A Nigerian elderstatesman and presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC, Alhaji Bashir Tofa has advused president Muhammadu Buhari, to take the current insecurity in the country more serious. In a statement captioned, “statement of serious concern” and made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday, Tofa said that killings, especially of northern Nigerians is unacceptable. The elderstatesman observed that tension, as a result of the seeming uncontrolled attacks on Northerners is brewing and that reprisal attacks on southerners would be hard to control. “The mayhem we see, almost everyday now, of killings and maiming of people of Northern extraction, including…
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A member representing Ukwa East and Ukwa West federal constituency at the House of Representatives, Uzoma Nkem-Abonta on Tuesday, alleged that some Nigerians were misappropriating COVID-19 funds. Speaking on ChannelsTV Sunrise Daily monitored by ASHENEWS, Nkem-Abonta said he welcomed the House of Representatives’ plan to probe the N83.9 billion appropriated for the response to COVID-19 in the 2020 Appropriation Act. “In Nigeria, COVID-19 came to become a huge business. It became something that the ordinary man couldn’t understand. It became something that the ordinary man felt exploited. “From the beginning of the Covid till now, we only hear billions of…
The Northern Nigerian Security and Public Safety Concern, NSPSC, has expressed displeasure at the emerging trend of lobbying the presidency, by sections of Nigerians, for appointment to the post of the Inspector General of Police. NSPSC in a statement by its North Central Coordinator, Benedict Ene said it is saddened by “the developments that interest and sectional groups are championing the lobby for successors to the IG position. “It is saddening to see that vested interests from Katsina have been pressuring the President to appoint Dan Malam, a Katsina man, while the North East bloc is intensifying lobby for Alkali…
The Senate Committee chairman oon Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sen. Kabiru Gaya says the National Assembly is looking at the possibility of adopting electronic voting in the country. Gaya who represents Kano South in the 9th Senate and a former governor of Kano State, said this at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja. He, however, said that the main focus of the National Assembly presently was to ensure that elections in the country were transparent, free and fair. He added that Nigerians should be confidence in the country’s electoral process. The lawmaker said just as the…
The Police in Abuja on Tuesday, confirmed the kidnap of Mr John Makama, father of Bwari Area Council Chairman, Mr John Gabaya. CSP Biodun Makanjuola, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), in charge of Bwari Police Station, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview. Makanjuola said that the incident took place at about 1:00 a.m. on Tuesday, adding that the police were gathering details of what actually transpired. He said that the victim was kidnapped alongside his two other siblings, adding that the police were strategising to rescue them unhurt. A family member of Makama said on condition of anonymity, that…
The Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the arraignment of Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, charged for alleged N7.1 billion fraud until June 7. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was to arraign Kalu, following a Supreme Court order that he and his co-defendants in fraud charge be retried, having quashed the 12-year jail sentence handed to them by a Federal High Court in Lagos. When the matter was called, counsel to the EFCC, Mr Chile Okoronma told the court that there was a preliminary matter that needed to be resolved before the former Abia governor could be arraigned.…
Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), says private universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in the country are already accessing its N7.5 billion National Research Fund (NRF). The fund said the fund was meant to bolster the conduct of cutting-edge researches in the nation’s tertiary institutions. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro said this on Monday while declaring open a 4-day meeting of TETFund Research and Development Standing Committee in Abuja. Bogoro said the breakthrough came two years after the Board of Trustees of TETFund granted the approval for private institutions to draw from the funds. He said…
The Nigerian government says its Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and the African Centre for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) at Redeemers University Ede, have six detected additional B.1.1.7 variant in the country. Dr Chikwe, Ihekweazu, Director General, NCDC, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, National briefing. “On January, 30, our partners at ACEGID detected the B.1.1.7 variant in six additional samples – five from Osun and one from Kwara state. This is the variant of concern that first emerged in the UK. “The five in Osun is most likely related to the fact that this is where…
Nigerian Minster of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu says the country needs to reform its electoral system by adopting electronic voting to help eliminate errors caused by human factor in compiling results. This was contained in a statement released by Josephine Ademu, Press and Public Relations Officer of the ministry, on Tuesday in Abuja. According to her, the minister said this during a facility visit to the Electronic Development Institute (ELDI) in Awka, Anambra on Monday. The statement said Onu was positive that if the country reformed its electoral system and adopted e-voting, election malpractices, fraud and less credible…
Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday, said it recorded 21 deaths and confirmed 676 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. According to NCDC, though the COVID-19 infections dropped for the second consecutive day on Monday, the total cases now stand at 141,918. NCDC also disclosed that 21 coronavirus-related deaths occurred in the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 1,607 in Nigeria. It stated that the 676 new cases were reported in 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The agency said that Lagos State topped the list with 227 new infections, followed by Rivers with…