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…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
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…
Dobu, mud silo The Gbagyi ethnic group in Kuje Area Council of Abuja, has assured that their traditional ways of preserving grains and other food crops, are still the best. According to them, the methods were not only useful for future consumption, but also useful to preserve crops for replanting and food security. The residents in Gbau-Kushi, a Gbagyi community in the FCT, said that against the wide spread reliance on western methods, traditional food preservation methods inherited from their ancestors was still effective. A farmer, Mr Solomon Joshua said before the advent of western preservative methods, Africans and Nigerians…
Amina Yusuf Garba, mni, is a Member of Niger, MON, and at present, the Registrar of Sokoto State University. She had her First School Leaving Certificate from St. Paul Primary School Sokoto and her West African School Certificate from Federal Government College Sokoto. She went to Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto graduating with B. A. English and proceeded to Bayero University Kano where she graduated with Masters Degree in English Language. Fondly referred to as The Amazon within the academic circle, Mrs Garba has been a beneficiary of recognition by worthy organs. First, she got the Federal Government Scholarship Award. Amina…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Balarabe Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed announced the appointment in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. He said Mr Ilelah’s appointment was for five years tenure in the first instance. The statement was signed and made available to newsmen by Mr Segun Adeyemi, the Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture.
The Kaduna state government has confirmed the kidnap of two lecturers and eight students by bandits in an attack at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, also confirmed the death of one student in the incident in a statement on Friday in Kaduna. Aruwan said that security agencies had briefed the state government on the incident which took place at the main campus of the polytechnic in Zaria on Thursday night. He said the bandits invaded the institution’s staff quarters in the campus, shooting sporadically and in the “process, two…
Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas (NIDOA), USA Chapter, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari on some issues affecting the country and suggested the way forward. In the letter, jointly signed by its President, Dr Eromonsele Idahosa and other officials of the association, NIDOA expressed concerns over the security situation in the country. NIDOA’s letter said that growth and development could not occur without security. It described NIDOA as “a non-partisan group of incurable patriots fully invested in the continuing corporate existence of our dear nation as an indivisible entity based on equity, justice, harmony, and progress. “We are reaching out…
The corpse of a baby girl, suspected to be a day old, has been recovered in a well at Tsalle village in Gezawa local government area of Kano state. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, was confirmed in a statement by Saminu Abdullahi, the spokesman for the Kano State Fire Service. Abdullahi said the service received a distress call at about 12:25 p.m. on Thursday from one Abubakar Ahmed-Dandago. “On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene at about 12:43p.m,” Abdullahi said. He said the baby girl was brought out of the well dead. Abdullahi…