The Zamfara Government has accused the administration of former governor Abdulaziz Yari of diverting N10.8 billion meant for the state university project. The State Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Rabiu Garba, made the accusation at a press conference in Gusau on Tuesday. However, former commissioner of finance under Yari’s administration, Alhaji Mukhtar Idris dismissed the allegation as politically motivated. Garba said “based on the records available to us, the past administration in the state had diverted the sum of N10.8 billion from the N37 billion refunded to the state by the federal government for the construction of 14 federal roads. “We…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Sokoto Hisbah Commission, has arrested Baffa Tafida, son of Special Adviser on Social Investment in the state, Alhaji Hayatu Tafida for, in 2017, allegedly luring a girl (name withheld) to a hotel, allegedly drugged her, had sex and video-recorded the act. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the Commandant of the Commission, Dr Adamu Kasarawa said that Baffa hid the recorded video and released it on social media and the supposed spouse in 2020, when the lady was about to get married. According to Kasarawa, Baffa and his partners were arrested following complaint brought before them by the mother of…
The National Food Security Council, has assured Nigerian farmers that it would reduce prices of NPK fertiliser from N5,500 to N5,000 per bag as earlier ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari in April, to boost food production in the country. Kebbi governor, Atiku Bagudu, who is also the Vice-Chairman of the Council, alongside Jigawa governor, Abubakar Badaru, briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday. Bagudu explained that the implementation of the president’s directive was informed by the fact that production of the commodity had been normalized in the country following…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted that it would proceed with its planned nationwide protest with effect from Sept. 28 over Federal Government refusal to reverse the hikes in electricity tariff and fuel pump price. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this while addressing newsmen at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC on Tuesday in Abuja. The NLC’s Central Working Committee (CWC) on Sept. 17 had issued a two-weeks ultimatum to the Federal Government to reverse the hike in electricity tariff and pump price of petrol or workers would embarked on a nationwide…
The Federal Government has expressed worry over multinational companies’ usage of the nation’s underground water resources for commercial purposes without obtaining license. The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, said this in Abuja on Tuesday at a joint press conference with the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to address the controversies surrounding the National Water Resources Bill. Adamu said it was worrisome that without a law to protect the nation’s water resources sector, indiscriminate usage would not be addressed, hence the need for the passage of the National Water Resources Bill into law. According to him, Federal Government…
The Trade Union Congress (TUC), has said that eight states are yet to commence the payment of the new minimum wage and its consequential adjustments. Its President, Mr Quadri Olaleye, and Secretary General, Mr Musa-Lawal Ozigi, in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos, said that the union had written to the governors and also engaged them in dialogue, but without any success. The leaders, while expressing deep concern, said that the union had decided to collaborate with its sister union, the Nigeria Labour Congress, to carry out its planned protest formerly scheduled for Sept. 23, but now shifted to Sept.…
Before Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal took over the mantle of leadership in Sokoto state in 2015, his predecessors had sunk an initial whooping N3.8 billion into the independent power project (IPP). The target then, specifically in November 2008, was that the project would provide 24-hour electricity to the state. After 11 years and despite gulping more than N4 billion, the project which was scheduled to generate 38 megawatts of electricity within six months of completion by the United States-based energy company, Vulcan Capital Energy, stalled as the power plant couldn’t generate any electricity because of fuelling challenges. Back then, experts…
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has dismissed claims by the Coalition of North East Elders for Peace and Development, that there is a worsening security situation in the region and other parts of the country. In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said that it is amusing that a group from the North East could make claims that are not supported by facts. “We are amused to see an assertion by a hitherto unknown group headed by one Zanna Goni, and which some media outfits tagged as North East elders, flaying President Muhammadu…
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has enacted to report that he and his family were under surveillance by the U.S’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, over alleged financial fraud. Paul Ibe, Atiku’s Spokesperson in a statement issued on Tuesday and made available to Ashenewsonline, said his principal’s attention was drawn to recycled and regurgitated lies about him. According to the statement, the same lies were reeled out before the last presidential election, which he proved wrong. “For the avoidance of doubt, Atiku Abubakar is not under any U.S. watch list, neither has he been charged, or will ever be charged…
An suspected internet fraudster on the list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, Mr Felix Osilama Okpoh, has reported himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. A statement by the Spokesperson of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren made available to Ashenewsonline on Tuesday, said Okpoh is one of those allegedly on the watch list of the FBI, for his involvement in a $6m internet fraud. Alongside Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode and Nnamdi Orson Benson, Okpoh had been declared wanted by the FBI sometime in 2019 for their alleged involvement in a Business Email…