Former governor of Nasarawa state, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has said that contrary to media reports, he was not endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari. ASHENEWS recalls that reports had filled the media space in the past days that Buhari had endorsed Adamu as the party’s chairman ahead of its March 26 convention. However, when the Senator received local government officials of the All Progressives Congress party in Keffi on Saturday, he clarified that the report was false. Ccording to source at the meeting, Adamu told the local government party officials to disregard the reports, urging them however to pray for his…
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Dangote Group’s Executive Director and President of Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN), Mansur Ahmed has assured Nigerians that the upcoming Dangote Petroleum Refinery would help address the volatile fuel crisis in the country. This is coming against the backdrop of torrents of commendations from President Muhammadu Buhari, Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and Defence Minister Bashir Magashi. Dangote Group is one of the winners at the Kaduna International Trade Fair that ended on Sunday. Ahmed also said the refinery, which is due to commence operation later in the year would also impact positively on the Nigerian economy through conserving…
President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed the assertion that the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) lacks the capacity to conduct its national convention on March 26, saying the party will surprise its critics. The president stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents shortly before departing the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, for London on Sunday. The president had initially planned to embark on the London trip from Nairobi, Kenya after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) at 50 in that country on Friday. The president said: “Well, they (critics) should wait and see.…
The Transitional Support Facility, TSF, of the African Development Bank, AfDB, has awarded a $2.8 million grant for the Governing Natural Resource Outflows for Enhanced Economic Resilience in Fragile and Transitional Countries (GONAT) project in six selected fragile and transitional countries The grant will be through a project designed to strengthen national capacity for governing natural resource outflows in Africa. The African Development Fund, ADF, is the concessional lending arm of the African Development Bank Group and the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe will benefit. The project was approved in February this…
Some medical practitioners on Friday called for improved and more rehabilitation centres across the country for effective health care delivery. They made the call while discussing on “Rehab 2030: Strengthening Healthcare Services through Community Driven Initiative” at the AfricaNXT 2022 holding in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that AfricaNXT, formally Social Media Week (SMW), is an annual event, with the theme for 2022 as: “Reimagine Now: Co-create Next.” Dr Olufunke Akanle, Chief Executive Officer, Medical Rehabilitation Therapist Board (MRTB), said there is lack of political will to strengthen rehabilitation services in the country. According to her, rehab is…
A media consultant, Abdulwaheed Adubi has called on Nigerians to downplay ethnic, religious and other sentiments in electing leaders, as the nation approaches the 2023 general elections. The founder of Hawlaab Media Training and Research Centre (HMTRC), who made the call in a statement on Sunday, said that Nigerians must reason beyond mere sentiment as yardstick to elect leaders at federal, state and local government levels in the forthcoming elections. In the statement titled, “2023, A Time To Reason Beyond Ethnic, Sentiment To Elect Worthy Leaders”, he stressed the need for Nigerians to embrace politics that is driven by merit…
The fourth batch of 306 Nigerians fleeing from the war in Ukraine has arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja from Budapest, Hungary. The evacuees arrived via Air Peace Airline at 12:35am on Sunday. The stranded Nigerians were successfully evacuated following the intervention of the Federal Government with the cooperation of governments of countries neighbouring Ukraine. Welcoming the returnees on behalf of the federal government, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved that $100 be given to each of them. Ahmed, represented by Air Commodore Edward Adedokun, Director, Search and…
The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has told Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi that his claim that he initiated the move for the release of detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu from detention. The governor Umahi had recently promised Igbo leaders that the detained IPOB leader would soon be released following his intervention with President Muhammadu Buhari. However, Ohanaeze in a press statement on Friday, the Ohanaeze Youth Council led by Igboayaka Igboayaka said the governor claim was false. The Ohanaeze youths insisted that the political solution was initiated by the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo,…
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Friday said global food prices reached an all-time high in February. The Food Price Index, which tracks the international prices of items such as vegetable oil and dairy products, averaged 140.7 points last month, or nearly 4 per cent up from January. This is also 24.1 per cent over the level a year earlier and 3.1 points higher than in February 2011. “Concerns over crop conditions and adequate export availabilities explain only a part of the current global food price increases. A much bigger push for food price inflation comes from outside food production, particularly…
The United Nations humanitarians on Friday described as “unprecedented,” the continuing outflow of children and families fleeing Ukraine as they await assurances for the safe passage of relief teams to provide urgently needed assistance. “500,000 children have been forced to flee their homes in just seven days… unprecedented in scale and speed,” James Elder, spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said via video link from Lviv in western Ukraine. “As fighting continues of course last night, thousands of children spent another night in freezing and terrifying – terrified – in bunkers under siege. Children must, must, have peace.” Amid…