Ohaneze Youth Wing urges new Service Chiefs to evolve pragmatic measures to end insecurity The Ebonyi chapter of Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Wing has urged the newly constituted Service Chiefs to evolve fresh and pragmatic strategies to deal decisively with insecurity in the country. Mr Obiya Sabastine, the state Chairman of the group, made the call on Wednesday in an interview in Abakaliki. Sabastine described the appointment of the service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari as a welcome development and urged Nigerians to give them the necessary support. “There is need for a change in every aspect of life. The president…
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Bayern Munich are donating €100,000 ($121,000) for the reconstruction of a local synagogue, the Bundesliga champions said on Wednesday. Bayern Munich also said they are adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism in another effort to further strengthen their culture of remembrance. January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking 76 years since Soviet soldiers liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The synagogue in Munich’s Reichenbach street was opened in 1931 but badly damaged during the November 1938 pogroms and World War II. “I will like to thank Bayern Munich from the bottom of my heart for…
Niger governor and chairman, North Central Governors Forum, Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger on Wednesday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of new Service Chiefs. The governor in a congratulatory message by the spokesperson of the governor, Mary Noel-Berje and made available to ASHENEWS said the decision was noble in view of the level of insecurity the nation is facing. “I enjoin you to evolve new strategies that will adequately address the security challenges that have bedeviled the region and the country as a whole. “Niger as a boundary state to the North western region of the country, is suffering from banditry,…
The Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, has donated M50 million as assistance to Sokoto state government and victims of the Sokoto Central Market inferno that occurred last week. Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, announced the donation when he visited the scene of the fire disaster in Sokoto on Tuesday. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Mr Simon Lalong and Jigawa governor Muhammad Badaru, Fayemi said the NGF will pursue the pledge made by the federal government to assist in rebuilding the burnt market as well as the victims of the inferno.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has tested positive for COVID-19, his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Terver Akase, confirmed in a statement on Wednesday in Markurdi. “The latest result of the governor’s COVID-19 test has returned positive. “This follows the test results of most of the governor’s close aides who also returned positive in the last few weeks. “Though the governor has not shown any symptoms of the disease, he has already commenced treatment as prescribed by medical personnel,” Akase said. He advised those that had contact with the governor in the last couple of days to go for test. He…
Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates said on Wednesday that he has been taken aback by the volume of “crazy” and “evil” conspiracy theories about him spreading on social media on the COVID-19 pandemic. Gates in an interview with Reuters said the millions of online posts about him and top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci were “crazy conspiracy theories.” He explained that the conspiracy theories had likely taken hold in part because of the combination of a frightening viral pandemic and the rise of social media. “Nobody would have predicted that I and Fauci would be so prominent in…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday confirmed 15 additional deaths from COVID-19 complications, bringing the total number of death toll in the country to 1,522. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Tuesday. The centre also said that 1,303 new cases of COVID-19 was recorded, bringing the total number of infection in the country to 124,299. It stated that the new infections were reported in 24 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The centre said that Lagos, FCT and Nasarawa recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections on Monday, with 478,211 and 83 cases respectively. Others state…
Members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday in Abuja observed a minute silence in honour of former three members of the cabinet who died recently. The former ministers were Alhaji Dauda Birma, Alhaji Mohammadu Gambo Jimeta and Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim. Late Birma, aged 80, who served as Minister of Education from 1997 to 1998, died on Jan. 5 while Gambo Jimeta, aged 83, died on Jan. 21. Jimeta, onetime Inspector General of Police and National Security Adviser at various times, was also the Minister of Agriculture from 1995-1997. Late Abdullahi Ibrahim was the Minister of Education, Science and…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) projected global growth for 2021 to be 5.5 per cent as against 5.2 per cent it forecast in October 2020. Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist of the fund, said this during a media conference on Tuesday in Washington D. C at the release of the January update on the WEO with revised growth forecasts for the world. She said that the new forecast was moderating to 4.2 per cent in 2022. According to her, the upgrade for 2021 reflects the positive effects of the onset of vaccinations in…
The World Bank says economic inclusion programmes are on the rise in 75 countries, reaching approximately 20 million poor and vulnerable households and benefitting nearly 92 million individuals. The bank said this in a statement on Tuesday in Washington D.C. on its newly published “State of Economic Inclusion (SEI) Report 2020: The Potential to Scale”. According to it, the surge comes at a crucial time, as more than 700 million people around the world face extreme poverty, a number on the rise for the first time in two decades. The report profiled economic inclusion programmes, usually a combination of cash…