By Bashir Mani All nations of the world have one form of post-graduation national service or the other just as Nigeria has the indispensable National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), which has been part of the country’s development agenda since 1973. To say that the scheme is important or critical to the sustainable development and prosperity of Nigeria is certainly an understatement. In fact, there is hardly any Nigerian who is not aware of the existence of the scheme, as well as its relevance, and enormous contributions to the country. The tangible and invaluable roles played by the NYSC are as…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
It’s just more than 500 days to the 2023 Presidential election, and the permutations and possible combinations have started as to who Nigerians should vote. More loudly, discussions about the region to produce the next President has been more apparent and considered more necessary. The Muhammadu Buhari administration has left Nigerians with mixed reactions. If feelers from the populace are anything to go by, it has left the people with more bitter pills to swallow. The excitement that followed the President’s candidacy in 2015 has since been extinguished with excruciating policies, a struggling economy and a shaky security architecture, all…
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Leo Irabor has disclosed that the Nigerian Army will engage retired military personnel to enhance security challenges in the country. He said this on at a one-day conversational session with senior colleagues from the Northeast at the 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola, capital of Adamawa state on Tuesday. Irabor said that the core goal of the discussion was to engage the retired senior military officers in order proffer solutions to the challenges of insecurity in the country. “It is part of the reason I am here with my team: to interact with our retired…
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom accusing him of inciting and promoting Rwandan-style ethnic and religious hatred. Ortom, on ChannelsTV’s Sunrise Daily programme alleged the Buhari had plan to fulanise the country also describing him as the worst president Nigeria has ever had. “Because it is very clear that he wants to fulanise, but he is not the first Fulani president. “Shagari was a Fulani President, Yar’ Adua was a Fulani President, and they were the best in history. But President Buhari is the worst President when it comes to issues of security and keeping…
…As Kyari clarifies projection for 2022-2024 Revenue Framework The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari on Wednesday, received accolades from the House of Representatives Committee on Finance for providing detailed explanations on some burning Oil Industry issues at an interactive session on the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure and Revenue Framework (MTERF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP). Chairman of the House Committee on Finance, Abiodun Faleke commended Kyari for providing in-depth explanation and insider perspective on some issues surrounding the operations of the NNPC and the oil industry. “You have made our day. The committee…
The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has come down hard on the federal government following the invasion of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, saying Nigeria’s political body has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly. A statement by its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman made available to ASHENEWS on Wednesday, said the attack on the Academy signifies a dangerous loss of control of the nation’s territory by government or of the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force. “The effect of the apparent erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions…
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for people age 16 and older. This is the first coronavirus vaccine approved by the FDA, and it has already opened the door to more vaccine mandates. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been authorized for emergency use in the United States since mid-December for people age 16 and older, and in May, the authorization was extended to those 12 and older. “The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration…
President Muhammadu Buhari says the Tuesday attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), will never dampen the morale of the security agencies in ending banditry and criminality in the country. The president stated this in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on Wednesday in Abuja. He noted that the attack, which led to loss of lives, came at a time that the military had put insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, and other types of criminals on the retreat. The president said “the heinous action would accelerate the total uprooting of evil in the polity, which…
The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari has said that the corporation would employ electronic to monitor fuel distribution across the country. Kyari said at the 2022 to 2024 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) public hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, that the decision is in a bid to check the activities of smugglers. He said that there was an ongoing initiative to put electronic monitor on tank and fuel stations that would monitor the distribution of fuel in the country. He stated that with the electronic monitoring, every…
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has alleged that the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) is yet to remit N5.1 billion into the Federation Account from 2016 to 2019 FRC made the allegation on Wednesday in Abuja at the ongoing public hearing on 2022 to 2024 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP). The public hearing is organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance. The official of the FRC said that there was no evidence that the FRSC remitted the money as claimed, adding that the non-remittance was gotten from audited financial report. But FRSC, Corps Marshal,…