The executive director of CISLAC and head of Transparency International – Nigeria, Auwal Rafsanjani has opined that granting amnesty to bandits will encourage impunity and abuses of the rights of Nigerians. Rafsanjani during an interview on ChannelsTV on Sunday, observed that before these bandits are considered for amnesty, victims of banditry must be rehabilitated and compensated. “You cannot allow people who have destroyed, killed, and brutalised communities; you did not heal that wound, now you want to pamper those who have perpetrated that criminality and [those] atrocities. It does not work that way “They must face the law. If there’s…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Students of Government Day Secondary School, Kaya in Maradun local government area of Zamfara state have been freed. Released on Sunday, the students were received by governor Bello Muhammad in Gusau barely two weeks after their abduction late night of September 1.
A group of concerned Muslims has taken swipe on a report which video was played on AIT with a tag, “Did Sultan of Sokoto snub Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu?” A statement issued on behalf of the group by Prince Bashir Adefaka on Sunday said the report is false and portrayed figment of imagination. “The video is believed to show the event of 2020 Leadership Conference and Award held in Abuja, on Thursday 9 September, 2021 and attended by Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), among other top dignitaries. “In the purported video, Governor Sanwo-Olu is…
President Muhammadu Buhari was overwhelmingly surprised by the massive support and solidarity accorded him and members of his entourage by South East stakeholders as well as thousands of residents of the zone during his Thursday’s official visit to Imo. The president believed that Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo had made it a remarkable and joyful week for him following the successful visit. The Nigerian leader said he least expected the calibre of personalities that came to welcome and interact with him during the townhall meeting with the stakeholders on the fateful day. While acknowledging the resourcefulness and enterprising spirit of…
The Moro’a Development Association (MDA), Manchok, on Sunday appealed to the Federal Government to give priority to rural youths in the implementation of the Nigeria Jubilee Fellowship Programme. Mr Jerry Bonet, National Youth Leader of the socio-cultural group in Kaura local government of Kaduna state, made the appeal in an interview. The programme, supported by UNDP, is aimed at getting job placements for 20,000 unemployed graduates who have completed the compulsory NYSC scheme. Bonet commended the Federal Government and the UNDP for the initiative, stressing that it would go a long way in reducing unemployment and poverty among youths and…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) started its week with renewed synergy with the Department of Petroleum Resources to achieve their shared vision of optimising the nation’s vast hydrocarbon resources for the benefit of the government and people of Nigeria. Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, and the Director/CEO of DPR, Mr Sarki Auwalu, made the commitment during a visit by the NNPC GMD to the headquarters of the regulatory agency in Abuja. Kyari, who was accompanied by members of the Top Management Committee (TMC) of the Corporation, commended Auwalu for superintending over the transformation of DPR from…
The Society of Community Health Technologists and Scientists of Nigeria (SCHTSN), on Saturday in Kaduna, inaugurated its members and called for improved primary healthcare services in the country. The inauguration featured a one-day national inaugural conference by members of the SCHTSN. The theme of the conference was “Advanced Primary Health Care Services in Contemporary Nigerian Society’: The Roles of Community Health Technologists and Scientists of Nigeria. Dr. Yusuf Arrigasiyyu, the Dean, Faculty of Public Health Care Education, Kaduna Polytechnic, said those inaugurated were community health practitioners with Higher National Diploma (HND), National Diploma (ND) Bachelor of Science, Master and doctorate…
By Abujah Racheal Nigeria on Saturday recorded two additional fatalities from the COVID-19 with 547 fresh cases reported across 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This was disclosed in an update shared on the Facebook page of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday morning. The additional 547 COVID-19 infections on Sunday indicated an increase from 466 cases reported on Friday. The NCDC said that Nigeria’s total infections now stands at 198, 786, while the fatality toll was 2,590. The centre also added that a total of 10,038 Nigerians were currently in its isolation centres with the…
The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), maintaining peace in Plateau and environs, has inaugurated a joint peace committee to promote peaceful coexistence in the state. Maj Ishaku Takwa, its Media Officer, said in a statement that its Commander, Maj-Gen Ibrahim Ali, inaugurated the committee on Saturday in Jos. According to statement, the committee has the mandate to recommend measures to achieve lasting solution to the incessant clashes and killings in the state. It said that members of the committee were drawn from communities in Bassa, Jos North and Jos South local government areas of the state. The statement…
From the beginning, the quasi-Islamic jihadist movement with the high-sounding name, Jama’atu ahlus sunnah lidda’awati wal jihad, loosely translated to mean “People committed to the propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and jihad”, was anti-West. Many believe, albeit erroneously, that Boko Haram started in Maiduguri, Borno State, in 2002 and that the founder was Mohammed Yusuf. The group, not with its latter-day and most known name, started in the mid-‘90s in Yusufari, Yobe State. Popularly called “Taliban” or “Sahaba”, a name derived from what the prophet’s companions are called, it comprised mostly the children of the well-to-do in the society. With…