Two days ago, a team of staff of CITAD went to Shara in Sumaila local government area of Kano to conduct a COVID-19 sensitization programme for teachers and students as well as parents of Shara Primary School, a community school that CITAD and the community established about four years ago. Although enrolment had increased but we found a number of the girls had dropped out. In response to the unvocalized question of our team members, the Community leader said that they had been married off. They were still to be functionally literate and painfully they had reached the end of…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Court of Appeal has declared that the Police Act 2020, enacted in September, is unconstitutional, null and void, especially as it affects the constitutional mandate of the Police Service Commission, PSC. This is contained in the Certified Copy of the Appeal Court judgement, following an appeal by the Commission, against the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja, received by the Commission on Tuesday, which ASHENEWSONLINE obtained on Wednesday. According to the judgement, “the provision of the Act, is obviously in conflict with paragraph 30 Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution” which empowers the…
…Insists rule of law must prevail on violators of human rights Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, has described the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and the Special Weapons and Tactics, SWAT, which replaced are two same of the same coin. He made the comparison when he swore in the Chairman and members of the Sokoto State Independent National Electoral Commission, SOSIEC, in Sokoto on Wednesday. According him, although the effort of the government in axing the infamous SARS is commendable, President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police, IGP Muhammad Adamu should not have been in a haste to…
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), says global economic growth is expected to fall to -4.4 per cent in 2020. She made this known on Wednesday in Washington D. C. at a virtual media conference during the ongoing 2020 IMF/World Bank annual meetings. According to Georgieva, over the next five years, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic can cost an estimated 28 trillion dollars in output losses. The managing director said that the picture over the last few months had become less dire, yet there was continued projection of the worst global recession since the Great Depression.…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to withdraw the nomination of Mrs Lauretta Onochie as a federal commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commissioner, INEC. The governor made the call when he swore in the Chairman and members of the Sokoto State Independent Electoral Commission, SIEC, at the Council Chamber of the Government House on Wednesday. While drawing Buhari’s attention, in the event he failed to withdraw Onochie’s nomination, to the fact that “the whole world is watching what is happening,” Tambuwal called on the Senate to reject the nomination. “I am appealing to PMB…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved N1.6 billion for the establishment of e-Government Procurement Platform to address corrupt practices in government’s procurement system. The Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mamman Ahmadu, said the new platform would help eliminate corruption as well as enhance the country’s procurement process. He said: “Today, BPP presented a memo on e-government procurement. E-government procurement has the potential of improving procurement process, eliminate corruption and reduce the leak time in the procurement process itself. “There have been a lot of complaints about the long time it takes to…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to dismiss the no-case submission filed by a suspected internet fraudster, Ismail Mustapha, alias Mompha, who is standing trial over an alleged N32.9 billion fraud. A statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren on Monday said Mompha was re-arraigned on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 alongside his company, Ismalob Ventures, on an amended 22-count charge of fraud. At the resumed sitting today, October 14, 2020, Mompha, through his lawyer, Gbenga Oyewole, SAN, filed a no-case submission, after the…
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday approved N1.28 billion for the purchase and installation of security equipment at seven stations of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, along Abuja-Kaduna-Kano lines. It also approved N22 billion for the reconstruction of Apapa-Oworonsoki-Ojota Phase Section Two under Infrastructural Tax Credit Scheme. Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi stated this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting of the Council, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja on Wednesday. Recall that cases of alleged bandits’ attacks on the Abuja-Kaduna train service, have been reported in recent times. Amaechi,…
Mrs Gloria Akobundu, the National Coordinator, Africa’s Development Agency (AUDA) and New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD), has urged the National Assembly to pass the requisite law to reposition the agency. Akobundu made the call at the Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee Legislative Round Table on the 2nd Peer Review Process of NEPAD on Wednesday in Abuja She said that the reform of NEPAD to AUDA was currently being waited to be passed for the agency to be able to carry out its mandate in a more professional and effective way. Akobundu said when the bill was passed into law,…
By Tina George, Minna The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District, Mohammed Sani Musa has said that the reform of the Police and other security agencies in the country, if carried out would boost operatives’ efficiency in delivering better services for the people. Musa who stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Minna also commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police for scrapping the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS). According to him, SARS had unfortunately become a virus Nigerians had to combat with due to their violations of human rights and brutality which has become…