The All Progressives Congress (APC) has petitioned the Supreme Court against three of its Justices over the imbroglio surrounding the candidacy of the party in the December 5 2020 Imo North Sentorial by-election. The petition was signed by its acting National Chairman and governor of Yobe, Mai Mala Buni. The party accused Justices Mohammed Dattijo, Abdu Aboki and Helen Ogunwumiju of holding nocturnal meeting with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to scheme out the party from the Senate seat. Justice Mohammed Dattijo, during the proceedings to hear the appeal by the APC candidate Mr Chukwuemeka Ibezim on his disqualification by…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) on Tuesday shut down activities at the Imo House of Assembly over non implementation of financial autonomy for state legislature. The workers sealed all entrance to the complex, barring staff and legislators from entry. Mr Victor Nnadi, the state PASAN Chairman sais that the action was to press home their demand for legislative financial autonomy. Nnadi said that the association had followed due process in making its demands known without success. “We embarked on this strike to demand for the implementation of the Executive Order No 10, signed by President Muhammadu Buhari in…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari has justified recent approval of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery. He made the justification while speaking with reporters at the NNPC Towers, Abuja on Monday. According to Kyari, the award of Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract to Tecnimont spA. of Milan, Italy, went through competitive bidding process, transparency and due diligence, Newsdiaryonline reports. He explained that governance structure and tender process included key independent external stakeholders like: Ministry of Finance, Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC),…
The Director General of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, Mr Faruk Salim has disclosed that the organization would build a beffiting laboratory in Sokoto. The director general spoke with newsmen shortly after he paid courtesy visit to Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal at the Government House on Monday. According to him, the laboratory first of its kind in the North, would be use to test the standards of products, instead of taking them to Lagos. “The laboratory will be the first of its kind in northern part of the country. When it is completed, testing of products would be…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised Nigerians to stop ethnic profiling, but expose criminal elements in the society. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday. According to him, exposing criminals within societies was one of the ways to combat the challenges of insecurity. He cited the arrest of a kidnapper in Oyo State who was reported to the police by his fellow tribesman as lending credence to the group’s appeal. The kidnapper “had kidnapped and killed a farmer in Solalu village, Oyo State, after collecting ransom’’, he stated.…
A retiring Supreme Court Justice, Olabode Rhodes-Vivour has revealed that corruption is deeply rooted in Nigeria. He stated this at a valedictory session held in his honour at the Supreme Court complex on Monday. According to Justice Rhodes-Vivour, Nigeria is no exception when it comes to corruption, adding that what should be done is to reduce it to the barest minimum. He stressed that concerted efforts must be put in place to reduce the anormally to the barest minimum. Bowing out on attainment of mandatory 70 years, the Supreme Court Justice pleaded that corruption must be tackled headon through genuine…
The Publisher of Daily Nigerian, Jaafar Jaafar has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGP Muhammad Adamu against reported renewed threat to his life by governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state. In the petition, Jaafar stated that should anything happen to him for publishing videos of the governor stuffing dollars in his pockets, the governor should be held responsible. The journalist published video clips of the governor in October 2018, which depicted him allegedly collecting dollars, believed to be kickbacks from contractors handling various projects awarded by the state government. Ganduje in an interview with BBC Hausa on Friday, March…
By Suleiman Dogara If there’s one thing some newspaper editorials and analyses by some self-appointed commentators promise is uncourted controversy – and some shocking revelations of unprofessionalism and intellectual poverty while you are at it. Case in point: a piece of junk analysis simply credited to “editor” and published on March 21, 2021 edition of Thisday newspaper. The writer or commentator or analyst talks about Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has been playing “stupid and constituting humongous nuisance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.” One is rather shocked that a public affairs commentator would choose to deploy…
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine performed better than expected in a major late-stage trial potentially paving the way for its emergency authorisation in the U.S. and bolstering confidence after numerous setbacks in Europe. The drug maker said on Monday that trials in Chile, Peru and the U.S. found the vaccine, developed in conjunction with Oxford University, was 79 per cent effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and crucially, posed no increased risk of blood clots. It intends to request U.S. emergency authorisation in coming weeks. More than a dozen European countries, including Germany and France, had halted use of the AstraZeneca vaccine earlier…
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said it received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from MTN Nigeria. Speaking at the National briefing, the Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha said: “Yesterday, Sunday, March 21, 2021, the PTF received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from MTN Nigeria. “This is acknowledged with thanks as we encourage other partners to contribute towards the fight against COVID-19.” Recall that the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, had said that the first part of the 1.4 million doses promised to be donated to…