-rich state on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after winning more than 90 per cent of votes cast in the election. Popularly referred to as the…
It’s irresponsible telling Buhari to resign over insecurity – Apugo
Prince Benjamin Apugo is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Board of Trustees (BoT). He speaks in this interview with EMMANUEL IFEANYI on the Supreme Court judgement on Imo State governorship tussle and Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s call on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over rising insecurity, among other national issues How do you feel about APC’s victory at the Supreme Court in respect of the Imo governorship position? I feel very happy because we had Imo State when Chief Rochas Okorocha was there, but he made us…
Nigerians must be wary of agents of destabilisation – Ojikutu
A former deputy governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, in this interview with TEMITOPE OGUNBANKE, speaks on rising insecurity in Nigeria, state of the economy and the 2023 general election, among other issues What is your take on the recent call for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, over rising insecurity in Nigeria? It is a wake-up call. We don’t seem to know what is going on in the country, and by now, I believe the President should have…
Opposition shouldn’t play politics with security issues – Akinsuji
Niyi Akinsuji is the chairman of Buhari Media Organisation, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s support groups. He speaks in this interview on the state of the nation, particularly rising insecurity and the economy. Wale Elegbede reports The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) recently organised a protest against the killings of Christians and others in some parts of the country? Is this a negative verdict on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari? Definitely not; it was the exercise of democratic right of expression by the Christian body.…
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