The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has extended a one-million-dollar grant to African countries for transition to flexible green grids and other clean power solutions. This is contained in a statement by the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday. The fund is ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Glasgow, UK from November 1 to 12. SEFA, managed by the AfDB, provides catalytic finance for renewable energy, aimed at contributing to universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy services in Africa. The technical assistance grant, sourced through a SEFA Rapid Response…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The House of Representatives Adhoc Committee on Assessment and Status of All Recovered Loots on Wednesday grilled the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (ICPC) over recovered loots. Others grilled by the House Committee include; the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Sovereign Wealth Fund among others in Abuja. Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman, EFCC said that the agency had the available record of the amount recovered. Bawa while answering questions on the much celebrated 43 million dollars loot recovered from Ikoyi in 2017, said that the money had been forfeited…
Ekiti government says it will diligently investigate the hospitalisation of about 100 students of its College of Health Technology, Ijero Ekiti, Ijero local government area over a strange ailment on Wednesday. The Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani, told newsmen in Ado-Ekiti that the state would unravel the cause of their admission to the hospital. The incident followed an alleged fumigation of the college environment by some officials of government a couple of days ago, as part of measure aimed at preventing the COVID-19 pandemic. Reliable sources within campus told newsmen that some of the students hospitalised…
The people of South-South zone are demanding for amendment of the 1999 constitution, resource control, fiscal federalism, full autonomy, devolution of power, creation of state police and gender equality. This indication was unveiled when the Senate committee, led by Sen. James Manager, hosted the people of Delta, Edo and Bayelsa states of the zone at a hearing on constitution amendment, on Wednesday in Asaba. The Senate committee members are Senators James Manager and Peter Nwaobushi from Delta; Seriake Dickson, Clopas Moses and Degi-Eremielyo W.D from Bayelsa and Mathew Orohighide and Francis Alihiemeha from Edo. The people of Niger Delta demanded…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called for concerted efforts to mitigate both immediate and long-term adverse effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on education. Abubakar made the call in a statement signed by his Media aide, Paul Ibe, in Abuja on Wednesday, to mark the 2021 Children’s Day. The former vice president said it was incumbent on all as a society to ensure that children attained their full potential in life. He expressed concern that efforts to make life easy and better for the children were yielding abysmal results, noting that such has not been assisted by the ongoing…
The Court of Appeal in Benin on Wednesday upheld the victory of governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo at the 2020 governorship election. The judgement was delivered barely two months after the Elections Petitions Tribunal struck out the petition by the Action Democratic Party (ADP) and its governorship candidate, Iboi Lucky. The party had challenged the outcome of the Sept. 19, 2020, governorship election, which returned Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as governor of Edo. The Appeal Court, delivering the judgement in the case marked CA/B/EPT/GOV/01 & 1A/2021 Action Democratic Party & Anor v. INEC & 2Ors, held…
One of Nigeria’s legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has urged the National Assembly, NASS, to find ways of reawakening and reenacting the 1963 Constitution, as against the 1999 Constitution being contemplated for amendment. He said the 1999 constitution would not solve Nigeria’s problems. Babalola gave the advise in a statement he personally signed in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday. “Alternatively, since amendment in law includes substitution for an existing document, why is it that the national assembly cannot call for a Public Hearing on the substitution of the 1999 constitution for the 1963 constitution which was made with the consent…
Hundred persons have been declared missing as a result of boat mishap that occurred near Corner Libata Ingaski, a border town between Kebbi and Niger. The Director-General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Ahmed Inga confirmed this on Wednesday. The passengers, believed to be mainly women and children, were travelling from Niger to Kebbi on Wednesday morning when the vessel capsized. He said the agency received report of boat mishap that occurred around 8 a.m, adding that the boat was said to have taken off at Loko Minna in Niger, by 7:30 a.m. Inga said that the boat…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has said that the Executive Order 10 signed by President Muhammadu Buhari on autonomy of the judiciary, and expected to be implemented by state governments, is unconstitutional and unnecessary. The governor stated this while while delivering a speech at the Special Attorney-General Colloquium in honor of the Chief Judge of Ekiti, Justice Ayodeji Daramola in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday. “The Executive Order 10, ostensibly intended to support the implementation of judicial financial autonomy, was completely unnecessary and ill-advised. “As Governors, we will be failing in our responsibility if we refuse to draw the attention of the…
Borno and Yobe states have both rejected calls for the creation of additional states, local councils and state police in the country. The states made their positions known in separate presentations at the ongoing public hearing on the 1999 constitutional review held on Wednesday, in Bauchi. The Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly, AbdulKareem Lawan said the state was opposed to the creation states and state police. “Borno State is already devastated for now. We don’t need additional states and local government councils, because some of the councils just bear names without people. “So, there is no need for the…