President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has been elected into the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) Council. Pinnick was elected for a four-year term on Friday in Rabat, Morocco at the 43rd CAF ordinary general assembly. Pinnick defeated Malawi’s Walter Nyamilandu, the incumbent, after gathering 43 votes as against eight by his opponent. Following several withdrawals prior to the election, Pinnick and Malawi’s Walter Nyamilandu were the only two candidates left from the Anglophone block. The candidates who withdrew are Lamin Kaba Bajo of The Gambia, Wallace Karia of Tanzania, Nick Mwendwa of Kenya and Andrew Kamanga…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria and reiterated that anyone anyone found with AK-47 riffle illegally, must be shot. The Council is co-chaired by Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. This is contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. “But what surprises is what is happening now in the North West where the same people, with the same culture are killing each other, taking their livestock and burning properties. “As a result of…
The National Security Adviser, NSA, to Nigeria’s president, Babagana Munguno, has revealed that Muhammadu Buhari in deed, approved “huge amount of money” for the purchase of weapons, but cannot be accounted for. The security adviser, who made the disclosure in an interview with BBC Hausa on Friday, revealed that when the newly appointed service chiefs asumed office, they couldn’t find the weapons their predecessor ought to have purchased. “The failure of the security personnel to get adequate weapons is a setback to the fight against insecurity. “It is not that we are not working to end the security challenge in…
The Nigerian Army says its troops rescued about 180 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, FCFM, Afaka in the Mando area of Kaduna state, Daily Trust has reported. The rescued students have been moved to 1 Division Garrison Command of the Nigerian Army in Ribadu Cantonment. Reports say that the attack would have been worse if not for personnel of Nigerian Air Force and troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army Headquarters, Kaduna. Daily Trust reports matrons in the school as saying that the bandits attacked the school through the back fence and abducted some male students before they…
The South African Police on Thursday, arrested five persons in connection with the collapse of VBS Mutual Bank, the country’s biggest banking scandal in recent years. The Police said the suspects were arrested in an early-dawn raid at various places in Gauteng and Limpopo Provinces as they “continue to rid the country of corruption and corrupt activities’’. Those arrested will be answering to a combined 188 counts of charges, which include theft, fraud, corruption, money laundering and racketeering, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) said in a press release. “Now that the attendance of a suspected organised criminal group…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations, NNPC, says it has not increased the Ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol. The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Corporation, Dr Kennie Obateru, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Friday. Ex-deport price is the price at which oil marketers buy products at the depots, the price is what determines the price at which petrol stations will sell to motorists. He spoke while reacting to new PMS Pricing template released by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) that indicted N212.61k Pumb price for the…
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Global Affairs, Canada will support and fund free Vesicovaginal Fistula, VVF, repairs in Goronyo, Sokoto state and Gamawa, Bauchi state. Mr Musa Isa, Director of Fistula Foundation Nigeria, FFN, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Friday. He said that the exercise, which is to be done in collaboration with the foundation, is scheduled to hold from March 22 to March 26. Isa said that the programme would be conducted at the Gamawa General Hospital, Bauchi state and Goronyo General Hospital in Sokoto state on the same date. He advised all…
The Supreme Court on Friday, upheld the charge of criminal breach of trust against former Plateau governor, Joshua Dariye. Dariye, who has been in jail for the offence, filed the suit praying the Supreme Court to upturn the November 16, 2018 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja. The appellate court had convicted him and sentenced him to 10 years for diverting public funds estimated at N1.162 billion while he was the governor of Plateau. The apex court however, dismissed Dariye’s prayer to upturn the appeal court judgement.
The Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, has called on the federal government to mainstream innovation into schools curriculum to foster better learning outcomes. This call is contained in a communique issued at a one-day webminar on digital transformation of educational sector in Nigeria held on Wednesday. The Centre also called on mobile network providers to support accessibility in schools by keying to universal service provision principles in addition to their statutory commitment to the Universal Service Provision fund (USPF). The communique signed by the Communications and Campaigns Officer, Ali Sabo and made available to ASHENEWS on on Thursday,…
The Executive Vice Chairman, (EVC), of the Nigerian Communication’s Commission (NCC), Professor Danbatta, has disclosed that Nigerian banks owe Telecommunications providers fourth two billion naria over the use of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD). Professor Danbatta disclosed this in Lagos when delivery his lecture at the 5th Annual Bullion Lecture, organised by the Centre for Financial Journalism with the theme, “Driving Pervasive Broadband Penetration to Deepen Digital Financial Inclusion for Nigeria’s Socio-economic Transformation”. Danbatta said that the USSD platform used by banks is an investment and that someone must pay for the services and that at the moment Banks…