The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has released shortlisted names for the final screening of qualified candidates for narcotic officers and narcotic assistants cadres. Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, announced this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. The screening exercise, which was suspended in January due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will now proceed in batches in designated centres. Babafemi said the screening for NDLEA headquarters Abuja candidates within the recruitment categories and others, whose names were on the final list should visit its official website, www.ndlea.gov.ng. According to him, the names of the candidates are…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Bala Ibrahim From all indications, the suspension of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, is likely to open a Pandora’s box, that could generate more complicated problems for the government in particular, and the system in general. Pursuant to her suspension, which came without any official explanation, the suspended Hadiza seems ready to take everyone involved to the cleaners. To this effect, official memos that under normal circumstances should be kept secret, have begun circulating freely on the social media. Documents, including one carrying the approval of Mr. President, have gone viral, showing…
By Bala Ibrahim Late chief MKO Abiola, (may his soul rest in peace) used to say, “You have to be close to someone to kiss him, but you also have to be close to him to bite him.” Yesterday, Thursday, 6/05/21 featured another surprise from President Muhammadu Buhari, as he suspends one of his close allies, and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman from office. Through a press statement from his spokesperson Mallam Garba Shehu, titled, “President Buhari Approves Panel of Inquiry on NPA, Asks MD, Hadiza Usman to Step Aside”, Hadiza Bala, whose appointment…
Facts have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari was too quick to have suspended the managing director of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Usman. As now made open, Ms Usman’s suspension was initiated by the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi through a letter to President Buhari dated 4th March, 2021. He had complained in the letter that there was shortfall in NPA’s remittances of the “operating surplus of N165 billion to the consolidated Revenue Fund Account (CFR) from 2016 till date” and prayed that Buhari approved an audit of the account and remittance of NPA for the period quoted. The…
Towards fighting insecurity, Sokoto state government says it will partner Indonesia, Islamic Development Bank, IsDB, and the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing system for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, for modern animal rearing, including animal health centers across the state. Governor Aminu Tambuwal, disclosed this when he received the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, AVM Usra Harahap who are in the state for a working visit at Government House, Sokoto on Friday. According to him, the drive towards the initiative is geared towards addressing the challenges of cattle rearing, farmers-herdsmen clashes that has catalyzed security challenges in the country. Tambuwal said the target of…
The Supreme Court, on Friday, affirmed the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister underperforming political parties. The apex court in a zoom sitting said the deregistration of NUP, one of the 74 parties, was done in line with the laws and compliance with the extant provisions of the Constitution and Electoral Act. Delivering the lead judgment, Justice Adamu Jauro held that INEC did not err in law in the deregistration of the National Unity Party, which filed the appeal. INEC had in 2020 deregistered the parties over failures to win any election during the 2019 general…
President Muhammadu Buhari has again raised alarm over the activities of some unpatriotic elements who are bent on wreaking havoc on the nation’s socio-economic fabric. The president made his feelings known during the 6th regular meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), led by Prof. Doyin Salami at the State House, Abuja, on Friday. He decried the situation in which some unscrupulous people continue to undermine every policy of government, irrespective of the good it was meant to achieve for the country. Buhari said: “Some people are mercilessly against this country. “We closed the borders to control the smuggling…
The Supreme Court on Friday, declared the dissolution of the dully elected Local government Council Chairmen in Katsina and Oyo by their respective Governors as illegal. In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro in a zoom conference, the Apex court directed that the unlawfully dissolved council officials be paid all their entitlements from the date of their illegal dissolution to the date they were to vacate office. The apex court, therefore, set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal. Governor Aminu Masari had on assumption of office in July 2015, dissolved the state dully elected Council officials…
The Police Service Commission, PSC, has pledged to ensure that Police Officers found wanting during the 2019 General Elections will be prosecuted. A statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani on Friday also said the Commission will officially write to the acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP, on the status of Police offenders, during the elections with a view to ensuring that they were prosecuted. “The Commission on Thursday, May 6th 2021, held a virtual meeting with some Non-Governmental Human Rights Organizations to review the challenges of election policing, during the 2019 general elections and to proffer ways and…
By Bello Hamza An NGO, “Be a Builder of a Secure Nation Group” says it has introduced some measures to bring Nigerian youth together towards achieving national cohesion. Its Assistant Secretary, Ahmad Lawal disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Friday. He said the essence of bringing the youth together was to enlighten them on the need to have a secured nation, adding that the participants were drawn from all the six geopolitical zones of the country. The National President said: “Be a Builder of a Secure Nation Group had conducted an awareness open programme on the foundation of…