The President of the Senate, Sen. Ahmed Lawan, says lack of compliance with resolutions of the Legislature constituted was hindering the achievement of good governance in the country. Lawan made the statement at the 2020 National Legislative Conference tagged: “Legislative Investigation Powers, Expectations and Challenges and the Way Forward” in Abuja on Monday. The conference was organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in collaboration with HallowMace Communications Ltd. Represented by the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Sani Abdullahi, the senate president said the Legislature alone could not provide the desired good governance to Nigerians. “It is clear…
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The Sokoto State chapter of the Association of Date Farming, Processing and Marketing of Nigeria (ADAFPAM), says the projected production of date palm in the state will hit 100,000 tonnes by 2024. The Chairman, Muhammadu Maidoki stated this on Monday at a news briefing, to mark a three-day national conference of the association in Sokoto. “This will generate 72,000 direct jobs, support 840,000 indirect jobs and over N150 billion revenue annually for the state alone,” Maidoki said. According to him, the projection was about 10 per cent of the date palm output of Egypt, the world’s number one producer of…
Wizkid has won his second Soul Train Award award alongside Beyoncé, for their collaboration “Brown Skin Girl” of “The Lion King: The Gift” album. The award show took place on Sunday. The event which aired on BET saw Chris brown emerge top winner with 4 wins (including Best R&B/Soul male artist and Song of the Year) out of 12 categories, followed by H.E.R who won 2 awards (including Best R&B/Soul female artist). See the full list of winners below: Song of the Year: Chris Brown & Young Thug, “Go Crazy” Album of the Year: Summer Walker, Over It Video of…
Men of the intelligence service, in collaboration with those of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday evening, arrested the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reforms Task Force, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, in one of the towns Niger Republic. PRNigeria reports that top intelligence officer disclosed that the arrest was facilitated by the an agreement between the two neighbouring countries. Recall that Maina is facing a 12-count charge for money laundering by the Commission, alleged that he laundered money to the tune of about N2 billion, part of which he used to acquire landed properties in Abuja. However, Maina…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has assured that the National Assembly is committed to greater women and youth involvement in public governance in Nigeria through creative legislative interventions. This comes as he decried women participation in public governance in Sub-Saharan Africa which is presently below 24.7 percent. Senator Omo-Agege stated this while making a virtual presentation at a high-level conference on strengthening women and youth participation in the National Assembly. According to him, no country can ever maximize its potential without fully exploring and exploiting the energy in its youth population, adding that “There is the…
Justice T. B. Adegoke of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State today November 30, 2020 sentenced Onus Osagie Amahian, a former staff of Access Bank, to five years imprisonment. Amahian was prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 25-count charge bordering on forgery and making false entry into Delta State Government payroll. A former IT officer of Access Bank , the defendant was said to have between August and October 2011 fraudulently inserted names and account numbers of his family members and friends into the payroll schedule of Delta State government being handled by Access…
Lawal Adamu Usman a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain in Kaduna State has condemned the killing of 110 Borno farmers and lamented what he called unacceptable level of insecurity across northern Nigeria. Adamu, fondly called Mr LA, said the recent attacks on civilians by the Boko Haram represents the high point in criminal activities that could lay the foundation of the collapse of the citadel of poor governance, indifference, insensitivity and unprecedented plunder of human lives that is the Buhari administration. Time has come he said, for northern elites and other groups to step up and close ranks and face the…
By Ahmed Attahir, Gusau The Victims Support Fund, VSF, Task Force committee on COVID-19 under the chairmanship of General TY Danjuma, has distributed palliatives, including foods and personal protective equipments, PPE, worth over N107.9 million in Zamfara state. Presenting the items to Governor Bello Mohammad in Gusau on Monday, the chairperson of the VSF, Mrs Toyesi Ogunsuji said the committee has already commenced the third face of distribution of palliatives in the North West and North Central. She disclosed that the food items are to be distributed to internally displaced persons, IDPs, and the most vulnerable communities. According to her,…
The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction Adam kaka Adam, a former banker, who was today sentenced to one year imprisonment by Justice Ibrahim Jauro of the Yobe State High Court sitting in Damaturu. The convict was prosecuted on one-count of theft to the tune of N11, 657,500.00. Adam, a former service manager in charge of Vault Room and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in Unity Bank Plc. Damaturu Branch, Yobe State allegedly diverted the said sum which was mearnt to to fed to the ATM of the branch.The count reads: “That…
The Arewa Economic Advancement Campaign (AREA-C), has called on well-to-do northerners to “end the lamentations about the massive poverty ravaging the region by being more proactive in the fight against it in practice”. The group, in a terse media statement to newsmen in Kaduna, signed by its Director of Publicity, Nasir Dambatta said, “it is indeed worrisome that many entrepreneurs, seasoned bureaucrats and elected representatives seem too cool to care about the current levels of mass poverty in the North, while some of them merely seize the opportunity of public functions to advertise our woes”. AREA-C described as mind-boggling the…