By Abu Shekara The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Usra Hendra Harahap paid courtesy visit on Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, at the Government House on Thursday. During the visit, the deepening collaboration between that country and the state towards socioeconomic development was described by both parties as the continuation of interactions to consolidate a beneficial partnership. Tambuwal, last year, embarked on an official trip to Indonesia in the company of officials of relevant MDAs in the state’s socioeconomic sector. The visit to the Asian nation has far reaching positive implications for the advancement of Sokoto State socio-economically. Indonesia, which has…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto on Thursday inaugurated a high-powered committee to come up with a viable strategy to make dry season farming a robust scheme with a view to cushion the effects of flooding that ravaged many parts of the state. A statement by the spokesperson of Governor Tambuwal, Bello Muhammad said the committee is headed by the District Head of Kilgori, Dr Jabbi Kilgori and has three weeks to submit its report. Other members of the committee are the state Commissioners of Agriculture, Environment, Animal Health and Water Resources. Similarly, the General Manager of Sokoto Agricultural Development Program…
By Attahiru A. Gusau The National chairman of a non governmental organization, NGO, Patriot for the Advancement of Peace and Development, Dr Sani Shinkafi has raised an alarm that some politicians were to breach peace in Zamfara state. Addressing newsmen in Gusau, the state capital on Thursday, Dr Shinkafi appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to act fast towards ensuring peaceful coexistence in the state. Shinkafi noted that Buhari is a president of Nigeria and not only working for All Progressive Congress, APC, or any other political party. According to him, the situation of insecurity in the state was getting bad, while…
Last Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State was a positive development for electoral democracy in Nigeria. This is despite the fact that in the build-up to the election, there was a lot of desperation displayed by politicians engaged in “do or die” politics, inflammatory campaigns and pre-election violence. There was palpable fear that the atmosphere would degenerate into systematic disregard for the rules and procedures of the electoral process set out in law and regulations thereby affecting the outcome. The conduct of the campaign was bad tempered with outlandish claims by the leading parties that they would deliver massive majority…
The Director General, Lagos Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu has confirmed that 30 adults were injured, 23 buildings and 15 vehicles were also destroyed by the Iju-Ishaga tanker explosion. According to Oke-Osanyintolu, after putting out the fire at about 6:00pm on Thursday in Lagos, the post disaster assessment regarding Iju-Ishaga is as follows: two Residential buildings, one Church, one Event Centre, four Commercial buildings, a market consisting of 15 shanty shops, 11 Cars, two Mini trucks, one bus, one Heavy duty Truck were destroyed. Oke-Osanyintolu said that this brought the total number of properties destroyed to 23 buildings and…
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has given reasons why he did not appear before the Justice Ayo Salami panel, that is probing the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu. A statement by his spokesperson, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu made available to Ashenewsonline Thursday evening, said the provision of the Constitution and extant laws only empower the Attorney General to serve supervisory role and further explained that his non-appearance at the panel was purely Constitutional and not based on any ulterior motive and that his action had taken over his…
The United States has sanctioned several Iranian officials and entities for alleged gross human rights violations, including the recent execution of an athlete. Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old wrestler accused of murdering a security guard, was executed on Sept. 12 in spite of international appeals for him to be spared. U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Michael Pompeo, announced the sanctions in a statement on Thursday. Those affected include two judges identified as Seyyed Sadati and Mohammad Soltani, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz, and the Vakilabad Prisons. Pompeo alleged that they were responsible for “torture or cruel, inhuman or…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to compromise the credibility of Ondo Governorship election with the contemplation of using the Z-pad technology in voter accreditation process. The Chairman, Publicity Sub-Committee, PDP National Campaign Council for Ondo Governorship election, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, gave the advice in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. Ologbondiyan said the campaign recalls that the Z-pad technology had failed during a test-run deployment for voter accreditation in Nasarawa by-election. The situation, according to him, informed its rejection by INEC for voter accreditation in the Sept. 19, Edo state governorship election, where…
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Umar Abbah has disclosed that the Commission recovered over N4.16 billion from lottery companies, being revenue owed to the government, which they refused to remit. He made the disclosure on September 24, 2020 at the EFCC Headquarters while hosting a delegation from the Ministerial Task Force for recovery of unpaid revenues from lottery businesses, led by its chairman, Willaims Alo. Mohammed noted that lottery companies operating in the country were not forthcoming in remitting revenues that were due to the government hence the need for the EFCC to…
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has emerged winner of the 2020 Zik Prize, in the Professional Leadership Category. Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC Director, Public Affairs, made this known in a statement, on Thursday in Abuja. Adinde said that the NCC boss was informed of the development through a letter dated July 2020, which was jointly signed by the Chairman of the Board, Sen. Jubril Aminu, and Prof. Pat Utomi, who were members of the Advisory Board of the prestigious award. In his remarks, Utomi said that telecommunications’ contribution to the Gross Domestic…