By Abdallah el-Kurebe Nigeria is directionless. There are no pilots, there’s no autopilot. Everybody is on his own. Even the government is being run as if there is no one in control. Sokoto state governor and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, Aminu Tambuwal has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and his political party, All Progressives Congress (APC), have rendered Nigeria directionless. Speaking while inaugurating the New Yenagoa City bridge, which links the new Yenagoa City on Saturday, Tambuwal also said the current situation in the country had made makes Nigerians feel the absence of government. According…
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By Abdallah el-Kurebe Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) have statistically analysed the usage patterns of bicycle sharing systems (BSSs) in order to make the systems more efficient. The study conducted in four large real-world BSSs cities in USA, is aimed to actively rebalance the number of bicycles across the various ports with optimization algorithms and to obtain realistic benchmarks for testing these algorithms. BSSs are a popular transport system in many of the world’s big cities and provide convenient and eco-friendly mode of travel as well as help reduce traffic congestion. According to the study, although bicycles…
Half-measures won’t halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, which is what we need to do. We need to go all in. By Abdallah el-Kurebe The Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Ms Inger Andersen has said that the picture painted by the current assessment cycle of IPCC report on climate crisis facing humanity is not pretty. She made the statement during the launch of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report on Monday. Andersen observed that while “the first two IPCC reports told us that climate change is here, now, and causing…
Nigeria and the Netherlands’ institutions have signed a memorandum of understanding to enhance the exchange of knowledge for protective vegetable cultivation. The Nigerian team were representatives from JMSF Agribusiness Ltd, Eupepsia Place Ltd (Soilless Farm Lab), along with the leading communicator, the Africa Farmers’ Stories while Koppert Biological Systems, Pan African Seeds BV, Priva, Viscon, Leiden Delft Erasmus universities and Seed2Feed Foundation represented the Dutch Partners. A member of the Nigerian delegation to the Netherlands, Mrs Victoria Madedor, noted that her team had been having virtual meetings with the Dutch side for almost two years and that it was great…
A group of Persons Living with Disabilities from Northwestern states has pledged to support Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State in his pursuit of his presidential ambition. The group made the pledge through the Special Adviser to the Governor on Disability Matters, Mr Abdulaziz Ibrahim, at the end of a meeting in Sokoto on Friday. Ibrahim said that a similar endorsement meeting was also held in Kano and that participating delegates comprising disabled groups reviewed the progress being made by the governor and political situation in the country. He said issues bordering on the plight of physically challenged people were discussed.…
A presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Chief Kennedy Fintan Nnaji has condoled with the families of those who lost their lives in the recent bandit terrorists attack on Abuja-Kaduna bound train. Nnaji, in an exclusive interview with ASHENEWS on Friday, also sympathized with victims injured during the attack. The Japan-based Nigerian business mogul and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nahfkenn Associates Plc. Japan (Rare metal Recycling); Nahfkenn Japan-Nigeria Direct Inc; Nahfconnects for Africa and the World Inc Japan (IT startup) also called on Nigerian government to be more proactive in the protection of the lives and property…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe Sokoto state government has denied media reports that it diverted N189 billion to private individuals. A blog, headlinenews366.com published on Thursday that “a document from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria has exposed how the Sokoto state government led by governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwa stole, diverted about N189 billion from the state-owned accounts to private individuals. “The document signed by DCE AS Abubakar and addressed to the chairman of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa revealed that ‘unusual transactions’ were uncovered in the accounts from January 1st, 2015 to August 31st, 2021.…
The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Kayode Fayemi will lead 13 of his counterparts for a high-powered Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) in Dubai, United Arabs Emirates (UAE). Among the governors are Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, Abubakar Bello of Niger, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and Duoye Diri of Bayelsa. AIM is the World’s Leading Platform for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the UAE. The meeting, which will commence on March 29, will be anchored on behalf of the Nigerian governors by the Emirates foreign ministry of foreign affairs and international corporation cooperation headed by Sheik Abdallah and assisted by…
By Ephraim Seyin Victims of snakebites are flooding treatment centres across the country as the scorching heat forces the reptiles out of their holes into bushes, farms, roads and peoples homes in search of fresh air. States worst hit include Gombe, Plateau, Borno, Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa and Bauchi, with herders, farmers and rural dwellers mostly being the victims. At some snake treatment centres, most of the patients were on bare floor with medics complaining that facilities were being overstretched. The situation of the victims appeared worsened by the sharp rise in the cost of the usually imported Anti-Snake Venom (ASV),…
Sokoto state governor and 2023 presidential aspirant of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Aminu Tambuwal has restated that the Nigerian situation is so dire and the country in distress that citizens must come together and put their differences aside to save the country. The governor also said that the task of seeking 2023 presidency should not be predicated on quest for zoning and other isolated indices but on the collective interest of all Nigerians whose existence and subsistence is at stake now. Tambuwal said this when the Concerned Citizens of Nigeria purchased N40 million expression of interest forms for him…