The Sokoto State University chapter of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has commended Sokoto governor, Aminu Tambuwal for approving payment of earned allowances for members Its chairman, Mr Abdullahi Maigandi who said this at a special congress meeting in Sokoto on Thursday, described the gesture as a motivation for greater service, stressing that it was the first in the history of the Sokoto State University. ASHENEWS reports that the entitlements include hazard, excess workload and responsibility allowances. While applauding the governor for always giving the required attention to issues of public importance, the chairman further urged him…
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By Constance Imasuen The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says it is proposing to impose fines on Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) for wrongfully disconnecting customers from power supply. This information was made available on NERC website titled “Consultation Paper on Review of Customer Protection Regulations in The Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI)” signed by its Chairman, Mr Sanusi Garba. The paper proposed that any DisCo which disconnects a customer’s supply in violation of this regulation, commits an offence and is liable upon conviction to pay the customer a penalty. The penalties as specified in the regulation are residential N1,000, commercial…
Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum, has inducted 1,000 hunters recently engaged to join existing ones in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram. Inducted at Gongulong ward on Thursday, the hunters are to provide dedicated protection to farmers who cultivate crops in outskirts of Jere, where over 70 farmers were killed in November 2020 as well as farms in parts of Maiduguri metropolis, Konduga and Mafa local government areas. Zulum has since 2019, engaged the services of thousands of hunters drawn from different parts of northern Nigeria, to join volunteers in the civilian JTF and vigilantes. The governor also increased and…
The Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association NAOWA, has pledged its support for the Army under the leadership of the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.-Gen Faruk Yahaya . The National President and wife of the new COAS, Mrs Salamatu Yahaya said this when the executive council members of the association were in his office to congratulate him on his appointment as the 22nd COAS of the Nigerian Army on Thursday. According to Mrs Salamatu, the association will give the Nigerian Army all necessary support needed to succeed. She also appealed for Army’s support to enable NAOWA sustain its humanitarian…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe Participants rise from a civil society consultative meeting on community networks with a call on the federal government to expedite action on the development of national community networks. Community networks is a telecommunications infrastructure deployed and operated by a local group to meet their own communication needs and also a communications infrastructure, designed and erected to be managed for use by local communities. “The national regulator should hasten the processes of articulating a National Community Networks Policy for the country,” the participants urged government. The one-day meeting, held virtually on July 27 2021 and attended by over…
A deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari says he never received money from Ramon Abbas, who’s popularly known as Hushpuppi. The police officer was mentioned in a US court document where Hushpuppi told US prosecutors that he gave Kyari $1.1million of the proceeds of the crime. However, Kyari on his official Facebook page on Thursday, and said he never received any money from Hushpuppi. According to him, Hushpuppi alleged two years ago that the lives of his family members were threatened by one Vincent, who was arrested but later released after it was realised that nobody’s life was threatened. “Abbas…
A US court document has accused popular Nigerian Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari of benefitting from an international fraud case involving Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi. The document alleged that Hushpuppi bribed Kyari in order to arrest and jail Chibuzo Vincent, an estranged ‘co-conspirator,’ in a $1.1million fraud case. It also revealed that Hushpuppi pleaded guilty to the multi-million dollar fraud charges filed against him by the United States government and explained how the proceeds from the crime were spent. Read part of the court document below: “The proceeds of the fraud allegedly were laundered in several ways.…
The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has demanded the federal government, to proscribe Afenifere and all other religious, ethnic, cultural and tribal groups that were acting to undermine Nigeria’s peace, security, and peaceful coexistence through unguarded utterances and deliberate actions aimed at fomenting unrest and engendering inter-religious and inter-communal conflicts. The CNG, which was reacting to Afenifere’s statement, which compared Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho to Prophet Muhammad, made the demand in a statement its spokesperson, Abdulazeez Suleiman made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday. The group also warned Afenifere, Adebanjo and such other groups, that such extreme provocations and insistent…
The Department of State Services (DSS) again on Thursday, defied a court order to produce the 12 detained aides of Yoruba-nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja had ordered the DSS to produce in court on July 29, the 12 aides who have been in their custody since July 2, 2021. Their case was expected to proceed regardless of the annual court vacation slated to begin on July 26. But since the DSS failed to bring the aides before the court on Thursday, the case has stalled yet…
By Abujah Racheal Nigeria’s COVID-19 spike has continued with the country recording 535 new cases across some states. The new cases recorded on Wednesday were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its recent update on the outbreak. Five deaths were recorded while 49 patients have been discharged. Of the cases, Lagos recorded an alarming number of 219 infections, Akwa Ibom 142 and Oyo 47. Nigeria’s total figure has continued to rise recently, although authorities have yet to officially declare a third wave of the pandemic. As part of efforts to prevent the disturbing trend and control…