The Senate on Wednesday approved $1.5 billion and €995 million external loan requests made to it by President Mohammadu Buhari. The approval was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts presented by its Chairman, Sen. Clifford Ordia (PDP-Edo) during plenary. The president had in May 2020 sent a letter to the senate seeking its approval for another batch of external loans to enable the administration finance the 2020 budget deficit, critical projects and support some states of the federation. The Federal Government said the loans would be used to execute priority…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
…Sets to access N3.750bn for rice, soy bean, maize, aquaculture Governor of Cross River state, Ben Ayade has inaugurated a multi-sector driven Project Management Team (PMT) for the upcoming prime anchor scheme, the which is acilitated by the African giant, Dantata Foods and Allied Products Company Limited. Inaugurating the PMT, the Commissioner for Commerce, Rosemary Achibong on behalf of Ayade, said the scheme was initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria through Zenith Bank Plc. A statement by the spokesperson of the Dantata Foods, Sanusi Bature and made available to ASHENEWS on Wednesday, explained that the scheme will support 15,000…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), has approved augmentation of N8.39 billion for the completion of the Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega-Makera Road. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja, when he briefed State House correspondents on outcome of Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. He explained that the augmentation affected only 85 kilometres of the 185kilometres portion of the road project. He said: “The Ministry of Works and Housing presented one memorandum to Council. “It was for the augmentation of the contract for Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega-Makera Road, the portion covering 185 kilometres awarded to CRCC Construction Company. “The…
Lieutenant General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, 37, who was named transitional leader on Tuesday because he is head of a military council in Chad, following the death of his father Idriss Déby Itno, has been named president. The young Deby, who stood watch over his father as head of the presidential guard, wore trademark dark glasses that hid a strong, little known personality. In the aftermath of the death of president Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the Sahel country for three decades, his 37-year-old son has quickly emerged as the new strongman. The four-star general was not on any expert’s…
Pursuant to my article of yesterday, Tuesday/20/04/21, captioned, Ganduje: Gradually going gaga?, which touched on the perceived excesses of the governor of Kano state, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, a rejoinder was published by one Mahmud Sani Adam, a fellow journalist, as claimed. Many have called or mailed to advise against responding, or joining issues with the respondent, but the rebel in me thinks otherwise, particularly because the respondent is a claimed colleague, with whom I should share the collective responsibility of greasing the process of permiting the freedom of people to publish and consume information. Though I don’t know him…
I read a piece by Bala Ibrahim, a senior colleague in the pen profession and former staff of the Hausa Service of the BBC, which appears in an online news medium and other social media platforms. The piece, titled: “Ganduje: Gradually going gaga?” looks like an attempte to twaddle a case of an investigation by the Kano state Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission (PCACC) as well as some cases that are said to be before competent courts of law involving Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state and some individuals. Having been practicing in the media for over 20 years…
The Federal University, Dutsin-ma, in Katsina State, has debunked social media report of an attack on the institution and abduction of students by bandits. Mr Habibu Matazu, Acting Director, Public Relations and Protocols of the institution, made the denial in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “There was no case of bandits’ attack on any of the campuses of the institution. “As I am speaking with you, we are all in the institution, no case of attack, and nobody was abducted. I don’t know why they did that to us, it is false,” he said. Matazu urged students, parents, guardians, the…
The European Union (EU) has begun the implementation of its new €100 million humanitarian initiative in support of the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa. The spokesman of the EU Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Modestus Chukwulaka made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. According to the statement, the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, announced the initiative during her visit to the Africa Centre for Disease control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Tuesday. Following the meeting with the Head of the Africa CDC, Dr John Nkengasong, Lenarčič expressed delight to announce the…
Within the last week a war of words has ensued over the management of the Nigerian economy with governor Obaseki of Edo state firing the first salvo by accusing the Federal government, FG, of the catastrophic management of economy alleging that the FG is printing money to fund federal allocations. Nigeria’s Finance Minister Mrs Zainab Ahmed fired back in these words: “The issue that was raised by the Edo State Governor, for me, is very sad because it is not a fact. What we distribute at FAAC is revenue that is generated and in fact, distribution of revenue is a…
The South West zone of the Biotechnology Society of Nigeria, SW-BSN, in collaboration with the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, IAR & T) and the National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, NACGRAB, will hold its second Annual International Conference between 19th and 21st May, 2021. Click here for additional information on registration A pre-conference workshop with a theme: Hands-on-Training in Modern Biotechnology, will feature “Extraction and Electrophoresis of DNA and Protein”, “Polymerase Chain Reaction” and “Concept of Nucleic Acid Sequencing”, which will hold between 17th and 19th May. According to the southwest zonal chairperson of SW-BSN, Prof. B. Boboye, who…