The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the establishment of an Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) as part of a plan to provide electricity for 25 million citizens who lacked access to the national grid, a statement from the Ministry of Power said. Mr Aaron Artimas, Special Assistant, Media and Communication to the Minister of Power, Mr Sale Mamman, who announced the ESC in Abuja on Tuesday, said that the programme tagged, ‘Energy for All’, aimed at providing five million solar connections to various locations throughout the country, in collaboration with state governments. He added that the committee will ensure accelerated…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged agencies involved in agriculture to include youth in driving modern methods of farming. The president stated this in Abuja on Tuesday when he inaugurated the National Young Farmers Scheme designed by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) to elicit more youth interest in farming. He assured all those interested that an enabling environment would be created for full participation. According to him, agriculture remains the backbone of the Nigerian economy, being the largest contributor to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “We will do more to expand, modernise and revolutionise our agriculture, which is…
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 152 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), pandemic in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Tuesday. The public health agency said that two additional deaths were recorded as a result of coronavirus complications, raising the death toll in the country to 1,160. The country’s COVID-19 tally of infected people is 64,336, making it the fifth on the list of African countries worst hit, behind Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa. Also, there has been significant improvement in recoveries even as fears of an imminent and…
Nigeria has joined China and United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the only countries operating the WingLoong II Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV). In addition to the two inducted into the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), six other UCAVs are expected by early 2021. The two WingLoong II can remain airborne for 31 hours in internal security reconnaissance (ISR) mode and 26 hours in offensive role. NAF Spokesperson, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, said in a statement on Tuesday that the aircraft will add significant value to the nation’s counter-insurgency and anti-banditry operations. Daramola said that in the last five years, 22 new…
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered Liberia to pay Counsellor Kabineh Muhammad Jan’neh, an impeached Judge of the Supreme Court of Liberia, the sum US$200,000 as reparation for moral prejudice suffered for the violation of his rights. Delivering judgment on Tuesday, 10th November, 2020, in a case filed by the Judge, the Court also ordered Liberia to restore, calculate and pay to the Applicant all his withheld entitlements, including salaries, allowances and pension benefits as from the date of his impeachment to the date of notification of the Court’s judgment. It further ordered his reinstatement as an Associate Justice…
The House Committee on Police Affairs has said that N449 billion 2021 budget operations for the Nigerian Police is grossly inadequate. Rep. Mohammed Kumo, chairman of the committee, said this during budget defence by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that it was an open knowledge that the Nigerian police were underfunded, adding that the N449 billion proposal for 2021 operations was unacceptable. He called on the Federal Government to immediately increase police funding while assuring the police that at the end of the budget defence their budget would be increased. “The Speaker…
The University of Ibadan (UI) branch of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has ordered its members to boycott the 72nd convocation and Foundation day ceremonies of the institution. ASUU-UI Chairman, Ayo Akinwole, said in a statement on Tuesday that the action was in the spirit of the ongoing strike. Akinwole said a copy of the letter to boycott the ceremonies had been sent to Prof Idowu Olayinka, the Vice Chancellor of the university. He said the action was in line with a bulletin of the union forbidding members not to participate in any teaching, statutory meetings, examinations and ceremonies of…
The House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Affairs on Tuesday in Abuja queried the allocation of N15 billion to the East West Road project. The members of the committee at the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs 2021 budget defence frowned at the allocation of N4 billion to all other human developmental projects in the region. The Chairman of the committee, Rep. Essien Ayi (PDP-Cross River) said that the East West road had been under construction for over 14 years. “We just finished with EndSARS, we know what happened, the whole of my state capital everywhere was turned upside down.…
An Abuja based self acclaimed activist, Kenechukwu Okeke, has filed a criminal charge against notable Nigerian celebrities. They include founder of Daystar Christian Center, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, female rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, Nigerian sport icon, Kanu Nwankwo, music stars, David Adeleke aka ‘Davido’, and 46 others over their alleged complicity in last month nationwide #EndSARS protest in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The criminal charge instituted at the Chief Magistrate Court of the FCT, is pursuant to section 58, 109, 110 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015. In the charge, the Endsars protesters were accused of forming an…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has appealed the February 18, 2010 discharge and acquittal of former minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama and four others by Justice Isah H. Dashen of the Federal High Court, Damaturu, Yobe State. Bulama, who was the coordinator of former President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation for the 2015 general election, was prosecuted alongside Mohammed Kadai, a former commissioner for Integrated and Rural Development in Yobe State and deputy coordinator of Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Yobe State; Abba Gana Tata; Muhammad Mamu and Hassan Ibn Jaks on a seven-count charge that bordered…