By Dr Attahiru Ahmad Sifawa Two days ago, there was widespread outcry on the social media over the unfortunate disconnection of the house of late President Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari from the national grid by the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company. Many people lamented the insensitivity of the company as well as the seeming neglect of the onetime number one family by the concerned authorities. It is a well-known fact that Federal government of Nigeria is responsible for the basic needs of past Presidents. Whether that also extends beyond their lifetime, by which authority and for how long, is not…
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The federal government has released N40 billion for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, for payment of earned allowances of academic and non academic staff. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who gave the update said the FG may also release N30 billion as revitalisation fund to universities by the end of January. TheNewsGuru reports that N20 of the N40 billion was voted for the payment of earned allowances of members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SANU), Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, and technologists. Although the non-academic staff have threatened strike over the sharing…
By Elizabeth Carr, Bauchi Bauchi State Police Command, have confirmed the kidnap, by gunmen of 25-year old Zulkifiru Mohammed and his friend, Iliyasu Suleiman. The spokesperson, DSP Ahmed Wakili confirmed the incident to ASHENEWS in a telephone Sunday evening According to him, the two were kidnapped after a foiled attempt to kidnap the Auditor General of Bauchi state, Alhaji Abdu Aliyu. He explained that the incident occurred Saturday evening when the Auditor General was on his way to his Kardam village in Tafawa Balewa local government area. “Although Abdu Usman Aliyu resides in Bauchi, he sometimes goes to the village…
A second impeachment trial of former U.S. president, Donald Trump is set to come a step closer. The U.S. House of Representatives prepares to forward the article of impeachment to the Senate. Carrying the charge of `incitement to sedition,’ the article is to be read before the second chamber of Congress at 7 p.m. on Monday evening (0000 GMT Tuesday). Trump is facing an unprecedented second impeachment trial based on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the deadly storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters on January 6. According to impeachment rules, the arrival of the indictment article at…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration plans to renew travel restrictions on most non-citizens who have recently been in the European Union, Britain, Ireland, and Brazil, according to U.S. media reports. Along with extending travel restrictions the White House will impose restrictions on people who have been in South Africa, where a new variant of the coronavirus has caused concern among scientists, according to reports in CNN and NBC. The White House has already said that the administration plans to renew the travel restrictions, which former President Donald Trump ordered to end on Tuesday. “With the pandemic worsening, and more contagious variants emerging…
Protracted and messy wars mean more than 600 million women and children worldwide cannot receive essential healthcare, according to estimates published in The Lancet medical journal. By 2019, the authors wrote, there were 54 “state-based armed conflicts” in 35 countries – wars that had lasted an average of two decades and presented a “growing threat to humanitarian access and the delivery of essential health services, affecting at least 630 million women and children.” The research team, from nine institutions, including Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, estimated that by 2017, 10 per cent of the world’s women and 6…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 964 cases of the COVID-19, taking the tally of infections in the country to 121,566. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Sunday. The country has so far tested 1,258,534 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on February 27, 2020. The country has also recorded its lowest daily figure of new coronavirus infections since January 3, when 917 cases wete reported. The agency also confirmed additional two coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 1,504. It noted that the additional 964 new…
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Sunday on Twitter that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Obrador added that his symptoms were light and that he was receiving medical treatment. Mexico is in the grip of a second wave of the pandemic, with the country’s official death toll from COVID-19 set to pass a grim milestone of 150,000 in coming days. “As always, I am optimistic,” Lopez Obrador, 67, said in a tweet. Reuters
The Police Command in Zamfara, says it had establish two additional police outposts in Kanoma and Janbako Communities of Maru and Maradun local government areas of the state, the scenes of recent bandits’ attack that claimed 40 lives. The command’s spokesperson, SP Muhammad Shehu in a statement in Gusau on Sunday, said the development came on the heels of a condolence and assessment visit by governor Bello Mohammed on January 23, to Kanoma and Janbako districts, over the recent attacks on the communities. During the visit, the governor directed that all the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) should be returned to…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged Nigerians to ignore fake news making the round that it would resume its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) on Monday. The commission, in a flyer titled “Fake News Alert” on its social media on Sunday, said no date had been fixed for such exercise. “INEC wishes to inform the general public that no date has been fixed for the resumption of the CVR. “We implore Nigerians to ignore the fake news making the rounds that the commission will open the register of voters from Jan. 25,” the flyer stated. The commission suspended the…