By Tina George, Minna Bandits have abducted students and staff of Government Science College Kagara, Niger state. The number of those kidnapped was not ascertained at the time of filing this report. ASHENEWS gathered that the bandits in the early hours of Wednesday, gathered some staff and students at a place for hours, before moving them out of the school premises to an unknown destination. Our reporter further gathered that while a student was killed by the gunmen at the school premises, a staff was able to escape from the kidnappers.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Director-General of Kaduna State Schools Quality Assurance Authority, KSSQAA, Mrs Umma Ahmad has announced the release of the 2020 Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE) results, with 73.4 percent of the candidates said to have passed. This is contained in a statement personally signed by Ahmad and made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday. According to her, a total of 131,214 candidates sat for the examination out of which 96,268 (73.4%) passed in all the subjects, adding that a total of 1,584 schools, made up of 452 public and 1,132 private schools participated in the examination between September 21 and 28,…
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, says his ministry is collaborating with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to ensure citizens with Bank Verification Number, BVN, are automatically provided with the National Identification Number, NIN. Pantami also said that his attention and that of the CBN governor were drawn to the need to replace BVN with NIN. He disclosed this after making a presentation to National Economic Sustainability Committee during a visit to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and a private enrolling center in Abuja on Monday. According to him, the two establishments had since then been working on the…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, has observed that the preponderance of drug trafficking and the abuse of substances related thereto, as the euphoric catalysts of non-state actors that unleash terror and mayhem on hapless citizens in the country. He made the observation when he received Sheikh Ahmed Gumi’s team under the Bandits Repentance Initiative (S-GULBAR Initiative) in Sokoto on Saturday. “We should also be mindful of the role that drug abuse play in fueling the committing of these vices,” while narrating a story he was told by a counterpart of his in one of the Northern states. “A counterpart of…
The Kano State Executive Council has approved and amended the proposed bill on Child Rights (protection) Act 2010 to reflect the position of Sharia on all sections of the Child Rights Act (CRA) 2003. Mr Muhammed Garba, Commissioner for Information in Kano State disclosed this in statement he signed and made available in Kano on Saturday, Garba said that the decision for the approval was reached at its state council meeting in line with the Federal Government policy of 2003 where states were asked to domesticate the bill. He said that the approval was necessary because of the commitment of the state administration on…
By Tina George, Minna Dr Amina Sani-Bello, wife of Niger state governor has, in the past five years, carried out free cervical and breast cancer screening for 9,401 women in the state. To this end, 1,650 women were screened in 2016, 2056 women in 2017, 2508 in 2018, 2189 in 2019, and 998 in 2020. In a statement by her press secretary, Aisha Wakaso to commemorate the World Cancer Day, Dr Sani-Bello said that the screening was done to reduce the burden of treatment on the masses. According to her, 1,650 women were screened in 2016; 2, 056 in…
“Nigeria ranks poorly in 2020 CPI, why does it matter and what should the Nigerian Government do about it” Every year, the publication of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), computed by Transparency International (TI) based in Germany and published in Nigeria by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), has drawn enormous media attention. Unsurprisingly, the government and the public have been even more agitated this year due to the unfavourable rating with Nigeria scoring the worst since 2013 and the second most corrupt position in the ECOWAS region after Guinea-Bissau. The reactions and feedback on Nigeria’s CPI performance and the concurrent statement…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal has appealed to the National Assembly to speedily consider the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) before it. The governor Tambuwal made the appeal on Monday on the occasion of the First Quarter 2021 Public Lecture Series held at the Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS), chaired by the Governor of Kebbi State, Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu. “I would want to appeal to the National Assembly, using this podium, not to allow their efforts to be in vein as ours when we attempted (to pass the PIB) during the Sixth and Seventh National Assembly,” the former Speaker…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has called on the federal government, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to initiate the exploration of oil in the Sokoto Basin. Speaking as a Chief Host during the First Quarter 2021 Public Lecture Series at the Usmanu Danfodio University (UDU) Sokoto, the governor said the three states, including Kebbi and Zamfara were ready to cooperate for the realization of that. At the occasion chaired by Kebbi governor Atiku Bagudu, Tambuwal said “the government of Sokoto state and indeed, I can say so for the governments of Kebbi and Zamfara, are ready and willing…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe The Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mele Kyari has disclosed that the corporation is ready to play important role in the future energy and has set machineries to lead Africa in transition to low-carbon energy and renewables. He disclosed this in a paper titled: “Navigating Energy Transition and the Imperatives of University – Industry Collaboration”, which he delivered during the First Quarter 2021 Public Lecture Series at the Auditorium of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto on Monday. Towards leading in the global shift to renewable energy, the corporation, he said, had institutionalised…