By Sulaiman A. Abba Succession planning is a process for identifying and developing new leaders who can replace old leaders when they leave, retire or die. This planning increases the availability of experienced and capable hands that are prepared to assume these roles as they become available. Taken narrowly, “replacement planning” for key roles is the heart of succession planning. In the military, police and other armed security services as well as in every government institution, succession planning aims for continuity of leadership, preventing a chaotic power struggle by preventing a power vacuum. The planning for a successor to the…
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By Bello Hamza The Initiative for Conciliation and Right Protection, an NGO, has called on Nigerians to contribute towards ending insecurity in the country. In a statement signed by Madel Abraham, Ahmad Isa, Abas Abas, Josephine Badmus, Christian Emmanuel and Mikail Yunus on Friday, the group also called on Nigerians to help fight against corruption, bad economic policies and oppression against minority groups. According to it, insecurity had become a hydra-headed monster that security agencies appeared incapable of handling its multifaceted manifestations, including banditry, kidnapping, destruction of lives and property, creation of fear, to mention but a few. “Poverty continue…
The Niger State House of Assembly on Thursday, confirmed the appointment of Justice Aisha Bwari as the new Chief Judge of Niger state. She was confirmed on Thursday after a unanimous decision by the Assembly for her to take a bow and leave. Member Malik Madaki in a motion said Justice Bwari had served the state meritoriously in various capacities, adding that she, therefore, deserved the honour of the Assembly to take a bow and leave. Member Malam Iya expressed confidence that Bwari would improve on the administration of criminal justice in the state. “I urge you to pay deserved…
The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Mohammed Sambo, has approved the deployment of a new Head of Media and Public Relations for the Scheme. Sambo stated this in a statement issued by the new NHIS Head, Media and Public Relations, Mr Emmanuel Ononokpono, on Friday in Abuja. According to the statement, Ononokpono until the development was the NHIS State Coordinator in Akwa Ibom State. Sambo, however, congratulated Ononokpono and urged him to deploy his experience and skills diligently to achieve effective public communication of policies, activities and achievements of the scheme, especially in the context…
The Zambian government said on Friday that it will next month hold a virtual meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to negotiate an extended credit facility. The virtual meeting will be held from Feb. 1, to March 3, 2021. Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba said the meeting comes in the wake of a request by the government last November for a formal programme and a visit by an IMF team in December. The meeting will be held under the Extended Credit Facility window which provides financial assistance to countries with protracted balance of payments challenges, a situation which…
The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) on Friday in Abuja, said that it would intensify its surveillance and compliance activities in 2021 to ensure that only improved certified seeds are sold to farmers. The Director-General of NASC, Dr Philip Ojo, said this while briefing newsmen on the achievements of the council in 2020 and the expectations in 2021. Ojo said that the withdrawal of operational licenses of 103 seed entrepreneurs in 2020 was a demonstration of the council’s determination to rid the markets of unscrupulous dealers. According to him, following the recertification of companies accredited by NASC in 2020, the…
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has lauded the N1.5 billion investment brought into the Kano Free Trade Zone (FTZ) by Sunbelt Free Zone Enterprise (FZE). Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, NEPZA’s Managing Director made the remark in Abuja when he played host to the Executive Director and one of the promoters of the enterprise, Alhaji Murtala Jega. Adesugba, in a statement by Martins Odeh, Head, Corporate Communications, NEPZA, described the investment as an offshoot of sustained intervention by the Federal Government to maintain the zone as an investors’ attractive anchorage. Sunbelt, which specialises in the manufacturing of fabrics and textiles,…
Troops of Operation Tura Takaibango have eliminated five Boko Haram/Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in their attempt to overrun Abbagajiri and Dusula towns in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno. Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, in a statement on Friday, said the troops had sustained an onslaught against the terrorists in the North-East. Onyeuko said the troops of the 402 Special Forces Task Force Brigade had on Wednesday, identified and encircled some terrorists’ enclaves at Abbagajiri and inflicted heavy casualty on them. According to him, in the aftermath of the decisive encounter, five Boko Haram…
Nigeria’s minister of finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed says the federal government’s plan to sale its public assets, will benefit citizens as well as help boost the economy. She said this when she appeared on ChannelsTV’s Sunrise Daily programme monitored by ASHENEWS on Friday. According to Mrs Ahmed, some government assets were currently moribund and provide no value to Nigerians. “There are some government assets that are dead that can be sold to the private sector to be reactivated and put to use for the benefit of Nigerians. “So we are looking at different – and I am a member of…
The Kano State House of Assembly has announced the postponement of its resumption until further notice, in compliance with the stay-at-home directive by the state government. The Speaker, Hamisu Ibrahim-Chidari, made the announcement in a statement issued to newsmen on Friday in Kano by the Director Press of the assembly, Uba Abdullahi. The house of assembly had earlier scheduled to resume on January 25. According to Ibrahim-Chidari, the lawmakers will comply with the directive in support of the state government in its efforts towards preventing the spread of the virus. “I have to commend the state government under the leadership…