Beware Of The ‘Kponmo ’ You Buy – NAFDAC Warns The Management of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public, especially consumers of animal hides, popularly known as ‘Ponmo’ in local parlance on the activities of some unscrupulous business men and traders who are selling industrial animal hides as food article. A statement issued by NAFDAC’s Director General, Professor Moji Christianah Adeyeye, said as far back as 2015, following intelligence reports, the Agency, through Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, had been successfully dealing with isolated cases of dangerous diversion of animal hides meant for industrial use into the food chain for consumption as local delicacy, Ponmo, saying this practice posed grave danger to public health. Investigations revealed that some of the companies legally imported hides from countries such as Lebanon and Turkey, while majority of the product was smuggled into the country through the poro...
BREAKING: Court Orders AGF Malami To ‘Delete’ Section 84 (12) From Electoral Act A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, has declared Section 84 (12) of the recently signed Electoral Act 2022 a nullity. Justice Evelyn Anyadike, who delivered the judgment, also directed the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to expunge that section from the Act. The section which requires political appointees seeking elective offices to resign 30 days before election, states that “No political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the Convention or Congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election.” Meanwhile, before any section of the Electoral Act can be tampered with, the Act has to go through a legislative process and return to the president for fresh assent. The court ruling is coming barely weeks after the Nigerian Senate rejected Preside...
Two Political Parties That Bola Tinubu May Defect To If He Decides To Leave APC With the uncertainties surrounding the presidential candidacy of the All Progressive Congress, it is being argued that some presidential aspirants in the party may leave the party in the event that they are not given the presidential ticket to represent the APC in the forthcoming presidential election. Photo credit: Vanguard NG One of those presidential aspirants in the All Progressive Congress who may decide to leave the party if they are denied the party could be none other than Bola Ahmed Tinubu who possesses the political structure to vie for the presidency from any political party. In the event that Bola Tinubu decides to leave the APC over the presidency, there are two political parties that the former governor may pitch a tent with. Alliance for Democracy (AD) Former governor of Lagos State and presidential aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, may decide to defect to the Alliance for Democracy and contest th...
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