Sen. Victor Lar has described former Borno governor, Sen. Modu Sheriff as the best candidate for the national chairmanship position of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Lar spoke in telephone interview on Sunday in Jalingo, ahead of the February 26, National Convention of the party. He said that Sheriff’s vast experience in politics as a former governor, legislator and party leader placed him in a vantage position to prepare the party for the unique challenges ahead of the 2023 elections. “The APC will face a peculiar challenge in 2023 because President Muhammadu Buhari, who is known to have galvanised over…
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Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed is advocating for the northern part of Nigeria to retain power in 2023. Although the dominant political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have not zoned the presidency to any region, there have been agitations that the South be given the ticket. But Governor Mohammed, who said he is aware of the agitation, insisted that the North-East should be given the presidential slot for the sake of equity and justice. “We are aware of the agitation of the southern part of the country because of the tenure of…
Since the year 2020 when this column debuted, none of my previous articles elicited a large number of reactions from readers than the piece of El-Rufa’i Vs ABU Zaria published two weeks. At the time, I am writing this rejoinder over the weeken, there were 151 shares of the online version of the article on the Facebook of Blueprint alone. This is in addition to 100s if not 1000s others shared on different social media platforms. I am not surprised considering the gravity of the issue and the Institution involved; ABU Zaria, the largest and the most diverse university in…
Anambra state governor, Willie Obiano has received Embraer 195-E2 aircraft with the first set of passengers at the Anambra International Airport, in Umueri. This followed approval by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for the operation of Boeing 737-700 aircraft or its equivalent at the Anambra International Airport, in Umueri,. The aircraft landed with 124 passengers from Lagos and the governor welcomed the passengers, including the pilot, with a handshake. The aircraft, from Air Peace Airline, one of the frontline carriers in Nigeria landed safely, from Lagos at Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport, Umueri. According to the governor, this…
The National Association of North Central Students (NANCS) on Saturday in Keffi, Nasarawa, elected new officers that would pilot the affairs of the group for the next one year. The new executives emerged at the Fifth National Convention of the association held at the Keffi Legislative Chamber. Addressing newsmen shortly after he was declared the President-Elect, Joseph Ogwuche called for the rapid development of schools in the North Central. According to him, enhanced educational infrastructure will make students to be more useful citizens to themselves and to humanity. Ogwuche, a 200-level undergraduate of the University of Jos, pledged to accord…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ondo/Ekiti Area command, on Saturday, said that it supervised the exportation of 3,991 containers of cocoa beans in 2021. The Area Comptroller, Uche Ngozi made this known in a statement issued to newsmen in Lagos. According to her, in line with the Federal government’s effort of diversifying the economy through non-oil exports, the command supervised an unprecedented exportation of cocoa beans. “Statistics from the export unit indicates that a total of 3,991 were exported between January and December, 2021. “This is a 25.8 per cent increment, when compared to 3,172 containers of cocoa exported in…
ASHENEWS – JAN. 29, 2022 – The Police Service Commission, PSC, on Saturday, reacted to news reports about the shut down of its offices by staff over, among others, issues of the Commission’s abdication of recruitment exercise to the Inspector General of Police, IGP. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani on Saturday. “The Commission regrets that the issues raised in the publications by its Staff which were already receiving management attention had to degenerate to a level where Staff forcefully locked up government offices and chased away Staff on legitimate duties. The Staff…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has detained the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) Osita Okechukwu. He was reportedly detained on Saturday over alleged case of conspiracy, abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N1.3 billion. Okechukwu, who reportedly arrived the commission headquarters at about 1.30pm to honour its invitation, was still being detained at the time of filing this report. When ASHENEWS called the spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren for comment, the call went unanswered.
ASHENEWS – JAN. 29, 2022 – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released operational guidelines on the Global Service Instructions (GSI), aimed at checking the spate of bad loans within the banking sector. According to a statement by Chibuzo Efobi, for the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department of the apex bank, the initiative was conceived to address recurring instances of willful loan default in the industry. Efobi said that the guidelines would enhance the establishment of a “watch list” and identify recalcitrant loan defaulters and enhance loan recovery from all eligible and funded accounts in the industry. He…
Acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in Nigeria and 19 other countries, particularly between February and May 2022, a new report jointly anchored by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. Of the identified “20 hunger hotspots,” the report stated that Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remained at the highest alert level from the previous edition of its report. The report which was released yesterday by the FAO and WFP issued an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in what they described as 20 “hunger hotspots” where part of the…