Nigerian Lagos-based constitutional lawyer and civil rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has described the appointment of new service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari as illegal. According to him in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday, Falana quoted a 2013 judgment, which described the appointments of service chiefs without the concurrence of the National Assembly, NASS, as illegal and unconstitutional. He added that the service chiefs have only been nominated but not appointed. “Yesterday (Tuesday), President Buhari was reported to have appointed new service chiefs for the armed forces. Upon a critical review of the law on the subject…
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The Vision Centre for Communication and Development Advocacy, VICCDA, has charged the new service chiefs to evolve pragmatic strategies in order to overcome the challenges of insecurity in Nigeria. The Centre in a statement by its acting chairman, Otunba Onayiga made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday, expressed optimism that the military chiefs would deploy their wealth of experience in counter terrorism and anti insurgency, to curb terrorism and other criminal activities. “The present breathe of fresh air in the military top bracket will usher in an era of a safer Nigeria where the people can go about their daily activities…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) researchers on Thursday, after the end of their quarantine in China, began investigations hoping to learn more about the origins of COVID-19. China had required that the team spend a 14-day quarantine period in a hotel before they could begin their investigations in the city of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have crossed from animals to humans in 2019. China has disputed the theory that the disease started in Wuhan, even though that is the site of the first known instances of the disease, possibly because it does not want to be blamed…
Ex-housemate of Big Brother Naija season 3 ‘Double Wahala’ Cynthia Nwadiora popularly known as Cee-C, revealed that she tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. The reality TV show star who disclosed this on her Instagram page @ceec_official said that she contracted coronavirus this January. According to her, the virus is definitely from hell. “COVID-19 did a real number on me this January but I wasn’t raised to fold under pressure , I was taught to apply it! “On a more serious note, that virus is definitely from hell, ” she wrote. Cee-C is a former Big Brother Naija Housemate and…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has declared that no vaccine would be brought to Nigeria unless certified safe and effective. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, made the assertion in at a national sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccines for Muslim scholars and Imams in Nigeria in Wednesday in Abuja The programme was organised by the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III. Shuaib disclosed that the agency was working with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday registered 22 additional deaths from the coronavirus related complications, bringing the total number of death toll in the country to 1,544. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Wednesday. The additional 22 deaths made it the second single-day record for COVID-19 deaths in the country after 23 deaths recorded on January 14. The Public health agency also announced 1,861 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours in the country. It added that the country has recorded the 1,861 new cases of COVID-19 making it-the second highest daily new infection in…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has described Coronavirus as real, urging Nigerians to protect themselves. The Sultan, who gave the warning at the COVID-19 Vaccines sensitisation meeting, organised by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), on Wednesday, in Abuja, urged the Federal Government to build public confidence ahead of the importation of the vaccines. He also asked the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) to take advantage of the meeting to ask all the questions bordering on expressed public fears of the vaccines. In his remarks, Prof. Olarewaju Oloyede , a Polymath Professor…
Today, President Biden will take executive action to tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad while creating good-paying union jobs and equitable clean energy future, building modern and sustainable infrastructure, restoring scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking across the federal government, and re-establishing the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. These Executive Orders follow through on President Biden’s promise to take aggressive action to tackle climate change and build on the executive actions that the President took on his first day in office, including rejoining the Paris Agreement and immediate review of harmful rollbacks of standards that protect…
Google’s digital advertising dominance is facing stricter regulation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC, on Thursday, published the interim report from its landmark Digital Advertising Services Inquiry. It found that Google controls 90 per cent of the digital display advertising sector when measured via impressions, which is worth 3.4 billion Australian dollars ($2.6 billion) and 70 per cent of the revenue. It warned of Google’s “ability and incentive to favour its own related business interests’’ and raised issues about the technology giant’s impacts on publishers, advertisers and consumers. “Effective competition in the Ad-Tech industry is important…
Nigeria’s National Assembly, NASS, has assured that it would consider and pass the new electoral law when it resumes for plenary by February 9, 2021. This is contained in a statement by Yomi Odunuga, the spokesperson of the chairman of the committee and deputy president of the senate, Ovie Omo-Agege made available to ASHENEWS on Wednesday. The Joint Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Electoral Matters is expected to adopt a final document this weekend, for onward presentation to both chambers for consideration and approval. According to the statement, Omo-Agege, Chairman of the panel, Senator Kabiru Gaya;…