Nigeria and other West African nations are set to adopt a new system of utilizing satellite technology in better predicting environmental patterns to help mitigate flood. The adoption follows an initiative by African Union (AU) Leaders and the European Union in the training of key stakeholders in the application of the technology. The training which opened in Abuja and is also to hold simultaneously in other West African Countries, is being conducted by the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education (CSSTE), under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES and Africa) initiative. Giving insights on the…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
India reported the biggest daily jump of 64,531 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the total to 2,767,273, according to the latest data released by the Federal Health Ministry. The death toll in the country also increased to 52,889, with 1,092 new deaths reported during the past 24 hours. According to the data, there are still 676,514 active cases across India, and 2,037,870 people have been cured and discharged from hospitals. Over the past few weeks, the Indian government has been focusing on ramping up testing capacity. Till Tuesday, a total of 31,742,782 tests had been conducted, out of which…
A businessman has played a recorded tape before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential Probe Panel, showing how some operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), allegedly used a lawyer to demand bribery of N75 million to be paid into different accounts. The businessman, Mr. Donald Wokoma of Damijay Integrated Services Limited, had tendered an affidavit of fact in support of a petition he wrote against the operatives for extortion before unfreezing his account. The EFCC had in 2018, refused to obey the order of Justice O.C. Agbaza to lift the restrictions on the account of Damijay Services Limited, after…
Malian rebel troops have seized power from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse. The troops also arrested the two leaders. ChannelsTV reports that neighbouring West Africa countries, France, the European Union and the African Union, have condemned the coup. Malian President and Prime Minister The UN Security Council will hold emergency talks on the crisis on Wednesday, diplomats in New York said. “We can tell you that the president and the prime minister are under our control” after they were “arrested” at Keita’s residence in the capital Bamako, a rebel leader, who requested anonymity, told AFP. Boubou…
The Niger Police Command, has confirmed the killing of a foreign national, who was reportedly abducted along with a Nigerian by suspected bandits between Yakila and Tegina villages of Rafi local government area of the state. Confirming the incident, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Adamu Usman told news men that at about 12pm, the body of the kidnap victim was recovered by the crack team in Pangu Gari bushes in Gunna district of local government area. According to him, the Police had conveyed the corpse to Minna General Hospital for autopsy, while investigation is in progress. Usman added that the…
The AfDB Group provided AU with $5 million institutional grant towards the establishment of the secretariat The African Union Commission, AUC, on Monday commissioned the permanent secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in Ghana. At the commissioning ceremony, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo and Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the AU Commission, reiterated the importance of the body to the continent’s economic transformation agenda, a statement by APO Group said. “The economic integration of Africa will lay strong foundations for an Africa beyond aid. Africa’s new sense of urgency and aspiration of true self-reliance will be amply demonstrated…
The management of Economic Confidential, an Abuja-based economy-focused magazine, says it will not bow to alleged threats and blackmail of a part-time Chairman of the Governing Board of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Clinton Jaja. Managing Editor and Director of the magazine, Mr. Ewache Ajefu, in a statement on Tuesday alleged that Jaja is hell-bent on smearing the image of the country’s media. According to him, the NCC Governing Board Chairman has been threatening media houses to drop a report on the response of the Director-General (DG) of the agency, John Asein, to his detractors. Ajefu, in his statement titled,…
The National Biosecurity Policy committee, set up by the Director General of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba on Monday, presented its preliminary draft of the policy. The DG, while receiving the document in Abuja, commended members of the committee for ensuring they met the given deadline for the submission of the draft policy. Ebegba said the issue of biosecurity had become more emphasized with the emergence of the COVID-19, as the pandemic has also become a serious biosecurity issue all over the world. “The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that there is a need to have…
Youths under the auspices of Nigerian Youths Organisation, NYO, have vowed to stage mass protest in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, if government failed to make corrective measures to change the dwindling economic situation in the nation’s capital. In a press conference tagged: ‘FCT Must be Delivered,’ organised by NYO and Coalition of FCT Youths organisations, the group expressed concern that the FCT administration led by the Minister, Muhammad Bello allegedly blocked key revenue bases of the territory. Comrade Isreal Opalewa, Chairman of NYO, FCT chapter, who spoke on behalf of the youth organisations, explained that they have been monitoring…
The acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mohammed Umar on Monday, warned Designated Non-Financial Institutions, DNFIs, across the country against un-reported suspicious transactions to appropriate government agencies. Umar made the declaration at EFCC Academy, in Karu Abuja, during the opening ceremony of a four-day training on “Asset Tracing and Investigation,” organized by the EFCC for its officers, drawn from its 14 zonal offices. According to him, in a statement by Dele Oyewale, Head, Media and Publicity and made available to Ashenewsonline, stiff penalties would be meted out to any erring DFNI in this regard. The training, which is…