Nigeria’s Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva has assured that the country would not remove fuel subsidy at the moment. He gave the assurance at a meeting of stakeholders in the oil and gas sector on Monday, which was at the instance of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan. According to him, it is clear to the blind and audible to the deaf that the timing for removal of fuel subsidy is wrong. Earlier, the Senate President laid the foundation for the stakeholders’ gathering after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on the possible removal of petroleum subsidy. Sylva said…
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The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim has called on the federal government to approve NYSC Trust Fund for the benefit of corps members. ASHENEWS reports that the bill on the proposed NYSC Trust Fund has passed the second reading at Nigeria’s House of Representatives. The DG made the appeal on Sunday when he appeared on TVC live programme, “Journalists’ Hangout”. According to him, if the fund is actualized, it would help to reinvigorate the NYSC skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme by empowering more corps members with start-up capitals for their business initiatives…
A former senator, Grace Bent has dragged Precious Chikwendu, estranged wife of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode to the Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged defamation of character. When the matter was called on Monday, however, Chikwendu was absent in court and there was no legal representation on her behalf. Joseph Offor who announced his appearance for the prosecution said that he was holding the brief o Victor Okoye who was away in Lagos. Offor told the court that he had little information about the case and so could not explain why Chikwendu and her legal team were absent in…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced the date for the commencement of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination as well as the Direct Entry examination, DE registration. JAMB’s Director of Public Relations, Dr Fabian Benjamin made the announcement on Monday, in its weekly bulletin. According to the bulletin, the registration exercise would commence in February 2022. The Board said the UTME/DE registration would commence on February 12, 2022, and end on March 19.
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has ordered an investigation into conservative lawmaker, Nusrat Ghani claims that she was sacked as a junior minister in 2020 over concerns that she was a Muslim. A Downing Street spokesperson announced on Monday in a brief statement to reporters that “the Prime Minister has asked the Cabinet Office to conduct an inquiry into the allegations made by Nusrat Ghani MP.’’ In an interview published by the Sunday Times, Ghani said that she was dismissed as a junior transport minister in February 2020. She said following her dismissal a senior Conservative lawmaker told her that…
The National Vice-Chairman, South South of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dan Orbih has advised the federal government to make bold and informed decisions that would put an end to insecurity in Nigeria. In an interview in Benin on Monday, he noted that that the challenge of insecurity still persisted in the country not because of a lack of security personnel or equipment but because government had yet to “take the bull by the horn” in addressing the issues. According to him, it is clear that failure in addressing the challenges of insecurity in the country is not as a…
Former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Idah Peterside, says Nigeria crashed out of the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) as a result of many irregularities. Peterside, who spoke on Monday during an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme Sunrise Daily, listed some of such irregularities to include lack of planning, failure to switch tactics, and unnecessary promises for the players, among others. “We should have won that game,” he said in reaction to Nigeria’s defeat to Tunisia on Sunday night at the Stade Roumde Adjia in Garoua, Cameroon. “We were on the better side. We didn’t do what we should…
The founder of TEXEM UK, Dr Alim Abubakre, a British Nigerian, has said that improving business performance during a pandemic like COVID-19 is a very challenging task. Abubakre, who spoke in Abuja on Sunday said this was because there were disruptions which a business leader needed to avoid innovatively to perform well during such uncertain periods. The entrepreneur noted that though the challenges were enormous, they were surmountable with the right dosage of creativity, innovativeness and determination on the part of the leaders. He urged Nigerian leaders and entrepreneurs to be self-motivated before trying to motivate their team in the…
Soldiers on Monday in Burkina Faso, arrested and detained the country’s President, Christian Kabore in army barracks a day after staging an uprising, AFP has reported. Recall that on Sunday, soldiers at several army bases across the country, demanded the sacking of the military top brass and more resources to fight a bloody jihadist insurgency. Later in the day, gunshots were heard near Kabore’s private residence in the capital Ouagadougou, and witnesses reported seeing a helicopter above it. “President Kabore, the head of parliament and the ministers are effectively in the hands of the soldiers” at the Sangoule Lamizana barracks…
Aliyu Adamu Kumbashi hails from Mashegu local government area of Niger state. He is a serving Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Solid Mineral Development and Investment. He declared his interest to contest for the position of national youth leader under the All Progressives Congress, APC. In this interview with ASHENEWS, he says what his plans are for Nigerian youths, particularly the members of the party. Excerpts: Why are you contesting to be APC national youth leader? I want to contest for the position of APC national youth leader to, as a youth myself, fight to bridge the gap…