By Nasir Mohammed, Sokoto The Sokoto State University on Thursday, matriculated no fewer than 2,219 fresh students for the 2019/2020 academic session. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sani Dangoggo, while congratulating the newly admitted students urged them to take their academics seriously and shun all social vices. According to him, getting admission into the university is not an easy task, especially taking into consideration the number of candidates who applied to study various programmes being offered by the institution. “It may interest you to note that 6,718 candidates sought admission into this universiy in the current session, out of which only 2,219…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, met with the new Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, at the State House, Abuja. The President’s Personal Assistant (Photography), Mr Sunday Aghaeze, confirmed the meeting in a pictorial report. The new EFCC boss was formally introduced to the president during the engagement. The Senate had, on Wednesday, confirmed Bawa, who was nominated by the president on Feb. 15, as the substantive Chairman of EFCC, following his successful screening. Bawa’s appointment was endorsed by the lawmakers after a voice vote by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan. Bawa, an indigene…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, arraigned a director of the defunct Abiodun Hassan before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the FCT High Court, Apo, for alleged misappropriation of over N10.2 billion. Hassan was arraigned alongside his company, Bestworth Insurance Brokers Limited, on alleged misappropriation of fund. The defendants were arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and cheating. Hassan is the first defendant in the suit marked: FCT/HC/CR/021/2021, while the company, Bestworth Insurance Brokers Limited is the second defendant. In the charge, the prosecution alleged that the sum of N26.2 billion was entrusted…
The 19 Nothern governors and traditional rulers of the region are meeting in Kaduna over security challenges bedeviling the region. The two-day meeting, which opened on Thursday, is also being attended by Senate President, Ahmad Lawal, Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and Information Minister, Lai Mohammed. Others are National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Mohammed Monguno, Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Ibrahim and Director General, State Security Service, Yusuf Bichi. The participants are expected to discuss current security challenges bedevilling the Northern region and youth unemployment. Governors at the meeting, holding at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, include those…
President Joe Biden has revoked former President Donald Trump’s order that limited the number of new work visas for temporary foreign workers in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic. “The suspension of entry imposed in Proclamation 10014… does not advance interests of the United States. “To the contrary, it harms the United States, including by preventing certain family members of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents from joining their families here,” Biden said in the order provided by the White House on Wednesday. In June 2020, Trump signed a proclamation that suspended certain categories of non-immigrant work visas…
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova has tasked the health ministry and the health protection watchdog with studying Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination efficacy for HIV-positive people. This is going by the protocol of a Thursday meeting of the governing council for guardianship in the social sphere. “Russia’s health ministry and Rospotrebnadzor must explore the possibility to organise scientific studies of HIV resistance to antiretroviral drugs in Russia’s regions, and also studies of COVID-19 vaccination efficacy for HIV-positive people,” the document read. Apart from that, the health ministry, the ministry of industry and trade, and the federal antimonopoly service will have to…
Rep. Mohammed Mongunu, the Chairman of House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Petroleum, has said that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), is expected to be passed by end of April to ensure competitiveness in oil and gas industry. Mongunu made the remark while speaking with newsmen on the side-line of the visit of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum to the Port Harcourt Refining Company in Eleme, Rivers, on Wednesday. According to him, our intention is to pass the PIB with the speed of light by the end of April, 2021 so that Nigeria will get the benefits…
Chief Olisa Metu, former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says his recent experience in detention has taught him a ‘great lesson’. Metuh made the disclosure when some PDP faithful received him at the party secretariat in Awka on Wednesday. Metu was arrested in 2016 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and arraigned on seven counts of money laundering for allegedly receiving N400 million from the office of the national security adviser. In December 2020, Court of Appeal acquitted him of all charges and nullified the seven year jail handed down on him. The PDP…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to improve service delivery by ensuring that pilgrims get value for their money. He also charged the commission to be self-reliant by trying to keep away from government funding. Abubakar III, who is also the President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), gave the task when he visited the Executive Chairman of NAHCON, Alhaji Zikrullah Hassan, on Wednesday in Abuja. He said pilgrims pay lots of money, recalling that he (Sultan) introduced Hajj levy some years ago to enable the commission raise…
The Northern Governor’s Forum (NGF) has renewed its commitment to restoring peace and unity in the region. The Chairman of NGF and Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau expressed the Northern governors’ position on Wednesday in Zaria. Lalong spoke when he visited his Alma Mata, the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), where he met with the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kabir Bala, and other principal officers of the university. The governor said the forum had scheduled a meeting to hold in Kaduna on Thursday and the meeting would focus mainly on peace and unity in the region. He stressed that there should be peace…