President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding quarterly National Security Council, NSC, meeting the Inspector General of Police, IGP, and Service Chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. AsheNews gathers that the meeting is not unconnected with security challenges in the country. In attendance at the meeting are the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha; the Chief of staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and the Minister of defense, Bashir Magaji. Others are the Minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery…
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By Tina George, Minna The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has attributed the high rate of road crashes in Niger state to fatigue by drivers and non-adherence to traffic rules and regulations. The Niger state Sector Commander, Joel Dagwa explained this during the commemoration service to mark the 2020 African Road Safety Day and the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, which held at the Grace Foundation Church in Minna, Niger state. He stated that the rate of road crashes in the state is very high as daily, people get involved in road traffic crashes, which either maim…
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN acted in compliance with the extant laws including the provisions Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Establishment Act 2004 in setting up the recently inaugurated Inter-Ministerial Asset Disposal Committee. This is contained in a statement issued by Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice which was made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday 17th day of November, 2020. According to the statement community reading of the provisions of Section 31(1-4)…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state, has tasked the Nigeria Defense College, NDC Abuja, to commence study into the causes of banditry, which has caused the state a lot of anguish in the past and recent times. The governor on Monday, gave the charge when participants of Course 29 on a study tour to the state, paid him a courtesy visit at Government House. According to the governor, his administration has “…candid interest in the college and would like to partner with it by providing full sponsorship for it, “to undertake a study on the causes of banditry and kidnapping…
By Gami Tadanyigbe, Abuja AA2 community in Kuje Area Council, FCT, has embarked on the grading and repairs of bypass roads along Government Girls Secondary School Kuje, to ease vehicular movements and to reduce the frequent occurrence of accidents in the area.Chief Momoh Oboh, the AA 2 community leader while supervising the project called on Muhammadu Buhari led administration to come to the aid of the good people of Kuje Area Council, to fix dilapidated roads and other infrastructures in the area for the development of the area. Oboh, who is also a philanthropist and a businessman, described the deplorable…
… Asks ICPC, EFCC to resist pressures from political leaders Governor Aminu Tambuwal has called on the National Assembly to amend the laws establishing the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He made the call on Monday stated while commissioning the new office complex of the ICPC in the Sokoto. Tambuwal said the call became necessary in order to strengthen the process of petitioning by possibly bringing a novel idea of supporting every petition with an affidavit, photograph and signature of the petitioner. He explained that this will save precious…
Center for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) has been re-elected as the bona fide representative of Persons With Disability (PWD) on the Steering Committee of the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, a coalition of no fewer than 70 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the country that monitors Nigeria’s electoral process. Ms Florence Attah, Programme Assistant, CCD, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja, stating that the organization emerged winner with 47 votes, against its opponent, the Albino Foundation, that polled only 6 votes. “CCD, led by its Executive Director, David Obinna Anyaele, defeated Mr Jake Epelle of the Albino…
Dr Usman Igbo, acting Rector, Kogi State Polytechnic, has officially handed over its Osara Campus for the take-off of academic activities at the new Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara. The Rector, who handed over the necessary documents to the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones, FCIB, on Monday in Osara, expressed joy for being part of the historic event. The Osara campus of Kogi State Polytechnic, Adavi local government Area of the state, was until the time of handing over, the School of Preliminary Studies of the institution. ”Today, under my acting rector ship,…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), says it loaned 83 countries the sum of $165 billion, including $16.1 billion in concessional financing to 49 low-income countries in FY2020. The Fund said this in its 2020 IMF Annual Report titled “A Year Like No Other”, released in Washington D.C on Monday. The fund said it completed health checks on 129 countries and also supported its members in capacity development to the tune of $305 million for hands-on technical advice, policy-oriented training and peer learning. In her message in the report, Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF Managing Director, said as the world faced a…
The House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Upstream/ Downstream), and Gas Resources on Monday adjourned sitting following the failure of the State Minister for Petroleum, Mr Timipre Sylva, to appear before it. The Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was also scheduled to appear before the committee along with the minister. Both failed. The minister and the NNPC GMD were billed to defend the 2021 budget proposal before the committee. Members of the committee were made to sit for over an hour waiting for the arrival of the duo, to no avail. Seats meant for members…