Kano State House of Assembly has passed the Emirate Councils Amendment Bill 2020. The House presided over by the Speaker, Abdulazeez Gafasa, adopted the amendment during plenary on Tuesday in Kano. The House in 2019, approved the creation of four additional Emirate Councils, bringing the number of First Class Emirs in the state to five. The new Councils are: Gaya; Karaye, Rano, Bichi and the existing Kano Emirate Council. Majority Leader of the House, Kabiru Dashi said the amendment made provisions for the Emir of Kano, to serve as the Chairman of the Council of Chiefs, thus, putting the issue…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Kaduna Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has confirmed the death of its kidnapped officer, Mr Bulus Sanda. The Commandant, Babangida Dutsinma in a statement issued by the Spokesperson, Mr Orndiir Terzungwe on Tuesday, said late Sanda was abducted from his residence at Mararaba-Rido, Chikun local government area of the state. According to Dutsinma, the officer was dedicated to his duty in an exemplary manner. “His last location was Kaduna-North Division. He even received an award a day before his abduction and eventual death,” he said. The commandant commiserated with the family of the deceased…
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has posited that with deregulation, the price of petroleum products should rather have dropped than raised. He stated this via a tweet at his Twitter handle @Atiku on Tuesday. “I am a businessman. I look at things from an economic perspective. Questions beg answers. The price of crude is down from where it was in 2019. In the US and Europe, fuel prices are far lower than they were in 2019. If we truly deregulated, shouldn’t fuel price have dropped?,” Atiku tweeted. Recall that late week, the Federal government deregulated the oil sector, thereby rising…
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has warned that cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that were republished by a French satirical magazine last week, were “unforgivable”. French president, Emmanuel Macron has however replied that in France, freedom to blaspheme that is linked to freedom of conscience, is allowed. According to Khamenei in a statement, “The grave and unforgivable sin committed by a French weekly in insulting the luminous and holy personality of (the) Prophet revealed, once more, the hostility and malicious grudge harboured by political and cultural organisations in the West against Islam and the Muslim community. “The excuse of…
The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has warned that it would not tolerate alleged act of provocation against Nigerian citizens of Northern origin resident in Rivers or any other state by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. This is contained in a statement issued by the spokesperson of the Group, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman made available to Ashenewsonline on Tuesday. According to the statement, it is unthinkable that IPOB, which has been outlawed, would issue threats and actually carry out those threats, without apprehension by the security agencies. CNG also called on “southern governors to speak up and act for the rights…
Temi Otedola, daughter of Femi Otedola, the billionaire businessman has taking into acting debuted in an emotional movie,’Citation’. In the movie, which happened to be a teaser of Otedola’s first feature movie and directed by Kunle Afolayan, Temi played a role in a character as Moremi Oluwa in the movie ‘Citation’ which also featured prominent artistes. Temi, who said she was so excited and overfilled with gratitude over her first debut, took to her Instagram page @temiotedola to make the announcement to her fans. “I can’t believe this day is here. I can officially share the first teaser for #CitationTheMovie… “This…
The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Tijjani Muhammad-Bande has challenged Nigeria to continue to ensure that it asserts itself as a leader both at the regional level and the global stage. Muhammad-Bande who is from Nigeria, gave the charge during a virtual interaction with Nigerian journalists. He noted that Nigeria had been providing leadership in Africa, but urged the country to ensure that it continues to play positive roles. “Nigeria has been a very important member of the global community. “It has provided leadership and it should continue to improve its own processes and continue to give…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) INTERPOL i-24/7 desk has successfully uploaded 150, 000 Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (STLD) to INTERPOL Global System (IPSG) in Lyon, France seamlessly. The Service spokesman, Mr Sunday James in a statement on Tuesday said that INTERPOL i-24/7 was a major system supporting arm manned by officers of the NIS at the unit in the Service Headquarters. According to him, the Comptroller General, Mr Muhammad Babandede was briefed on the development by the team in view of the report received of the success so far, adding that the Nigerian SLTD detection and tracking system domiciled at…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that 218 Coronavirus (COVID-19), patients have recovered from the infection across the country in the last 24 hours. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Monday. The health agency said that this brought the total number of successfully treated cases in the country to 43,231. It said that there were 155 new COVID-19 infections reported in 16 states with the total number of confirmed cases in country now at 55, 160. The agency said that four deaths were recorded in the country. The NCDC stated that 42 of the…
Since the late 1990s, West African countries including Nigeria, have experienced one of the highest rice- demand growth rates in the world. Rice imports, despite dwindling foreign revenues, has played a significant role in meeting the high demand for rice in the region. This has firmly placed rice on the policy agenda of several governments in West Africa. In Nigeria, the focus for several years has been on how to increase domestic rice production and improve its competitiveness with imports. As a result, several policies and strategies including direct investments along the rice value chain have been introduced. Urbanization, changes…