The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji has taken out another bandits’ camp, killing scores at a location near Ungwar Ali-Kere in Katsina State. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, stated this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Enenche said the airstrike was executed on Tuesday on the heels of credible intelligence reports and confirmatory surveillance missions which revealed that bandits had established a camp at the location. He said that an appropriate force package of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets and helicopter gunships were dispatched to engage the location. According to…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
U.S. President Donald Trump’s youngest child, Baron, also contracted COVID-19 but has recovered, according to his mother and First Lady, Melania Trump. In an article on the official website of the White House titled, “My personal experience with COVID-19,” Mrs Trump also disclosed that she had also tested negative. “It was two weeks ago when I received the diagnosis that so many Americans across our country and the world had already received: I tested positive for COVID-19. “To make matters worse, my husband, and our nation’s Commander-in-Chief, received the same news. “Naturally my mind went immediately to our son. To…
Christian Eriksen’s penalty on his 100th appearance for Denmark earned his side a 1-0 win over England in their Nations League clash at Wembley on Wednesday. This was as the hosts played more than half the game with 10 men. Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Eriksen powered his spot kick past Jordan Pickford in the 35th minute, a couple of minutes after England centre back Harry Maguire had received a red card for a second booking. The closest an unfamiliar-looking England side came to an equaliser after the break was when Mason Mount’s close-range header was superbly clawed away Kasper Schmeichel.…
Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the insecurity ravaging the country, particularly the North. Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the Spokesman for the group, made the call at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday and called on the government to take urgent steps to end the situation. He particularly decried the insecurity situation in the northern part of the country, noting that in spite of several pleas by the people of the region, authorities had refused to show more interest. Suleiman also criticised the attitude of the northern elite and…
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…
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…