Contrary to the Police Service Commission’s, PSC, recent order that Commissioner of Police, CP Abdulkarim Dauda breached due process for seeking extension of tenure of service, emerging document obtained by ASHENEWS indicate that President Muhammadu Buhari indeed expressly approved the extension on September 22, 2019. The Commission after its 13th plenary meeting held on Monday and Tuesday, December 20th 21, 2021 had faulted CP Dauda’s tenure extension and directed CP Abdulkarim Dauda to tender his letter of retirement with immediate effect for breach of due process/illegal extension of tenure. The Commissioner in charge Media and Publicity in the Board of…
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By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 80 persons have so far died from Lassa fever as of Thursday. The NCDC’s disclosed the information during its routine situation report of Lassa Fever outbreak in the country on in Abuja. According to NCDC report, 434 cases have been reported in the country. The NCDC report, named the states affected by the infections to include Edo (192), Ondo (150), Taraba (21), Ebonyi (17), Bauchi (15), Benue (8), It added that while Plateau recorded eight cases while Kaduna recorded seven. Others are Enugu State (5), Nasarawa (3), Kogi (3), Cross River (1),…
Nigerian governors have said they will review the proposed privatisation of the 10 generating plants across the country under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs), by the federal government. The governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) disclosed this in a communique issued in Abuja and signed by its Chairman and Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti at the end of a teleconference. The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) in June 2019 said it will privatise the remaining 10 Nigerian National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs), as part of efforts by the Federal Government to boost power supply for Nigeria’s…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed relief materials to victims of banditry in Isa Sabon Birni and other local government areas in Sokoto State. Director, Reliefs and Rehabilitation of NEMA, Alhassan Nuhu said the items were immediate and interim support to cushion the hardship faced by the victims. He expressed concern over the incidents and urged communities and other stakeholders to be vigilant at all times. Items distributed were foodstuffs, beddings and clothes, 2,000 bags each of rice, beans and millet, 500 kegs of palm oil, 100 cartons of bathing soap and 100 cartons of detergents. Others were…
By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Lagos topped the COVID-19 chart with 599 new cases out of the 1,051 cases recorded in Nigeria on Thursday. The NCDC made this known via its Website on Friday morning. It added that Nigeria now has 221,071 COVID-19 cases. Lagos topped chart with 483 out of the 612 new infections on December 11. The centre said that no fatalities were recorded in the country. The NCDC noted that the pandemic has claimed 2,983 lives across the country since the outbreak in 2020. The centre said the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded…
Today, I am recycling my article on jollof rice published in August 2015. The occasion is the announcement by UNESCO yesterday that they have enlisted Senegalese jollof rice, called ceebu jen in Wolof on the world heritage list. Ghana and Nigeria have been involved for decades in a fratricidal war of who has the best jollof and Senegal went quietly and got the international accolade. I hold the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, personally liable for this disaster. In April 2017, he was interviewed by CNN journalist Richard Quest on who has the best jollof rice in the world. He…
The Nigerian government says it will restrict airlines from Canada, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia into Nigeria from Tuesday, 14 December 2021. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika who made the announcement on Sunday in Lagos, explained that it was to reciprocate restricted flights from Nigeria into those countries over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. Sirika said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would also place the United Kingdom, Canada and Saudi Arabia on a red list over the outbreak and spread of the Omicron variant. The minister noted that if those countries placed Nigeria on a red list, they lacked a moral…
By Justina Auta A 16-year-old female student and survivor of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) on Tuesday, called on parents and the federal government to pay more attention on prosecution of female violators. The student made the call in an interview on the sideline of a sensitisation on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) for selected students across FCT public schools organised by the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD) in Abuja. She narrated that she was sexually violated and introduced to lesbianism at four-years old when her mother died and she relocated to stay with some relatives. She explained that the…
Local vigilantes in Shiroro local government area of Niger state on Thursday, raided terrorists camps in some communities of the area, killing scores of bandits. According to a source, the vigilantes killed three terrorists around Chukuba axis, in Kwaki/Chukuba ward of Shiroro local government and 10 others at Sarari area in the same Kwaki/Chukuba ward of Shiroro local government, while a large number of others escaped with various gunshots injuries. The source also said that while dangerous weapons were recovered from the criminals during the deadly encounter, many kidnap victims were rescued unhurt. Meanwhile, the Concerned Shiroro Youths of Niger…
The Coalition of Shiroro Associations, COSA, has alleged that only 50 per cent of members of the communities, whose farmlands and economic trees were taken over by the federal government for the construction of Zungeru Dam, have actually been compensated. Addressing a press conference in Kuta on Friday, the Coalition also disclosed that even as the federal government plans to commission the Dam in December 2021, no community affected by the Dam construction, has been resettled. The Coalition warned that until the issues were resolved and communities adequately resettled to avoid cases of sack by flood and other threats associated…