Delta state governor Ifeanyi Okowa has written again asking President Muhammadu Buhari to release the £4.2 million Ibori loot to be spent on six projects in the state. The governor in his second letter suggested that the £4,214,017.66 could be used to fund important road projects in Warri, Agbor, Abraka, Sapele, Igheli, Effurum and Asaba. Recall that Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami disclosed on May 18 that the account of the federal government was credited with the naira equivalent of the £4,214,017.66 of on May 10. Okowa in the letter addressed to the AGF opined that it would be…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
A former Chairman, Police Service Commission, Mr Simon Okeke has described incessant attacks on policemen and their facilities in the South East as misplaced anger by the citizenry. Addressing newsmen in Nnewi South local government area of Anambra, Okeke decried increasing security challenges in the country, particularly in the South East, describing it as worrisome. He lamented the killing of policemen, destruction of police stations, patrol vehicles, security gadgets and loss of arms. “These incessant attacks on the police facilities can be linked to bottled anger or accumulated aggression or what we can call misplaced anger on the part of…
The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija, says no fewer than 1,328 passports produced at the mission are yet to be collected. Egopija said in New York that the passports were among the backlogs cleared, but were yet to be collected by the applicants. The Nigerian envoy said the clearing of the passport backlogs was in line with the directive of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). He said the backlogs were due to the shutdown of the Consulate from March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic and the skeletal services rendered at the mission following phased resumption…
Ericsson, a multinational telecommunications company has said that 5G would become the fastest adopted mobile generation in history. Ericsson made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, noting that subscriptions were increasing at a rate of about a million per day. According to the report, China, North America and the Gulf Cooperation Council markets are leading the way on subscriber numbers, while Europe is off to a slow start. It said that 5G subscriptions with a 5G-capable device grew by 70 million during the first quarter of 2021 and is forecast to reach 580 million by the end…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced its readiness to conduct the by-election for the Sabon Gari constituency seat in the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The Acting Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Awwal Mashi gave the assurance at a stakeholders meeting on Tuesday. He explained that the by-election, slated for June 19 followed the vacancy declared for the seat of Aminu Shagali, the member representing Sabon Gari Constituency in the assembly. The seat occupied by Shagali, a former speaker of the assembly, was declared vacant in April, after he was alleged to have absconded from activities of the assembly…
Rivers governor Nyesome Wike on Tuesday, told President Muhammadu Buhari that he could not abdicate his responsibility of securing the lives and property of Nigerians to state governors. Recall that Buhari, who featured in an interview on Arise TV last week, blamed state governors for the spate of insecurity in their states. However, Wike at the commissioning of the 21 kilometres Odufor-Akpoku-Umuoye road in Etche local government area of the state, said the constitution gives the president, as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, powers to appoint Service Chiefs, Inspector General of Police and other heads of security agencies and…
The House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes, has pledged to support the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in order to achieve its mandate of ridding Nigeria of corruption. The committee chairman, Ibrahim Abdullahi made the pledge at a meeting with the EFCC boss at the National Assembly, NASS, on Tuesday. The meeting which coincided with the first one hundred days of the commission’s chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, offered him the opportunity to brief the committee on his vision for the EFCC. “Today’s meeting is coming on my 100 days in office. We have achieved quite a lot in terms…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the COVID-19 cases in Nigeria have reached 167,078, as its registered 12 additional infections on Monday. The NCDC disclosed this on its website Tuesday, adding that the infections were recorded in just two states: Lagos – 9 and Kwara – 3. The country had continued to witness a massive reduction in infections in the global pandemic. The reduction was from an average of over 1,000 daily cases between December 2020 and February. Infection figures have reduced to less than an average of 100 per day in the past one month. Health experts,…
UN Envoy El-Ghassim Wane says immediate action is required to initiate critical reforms and lay the groundwork for credible elections in Mali, where the security situation is as worrying as ever. Wane, Head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), told the UN Security Council on Monday in New York that Mali was at a “critical juncture’’ with its democratic future at risk. Wane briefed the 15-member body via a video-conference in the wake of a coup d’état in the landlocked West African country on 24 May – the second in nine months – that cast a…
…Commissions two new Ibom Airbuses …Says PDP governors believe Nigeria must work The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum (PDP-GF), Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has observed that although aviation is on the Exclusive List in the Nigerian constitution, the federal government had only been singing about national carrier. Speaking at the reception ceremony of two new airbuses (SU-GFA and SU GFD) A220-300, acquired by Akwa Ibom government, to add to the fleet of Ibom Air on Sunday, Tambuwal noted that while the FG had not walked the talk, the PDP-led Akwa Ibom state government had achieved the…