By Attahiru Ahmed Gusau Zamfara state government has denied insinuations that it claimed ownership of mineral resources, especially gold that lay abundant in the state. Briefing news men on Wednesday, the commissioner for Environment, Mines and Solid Minerals, Dr Nurudeen Isah, said buying gold from artisanal miners, was aimed at curbing the wave of banditry and ‘not to desecrate the constitution’ of Nigeria. “We have never and have no intention to desecrate the constitution of Nigeria,” he said, adding that the issue of gold is topical and “borders on the politics, economy and security of the state and the country…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The AUDA-NEPAD, in partnership with the Biosafety Directorate of the Commission for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, held a consultative meeting on biotechnology and biosafety in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between October 29 and 31 October 2020. The objective of the meeting was to have deeper insight on the state of affairs on biotechnology from both the regulatory and technology side, and to refine planning for the delivery of biosafety services in the remaining part of 2020. The meeting also discussed the needs for 2021 that AUDA-NEPAD/ABNE may partner with Ethiopia to support biosafety service delivery. Participants were government officials from…
By Mark Boye I arrived home from work late around 4:20am (EST), and quickly prepared a hot tea and jumped into bed. I woke up around 10am and reached out to my phone and the first news that greeted me was the sudden demise of our former President, His Excellency Jerry John Rawlings. It was my former colleague, Adu Isaac, who’s Facebook post caught my attention. Shocked, and confused, I quickly searched for more news of the sad news, and lo and behold, social media set ablaze, as people pour in more tributes on his death, including Rawlings own family.…
By Abubakar Shekara Partisan politics is just a part of politics. That’s to those who know the real meaning and scope of politics. The adage that man is a political animal extends the scope of politics beyond the confines of political party activities; propaganda, campaigns, elections and the pursuit of partisan interests, which is a shallow perception of the term and its implications on society Aristotle in coining this phrase, meant politics to encompass things that concern the city state, the dynamics of roles, power and influence that determine and control the affairs of a given geopolitical entity. And this…
In October 2020, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr Clement Agba announced the Federal government’s quest for the support and contributions of Nigerians in the Diaspora on the implementation of the country’s vision 2025. According to the minister, Nigeria’s intention is to “Attain energy sufficiency in power and petroleum products, improve access to quality education, affordable healthcare and productivity, improve security for all,” while promising that government would work with the recommendation to be made by Nigerians in the Diaspora. In an exclusive interview with AsheNews, Sweden-based Nigerian renewable energy expert, Dr Ade Raheem observed…
The core reason for the substantive demands about restructuring Nigeria is linked, paradoxically, to widespread concerns about how far the military went in completely restructuring the Nigerian State. They dismantled the tripartite regional structure, which had become quadripartite with the creation of the Mid West Region in 1963. In 1967, just before the advent of the civil war, the Gowon Military Administration made a bold and popular move by creating 12 states from the four existing regions. The move was popular because it addressed the correction of the structural imbalances and ethno-regional inequities of the inherited federal structure. The good…
The Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Sidie Tunis has urged his colleagues and Members of Parliament to pressure their home governments to increase budgetary allocation to agriculture. This is even as he insisted that poor funding of agriculture, particularly amid the effects of COVID-19 pandemic, will lead to severe food shortages and hunger in the ECOWAS region. Addressing newsmen in Guinea Bissau at the ongoing delocalised meeting to discuss agriculture, food security and COVID-19, the speaker said that the region was already witnessing shortfall in supply of food. According to a statement issued by Parliament on Thursday, the delocalized meeting was…
Senator Aliyu Wamakko has described Late Balarabe Musa as a dogged rare democrat, patriot and nationalist. This is contained in a statement by his spokesperson, Bashir Mani made available to AsheNews on Wednesday. “The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence and Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Anti Corruption, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, has described the late second Republic Governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, as a dogged and a rare Democrat. “The former Governor of Sokoto State also said that, the late former Governor was a core Patriot and Nationalist, who has left a wide vacuum too…
By Abubakar Shekara Africa has the lowest number of deaths from COVID-19, but the ravaging impacts of the disease on the socioeconomic lives of the people on the continent, are unprecedented. “The shock and impact of COVID-19 have over-stretched Africa’s health care systems and plunged the continent into socioeconomic and political emergencies.” This was part of the submission by Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal on Monday, in his keynote address aat the 2020 Conference of the African Bar Association in Niamey, Niger Republic. Analysing the socioeconomic state of Africa before and during COVID-19, as well as projecting the situation…
The Coalition of Northern Youths, CNG, has written to the United Nations, UN, expressing concern over bias by the international community against Northern Nigeria, especially as it affects security. The letter dated October 9, 2020 and addressed to the Secretary General of the global body, was signed by the Board of Trustee Chairman, Nastura Ashir Shariff, a copy of which was made available to AsheNews on Tuesday. “The CNG finds it regrettable that while Nigeria remains committed to peace and global order, our friends in the international community appear convinced with the one sided narration of the Southern Nigerian press to…