President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta, aged 86, a one-time Inspector General of Police whose transition was announced Thursday evening. The president’s condolence message is contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja. While conveying the condolences of his family and that of the government and people of Nigeria, the president described the late crack police detective as “a man of great courage, intellect and a true Nigerian Statesman”. Buhari addded that: “Today, Nigeria lost a great son. He lived for the nation…
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Recording Academy, Organisers of the Grammy Awards, has pledged to support the administration of Joe Biden, the newly elected United States of America President and his vice, Kamala Harris, in rebuilding and revitalising the U.S. creative economy. The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers,and other musical professionals. It is famous for its Grammy Awards, which recognise achievements in the music industry of songs and music which were popular worldwide. The organisers, who made the pledge on its Instagram handle @recordingacademy on Friday, stated…
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…
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…