As the administration of vaccine in the country begins on March 5, the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, says it would facilitate timely release of counterpart funds from state governments, to ensure the vaccine roll-out exercise runned smoothly. This is contained in a communique signed by the Forum’s chairman and governor of Ekiti, Mr Kayode Fayemi issued at the end of its emergency meeting held on Wednesday and made available to ASHENEWS on Friday. Nigeria received 3.9 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the COVAX facility arrangement, which administration will begin on the 5th of March 2021 at the…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Vice Chancellor Nigerian Army University Biu, NAUB, Prof Kyari Mohammed on Wednesday, inaugurated the first set of Disaster Response and Management Course 1/21 at the Tukur Buratai Institute for War and Peace (TBIWP). A statement by the spokesperson of the institution, Hassan Ismaeel made available to ASHENEWS on Friday quoted the Vice Chancellor’s inaugural speech as stressing the importance of preparing for disaster in time of peace, saying that “Disaster Response and Management is topical and apt.” According to Prof. Mohammed, the Tukur Buratai Institute for War and Peace is in talks with government agencies, especially the Borno state…
Zamfara state government has disclosed that the Nigerian military has arrested an army officer and his girlfriend for aiding banditry in Zamfara. The Deputy Chief of Staff to the governor, Dr. Bashir Maru disclosed at a press briefing in Gusau on Friday that the army officer and his girlfriend were being investigated over the crime. “An issue of topical importance is a recent arrest by the military of an army officer and his girlfriend who are engaged in assisting bandits with Military uniforms and ammunitions in active connivance with other saboteurs. “This arrest was only made possible through community driven…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Service Chiefs to deploy competent officers and men to restore peace and order in troubled areas across the country. The president gave the ultimatum when he decorated the recently appointed service chiefs with their new ranks at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday. He said the deadline had become imperative in view of the fact that this year’s rainy season was fast approaching. ”I urge you to identify your competent officers and men, irrespective of their seniority or paper qualifications and deploy them to make sure we secure the country. ”You get few weeks to…
Nigeria has started the vaccination of its citizens against the COVID-19 virus on Friday in Abuja. The vaccine, after undergoing assessment by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDC), was confirmed to have positive results. Dr Cyprian Ngon, the Family Physician, National Hospital, Abuja, was the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine immunisation, while the second person was Dr Tahir Yunusa, a Pathologist with University of Abuja Teaching Hospital. Ngon had been the Head of the COVID-19 Isolation Centre at National Hospital Abuja since February 2020…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 12 deaths and 708 new cases of COVID-19, taking the total number of 1,951 fatalities and 157,671 infected people in the country. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. The additional 708 new cases make it the first time since February 26, 2021 that daily counts had surpassed 500. The health agency stated that the new infections were registered in 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the last 24 hours. According to it, Adamawa recorded 180 new infections, Lagos confirmed 141, Ondo reported 60…
The Nigerian Army on Thursday dismissed reports that over 100 officers and soldiers had deserted the army during encounters with insurgents in parts of Borno recently. Media reports earlier on Thursday said officers and soldiers deserted war front in Marte. However, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima in a statement, debunked the report saying the publication was false, unfounded and an attempt to malign the image and character of the Nigerian Army. “For the records, in the fog of war, it is a routine that head count is conducted to determine the number of men and equipment holding…
By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi The Northeast governors’s forum has noted that the zone remained short-changed in 2021 capital appropriation and asked the federal government to make provision for more. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of the 4th meeting of the forum’s meeting held in Bauchi. The forum said even though the 2021 budget was already signed into law, the zone was in precarious situation that required aggressive infrastural intervention to defeat insurgency and build resilience of the communities. The governors stressed the need for adequate allocation for capital projects for the sub region in the…
Ghana’s Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the victory of President Nana Addo Dankwa AKufo-Addo in the 7 December, 2020, general election. The seven-member panel dismissed the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the main opposition candidate, former president John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The court, presided over by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, said the petition of Mr. Mahama had no merit. He said Mr. Mahama did not satisfy all issues outlined by the court to determine the case. “We therefore have no reason to order a re-run as pleaded by the petitioner (Mahama). We accordingly…
Bandits in the early hours of Thursday attacked Saketa village, near Dingyadi, the Minister of Police Affairs’ village in Bodinga local government area of Sokoto. A source, Yusuf Abubakar told ASHENEWS that the bandits attacked the village in large numbers, killed his brother in-law, Bello Magaji and abducted his mother in-law, Hajiya Innawuro. “After abducting the lady in question, Hajiya Innawuro, wife of late village head, they matcheted her son, Malam Bello Magaji who is a staff of Sokoto state government. He died on the way to the hospital around 2:00 am “Recently, the attacked have become rampant in the…