By Stanley Ihedigbo, Lagos Nigerian government has assured its full support to the All Farmers Association of Nigerian, AFAN, as Farouk Mudi emerges as the new National President. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono gave the assurance while speaking at the three-day General Assembly of Farmers (GAF 2021) in Kano last Tuesday. Congratulating the new AFAN president, the minister, while assuring of his ministry’s support in order to make sure he succeed, said that the federal government have good plans for Nigeria farmers, because of the important role they play in the country. Responding, Mudi commended the minister…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed as false, the purported suspension of former Kano State Governor, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso from the party. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja on Sunday, the PDP also said former governor of Niger, Babangida Aliyu was also not suspended. The party was reacting to a document being circulated in which Kwankwaso was queried and suspended by the Kano State chapter of the PDP. The PDP dismissed the document, saying it was circulated by some mischievous individuals. “The PDP states clearly that Kwakwanso is not suspended from the…
The Nigerian Army says the troops of 27 Task Force Brigade on the platform of Operation Lafiya Dole have arrested suspected Boko Haram informant identified as Modu Ari, in Kamuya area of Yobe. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, said this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. He said the activities of the suspect and his accomplices were responsible for the recent attacks on troops position by terrorists in the area. Yerima said the suspect confessed during interrogation to have revealed troops’ movements and position to his Boko Haram collaborators. According to him, the investigation is…
An 18 seater bus on Sunday plunged into the Owena River on the Akure Ondo road in Ondo State. An eye witness account stated that the driver of the bus who was coming from the Ondo town axis and heading toward Akure lost control as a result of speeding and plunged into the river. The witness further revealed that five of the passengers including a child were rescued and taken to the hospital by motorists and men of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). The witness added that some of the passengers lost their lives at the scene of the…
The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) on Sunday declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the overall winners of the just concluded Local Government Area elections. The elections held on April 17, in Rivers state. Justice George Omereji, the chairman of RSIEC and the Presiding officer of the concluded election made the declaration at the commission’s secretariat in Port Harcourt, Omereji announced that PDP won in all the chairmanship positions and the councillorship seats in the 23 local government areas. He stated that certificates of return would be issued to the winners on Monday, April 19 at the Commission’s secretariat.…
The COVID-19 pandemic, undoubtedly, affected Nigeria’s socioeconomic wellbeing and also exposed the inadequacy and vulnerability of the country’s healthcare system just as it created medical and economic emergencies across the world. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a way of cushioning the effects of the pandemic on Nigerians established a fund to assist households, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). It set aside N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility (TCF) – stimulus package to support households and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and also spent huge amounts to support farmers to boost food production. The CBN’s direct intervention in the…
A prosecuting witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Salisu Shuaibu has been revealed to be the alleged owner of the Halal Fountain Hotel (Annex), in Kaduna. Checks by PRNigeria revealed that the hotel was sealed off by EFCC after Shuaibu, a former Director of Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) was arrested and arraigned in Court in 2015 over alleged fraudulent activities at ONSA. In a surprise twist of events, the anti-graft agency dropped all corruptions charges against Shuaibu in 2016 and presented him as its prosecution witness to testify against Sambo…
A chieftain of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Zamfara, Abdulmalik Zubairu has alleged that the recent move by the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tukur Danfulani to announced that the party received over 1,000 defectors from APC in Bungudu, is “political deception”. Speaking with newsmen in Gusau on Sunday, Zubairu also alleged that the Danfulani-led PDP leaders in the state were “only making fool of the governor and using such tactics of receiving defectors to be collecting money from Matawalle.” According to him, Danda Bungudu is a known card-carrying member of the PDP, adding that prior to the…
The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib has disclosed that a total of 8,491 Nigerians have so far adversely reacted to AstraZeneca vaccine. Disclosing this in Abuja on Friday, he said that Nigeria also recorded 52 cases of moderate to severe incidents of Adverse Effects Following Immunisation (AEFI), presented as fever, vomiting, diarrhoea headaches, dizziness and allergic reactions. According to him, there were 8,439 mild AEFI reported, ranging from swelling at the site of the inoculation, body pains and nausea. Shuaib mentioned five states with highest recorded AEFI to include Kaduna (970),…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal, has called on the citizens of Sokoto, especially those in the eastern part of the state, who are hard hit by the activities of bandits, to provide timely intelligence reports to security agencies in order to checkmate the activities of the criminals in the area. The governor gave the charge when he visited to condole families of the victims of gunmen daring midday attack at Rarah village in Rabah local government area on Friday. Accompanied by the deputy governor, Muhammad Dan’Iya and some high-ranking security chiefs serving in the state, Tambuwal, who was visibly worried, appealed to…