President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the military and police to deal ruthlessly with insurgents and other criminals across the country. The president made this public on Thursday in Abuja while fielding questions from journalists on a live television programme. Buhari, who expressed the confidence that the order would yield positive results within weeks, recalled that he had in the past visited Chad, Niger and Cameroon as part of efforts to promote good neighbourliness and security at the nation’s borders. Warning that the country might experience food shortage, Buhari said that there was the need to decisively tackle insurgents who are…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
A professor at the University of Sydney, Dominic Dwyer has said in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald that a lab-leak hypothesis about the origin of COVID-19 was flawed. The key flaw, he said, is that no evidence shows that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic. “The laboratory leak, for that to be the origin meant they must have had the virus to begin with, and we don’t have evidence of that,’’ said Dwyer, who was also a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team sent to China in January. As a “pretty prominent…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration plans to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to donate to other countries over the next two years. According to U.S. media reports, about 200 million doses will be distributed this year while with the remaining doses will be delivered in 2022. Although, the White House is yet to officially comment on the plan to roll out 500 million doses worldwide but the U.S. leader mentioned it as he landed in the UK at the start of his first foreign trip. But when asked if the U.S. government had a vaccination strategy…
The Chairman of the Northern Senators’ Forum, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko has called for lasting solutions to tackle the menace of growing insecurity in the country. The senator made the call while briefing newsmen after the caucus’ closed-door session, held in Abuja, on Wednesday. “We must continue to find more solutions that can be applied to the security challenges. “Of course, there are many ways of finding a solution. I know we are using the security outfit very well, but there are other ways of finding lasting solutions to the challenges, facing our country today. “We are concerned as Nigerians and…
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Wednesday inaugurated the new ultra modern Zamfara State House of Assembly complex constructed at the cost of over N1.4 billion. The new edifice comprised administrative block, House Chamber, committee rooms, restaurant, filling station, clinic, mosque and perimeter fence. Masari who was the special guest for the event held in Gusau, urged people of Zamfara to rally round the state administration for more development projects. He also urged people in the North West to contribute to ending the security challenges in the region. “The threats posed by insecurity in our region requires all hands…
The police in Imo have arrested a 40-year-old man, Uzoamaka Ugoanyanwu, said to be a notorious native doctor who allegedly prepares charms for members of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN). The Commissioner of Police in Imo Mr Abutu Yaro, confirmed the arrest in statement signed by the command’s spokesman SP Bala Alkana. The CP said the police also arrested nine suspects who took part in the attack on the country home of Gov. Hope Uzodimma. Yaro said the breakthrough followed a painstaking investigation carried out by the command’s tactical units and…
The Debt Management Office (DMO) says Nigeria’s Public Debt Stock is N33.107 trillion (about $87.239 billion), as at March 31, 2021. A statement obtained from DMO’s website says that the total public Debt Stock comprised of the debt stock of the federal government of Nigeria, 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), respectively. The debt stock also includes Promissory Notes in the sum of N940.220 billion issued to settle the inherited arrears of the FGN to state governments, oil marketing companies, exporters and local contractors. The report said that compared to the Total Public Debt Stock of N32.916…
The Presidency says it will present a one hour documentary titled, ”Nigeria: Consolidating Democracy and National Unity,” in commemoration of 2021 Democracy Day slated for June 12. According to a statement in Abuja on Wednesday by the President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, the documentary will debut simultaneously on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Channels TV networks this Saturday at 8:00-9:00pm. He said TVC would be showing the documentary at 4:30-5:30pm June 13. The presidential aide revealed that the film featured President Muhammadu Buhari and dignitaries, who were central to the annulled June 12 election and the events that followed,…
The Dangote Group says its 650,000BPD refinery project under construction in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos will be completed by end of December. Mr Edwin Devakumar, the company’s Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects and Portfolio Development, said this on Wednesday in Abuja. Devakumar while delivering a corporate keynote address at the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit (NIPS) assured Nigerians that the project would be completed in December. He said: “The refinery has so far achieved considerable milestones considering the global health crisis that hindered the desirable progress. “The project has incurred some delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “As at date, the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday inaugurated e-registration Committee to facilitate electronic registration of its members nationwide. The committee is chaired by the Governor of Edo, Mr Godwin Obaseki, while Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State is the Vice Chairman. The party’s National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, at the inauguration of the committee in Abuja, said that the e- registration was a project dear to the party and had been on the card since 2010. Secondus said that the party decided to digitalise its membership for proper database, due to its size, reach and to move with time. “When…