Ten fellow Republicans voted in support of outgoing President Donald Trump’s second impeachment by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. This, analysts say, further highlights the division in the party over Trump’s refusal to concede the November 3 presidential election based on his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. In all, 232 lawmakers, including all 222 Democrats, voted in favour, while 197 Republicans opposed the impeachment, which is based on alleged “incitement of insurrection”. Trump has made history as the only U.S. president to be impeached twice, and Wednesday’s votes came barely a week before he leaves office on January…
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Nigeria recorded 1,398 new cases of COVID-19 as active cases being managed across isolation and treatment centres in the country rose to 20,062. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Wednesday. The centre also confirmed nine new deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the nation’s death toll to 1,382. It stated that 1,398 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours across the country, bringing number of confirmed cases to 103,999. It added that 1,033,858 people had so far been tested since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020 in the country. The health agency…
The Federal government is targeting over 160,000 poor and vulnerable rural women, to benefit from the N20,000 cash grant, across the country to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Faruk, made the disclosure at the launch of the grant, on Wednesday, in Katsina, where 6,800 rural women would benefit. “We are targeting over 160,000 poor and vulnerable rural women in Nigeria for the N20,000 grant, to uplift their economic status. Our rural women with disability will also be included. “It is my hope that the beneficiaries will use…
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Shehuri, has said that 27,000 unemployed Youths and women will benefit from the Extended Special Public Works Programme (ESPWs). Chief Information Officer of the ministry, Mr Ezeaja Ikemefuna, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Shehuri said the ESPWs is of the National Directorate of Employment across the 27 local government areas of Borno. He said the initiative is aimed at cushioning the economic effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic, creating jobs and promoting the maintenance of critical infrastructure at the community levels in all the 774 LGAs…
The U.S. House of Representatives votes to impeach Donald Trump for inciting last week’s deadly Capitol siege, making him the first president to be impeached twice. While voting is still under way, a majority of lawmakers has already voted to impeach. The outcome, which was expected, comes only seven days before Trump leaves office and Democratic President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated. The Democrat-controlled House charged Trump with inciting an insurrection after a mob of his supporters, riled up by his false claims of election fraud, stormed Congress and temporarily halted a joint session to certify Biden’s victory. The House impeachment…
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has invested $345,126 in digitization of its processes and the conduct of virtual court sessions, the President of the Court has said. Justice Edward Amoako Asante made this known in a goodwill message at the opening of the 2020 virtual session of the ECOWAS Parliament on Wednesday. He said that the deployment of the virtual technology has enabled the court to function optimally in safety in spite of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. He said that the expenditure was committed for the procurement of video conference equipment and related materials after the initial disruptions to the…
The Presidency on Wednesday faulted the quit notice issued to Bishop Matthew Kukah by Sokoto-based Muslim Solidarity Forum. The Forum, at a press conference in Sokoto on Tuesday, reacted to the Christmas message by Kukah where it posited that he either ‘apologised or leave Sokoto. However, in a reaction signed by a presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu the Presidency said the action of the group was “wrong because it is not in line with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” “The reported ultimatum by a group based in Sokoto, “Muslim Solidarity Forum,” calling on the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese,…
The Benue government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Ukum and Katsina-Ala local government areas as part of measures to address insecurity there. The north-central state’s Deputy Governor, Mr Benson Abounu, disclosed this at the end of a security council meeting on Wednesday in Makurdi. “The curfew will be from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily. It is part of our efforts to tackle banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery and general insecurity in the two local government areas,” Abounu told newsmen after the meeting. He said that the security council also resolved to ban the use of motorcycles in the two areas…
The National Examination Council (NECO) says that 233,000 candidates who could not write the examinations as a result of the #EndSARS protests will join external candidates to write the examinations in February. Mr Azeez Sani, Head of Information and Public Relations Division of the council said on Wednesday. He said that the Council Registrar, Prof. Godswill Obioma, while announcing the 2020 results, said that 12 states were disrupted during the conduct of the examinations as a result of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic and the #EndSARS protests. Sani said that the affected candidates would now sit for those papers missed…
The Kano State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested one Isma’eel Abubkar, 18, for defiling a 5-year-old girl. The Corps spokesperson, ASC Ibrahim Abdullahi said on Wednesday that the suspect, a resident of Kofar Ruwa Quarters Kano, was arrested by operatives of the Corps on January 8, after he lured the girl to his room and defiled her. He added that the suspect, who is a neighbour to the victim, confessed to the crime when interrogated by the corps detectives. “Investigation into the case has since been concluded and the suspect will be charged…