#Threadstorm 1/50. This threadstorm will bring you to date about what's happening across the Nigerian state. If you're a lover of politics and other interesting information, jump in let's discuss. #hivenaija #gmfrens
#Threadstorm 1/50. This threadstorm will bring you to date about what's happening across the Nigerian state. If you're a lover of politics and other interesting information, jump in let's discuss. #hivenaija #gmfrens
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1/50 is a really great storm... big storms often leave damage be careful haha
The intention is not to damage but to rebuild.. Are you Nigerian? Let's talk politics..
i am Brazilian... and the storm was a joke about this excessively long threadstorm
2/50. Let's begin with Lagos state. The Lagos State government has begun the issuance of cheques to 103 vulnerable households as a way of financial assistance to support and relief them at these challenging times.
3/50. Nigeria is going through a high level of inflation.
There's an increase in the prices of goods and services. I think what the Lagos State Government is doing is the right step in the right direction.
4/50. The photo below shows the beneficiaries of the program.
5/50. Meanwhile, the vice president of Nigeria has urged the people to be prepared because the country will bounce back in two months. He also urged Nigerian graduates to think of how to build the country instead of relocating.
6/50.He gave the charge on Wednesday when the Chief of Staff to the President of the House , Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, led the graduating class of the Legislative Mentorship Initiative on a visit to him at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
7/50 “Give us a couple of months, this country will bounce back. Say no to the naysayers and to the prophets of doom. It doesn’t serve any purpose. Our ability to accept each other" the VP said
8/50 The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the exorbitant amount charged by Point of Sale (POS) for withdrawal of money. The resolution to probe the operators followed a motion moved by Mohammed Shehu on Thursday.
9/50 He stated that some POS owners charge as much as N4,000 to withdraw N10,000. He added that some are selling currency.
10/50. In the news also is the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to investigator Emefiele operated 593 illegal US, UK, China accounts. He's under investigation over financial mismanagement.
11/50 Meanwhile, a 12-year-old boy is missing in Lagos state Nigeria.
12/50. A Lagos-based middle-aged man, Onyekwere Chijioke, has cried out to Nigerians to help in finding the whereabouts of his 12-year-old son, Wisdom Onyekwere, who was said to have gone missing in Lagos since November 26, 2023.
PUNCH Metro gathered that Wisdom, a Senior Secondary School 1 student, disappeared in their house at 48 Ijesha Road, Ikate Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.13/50
14/50 Meanwhile the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation(NNPC) has said that they have completed the renovation of the Port Harcourt refinery. the president had said that the refinery would start refining crude by December. #hivenaija
15/50.Operators of Oza oil field, Decklar Resources Inc., and its partner, Millenium Oil & Gas Company Limited, have said they have delivered a total of 75,500 barrels of crude till date to two modular refineries in Edo State.
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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has deployed personnel to worship and recreational centres, as well as other public places, to ensure public safety during the yuletide.
17/50. The spokesperson of the Command, Josephine Adeh, who made this known in a statement issued on Thursday, said that the deployment was ordered by the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Haruna Garba.
18/50 Wike, the minister of the federal capital territory has ordered the demolition of 200 houses in Abuja the federal capital territory in order to make space for the presidential fleet.
#news #Hivenaija #threadstorm
19/50 The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has directed the Director, Department of Development Control to ensure that Nuwalege community, along the Airport Road gives way for the presidential fleet plot.
20/50 Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Yaba Lagos State has recorded 100 per cent increase in the number of psychiatric patients admitted in the hospital in 2023. This is worrisome I must say.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Olugbenga Owoeye, made this known at the Annual Score Card presentation tagged: “A Day With the Medical Director” organised by the hospital, in Lagos.21/50.
22/50 No man wants to marry me despite my beauty & shape. I will kill myself soon".
-Nigerian Lady cries out.
23/50. Meanwhile, the Ebonyi state Governor has approved the sum of one hundred thousand Naira (100,000) to all workers in the state as a Christmas Package. According to the information, a bag of rice was added to each worker.
24/50. The Senate has declared the seats of Senators Dave Umahi and Geidam Ibrahim vacant.
This announcement was made on Wednesday during plenary session by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio who presided over the sitting.
25/50 Recall that in August, Umahi was appointed minister of works and Geidam minister of police affairs by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
26/50 meanwhile, President Tinubu departs for Lagos for Christmas-New year break.
27/50 The Senate on Thursday confirmed the nomination of 11 new Justices of the Supreme Court. Their confirmation followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters.
28/50 Oyo state Governor, Seyi Makinde, Approves Payment Of 13th Month Salary And Wage Award Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State, has promised to pay state employees their thirteenth month’s wage before the new year.
UPDATE: REOPENING OF THE THIRD MAINLAND BRIDGE
We are pleased to announce that parts of the Third Mainland Bridge which were closed last month will reopen today 21st December, 2023 by 6pm.
A Nigerian man, Abraham Basif Omaye has died three days to his wedding. They were set to wed on Saturday, December 23, 2023, at CEFN English Church in Abejukolo village, Omala Local area
Kogi State.30/50
31/50 meanwhile, The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria have stated their stance on the recent pronouncement of the Pope on same-sex marriage, noting that it does not in any way change the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage.
32/50 The Bishops noted that the Declaration by the Pope seeks to explained the different forms of blessing that can be given to persons and objects in the Catholic Church, including the possibility of blessing persons in irregular unions.
The priest of the St. Francis Catholic Church, Benin City, Edo State, Rev. Fr. Andrew Obinyan on Monday declared interest to contest for the governorship election of the State.33/50
34/50 Armed hoodlums have shot dead a Police Orderly and kidnapped the High Court Judge of Oron Judicial Division, Hon. Justice Joy Unwana, alongside her driver, LEADERSHIP gathered on Tuesday in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.
35/50 Our Correspondent learnt the gunmen ambushed the Judge along the Uyo-Okobo Road and fatally shot at her SUV, killing the Police orderly instantly before whisking away Justice Unwana and her driver to unknown destination on Monday.
NBA, Oron branch in Akwa Ibom protest the kidnap of high court Judge, Justice Joy Unwana in Oron LGA.36/50
37/50 A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu, has said President Bola Tinubu cannot be the headmaster of state and Federal Government. He made this statement as a result of the current rift between Wike and Fubara.
38/50 Momodu said Tinubu’s intervention in the crisis between Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike was legally absurd.
#Hivenaija. #Threadstorm #news
39/50 The rift had led to lawmakers in the state Assembly defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and some Commissioners resigning from the Fubara-led executive council.
40/50 Reacting on Instagram, Momodu wrote: “The directives to Rivers State by a Federal President is really absurd in legal terms. No President can be a Headmaster of both State and Federal.
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No fewer than 250 old people in Anambra State have benefitted from the Renewed Hope Initiative’s Elder Support Scheme (RHIESS).
42/50 The event, which took place at the Governor’s Lodge, Awawbi is part of the programme arm of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), a non-governmental humanitarian organization founded by the wife of Nigeria’s President, Oluremi Tinubu.
42/50The 250 old people, aged sixty-five years and above, were selected from different parts of the state, following strict health, age, economic status criteria for those who are eligible for the programme
44/50 Meanwhile, The Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, on Thursday, said the state had uncovered on its payroll some doctors who left the state employment and migrated abroad to seek greener pastures, in what is commonly known as japa.
45/50 According to the governor, such doctors are still collecting salaries from the state despite that they have left the state employment and are now working abroad.
46/50 Still on the rift between Wike and Fubara, an ex-commissioner has come out to say that Governor Fubara was threatened by President Tinubu to sign a resolution pact.
47/50 A member of the Rivers Elders’ Forum and former Commissioner for Works, Chief David Briggs, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu imposed the resolution concerning the crisis in the state on Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
48/50. This is the salary of an assistant lecturer in a federal university in Nigeria.
