President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the new Emir of Bichi in Kano state, to exhibit good leadership qualities of the late Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, in promoting peace and stability in Nigeria. The new Emir, Nasiru Ado-Bayero, received his Staff of Office, from Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje on Saturday. The President made the call in his congratulatory message to the Emir, on his coronation, on Saturday in Bichi. Buhari was represented by his Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, also uncle to the emir. “Your father, my late friend, the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero may his soul rest in…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Nigeria’s Imaobong Uko on Saturday won Nigeria’s second gold medal in the 400 metres women final with a time of 51.55 sec at the ongoing World U20 Athletics Championship in Nairobi, Kenya. Uko running in lane six came from behind to beat Poland’s Kornelia Lesiewicz to second position (51.97), while Sylvia Chelangat of Kenya finished 3rd in a time of 52.23. Uko’s win is also her new personal career best. An elated Uko after the race said the feat will definitely signal the beginning of greater heights in her career. “It was very tough because of the weather.This is just…
The federal government of Nigeria on Friday, said it would not bow to pressure by a section of Nigerians to prosecute repentant Boko Haram terrorists, instead of granting them amnesty. Recall that hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families, in the southern Borno towns of Konduga, Bama, and Mafa, in the past weeks, surrendered to the Nigeria Army. However, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said in Washington, U.S.A., during his engagement with global media outlets that the call for the insurgents’ prosecution and subsequent killing, was against global best practices. “I personally spoke to the military…
Two global antivirus software giants, Norton and Avast have agreed on a merger (via Sweclockers) that will see the CEO and the current Director of Avast take up positions on the board of NortonLifeLock. Norton, which is officially known as NortonLifeLock after an acquisition in 2019, is based in the US, while Avast operates out of the Czech Republic. The plan is to keep those two bases of operations going. One of the main reasons for this is thanks to the Virus & threat protection that has been part and parcel of Windows for the last few iterations. Some of…
… FAAC silent on PIA, VAT The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, shared a total of N760.717 billion for July 2021 to the federal, states and local governments on Friday. A communiqué issued at the end of the August virtual meeting of the committee said the N760.717 billion total distributable revenue, is made up of distributable statutory revenue of N617.705 billion; distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N140.555 billion and Exchange Gain of N2.457 billion. In July 2021, the sum of N63.501 billion was the total deductions for cost of collection, statutory transfers and refunds. The balance in the…
The Chairman of Alkaleri local government area of Bauchi state, Yusuf Garba has confirmed the incidence of heavy flooding that claimed the lives of two persons, with one other missing and 100 hectares of farmlands destroyed in Duguri district of the local government. Garba disclosed this on Friday when the state’s 2021 Committee on Flood relief and Rehabilitation, led by the Chairman, Baba Tela visited the affected area in Duguri for assessment. He said the flood, triggered by three days torrential rain in the district, from Tuesday to Thursday, resulted in the overflow of water unto the affected farms. “Two…
The Plateau state government has returned undisclosed number of the surviving victims of the Jos attack to Ondo state on Friday. About 28 people were reportedly killed in the attack. The Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Mr Sonni Tiyoden, disclosed this when he accompanied the survivors to the Ondo state government house in Akure. He said that 25 suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident, while normalcy has been restored in the area as investigations are ongoing to bring the perpetrators to book. The victims returned to Ondo are Fulanis, born and brought up in Ondo state, who…
Following the rising spate of insecurity in Jos and its environs, the Management of the University of Jos has suspended all academic activities in the institution till further notice. Mr Monday Danjem, the Registrar of the university, unveiled this development in a statement on Friday in Jos. According to Danjem, the decision to suspend academic activities and shut hostels was arrived at the end of the meeting between management and the Committee of Deans, Directors and Provost of the institution on Friday, August 20. “The insecurity in Jos, which led to the imposition of dusk-to-dawn curfew has affected the academic…
The Nigerian Army says its troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force, North East Operation, Hadin Kai (OPHK), have arrested one Yusuf Saleh, a suspected Boko Haram Urea Fertilizer supplier in Yobe. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Friday, said the suspect was arrested at Bayamari village in Geidam local government area of Yobe. Nwachukwu said the suspect was nabbed by the vigilant troops with a total of 38 (50Kg) bags of Urea following a tip off. He said that the urea fertilizer has been banned by the Federal Government because of its usage…
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has denied that states received N243.8 billion from Paris Club refunds in the month of August. The NGF Secretariat disclosed this in a statement by its spokesperson, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, on Friday. Bello-Barkindo, who described the allegation as a big lie and a figment of the imagination of its author, added that the announcement came to the attention of the forum as a surprise. “The NGF wishes to state categorically that nothing can be farther from the truth as this disbursement did not happen and could not have happened as there are no further possibilities, that…