President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the nation’s security chiefs to recover all areas being occupied by insurgents, bandits and kidnappers across the country. The National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, told State House correspondents that the president gave the order during the just concluded meeting of the National Security Council. The meeting was presided by Buhari at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. According to him, no sovereign nation will allow a group of non-state actors to bring it down to its knees and render the state in state of panic, apprehension, mistrust and…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The World Health Organisation, WHO, expert panel has advised against the use of hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19. WHO Nigeria in a statement posted on its media WhatsApp on Tuesday stated that the drug was no longer a research priority, noting that resources should focus on other more promising drugs to prevent COVID-19. “The anti-inflammatory drug hydroxychloroquine should not be used to prevent infection in people who do not have COVID-19, say a WHO Guideline Development Group (GDG) panel of international experts in The BMJ today. “Their strong recommendation is based on high certainty evidence from six randomised controlled trials involving…
Jangebe schoolgirls who were abducted by bandits in Zamfara, have disclosed that some of their kidnappers gave them phone numbers and promising to marry them. Many of the girls interviewed by Daily Trust said the bandits wanted the schoolgirls to call them back if they agreed to their request. One of the girls told Daily Trust that the bandits advised them to drop out of school and get married. “They were about to divorce us, and some of them came and started showing some of us that they wanted to marry us if we agreed, that we should not continue…
Nigeria’s National Security Council has declared Zamfara as no-fly zone as well as banned mining activities in the state, the country’s Security Adviser, NSA, Babagana Monguno, has disclosed. He said the President also approved a ban on mining activities in Zamfara to stop the rising insecurity. Monguno disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting of the council at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday. While revealing that all non-state actors were placed under surveillance, the NSA said federal government would use kinetic means to restore normalcy in the country. According to Monguno, defense and intelligence organisations had been…
The Zamfara chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has felicitated with the parents and government over the Tuesday release by bandits of the kidnapped students of Government Science Secondary School Jangebe. This is contained in a statement jointly signed by the chairman and Secretary, Bello Boko and Abubakar Ahmed made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday. “It is with a relieved heart that the Zamfara state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Zamfara state felicitates with Nigerians, especially the Zamfara government and parents of the abducted 279 students of GGSS Jangebe, inTalata-Mafara local government area of the state…
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the new Service Chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari. Those confirmed were- Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff, Maj-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff, Rear Admiral Awwal Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff and AVM Isiaka Amao, Chief of Air Staff. Their confirmation followed the adoption of the report of Senate Committee on Defence at plenary. Presenting the report, Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Wamakko Aliyu said the nominees responded satisfactory to questions during their screening. He said also that there were no petitions written against them, saying that the nominees were also cleared by the…
President Muhammadu Buhari presided over a meeting of the National Security Council on Tuesday, few hours after the release of 279 school girls abducted in Jangebe, Zamfara. Gunmen abducted the girls from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe, in Talata Mafara local government area of Zamfara last Friday, but they were released on Tuesday. The president had earlier expressed joy over the release of the students. He directed security officials to apprehend all the kidnappers involved and bring them to justice. Tuesday’s meeting of the National Security Council might review on-going renewed onslaught against insurgency, banditry and other…
The Initiative for Youth Awareness on Migration, Immigration, Development and Reintegration (IYAMIDR), said situations in the country would likely drive many Nigerian into irregular migration. Mr Solomon Okoduwa, Executive Director of IYAMIDR, who is a former aide to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Illegal Migration, made this known in an interview in Benin on Tuesday. He noted that apart of the post COVID-19 challenges, the current economic situation would also form part of the reason why many Nigerians will be seeking greener pastures outside. Okoduwa said that the activities of some syndicates who lure young people abroad was also…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is unlikely the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will end in 2021. “I think it will be very premature and unrealistic to think that we are going to finish with this virus by the end of the year. “What we can finish with – if we are smart – is hospitalisations, deaths and the tragedy associated with this pandemic,’’ Mr Michael Ryan, Director of WHO’s health emergencies programme, said at a news conference on Tuesday. Ryan said that WHO’s focus at present was to keep transmissions as low as possible and vaccinate more and…
As expected, the 3.94 million doses of COVAX’s Oxford AstraZeneca, manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII), has arrived. . The United Nations (UN) system disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday. COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), working in partnership with UNICEF, the World Bank, civil society organisations, manufacturers and others. The UN system said the arrival marked a historic step towards the goal to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally, in what would be the largest vaccine procurement…