Nigeria on Thursday, recorded seven deaths and single-day highest surge of 1,964 COVID-19 new cases, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, reported on its Twitter handle @NCDCgov. With total 116,655 recorded infections by January 21, the country has so far tested 1,203,113 people since the first index case was announced on February 27, 2020. The NCDC said that additional seven people died from coronavirus-related complications in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,485. It said that with 1,310 people discharged from various isolation centres across the country, after testing negative to the virus, the number of recoveries…
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U.S. vice president Kamala Harris, says the country reversed its withdrawal from the World Health Organisation, WHO, in order to resume its constructive role in global public health. She spoke with WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus on Thursday. According to Harris, the US will “fulfill its financial obligations, and work as a constructive partner to strengthen and reform the WHO.” The vice president emphasized that she and president Biden “believe the WHO is vital to controlling COVID-19 and building back better our global health and pandemic preparedness.” Harris and Ghebreyesus also discussed the resumption of the United States’ role in…
My column of 12th September 2016 was entitled “Forests that Kill and Destroy: Rural Banditry in Northern Nigeria.” I was reporting on a seminar organised by the Centre for Democratic Development and Training (CEDDERT) in Zaria where research findings on the senseless massacre and destruction emanating from the dreaded Kuyanbana and Kamuku forests were presented. The researchers, Massoud Omar and Abubakar Siddique Mohammed had studied how bandits and criminal gangs had occupied the forests and were causing havoc in the surrounding States of Kaduna (Birnin Gwari), Zamfara (Dansadau) and Katsina (Sabuwa). The forest had provided a base for criminal gangs…
By Tina George, Minna The Kogi State House of Assembly has begun consultations with state assemblies for the 2023 preaidential ambition of Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello. The Speaker, Mr Mathew Kolawole who was in Niger to seek the support of his colleagues, said Niger was the sixth state they were visiting, including Bauchi, Plateau, Gombe, Ebonyi and Imo state. According to him, it is the turn for the north-central zone to produce a president and that Yahaya Bello is the right candidate for the job. Kolawole who sought the endorsement of the Niger assembly for Bello, said it is only…
A prosecution witness in the trial of a Deputy Comptroller in the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, Abubakar Sani on Thursday, told the Federal High Court in Katsina, how the Officer obtained money from unsuspecting job seekers under the guise of giving them jobs in the Service. A statement by the spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday, said “Sani was arraigned by the Commission on the 9th of December, 2021 before Justice Hadiza Sabi’u Shagari of the Federal High Court Katsina for allegedly using his position as an officer…
The Sokoto state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has sympathized with the state government over the fire incident that gutted the central market on Tuesday. The union, in a statement jointly signed by its chairman and secretary, Isa Shuni and Abubakar Imam and made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday, described the disaster as a great economic loss to both government and the victims. Commending government for its timely intervention, the union also applauded governor Aminu Tambuwal for “promptly” setting up a committee, to ascertain the cause of the inferno and assess the damage caused by the fire.…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto on Thursday, inaugurated the committee constituted to advise the state government on the upgrade of the Shehu Shagari College of Education (SSCOE) to a university. At its inauguration, Tambuwal said his policy pronouncement during the 22nd convocation and golden jubilee of the college and the subsequent approval by the state executive council on 31 December 2020, informed the constitution of the committee. With the mandate to submit its report in two months, the governor gave the committee five terms of reference. These include to: 1) Develop a well articulated philosophy, mission and vision; and a…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on Thursday, ruled out running for parliament or any other political office once she steps down as chancellor. “I will not run again… either for Bundestag legislator or chancellor,’’ she told a news conference. Merkel added this was true for “any political function’’. The chancellor admitted it was difficult for her to agree to a fourth term at the helm of the federal government in 2017, but she had not regretted this decision after the coronavirus epidemic hit. Germans will go to the polls in September to elect a new federal parliament, which will vote on…
The Federal Ministry of Education says it will constitute a national committee on the harmonisation of schools and examination calendar following the disruptions by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, made this known at the 2020 Annual Ministerial briefing in Abuja on Thursday. Adamu said that there was a need for the harmonisation so that schools, learners, teachers and examination bodies would be on the same page. According to him, following the outbreak of COVID-19 by the end of 2019, the first step taken as a nation was to close down all the teaching and learning…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the National Oil and Gas Excellence Centre (NOGEC) Lagos, aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s position as a regional leader in the oil and gas industry. Buhari said the establishment of NOGEC, situated at the Lagos Annex of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), would enhance safety, value and cost efficiency in Nigeria’s petroleum sector. He said: “NOGEC aligns with the administration’s commitment to fostering stability, growth and sustainability of the Nigerian oil and gas industry for economic development. “You will recall that at the inception of this administration, we set a clear road map for…