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…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
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…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto state, Yasha’u Ahmad Kebbe has assured that the party has fundamental leverage to win the February 25 presidential election than the PDP or any of the opposition political parties. Kebbe said in a statement in Abuja on Saturday that the ruling party at the centre has been stronger since 2019. “And along the line, it has been getting more state governments under its control. “But, on the other hand, the main opposition party, the PDP has been fragmented. The PDP of 2019 is not the PDP of 2023 “The votes…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto state, Yasha’u Ahmad Kebbe says it will resoundingly win the March 11 governorship election in the state. “So, I believe that come election day, the people of the state are going to be shocked with the result that is going to come out, “he said in a statement he issued at the weekend in Abuja. Kebbe recalled that the incumbent governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal struggled to win reelection with only a paltry 342 votes during the rerun gubernatorial poll in 2019. “That figure tells us that at least half of…