The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed May 25 to hear a motion brought by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), seeking a stay of execution of orders it granted the businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim, over alleged N69 billion debt. The new date was fixed following the inability of Justice Okon Abang to preside in today’s proceeding. AMCON, through its lawyer, Ade Adedeji, SAN, had indicated to appeal the orders made in favour of Ibrahim and his companies by Justice Abang by filing a motion for stay of execution with suit number: FHC/ABJ/001/2021 before the court. Justice Abang had,…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), says the signing of a seven-year 350 million dollars term loan facility will provide financing to OCP Group, the world’s largest phosphate mining and leading fertilizer company. Afreximbank’s Head of Corporate Communications, Amadou Sall, said in a statement that the facility would support OCP Group’s expansion plans across Africa. According to the statement, Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank, said that Afreximbank was fulfilling its mandate through partnership with a major player in the fertilizer industry and with a strong presence across Africa, Oramah said that the bank was also fulfilling its mandate of facilitating…
Bandits Monday morning, stormed UBE Primary School in Rama, a village in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna state, Daily Trust has reported. The incident, according to a resident, Abdulsalam Adam, occurred while pupils where trooping into the school around 9am on Monday. “I have been told that three teachers and some pupils have been abducted but we are trying to ascertain the true situation. Right now, our vigilante boys and other volunteers have gone after the bandits. “We are in the school right now, what we are trying to do is comb the bushes because some of the…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said with 120 confirmed new cases of COVID-9, the number of active cases in Nigeria now stands at 13,245. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. The country had tested 1,601,396 people since the first confirmed case was announced on Feb. 27, 2020. The NCDC said that the country has so far registered 160,657 COVID-19 confirmed cases, with 120 new infections and no related deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. It disclosed that 685 people had been successfully treated and recovered between Saturday and Sunday. “Our discharges…
Sunday clashes between anti-coup protesters and security forces in Myanmar left at least 59 people killed and 129 injured according to hospital data, the Myanmar Now news agency reported on Monday. The actual toll is estimated to be even higher.The reports came from three hospitals — Yangon General, Hlaing Tharyar, and Thingangyun Sanpya — but doctors and rescue workers expect the final toll to be much higher, Myanmar Now stated. The largest demonstrations were reportedly held in Yangon, Mandalay, Bago, and Hpakan. On Sunday night, following the protests, martial law was declared in two of Yangon’s industrial townships – Hlaing…
The strongest sandstorm in ten years swept across Northern China on Monday, with authorities in Beijing issuing a “yellow alert” and warning of severely restricted visibility. Pollution in the Chinese capital reached a dangerous level after heavy winds brought in sand from the north-west of the country. The China Meteorological Administration announced the yellow alert on Monday morning, saying around 12 provinces were or would be affected. That makes the storm both the strongest sandstorm in ten years and the one covering the largest territory. According to Chinese media, Beijing airports had to cancel more than 400 flights. Spring is…
The Netherlands says on Monday that it has joined the list of countries suspending the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after reports of unexpected possible side effects from the injection. The vaccine will not be used until at least March 29 as a precaution, the Dutch government said in a statement. The announcement will lead to delays in rolling out of shots in the Netherlands, which had pre-ordered 12 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. Health authorities had scheduled around 290,000 AstraZeneca injections in the coming two weeks. The move, which follows a similar decision by Ireland earlier in the day,…
Facebook Inc, on Monday said it had started adding labels to posts that discussed the safety of the shots and would soon label all posts about the vaccines. The social media company, which has been criticised by lawmakers and researchers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms, said in a blog post that measures were now in place to check that. It also said it was launching a tool in the U.S. to give people information about where to get COVID-19 vaccines and adding a COVID-19 information area to Instagram, its photo-sharing site. False claims and conspiracies about…
By Sumaila Ogbaje The Nigerian Army says the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, have eliminated scores of the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Saturday in Borno. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Yerima said the encounters, which took place around the fringes of the Tumbus of Lake Chad region also led to the destruction of terrorists’ gun trucks and recovery of large cache of arms and ammunition. He said that the combined troops of Sector 2 advanced and cleared Daban Massara and Ali Sherifti villages among other…
The Osun Police Command has said that the killing of six persons by unknown gunmen at a farming settlement on Sunday in Wasinmi village in Irewole local government area of Osun was not connected to herders-farmers crisis. The state police Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, said in a statement that intensive manhunt was underway for perpetrators of the criminal act. “The Osun State Police Command wishes to state categorically that the unfortunate attack on a family at a settlement in the outskirts of Wasinmi Village, Ikire, Osun State, today 14th March, 2021, is not connected with any clash between farmers and…