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…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
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…
The Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech) has released the cut-off marks for placement of candidates for its full-time National Diploma (ND) programme for the 2020/2021 academic session. Mr Joe Ejiofor, the Deputy Registrar of the college, disclosed this in an interview in Lagos on Tuesday. Ejiofor said that the cut-off marks were fixed by the institution’s Admissions Committee for departments. According to him, the cut-off marks have been ratified with fairness after the committee’s meeting. He described the process as authentic, official and acceptable by the college. “The Admission Committee saddled with the responsibility of the process and cut-off marks…
Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, says those calling for secession from the country are its problem. He said this on Tuesday in Abuja at an event organised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Professional Forum to showcase the achievements of the President Buhari-led administration. Shehu added that Buhari would, however, not be intimidated by the calls for secession by some persons, pointing out that the country will remain united no matter what. “For those saying that the presidency has not been talking, our position is clearly that this country is one and will…
By Nefishetu Yakubu The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FEMARD) has trained 40 rice farmers in the rice value chain in Edo to boost production. The ministry also distributed 40 bags of 25kg faro 44 rice seedlings to the rice farmers across the three senatorial district of the state. The ministry also distributed two litres of glyphosate chemical each to the farmers. Declaring the training open on Tuesday, the Director, Federal Department of Agricultural Extension, Frank Kudla, said the training was targeted at the youths and women. Represented by Mr Wellington Omoragbon, the State Director of Agriculture, FEMARD,…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, has frowned at the re-emergence of petrol queue across the country, assuring that the situation will normalize in hours. Kyari gave the assurance when he addressed State House correspondents after giving an update on the petroleum sector to President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. He attributed the sudden re-emergence of the fuel queue to strike action embarked upon by the association of petrol tankers drivers. The GMD, however, revealed that following the intervention of the leadership of the NNPC, the strike had been…