Author: Drum Africa Correspondent
The Kebbi State Police Command has commenced the enforcement of third-party motor insurance across the state, following directives from the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun. The initiative seeks to enforce mandatory motor insurance while improving road safety. According to a statement released by the spokesman for the command, CSP Nafiu Abubakar, and made available to journalists, the enforcement operation, which began on February 1, 2025, is being closely supervised by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Department of Operations, who is personally overseeing compliance efforts in the state capital. “Area Commanders have also been directed to implement similar measures…
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has charged President Bola Tinubu to end the suffering of Nigerians caused by his anti-people policies. Speaking on the state of the nation, George reminded Tinubu that Nigerians are hungry and angry. Addressing journalists in Lagos on Friday, the PDP chieftain called on the president to resolve the economic situation in the country. He said: “My message to Tinubu is very clear: Nigerians are hungry and angry. This is the time, as the Commander in Chief and the Chief Driver of the economy, to do something about the…
A former President of Germany, Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, is dead. Koehler died on Saturday at the age of 81 after a brief illness, officials in the presidency announced. “Koehler passed away early this morning in Berlin after a short, serious illness surrounded by his family”, the German presidency noted in a statement. Before Koehler’s tenure as german president, he held several prominent international positions, including serving as the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2000 to 2004. Köhler resigned as Germany’s president in 2010 following controversy over remarks he…
The registration for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will now commence on Monday, February 3, 2025, instead of Friday, January 31, 2025. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) made this known in a statement released by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, on Friday. Benjamin stated that this change is necessary to allow the Board to implement essential adjustments to its registration templates. These adjustments, according to him, come in light of the recent suspension of certain law programmes at selected universities, as submitted to the Board by the Council for Legal Education. Additionally, the Board said that it…
The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has said corps members will start receiving monthly allowance of N77,000 in February 2025. Ahmed, who disclosed this Thursday while addressing the 2024 Batch ‘C’ Stream 11 corps members in Katsina, said the allowance has been captured in the 2025 Federal Government’s budget. “This month (January) has already ended, but once the budget is passed. By next month (February), you will start receiving N77,000 instead of the usual N33,000,” the NYSC DG said. He explained that the N77,000 monthly allowance was approved by the Federal Government and urged…
The Northern Elders Forum has strongly condemned the arrest of Professor Usman Yusuf on Wednesday, January 29, by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement released by the spokesman of the group, Prof. Abubakar Jika Jiddere, the arrest was alleged as a means to suppress and oppress popular democratic voices that openly challenge the poor public policies and bad governance being imposed on the people by this administration. “We are calling for his release, as it sees his arrest as purely politically motivated to suppress and oppress popular democratic voices that openly challenge the…
The Federal Government, on Thursday, donated a sum of N30 million to the family of renowned National Flag designer, the late Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi, two years after his demise. The Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Lanre Issa-Onilu, who was accompanied by the Oyo State Director of the agency, Olukemi Afolayan, made the official presentation of the cheque on behalf of the Federal Government at the Elebu in Ibadan residence of the late icon. Akinkunmi died on August 29, 2023, at the age of 87. On September 4, 2023, President Bola Tinubu sent a government delegation led by the…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced a new feature to assist candidates unable to recover lost SIM cards linked to their previous registrations. JAMB announced this on Thursday via their X handle, that the new feature is now available at all its CBT centres. The exam body urged candidates to fill out the template to access this service for the upcoming UTME/DE registration. It also noted that SIM SWAP is still not available. JAMB stated: “Good news for those who cannot retrieve their previously used but lost SIM cards. A feature is now available at all CBT…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has challenged former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to provide concrete evidence to support his claim that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is bribing opposition parties with N50 million. Atiku made the allegation on Monday while speaking as a panellist at a national conference on strengthening democracy in Nigeria held in Abuja. The event was organised by the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, the Centre for Democracy and Development, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa, and the National Peace Committee. The former VP warned that…
The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has issued a riposte to the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala. El-Rufai had previously criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for straying away from its core values, adding that he no longer recognises his own political party. “I am a founding member of the APC. But frankly, I no longer recognise the APC. No party organ has met in two years — no caucus, no NEC, nothing. I don’t even know if it is a one-man show. It is a zero-man show,” El-Rufai said…