The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) have promised to fight against the illicit proliferation of weapons in the region. The UNIDIR Director, Mr Robin Geiss represented by Deputy Director, Mrs Cecile Aptel spoke at the opening of a regional conference to facilitate disarmament in West Africa in Abuja on Tuesday. The ECOWAS Regional Conference on Disarmament which holds on November 8 and 9, 2022, is expected to bring together global experts to discuss past and current developments in the field of disarmament. “Through its own actions, ECOWAS seeks to…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
“Despite this fact, the Executive Chairman, upon being aware of the said order of November 21st 2018 had released the Range Rover in question to the Applicant on the 27th of June, 2022 and had approved the process of the release of the remaining N40 million” The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has officially reacted to the order by the Federal High Court in Abuja for its chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa to be committed to prison over his failure to a Range Rover and N40 million to an applicant. The EFCC in a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren made…
Seven months after promising to complete one of the Tambuwal Premier Hospital, one of the three contracted to by Sokoto state government in 2020, the project has reached 70 percent completion level. Contract for the three premier hospitals to be situated in Tambuwal, Sabon Birni and Binji to represent the three Senatorial Districts were awarded in 2021. ASHENEWS recalls that the formal handing over of the construction site to the contracting firm, SBMC Construction took place in Tambuwal town, Tambuwal local government area of Sokoto state on Wednesday, August 12, 2022 12/08/2020. The handing over was done in the presence…
The Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), Abdurasheed Bawa says he has appealed the contempt of court ruling by an FCT court on him. ASHENEWS recalls that Justice Chizoba Oji of the FCT High Court on Tuesday, committed Bawa to prison for disobeying court order made on November 21, 2018 in which it directed the commission to return a Range Rover and the sum of N40 million to an applicant. The court viewed Bawa’s disobedience as willful and held that he be committed to Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. However, reacting to journalists question during the 2023 budget defence with the…
By Babagana Wakil, Maiduguri Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday, released N814m grant to a combined 9,154 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s), to stimulate local businesses. The Governor gave the grant at the launch of the “Borno COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus” programme, codenamed “BO-CARES”. ‘BO-CARES’ is Borno State’s domestication of the Federal Government’s ‘NG-CARES’, to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor and vulnerable households and small scales enterprises. BO-CARES, Zulum explained at the launch, hopes to minimize youth restiveness by boosting individual and cooperative businesses operated by youths. The combined 9,154 beneficiaries were…
The Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced an Iranian protester, Mahan Sedarat to death. ASHENEWS reports that the Iranian court issued a death sentence against Sedarat, a man arrested during the nationwide protests sparked by the September death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of morality police. A judiciary source told IranWire that the sentence was handed by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court and will be communicated to Sedarat’s lawyer in the coming days. The defendant was charged with carrying a cold weapon, as well as with assembly and collusion against Iran’s national security.…
Justice Chizoba Oji of an FCT High Court has ordered the committal of the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prison over contempt. The judge also directed the Inspector-General of Police to ensure the committal order is executed. Oji gave the order dated October 28, a certified true copy (CTC) of which was made available to newsmen in Abuja. AVM Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo had brought a motion against the Federal Government, marked FCT/HC/M/52/2021, in the suit with the number FCT/HC/CR/184/2016. AVM Ojuawo through his counsel, R.N. Ojabo, sought for an order committing the Chairman or Acting Chairman (or…
An independent petroleum products marketer, Mr Mike Osatuyi, says the only realistic pump price of petrol is between N200 and N210 per litre. He said on Tuesday in Lagos that Federal Government’s pricing template that fixed pump price at N169 per litre of petrol is grossly unrealistic when landing cost of the fuel at the station is N194 per litre. “I buy petrol at N186.50k per litre from the depot and it costs me about N9.50k to get the same litre to the pump after paying levies. “How do you want me to sell at N169 per litre when I…
Uganda’s Minister of Education Janet Kataha Museveni, said on Tuesday that government would shorten the school term by two weeks to reduce daily contact amongst students and help curb the spread of Ebola. Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and deadly haemorrhagic fever since the epidemic spilled into the capital Kampala, home to around two million people. As of Monday, the country had recorded a total of 135 confirmed cases and 53 deaths, according to the health ministry. The minister said the cabinet had taken a decision to close pre-schools, primary schools, and secondary schools on Nov.…
Zimbabwe state-run Herald newspaper on Tuesday reported that Zimbabwe first satellite, ZimSat-1, has been successfully launched into space. ZimSat-1, a nanosatellite was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday. It was successfully launched from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Launch Facility in Virginia on board the Cygnus NG-18, an uncrewed spacecraft that provides commercial cargo resupply services to the ISS. According to the Herald the actual deployment of ZimSat-1 into orbit will be done through the Japanese Kibo module about two weeks after the launch. Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology…