The United States has imposed visa restrictions on some Nigerians involved in the run up to the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. Disclosing this in a statement on Monday, the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, Morgan Ortagus said the move also targets individuals it accused of working to undermine the November 2019 governorship polls in Kogi and Bayelsa. Ortagus said those affected were working to “undermine the Nigerian democratic process or for organising election-related violence”. “The Department of State emphasises that the actions announced today are specific to certain individuals and not directed at the Nigerian…
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The President of the Senate, Mr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan on Monday, led a high-powered delegation to condole Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, on the death of his daughter, Sadiya. Lawan said that they were in Sokoto to condole Senator Wamakko on the loss of Sadiya and prayed the Almighty Allah to grant her Aljannat Firdaus. He described Wamakko as a leader not only in Sokoto or the North alone, but to the entire country, especially in the All Progressives Congress, APC. “Senator Wamakko is a trusted and reliable leader of the APC. He is a core nationalist and a patriot. “Wamakko…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has said that the state government will construct three dams in the areas worst hit by the flood. This, he said is as a result of the perennial flood that has ravaged parts of the state. Ashenewsonline reports that many parts of Sokoto state have been hard hit by frequent flood that has submerged communities and farmlands. Worried by the development, Tambuwal while symphatizing with the people of Silame, Kebbe and Tambuwal local government areas of the state, over the flood disaster that affected the areas, assured that the construction of the dams in the areas…
The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two lecturers of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa named: Abdulahi Opashola and Adebisi Ademola and 28 others over their alleged involvement in offences bordering on internet fraud. A statement by the spokeperson of the Commission, Mr Dele Oyewole made available to Ashenewsonline on Monday gave the names of the other suspects as: Kingsley Essien; Tobiloba Adenuga; Tope Ayodele; Rasheed Mujib; Oladipo Opeyemi; Saadu Muktar; Oladejo Hammed; Hammed Tope; Ameachi Umenyi, Salauden Adam and Afolabi Gafar. Others are: Oladimeji Timi; Remilekun Adeolu; Audu John;…
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, says it has mobilised coalition of civil society groups to join the organised labour to protest against the recent hike in petrol pump price and electricity tariff. The CNPP in a statement issued by the Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu and made available to Ashwnewsonline on Monday, said it had resolved alongside civil society organisations, to back the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, in the struggle for the reversal of the increments. “It is high time we told the Nigerian government that we have ran out of patience after five years…
The Special Offences Court, sitting in Lagos and presided by Justice Mojisola Dada, has sentenced a fake crude oil merchant, Adesanya Olufemi, to 21 year imprisonment, for defrauding a lady, Oluwatoyin Akinwole, the sum of N33, 617.000.00. According to a statement by the spokesperson of the Commission, Mr Dele Oyewale and made available to Ashenewsonline on Monday, said Olufemi was arraigned by the Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside one Awojobi Ganiu, on December 11, 2018 on four-count charges bordering on stealing and obtaining money by false pretense to the tune of N33, 617.000.00.…
The Director General, National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, Professor Alex Akpa says the time is here for Nigerian scientists to authenticate claims by people who said they have developed herbal treatment for COVID-19. Speaking on the committee on COVID-19 herbal remedies and natural compounds inaugurated by Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology on Monday, Akpa said the inauguration was a welcomed development. “The committee is very important and germane and couldn’t have come at a better time because we have received many claims in the country both formally and informally. “Therefore, considering the negative impact the pandemic has…
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has inaugurated a Ministerial Committee on herbal remedies and natural compounds towards developing a homegrown treatment for COVID-19 pandemic. The committee has eminent scientists and Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) as members. Onu explained that the committee was set up to authenticate claims by researchers, scientists and traditional medicine practitioners on herbal remedies, natural compounds and non-pharmaceutical items for the treatment of the disease. He said that his ministry was making efforts toward the development of local remedy that could be deployed for the protection of Nigerians against…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed four new Permanent Secretaries into the Federal Civil Service. Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), made this known in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, by Mrs Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, Director Information, office of the HOCSF. Those appointed are Mr Sule James from Kaduna, Mr Abubakar Ismaila from Kebbi, Mrs Patricia Roberts from Rivers and Mr Shehu Shinkafi from Zamfara State. According to Yemi-Esan, the swearing-in and the deployment will be announced in due course.
Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity have rescued 31 kidnapped victims, arrested 29 bandits and their collaborators and eliminated one in continued offensives against bandits in the North West region. In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, the Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, said the troops had recorded more successes against the bandits and other criminal elements in recent time. Onyeuko also said that the troops on Aug. 30, intercepted bandits along Anka-Gummi road in Zamfara and recovered 40 rustled cow and handed them to their owners. He said that the troops foiled another cattle rustling…