Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says Federal Government is leveraging alternative funding mechanism to rehabilitate old rail lines and modernise the rail system in line with its 25-year Strategy Vision. Amaechi said this on Friday during the 2021 Annual Public Lecture organised by Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Lagos, Akoka. The theme of the lecture was “Nigeria’s National Rail Transport Project”. According to him, federal government has recovered most of the failed locations on the Narrow Gauge corridor and also taking precautions in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report on the standard gauge corridors. He said…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the National Population Commission (NPC) to periodically avail INEC the data of deceased Nigerians to further enhance the credibility of the nation’s register of voters. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the request when he received the Chairman NPC, Isa Kwarra, who paid him a courtesy visit at INEC headquarters in Abuja on Friday. He said that the commission needed the data to remove names of dead persons from the voter register. Yakubu said that INEC had the largest biometric register of Nigerians, with photographs and fingerprint information for voter authentication.…
The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Ltd sustained its rally on Friday as key market indices rose by 0.23 per cent, just as turnover of shares traded was up 403.63 per cent. Specifically, the NGX All-Share Index inched higher by 88.16 points or 0.23 per cent to close at 38,962.28 against 38,874.12 recorded on Thursday. Similarly, the market capitalisation which opened at N20.253 trillion appreciated further by N46 billion or 0.23 per cent to close at N20.299 trillion. Pharm Deko led the gainers’ table in percentage terms, increasing by 9.74 per cent to close at N2.14 per share. Sovereign Trust Insurance trailed…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has urged electorates to assist the commission in identifying under-aged persons, dead people and foreigners in its voters’ register. The commission made the appeal following the display of voters’ register of newly captured applicants, in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) which commenced on Friday. The commission said the display was essentially for claims and objectives. The commission on Monday, announced the temporary suspension of the CVR online pre-registration, and physical biometric capturing exercises, to embark on the display of the voters’ register. INEC had ended the first quarter of its CVR online pre-registration…
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a new policy framework for the Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM). The IRM provides individuals or communities who are adversely affected by bank-financed operations with an independent mechanism through which they can raise their concerns. They can also seek redress and hold the bank to account for ensuring it complies with its policies and procedures related to sustainability. The new policy is aimed at strengthening accountability and providing more effective recourse to people affected by bank-financed operations. According to a statement from the AfDB on Friday, the policy…
Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal on Friday stressed the need to accord more attention to technical education and skills’ acquisition by youths. He also advised students of technical institutions in the country to pay more attention to vocational studies in order to become productive, as well as provide plausible solutions to the various challenges facing the nation. Tambuwal who spoke at the convocation lecture of the Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto said, “The products of skills’ acquisition are always self-reliant, thereby reducing idleness and insecurity in the society.” The governor represented by the state Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Bashir Garba, said ”There is no…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the present administration spent the sum of N8.9 trillion on infrastructural development in 2020. Osinbajo made the disclosure at the inauguration of the 21-storey Dakkada Tower, in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, on Friday. “We have invested more than any administration on infrastructural development. “As at last year, we expended over N8.9 trillion on infrastructure development despite the severe economic meltdown in the country”, Osinbajo said. Also last month, he said, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the Lagos – Calabar rail project, which would pass through Uyo, as a major station.…
The Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM) says the rescheduled Council Polls slatted for September 25, will no longer be conducted in Zangon Kataf and Birnin Gwari local government areas. Mrs Saratu Dikko-Audu, Chairman of KADSIECOM, who disclosed this in statement issued on Friday, said the exercise had to be cancelled in those two areas, for security reasons. She however said that Chairmanship and Councillorship elections would be conducted in Chikun and Kajuru Local Government Areas on Sept. 25, as earlier announced. She also said the case of Kachia and Soba Local Government Area was in court, as such would…
President Muhammadu Buhari has renewed Nigeria’s position on the urgent reforms of the UN Security Council, saying the 15 years intergovernmental negotiations on the issue ‘‘have taken too long.’’ Buhari made the demand in his address at the UN General Assembly on Friday, in New York. “No reform of the UN system is more urgent than that of the Security Council “Stakeholders around the world are asking how such power could be concentrated, with scant representation. “The intergovernmental negotiations have taken too long, some 15 years. We must avoid going in cycles,” he said. According to him, a consensus has…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State has accused the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM) of allegedly relocating collation and distribution centers in Igabi local government area ahead of Saturday’s scheduled election in Kaduna. Mohammed Yaro, Chairman of PDP Stakeholders Forum in Igabi local government, made the allegation on Friday during a courtesy visit by the Forum to KADSIECOM headquarters in Kaduna. Mrs Saratu Dikko-Audu, Chairman of KADSIECOM, in a statement signed on Friday, said scheduled elections for the Chairmanship and Counsellorship positions would hold Saturday, Sept. 25 in Chikun and Kajuru local government areas. Others including; Kachia…