Okapi Children Cancer Foundation on Tuesday donated N6 million to children fighting cancer disease in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Ms Kemi Adekanye, Chief Volunteer and Founder of the Foundation, said the gesture was part of its annual events to support children fighting cancer at the National Hospital Abuja (NHA) and University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) in Abuja. Adekanye, while decrying the high cost of treatment and management of childhood cancer, stressed the need for the government and other philanthropist to support the patients and families, which will increase chances of survival for them. According to her, the organisation…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday fixed November 22 for the arraignment of ex-Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, over allegations bordering on fraud while she served in the office. Although Oduah, who currently represents Anambra North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, was scheduled for arraignment before Justice Inyang Ekwo on Tuesday, the proceeding could not take place due to a public holiday. However, a check at the court on Wednesday revealed that the matter, though not on the cause list, had been fixed for November 22 and November 23 for trial. Justice Ekwo had, on July 12, threatened to…
An oil leak has been reported at an oilfield operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) around Ogboinbiri in the Southern Ijaw local government Area of Bayelsa. The oil leak, which occurred on Oct. 17 at the NAOC Wellhead 9, was reportedly caused by equipment failure. A field report released on Wednesday in Yenagoa by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) said the incident “sprayed crude oil into the environment in gaseous form.” The report signed by Mr Alagoa Morris, Head of ERA Niger Delta Resource Centre, Yenagoa, noted that a similar incident had occurred around…
Indonesia and China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct a feasibility study of a $560-million coal-to-methanol plant, according to a recent statement released from Indonesia’s Industry Ministry. Held in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, on Monday, the signing ceremony was attended by Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita and representatives of PT Powerindo Cipta Energy (PT PCE) and the China National Chemical Engineering Corporation (CNCEC). “The cooperation to build a coal-to-methanol plant is very important for the industrial sector. “The Industry Ministry really appreciates companies with a vision to initiate coal gasification projects and support this pioneering industrial investment plan,”…
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come down heavily on the developed nations for climate “empty pledges” in the past decades. She also made a plea to the world leaders to turn pledges into action. “If western leaders listen, engage and act decisively on what science demands of them, there is still time to make COP26 the success it desperately needs to be,’’ she wrote in an article published by British daily The Financial Times on Monday. “The inconvenient truth of our times is that while action on climate change has never been more urgent and achievable, governments are not…
The Kaduna state government said no fewer than 50 bandits have been killed by a combined ground and air assault in Birnin Gwari local government area of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Kaduna. “In an inspiring success for the security forces, over 50 bandits have been neutralised during a combined ground and air assault in the Saulawa-Farin Ruwa axis of Birnin Gwari LGA,’’ he said. He said operational feedback from the Command of the Joint Operations has it that a Nigerian Air…
Nigerian government has scrapped the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, stated this on Monday at the inauguration of the boards of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPR, and the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission, NURC, in Abuja. According to him, while workers of the three agencies would be protected, their chief executives had been relieved of their various appointments. The minister explained that the passage of the Petroleum Industry Act had necessitated the replacements of…
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly Worldwide has felicitated with Nigerian Muslims as they celebrate Eid-el-Maulud. This is contained in a statement by the Director General, Strategic Planning and Implementations, Tony Obizoba made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday. “As Muslims across Nigeria mark the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, peace of Allah be upon him, we at the headquarters of Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly Worldwide greet our brothers and sisters in the Muslim Ummah as they celebrate. “We are obliged, once again, to seize the occasion to congratulate the Islamic faithful, particularly the Leader and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR,…
Democracy is inarguably the end product of a globally acclaimed process where those with the majority take the lead and or the majority. This means that majority carry the vote. This has bern so in all transparent, impeccable and acceptable political processes. The import of the above maxim or submission is therefore that those with the majority would always emerge victorious in all democratic endeavours across the world, including Nigeria and Sokoto State. Democracy has therefore been largely defined as the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Globally, democracy is the most acceptable system of…
If we want to be generous, we could say it is an occupational hazard for politicians to occasionally back themselves into the type of corner where they need to take a creative attitude to the truth. When a politician is on the campaign trail, trying to be all things to all people, he is bound to talk up his achievements or promises a little too much. That is simply the nature of the game. It is how it has always been. Yet in Nigeria, over these last few years, we have witnessed this relationship grow ever more intimate, until today…