… Cautions ACF against reckless utterances The Northern Youths Initiative and Political Congress, NOPCO, has cautioned the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other socio-cultural groups against attacking the governor of Zamfara state, Bello Muhammad. A statement by the chairperson (North) of the group, Yusuf Abubakar made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday, also cautioned the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, credited to it over Zamfara governor’s reaction to northerners leaving in southern Nigeria. “Governor Muhammad made it clear that enough is enough over the continued attacks on the Hausa people leaving in the South, due to ethnicity and hatred by…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Fadlillah Abdallah el-Kurebe The Northwest zonal congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scheduled to hold in Kaduna was disrupted by thugs alleged to have acted on the script of former Kano governor, Rabi’u Kwankwaso on Saturday. Some eye-witnesses, who spoke with ASHENEWS alleged that the thugs wore red caps, emblem of the Kwankwaso movement and trooped in to the International Trade Fair Complex, venue of the congress in hundreds were shouting ‘Sai Kwankwaso’ (meaning ‘Kwankwaso Only’). “The thugs were wearing the insignia of the Kwankwasiya movement, which is led by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso. They stormed the venue of…
Kebbi state governor, Senator Abubakar Bagudu has vowed that the state government will take urgent measures to ensure that adequate protection of all law abiding residents in the state. A statement by the spokesperson to the Governor, Yahaya Sarki made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday said Bagudu spoke at the Magaba community, in Danko Wasagu local government of the state, where innocent persons as well as some security personnel were killed by armed bandits. “My administration will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that we do the needful in this direction. This, we shall do, in collaboration with the security…
By Tina George, Minna The Zainab Muhammed Bima Initiative, has distributed delivery kits to pregnant women in Minna, Niger state. The gesture is to reduce maternal mortality and encourage women to give birth in health facilities. Donated at Dr Musa Inuwa Primary Health Care, 150 women benefited in the Initiative’s under the Save A Mother campaign. The Founder, Zainab Muhammad explained that she embarked on the initiative because she observed that many women do not deliver in the hospital due to their inability to get the delivery kit. The delivery kit is one of the necessities needed by an expectant…
Kebbi state government and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, reemphasised their collaboration on production of biofuel and renewable energy in the state. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson to the Governor, Yahaya Sarki made available to ASHENEWS Friday. According to the statement, the duo made the emphasy when the governor paid courtesy visit on the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari in Abuja on Friday. The governor said the visit was to renew efforts toward strengthening the earlier collaboration on biofuel and renewable energy production in the state. In his remark, Kyari reaffirmed the commitment of the…
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum, PDP-GF, has posited that the maladministration by the All Progressives Congress, APC, led by President Muhammadu Buhari has giving rise to ethnic, tribal tensions across Nigeria. This is contained in a communique signed by the Forum’s chairman and governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal, at the end of the Forum’s meeting held in Makurdi, Benue state capital on Friday. We are distressed that Nigeria is now officially the country with the highest unemployment rate in the world at 33% under the disastrous leadership of APC. This is following on the heels of yet another…
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Forum and governor of Sokoto states on Friday, led his counterparts from other states in a closed door meeting at the Government House in Makurdi, Benue State. Tambuwal, Enugu governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Governor Duoye Diri of Bayelsa, arrived Makurdi on Thursday ahead of the meeting. The host, Governor Samuel Ortom had earlier on Friday, received some of the governors who were in the state to attend the Party’s Governors’ Forum. Among those received at the Makurdi Airport were: Umaru Fintiri (Adamawa); Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) and Darius…
…IPC to train 45 journalists on investigative health reportage The International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos-Nigeria on Wednesday, released the report of the one-month survey of coverage of health issues by four Nigerian newspapers – The Punch, Daily Sun, Vanguard and Premium Times for the month of December 2020. According to the report, Covid-19 accounted for 65.7% of the relevant reports, ’maternal health’’ had 5.3%; ‘’malaria/typhoid’’, 3% and ‘’diabetes’’ 2.4%. A statement by the Centre said, the newspapers were randomly selected for the survey in order to have baseline information on the state of media reporting of health issues ahead of…
…Donate N100m to Zamfara government over market fire …I am still a PDP member – Gov Muhammad The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors of Rivers, Taraba, Bauchi, Adamawa and Oyo states, have advised the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to avoid taking advantage of the Zamfara market fire to play politics. The governors, under the PDP Governors’ Forum, PDP-GF, led by Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal stated this when they went to commiserate with the government and people of Zamfara state over the fire incident on Wednesday. While appealing “to leaders in the country not to take advantage of misfortune…
The Kebbi state government says it is taking measures to curb dissemination of fake news and misinformation in the state. The state Commissioner for Information and Culture, Rakiya Tanko-Ayuba made this known when she visited her colleague, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hassan Shalla in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday. Tanko-Ayuba said that the state would solidify efforts in disseminating credible information as part of renewed efforts to curb the menace of fake news and misinformation in the state. “We discussed in the ministry, we discussed so many ways on how to renew all our contributory efforts in…