President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the horrific attack on a convoy returning from a weekly market in Niger Republic’s Tillaberi region in which many citizens were killed. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, Buhari extended his condolences to families of victims and all citizens of the neighbouring country. The Nigerian leader denounced the heinous attack, declaring that Nigeria will continue to stand by all its neighbours in the fight against terrorism. According to him, the mass killings underscore the enormous security challenges facing Niger Republic as they…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
A terrorist group has massacred 58 civilians in Niger Republic. The government said the attack took place on Monday in the north-west of the country in the Tillaberi region on the border with Mali. The attack was directed at traders returning from a nearby market. There are no details available about who may have carried out the attack. No group has claimed responsibility so far. Terrorist groups that have sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda or Islamic State are active in the countries of the Sahel region. The government has little control outside the cities, a fact which is not only exploited…
A bill for an Act seeking to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women has scaled second reading at the House of Representatives. Rep. Saidu Abdullahi, who sponsored the bill said that it would provide a mechanism for enforcing provisions of universal declaration on protection of human rights. He added that the bill would also enforce international covenant on civil and political rights and convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women in Nigeria. He said that it would help to enforce protocol on the African Charter on human and peoples’ rights on the rights of women…
The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Bauchi State, Mr Yusuf Abdullahi, on Wednesday said six people lost their lives while 54 sustained injuries in a road crash in the state. Abdullahi said in Bauchi that the accident involved traders traveling from Darazo town in Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State to Dakuku Market in Gombe state. Abdullahi said that dangerous overtaking was the probable cause of the crash involving commercial Mercedes Benz truck with 72 male passengers. “It was a lone fatal accident which involved a Mercedes Benz truck with a plate number AA476MSA conveying 72…
The Police Service Commission, PSC, on Wednesday, hosted the management of SERVICOM and the inauguration of its Inter-Ministerial Committee and announced its partnership plan with the agency in its determined effort to sanitize operations in the federal bureaucracy. Speaking at the Advocacy forum, Chairman of the Commission, Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police said SERVICOM Office has contributed greatly in bringing sanity in the ways and means government business is being conducted in Nigeria. He said the Commission will continue to leverage on the commitment of the Agency to the improvement of service delivery in the public sector…
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Wednesday, rejected the records of service of George Turnah, former Special Adviser to the erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Dan Abia, while serving as an aide at the Commission. Justice T. Mohammed, after listening to the testimony of defence witness, Silas Anyanwu, Director, Human Resource, NDDC, on the records of service of Turnah between 2013 and 2015 at the NDDC, refused to admit documents such as Letter of appointment, Letter of Acceptance of Appointment, Letter of Resignation and Letter of Acceptance of his Resignation as exhibits. The documents could not be…
The Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, has successfully performed surgery on a 14-year-old boy with rare heart problem. The Chief Medical Director of OAUTHC, Prof. Adebayo Adetiloye, made the disclosure in an interview on Wednesday in Ile-Ife. Adetiloye described the condition of the boy as a very rare one, saying that such an operation had never been carried out, both in Nigeria and the West African sub-region. While commending the team that performed the surgery, the CMD said what made the operation unique was the method applied which, he said, was different from those being used abroad.…
The Senate on Wednesday stepped down the consideration of a bill seeking to establish the Armed Forces Services Commission. The commission was to ensure that the composition/appointment of Service Chiefs of the Armed Forces of the Federation reflected Federal Character of Nigeria in the manner prescribed in section 217 (3) of the 1999 Constitution. The upper chamber’s resolution was sequel to the presentation of the lead debate on the general principles of the bill by its sponsor, Sen. Eyinnaya Abaribe, during plenary. The bill was titled, “A Bill for an Act to give effect to Section 219 of the 1999…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has arrested a former Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde for allegedly misappropriating N900 million. Mrs Azuka Ogugua, ICPC spokesperson, in a statement, on Wednesday, in Abuja, said Ojerinde was arrested on March 15, in Abuja by operatives of the commission. Ogugua said that Ojerinde allegedly committed multiple frauds, while heading JAMB and the National Examination Council (NECO). She added that Ojerinde had been detained by the Commission for questioning, over allegations of multiple identities, abuse of office, money laundering,…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on Wednesday, re-arraigned former Chairman of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla in FCT High Court over N10.1 million alleged fraud. He was also charged with failure to honour ICPC invitation. Also arraigned is Obono-Obla’s Senior Assistant Special Duties (Protocol), Aliyu Ibrahim. The former SPIP chairman was on Jan. 22 arraigned before the court alongside Ibrahim and Managing Director of ABR Global Petroleum Resources Limited, Daniel Omughele. They were arraigned on a 10-court charge bordering on diversion of N19.9 million meant…