The 36 state governors are to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, as soon as possible, to address security challenges across the country, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) said. The forum disclosed this in a communiqué signed by its Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, after its 22nd teleconference meeting in Abuja on Friday. According to the communique, Buhari will particularly speak in the light of attack on farmers in Borno State. The communiqué said the governors deliberated on issues affecting the country, particularly on national security and the killings of some 43 rice farmers in Garin Kwashebe in Jere…
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The Zazzau Emirate Council has approved the conferment of the traditional title of Kuliyan Zazzau and fixed the 12th of December, 2020 for the official turbanning by the Emir of Zazzau Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli. A statement released by a family member, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman said the approval is contained in a letter from the Emirate Council dated 3rd December, 2020 and signed by Secretary to the Council, Alhaji Barau Musa Aliyu, the Sarkin Fulanin Zazzau. Suleiman said the conferment of the title on Justice Bello represents an acknowledgement of his contributions to the general development of Zazzau and its people.…
An official of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, FMWH, on Friday charged communities in Gombe state, to ensure proper maintenance of 550 projects executed in their communities between 2018 and 2019. Dr Aisha Ndayako-Mohammed, the Director of Special Projects Unit, SPU, of the ministry stated this in an interview in Kanawa community, Yamaltu-Deba local government area of the state on Friday. Speaking after inspecting some of the projects, she said that there was need for communities to ensure good maintenance culture so that those projects would serve their purpose for the benefit of the people. Ndayako-Mohammed who was…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, upheld the conviction and death sentence that was handed to Maryam Sanda, daughter-inlaw to a former Chairman of the PDP, Mohammed Haliru. Delivering judgment, Justice Stephen Adah, who read the decision on behalf of the three-member panel of justices held that the trial judge was right in his decision. “I have gone through the record before the court and I am fully certain that the learned trial court did not engage any investigation outside the evidence before it,” he said. “The appellant did not point out where the trial judge went out…
Nigeria’s former Chief of Defence Staff and member of the Supreme Military Council and Armed Forces Ruling Council, retired General Domkat Bali has died. Bali died in the early hours of Friday in Jos, Plateau state. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the people and government of Plateau over the passing of an illustrious son and highly decorated retired military officer, Gen. Domkat Bali. The president’s condolence message is contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday. Buhari, who spoke with the wife of the deceased, Esther…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that improvement in relations between Nigeria and South Africa will speed up the process of development on the African continent. The Nigerian leader made this known when he met with the Chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) and South Africa’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe. Mantashe was in the State House, Abuja on Friday as Special Envoy of his country. Buhari cited his last trip to South Africa during which he and President Cyril Ramaphosa worked together in resolving the migrants’ crisis between two brotherly nations. “There was this ‘small…
The second prosecution witness, PW2, Abdulrahman Arabo, in the ongoing trial of Paul Usoro, SAN, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for alleged N1.4b billion fraud, on Wednesday 3, 2020, told Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the defendant received a sum of N1.1 billion from the Akwa-Ibom State government. Usoro was first arraigned on December 18, 2018 before Justice Muslim Hassan of the same court. He was later re-arraigned on March 1, 2019 on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N1.4bn. One of the…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday adjourned until Jan. 22, trial of former Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti for N6.9 billion fraud and money laundering. Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was first arraigned on Oct. 22. 2018, on 11 counts before Justice Mojisola Olatotegun. He was arraigned alongside his company, Spotless Investment Ltd. Fayose pleaded not guilty and was granted bail on Oct. 24, 2018, in the sum of N50 million with sureties in like sum. The defendant was re-arraigned before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke on July 2, 2019, after the…
At least four civilians have been killed between Thursday and Friday by the terror group, Boko Haram in Cameroon’s far north region, local authorities said on Friday. The traditional ruler of Wemdeley village was killed overnight into Friday, while three other persons were killed early Thursday in Talla Massali village when Boko Haram invaded the localities, authorities confirmed. The terrorists who came on motorcycles also made away with foodstuffs and kidnapped at least two people during the raids, according to local sources. The Boko Haram group has been active in Cameroon’s far north region since 2014, posing enormous humanitarian and…
Mr Hassan Zaggi, the President of the Association of Nigeria Health Journalists (ANHEJ), says the media risked it all for the good of humanity to report all issues concerning the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Zaggi said this at the opening of a three-day Annual Health Conference of ANHEJ on “COVID-19 Reportage Assessment’’ in Goshen City, Nasarawa State on Friday. He said that the media formed a bridge between policy makers and the public, taking the concerns of the people to government and relating the responses back to the people. “The media risked it all; it was indeed very tasking…