Seven national officers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday, resigned from their positions in the party. The officials made their decisions known in separate letters addressed to the party’s National Secretary, alleged that they were being sidelined and unfairly treated by the National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus. The officials include the National Deputy Publicity Secretary, Diran Odeyemi; Deputy National Organising Secretary, Hassan Yakubu; and the Deputy National Woman Leader, Hadizat Umoru. This is coming after a former spokesperson of the party’s presidential Campaign, Kasim Afegbua, accused the chairman and the leadership of series of offences, including corruption.
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The management of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, has mourned the death of its 200-level student, Adeyinka Daniel. A student of Software Engineering, Daniel died in an auto crash along Oyememun Road Akure in the early hours of Monday. The Registrar of the institution, Mr Richard Arifalo in a statement made available to ASHENEWS, commiserated “with the family, friends and fellow students of the deceased on this very painful loss of a promising student. “The university is particularly saddened by the circumstances leading to his death.” According to the Registrar, the deceased student, who “along with others were…
I have refrained from saying or writing anything about the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, since my exit as the Executive Secretary/CEO on 1st July, 2019. But, since the story about the recovery of the sum of N5.4 billion NHIS funds broke out last week, I have been inundated with a lot of inquiries from the Press; some mischievously insinuating that I was complicit in this supposedly “trapped funds of NHIS” recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The news stories did not acknowledge or credit the efforts of my team which led to the recovery of these…
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has kicked against plans by Shell Petroleum to sell its land based and shallow offshore oil fields and infrastructures in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The ERA/FoEN, in a statement by its Programmes Director, Mike Karikpo made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday, said “Whilst it has been at the forefront of campaigns to leave the oil in the soil and to halt oil and gas extraction, it strongly deplores the insensitivity of the transnational corporation that has over the last few years been divesting from the region, collecting huge payouts…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, says Nigeria has confirmed 32 cases of Delta variant of COVID-19 in four states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, spoke about this during the resumed briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee on Monday in Abuja. Nineteen of the cases were reported in Akwa Ibom state. Ihekweazu listed Lagos, Cross River, and Oyo states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as the other places where at least one case of the Delta variant of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the country. Since the…
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho on Tuesday in Abuja, issued an order unfreezing the bank account of the Chairman of Daar Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi. Justice Tsoho gave the order while delivering a ruling on Dokpesi’s application argued by Mr Kanu Agabi, SAN. The judge ordered that the account domiciled at First Bank be immediately ‘unfrozen’ since the criminal charges which precipitated the restriction on the account had been dismissed and Dokpesi discharged and acquitted by the Court of Appeal. The judge said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) had no basis…
Sen. Bukola Saraki on Tuesday, led a meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Reconciliation Committee, with Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, former Senate President and Liyel Imoke, former Governor of Cross Rivers, among others. They stormed Ibadan, Oyo state, for a brief close door meeting that lasted 30 minutes with Oyo governor, Seyi Makinde. Speaking with newsmen immediately after the meeting, Makinde said that journalists would be briefed at the end of the elaborate meeting scheduled to hold at the Government House later in the day. A source said that the committee was in Ibadan to meet factional leaders…
By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 11 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24-hours, adding to a recent surge in infections, driven by the spread of the Delta variant in the country. The NCDC, which made this known via its verified website on Tuesday, added that the country also reported additional 444 infections as at August 2, 2021. The new infections indicated an increase from the 407 cases announced a day earlier. The country’s case had been rising over the past few week, since the discovery of the Delta strain of the disease, raising fears…
MTN is yet to renew its Universal Access Service License (UASL), the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. This is contained in a statement by Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, NCC, in Abuja. “The attention of the NCC is drawn to a publication in an online media titled: “Govt renews MTN Nigeria licence amid 20 years of GSM Phones. “The publication was to the effect that the mobile operating licence of MTN had been renewed by the Commission for another period of ten years. “The online publication which cited regulatory filings by the NCC as its source, stated that…
The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has announced the provision of $550m in funding by the World Bank (WB) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support the implementation of its off-grid solution projects. Mr Ahmed Abubakar, Communication Expert, REA, who made this known in a statement in Abuja, on Monday, added that out of the amount, $213 million was for the mini-grid components of both the WB and the AfDB, while $75 million was for standalone solar home systems component of the WB. He further explained that $205 million was for Energizing Education Programme (EEP) Phases II and III components…