The Police Service Commission, PSC, has set up an in-house panel to study in details available documents related to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP Abba Kyari, former head of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, of the Nigeria Police Force indicted by a report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, of the United States. The Panel is expected to examine the facts of the allegations as contained in the FBI indictment and also to look at the extant rules as a means of keeping abreast of the matter pending the submission of the Report by the Police Investigative…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Presidential Committee on Trade Malpractices, (PCTM) and Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Thursday challenged manufacturers to intensify lobbying to fight importation of sub standard goods in the country. Both organizations gave the charge during a meeting with some manufacturing companies in Abuja, which marked the official handing over of four operational vehicles as part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS). The companies including SUMO Steels Limited, Aarti Steel, Olak Group, KAM Holding Ltd. presented three Toyota Hilux and one bus, to the two government bodies: Presidential Committee on Trade Malpractices, (PTCM) and Standard Organisation of Nigeria, (SON) in support…
A bill for a law to provide protection for children in Sokoto State before the State House of Assembly on Thursday passed second reading. The passage of the bill followed a request by the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Assembly, Bello Ambarura. According to him, the bill is an executive bill aimed to ensure that the rights of children are protected and that they are fully trained for the future. “This bill will enable the government to continue to address any form of violence on children and ensure no child is left out of school. “As…
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed, said the federal government raised the sum of N669 billion from the Nigerian capital market through issuance of Sukuk Bonds. Ahmed said this at the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) 2021 national workshop on Thursday. The theme of the national workshop was: “Leveraging the Financial Markets to Achieve Double- Digit Economic Growth for Nigera.” She said the federal government through the Debt Management Office (DMO) raised N669 billion from the capital market between 2018 and 2020. “The federal government through the DMO had raised up to N669 billion from…
Indigenous stakeholders in the iron and steel sector in Nigeria have appealed to the federal government to indigenize iron and steel industries whereby government holds only marginal interest and the indigenous investors get major interests. Speaking during meeting of stakeholders in iron and steel sector in Ilorin on Thursday, the chairman, Basic metal, fabricated iron and steel products, Dr. Kamoru Yusuf, said that future of iron and steel business in Nigeria will heavily be dictated by the policy thrust of the government which, he said, must be tailored towards rendering necessary support and ease of doing business to investors in…
Clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon have killed at least 32 people this month, with 19 villages torched, the UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) said on Thursday. Some 11,000 people fled to Chad and a further 7,300 were displaced in Cameroon’s Far North after fighting broke out on Aug. 10 between Choa Arab herders and Mousgoum fishermen and farmers, the UNHCR said. Officials described the fighting as Cameroon’s worst ethnic violence in years. The herders were angry because their livestock was falling into holes dug by fishermen to capture fish in pools of receding floodwaters, according to…
The U.S. Government froze Afghanistan government reserves held in US bank accounts as the Taliban rolled into the capital of Kabul, according to a report on Thursday. The move is an attempt to keep Afghanistan’s new rulers, the Taliban, from accessing billions of dollars after the militant group took control over the country. The Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter speaking on condition of anonymity that Afghanistan’s central bank Ajmal Ahmady fled after the Taliban came to power. On Wednesday, Ahmady said on Twitter that around seven billion dollars of the reserves were held in the U.S.…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,149 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), the highest number of infections in any single day since last February. With the latest figure, the total number of infections in Nigeria now stands at 184,593. The NCDC, which disclosed this on its official website handle on Thursday morning, said the 1,149 include the 393 reported from Lagos on Tuesday. The new infections was an increase from the 357 cases reported on Tuesday. According to the NCDC, the surge is driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant and the low vaccination rate in the…
Sixteen chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to restrain the party Caretaker Committee in Ebonyi headed by Mr Aloy Nwibo from overseeing its affairs. The chieftains, led by Mr Chukwuma Odu, also asked the court to stop the Nwibo-led committee from registering and revalidating membership of party members in the state. They also asked the court to restrain APC, its Chairman Caretaker Extra Ordinary Convention Planning Committee, Gov. Mai Mala Buni, APC National Caretaker Committee and the National Executive Committee listed as the 1st, 2nd , 3rd and 4th defendants from recognising…
Mr Ernest Aubee, Head, Agriculture Division, ECOWAS Commission, has said that half of the world’s population were underfed, with 3.4 billion suffering hunger, malnutrition and obesity. Aubee, who stated this on Wednesday, in Abuja, identified presented Agro-ecology as one of the ways to ensure food security, sustenance of the people’s health and the environment. He described agroecology as the application of the science of ecology to agricultural systems that seeks to develop an ecological structure that does not need external inputs. Agroecology practice allowed the necessary interaction among species for the system to work better, says Aubee, who is in…