Following a convening of civil society actors, the Nigeria Working Group on Peacebuilding and Governance – a group of Nigerian civic and thought leaders, met this week to reflect on the best line of action in collectively creating synergy in seeking pathways to the rebuilding of Nigeria. The group issued a statement yesterday signed by among others – John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, General Martin Luther Agwai (Rtd), Professors Attahiru Jega and Jibrin Ibrahim, Dr. Nguyan Shaku Feese, Amb Fatima Balla and Dr. Usman Bugaje. Their message is addressed to Nigerian citizens to rise up and act to…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Abubakar Shekara Ask any coach in the English Premier League, early season, if his team has an eye on the European Champions League. He will say his focus is on the local trophy first. One critical step at a time is the norm. After all, no club goes to Europe without acquitting itself at home to end in top four. It is the same in politics, especially for current office holders, who are favored to seek higher portfolios in upcoming polls, more often, state governors in their second terms. For most of them, the expected next step is the…
The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, handed over 39 motorcycles, (24 assembled and 15 unassembled), 22 grinding machines and 10 units of sewing machines to the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, Sokoto office, for onward disbursement to the beneficiaries. A statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren made available to ASHENEWSONLINE on Thursday said the items were diverted constituency empowerment items, recovered from a contractor with the Directorate. The Sokoto Zonal Head of the EFCC, Bawa Usman Kaltungo, while handing over the items, described the development as a milestone…
The trial of the former governor of Kebbi State, Usman Sa’idu Dakingari for alleged N450 million fraud has been adjourned till October 26, 2020. This followed the stalling of the case in court on Wednesday, October 8, 2020 due to absence of the trial judge, Honourable Justice Sunday Bassey Onu. A statement by the spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren on Thursday said “Dakingari is standing trial alongside two others, Sunday Dogonyaro and Garba Rabiu Kamba for allegedly receiving the said sum from the former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke for the purpose…
Kano State AgroPastoral Development Project, KSADP, will spend millions of Naira to support the survey, demarcation, gazettement and monumentation of 1,950 km of stock routes across Kano state. Presently, Kano State has 1,450 km of major stock routes and 500 km of minor stock routes many of which have been blocked by farms or infrastructure, forcing herdsmen to traverse through farms to reach water or grazing areas, which often leads to violent clashes with farmers. “The aim, therefore, is to mitigate recurrent conflict between herdsmen and farmers, arising from blocking or encroachment of the cattle stock routes. Such conflicts normally…
The Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned one Prince Adeniran Owen Alao, a retired Army Captain, and four others for alleged land fraud before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Astatement by the spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren said Alao, who is also the Baale of Megida Town, Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos, is facing trial alongside, Kolusade Oluwafemi, Quadro Lookman and Atinuse Albert, Owerser Nigeria Limited on a four-count charge bordering on stealing, offering gratification to a public official, corruption and abuse of office by public…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has dissociated himself from social media reports that he has intention to contest presidential election in 2023. In a terse statement by his spokesperson, Muhammad Bello and mailed to ASHENEWSONLINE on Thursday, the governor said that he has not declared any intention to contest for President as reported by some social media outfits. “For the avoidance of doubt, nothing can be further from the truth than this. Governor Tambuwal has not declared his political intention in recent times, so the news about his running for the highest political office is a figment of the imagination…
By Attahiru Ahmed, Gusau Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity, have arrested a notorious bandits logistics supplier, killed 4 bandits and recovered 2 round of special ammunition in Zamfara and Katsina states. A statement by the Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig. General Bernard Onyeuko on Thursday said the troops of Sahel Sanity have continued to record more successes in their fight against bandit activities in North West region. Onyeuko said on 29th September, the troops arrested a suspected drug peddler, Yusufa Mai Unguwar Ahaska from Dorayi in Unguwar Doka village in Faskari local government of Katsina state, who confessed to…
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Muhammad Adamu has approved the recruitment of 7,500 youths by Zamfara government to serve as special constabularies for community policing in their respective areas. The state commissioner of Police, Usman Nagogo disclosed this while addressing the first batch of the recruited youths in Gusau on Thursday. Nagogo said that out of the number, 3,850 youths had been screened by the police as the first batch. “We are transporting them to Police Training Colleges in Sokoto and Kaduna states for a two-month training, after which they would return to the state in December, and after…
A group of civil society actors under the aegis of Nigeria Working Group on Peace Building and Governance has said that “increasing insecurity across the country continues,” including kidnapping, Boko Haram insurgency, etc “to gallop towards the abyss due to the lack of political will and the inability of the country’s security architecture to manage the multiple challenges.” The communiqué was signed by Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, General Martin Luther Agwai (Rtd.), Professor Attahiru Jega, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim, Dr. Nguyan Shaku Feese, Dr. Usman Bugaje, Adagbo Onoja, Ambassador Fatima Balla, Ambassador Zango Abdu, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Dr.…