The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has passed a vote of confidence on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on its preparations for the 2023 general election. The National Chairman of IPAC, Yabagi Sani said this at a news conference on Monday in Abuja, at the end of an emergency general council meeting. Sani, represented by IPAC National Secretary, Yusuf Dantalle said that the meeting discussed crucial national issues and evaluated emerging threats to the 2023 general election. He said that the issues included plots to remove INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, from office on frivolous allegations, as well as various…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem on Monday warned Election Petitions Secretaries (EPT) and support staff to resist advances that could lead to misconduct. Dongban-Mensem gave the warning at the opening of a two-day training and workshop on capacity building for secretaries and other support staff of the EPT. The theme of the workshop is “Challenges arising from election tribunal and the way forward”. ”This training consists of scintillating topical issues that will in no small measure prepare you for your assignment. ”I, therefore, urge you to pay rapt attention to every detail of it so…
ASHENEWS reports that the Nigerian government on Monday, commenced accreditation of 20 candidates shortlisted for the position of a new and substantive Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF). This online platform recalls that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arrested the former AGF, Ahmed Idris in May last year for his failure to honour the Commission’s several invitations to answer questions over allegation of N109 billion fraud. Following his arrest, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed issued a letter indefinitely suspending Idris. Chukwunyere Anamekwe was appointed in acting capacity to replace the former AGF, who is…
Mr. Chime Asonye, Founder of Nigerian Mental Health, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the National Mental Health Bill 2021, into law. He however urged incoming administrations to prioritise and implement the National Mental Health Bill 2021, to boost the country’s healthcare system. Asonye made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. Nigerian Mental Health is a network of leaders and organisations on mental health. According to him, the bill is the first legislative reform adopted in the field since independence and a major milestone to improve support for psychosocial well-being. “The mental health community came…
The Nigeria Books of Record (NBR) Research Centre has appointed the General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere as a Fellow of the organisation. NBR was established in 2009 as part of the “Change Begin with Me Campaign” of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture. The Director-General of the centre, Prof. David David conferred the honour during a church service at OPM headquarters in Port Harcourt on Sunday. David said that the decision to confer Chinyere as a fellow of the centre was taken in view of his selfless and humanitarian services to the poor and…
The Kano State Police Command has arrested one Gaddafi Sagir, 20, for allegedly stabbing his stepmother with a screwdriver and strangling his 8-year-old sister to death. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Kano. “On January 7, at about 11:30 pm, we received information from one Sagir Yakubu of Rijiyar Zaki Quarters Kano, that he returned home and met his pregnant wife Rabi’atu Sagir, 25, and her daughter, Munawwara Sagir, 8, in a pool of blood dead. “He is strongly suspecting his son, Gaddafi. “On receiving the information the…
By Tina George CLAIM: Niger state former governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu recently claimed that at the end of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration in 2015, a bag of foreign rice was sold between N7,000 and N8,000. Aliyu, one of the party’s chieftains in Niger state, made the claim during the state governorship campaign Flag-off of the PDP in Bida. “You have missed a lot because, during our time, a bag of rice was sold between N7,000 and N8,000. Today, how much is it?” PDP tenure in office Olusegun Obasanjo was elected under the PDP in 1999 and ruled…
Norway became Germany’s single-largest natural gas supplier in 2022, overtaking Russia, as total German gas imports dropped by 12.3% compared to 2021, the German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur, said on Friday. Norway provided 33% of the gas Germany imported last year, followed by Russia, whose share fell to 22% for last year, compared to a 52% share in 2021, the German regulator said. Last year, Russia started gradually cutting gas supply via the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany in June until shutting down the pipeline in early September, claiming an inability to repair gas turbines for the pumping stations due to Western…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has suspended its former General Secretary, Mr. Nimi Walson-Jack, a Solicitor to the Law Society of Nigeria (LSN)’s as a member of the NBA National Executive Council (NBA-NEC), This is in making good its threat to punish any of its members that promoted the creation of an alternative association called (LSN). The NBA had in a communique issued at the end of its last quarterly NEC meeting in Abuja last year resolved to sanction “all members of the Bar seeking to promote or register a new lawyers’ association, whether using a new name or an…
ASHENEWS reports that for administrative and operational efficiency in the Nigerian Army, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has approved the redeployment of senior officers. This is contained in a statement by the Director, of Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu on Saturday. According to him, the new postings and appointments was aimed at sustaining the recent operational successes recorded in combating emerging security challenges in the country. Nwachukwu said that the officers affected are Major Generals and Brigadier Generals amongst several other senior officers across army formations and units. He added that those affected in the…