Tourism Ministers from Africa have agreed to speak with one voice to let the world know that the continent is being unfairly treated in the area of COVID-19 Vaccines distribution. The ministers reached the consensus at a meeting in Sal Island, Cape Verde to ratify the agenda for their 64th Conference of United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Commission for Africa. Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture is leading Nigeria delegation to the conference which opens today. Speaking after the closed door meeting, Mohammed said they discussed the agenda for the conference as well as the UNWTO Global Tourism…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied allegation that it failed to remit 80 per cent of its operational surpluses into the Consolidated Revenue in the last five years. Dr Kingsley Obiora, CBN Deputy Governor in charge of Economic Policy, said this at the senate public hearing on 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) in Abuja. Obiora was reacting to an allegation by Sen. Solomon Adeola (APC-Lagos) that the CBN has not remitted its operational surpluses for five years. He said 80 per cent of the apex bank’s operational surpluses had always been remitted to the CRF on yearly…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has begun phase three tracking of over 118 Executive and Constituency projects worth N4.5 billion in Yobe. Mr Laban Emmanuel, ICPC Team Leader in the state, disclosed this on Thursday in Damaturu. He said the tracking started on Aug. 31 and would be concluded on September 12. Emmanuel said projects to be monitored were scattered across 11 local government areas of Fika, Potiskum, Gashua, Jakusko, Nguru, Fune, Yunusari, Yusufari, Gujba, Bursari and Karasuwa. He said the team of trackers comprised ICPC officials, quantity surveyors, journalists and Civil Society…
A former director of the British Safety Council, Mrs Ibironke Adeagbo, has told the British Government to deploy advanced technology to assist Nigeria to overcome `horrific’ school abductions, taking place in northern Nigeria. Adeagbo made the appeal in Abuja on Thursday, while reacting to the latest kidnapping of students at Government Secondary School, Kaya in Zamfara in north-western Nigeria, where up to 73 students were kidnapped on Sept. 1. She said that Britain should not watch helplessly as the country it brought to existence “passes through a depressing phase with incessant kidnappings and snapping of innocent school kids from classrooms.…
Pop Central, a media company is set to excite reality show enthusiasts as it debuts “The Rush’’, a high energy, adrenaline pumping and physically intense reality show. This is contained in a statement issued by Yinka Obebe, Pop Central Television Chief Executive Officer, on Thursday, in Lagos. Obebe stated that the show would be on screens from October and would run till December. He added that 16 contestants would be selected after an audition to compete in groups for eight weeks and engage in 39 meticulously designed intensive physical and mental tasks. “`The Rush’ is designed to be both exciting…
The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA)’s Integrated Farm Estate and fish villages in Borno are set to provide jobs for over 4,000 farmers, particularly IDPs returning home. The Executive Secretary of NALDA, Prince Paul Ikonne, said while on an inspection visit of the project located in Jere Local Government Area of the state. Ikonne said in a statement on Thursday in Abuja that the 100 hectare farm estate would create over 1,500 jobs. He added that the 40 fish farms being established would give over 2,500 women an opportunity to earn a living from fish farming, processing and packaging.…
The Nigerian Army says the troops of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have eliminated six terrorists and recovered cache of arms and ammunition in recent encounters in Borno. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said that the troops of 25 Brigade, had on Wednesday, neutralised four terrorists of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), terrorists who were on espionage on Damboa-Bulabulin- Maiduguri road. He said that the terrorists ran into a fighting patrol team at Kukawa and were neutralised in the fire…
Mr Uche Secondus, National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says only National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party has powers to discipline him or any member of the National Working Committee (NEC). Secondus stated this in a statement by his Media Aide, Mr Ike Abonyi, in Abuja while reacting to his suspension by his ward executives in Rivers. He said that Article 59(3) of the PDP Constitution stated clearly that only the NEC has such power to discipline NEC members of the party. “The media office of Secondus ordinarily should not be responding to every ‘noise’ in the media being…
A professor of Applied Biochemistry at the Federal University of Technology Akure , FUTA Ganiyu Oboh has is ranked Number One in the 2021 ranking of Nigerian scientists by the influential and leading global ranking body, the AD Scientific Index via its 2021 world’s scientists and university rankings. A statement by the spokesperson of FUTA, Mr Adegbenro Adebanjo made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday said, Oboh was trailed by Professor Olatunbi Farombi of the University of Ibadan and Professor Obinna Onwujekwe of the University of Nigeria as second and third places, respectively. The AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index), “unlike other systems that provide…
The UN International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said that four billion people live without any welfare protection globally to cushion the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, ILO stated in a new report on Wednesday that COVID-19 crisis had also pushed up government spending by some 30 per cent. It stated that the situation had led to a call for countries to extend social safety nets far more widely than they doing presently. ILO’s Director-General, Guy Ryder, insisted that such a move would help future-proof workers and businesses in the face of new challenges. “This is a pivotal moment to harness the…