The U.S president and first lady, Melinda Trump have tested positive for coronavirus and will begin quarantine Friday. The first couple were tested positive after one of the president’s most senior advisers, Hope Hicks, tested positive on Thursday. Trump made this known through his Twitter handle, @realDonaldTrump early Friday morning (Nigerian time). “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump tweeted. The Guardian reports that Hicks accompanied the president to the first presidential debate on Air Force One on Wednesday. Trump also confirmed on Fox…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) has called for a national dialogue on the way forward for Nigeria. The forum Chairman, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state, made the call in his ‘Nigeria@ 60 Independence Anniversary’ message on Thursday in Abuja. Tambuwal said that the forum believed that through a national conversation, realistic and acceptable solutions could be found to the problems posing a threat to peaceful coexistence and national unity of the country. He said that the nation could not continue to remain helpless in the face of challenges confronting her people. “We cannot continue to plead indifference or…
Bauchi governor, Bala Mohammed has lamented the leading position of the state in the number of children not attending schools in spite of the positive efforts of government in the Education sector. Speaking during a town-hall meeting on Thursday, the governor said that the state had the highest number of out-of-school children of 1.4 million in the country. He reiterated his administration’s determination to improve the Education and Health sectors in the state. “Those out-of-school children are our children; they.may not go to school maybe because of poverty if their parents cannot afford it. “Today, we have built over 300…
The Steering committee of the Survival Fund and Guarantee Off-take on Thursday inaugurated the Artisan and Transport sector Track of the Survival Fund Scheme, The scheme will see 333,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country being given N30,000 support. Mrs Ibukun Awosika, a member of the Steering Committee, MSME Sustainability Group, said in Lagos that the sustainability plan was introduced by President Muhammadu Buhari on July 1. Awosika, also Chairperson, Board of Directors, First Bank of Nigeria, said that the operation grant was being given to reduce the effect of income loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Kaduna Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain, Lawal Adamu Usman has use the youth to join politics actively, saying they are the engine of society. Lamenting that the older generation of Nigerian leaders who have clung to power since independence, have failed the younger generations and urged the youth to stand up against these type of leaders. “Demand that they show real commitment to reducing youth unemployment, insecurity and poverty,” Adamu, the PDP Senatorial candidate for Kaduna Central in the 2019 elections told the youth. He lamented that there are voices from some older generation Nigerian leaders who, after spectacularly failing to deal with…
By Rachael Arukai, Dutse As Nigeria celebrates its 60th independence anniversary, citizens have continued to express mixed reactions, with many positing that the country has nothing on record to celebrate her freedom from colonial rule. ASHENEWSONLINE spoke with a few citizens in Dutse, capital of Jigawa state. Former member representing Birniwa, Guri and Kirikasamma Federal constituency of Jigawa state in the House of Representatives, Mr Abba Adamu called for political revolution in order to produce leadership. He stressed that Nigeria needed people that will sincerely serve the people and help revamp the bartered economy, adding that the corrupt ones must…
The Kano State Government has released a time table for re-opening of public and private schools for the third term academic year. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mr Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru, who released the time table at a news conference on Thursday in Kano, disclosed that the schools would be re-opened in phases and that exit class students in public and private schools would resume between Oct. 11 and Oct. 12. He said that primary I and II pupils would attend classes on Mondays and Tuesdays while primary 3, 4 and 5 would attend classes on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The…
By Elizabeth Carr, Bauchi Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, has vowed to de-radicalise the youth in the state as well as empower them. The governor made this known at a covers-action with youth and women groups to mark Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary in Bauchi on Thursday. According to Mohammed, all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, responsible for youth empowerment have been directed to come up with necessary skills acquisition programs. This, he added, is in addition to the Kaura Empowerment program where one thousand tricycles were distributed. “The youths de-radicalization program has gained acceptance as government has engaged youths hitherto engaged…
By Gami Tadanyigbe The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called on the Federal Government to pay seven months salary areas owed them and the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment and mainstreaming of of earned academic allowances among others. ASUU also urged the government to release fund for revitalisation of the Nigerian university system, visitation panel to Federal Universities and proliferation of state universities for the development of the education sector. Prof. Theophilus Lagi, the ASUU, Abuja Zonal Coordinator, made the call during a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, to commemorate the country’s 60th independence Day Celebration.…
By Gami Tadanyigbe, Abuja Hon. Micah Jiba, the lawmaker, representing AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency, has called on Nigerians for a collective and selfless support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, to move the country to greater height. Jiba, who made the call while reacting to President Muhammadu Buharis Independence Day speech on Thursday, also urged residents of the FCT, to always strive for peace and unity of the country. According to him, the issues of political, religious and ethnic sentiments should be kept aside by Nigerians if the country must grow and compete favourably with other developed nations. He acknowledged the fact that…