A Medicine and Surgery final year student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), Mr Usman Abubakar-Rimi, who ventured into food selling business due to prolonged ASUU strike, has died. Abubakar-Rimi opened a food outlet and Indomie joint in the Diplomat area in Sokoto. The medical student died on Wednesday after a brief illness. The death was confirmed on Saturday by the Chairman of 21st Century Enterprenuer Hub, Umar Idris, a close associate of the deceased. Idris said the deceased had been buried according to Islamic rites in his hometown, Rimi, in Rimi local government area of Katsina state. He described…
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ASHENEWS reports that if the death traps called ‘Anambra roads’ (as shown on this picture) are rated 15th in Nigeria, by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), it is better imagined what the 1st to 14th lives threatening will look like. The Anambra state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi has rated Anambra roads as 15th death traps in the country. He disclosed this at the flag off of the 2022 Ember Months Safety Campaign, organised in Awka themed, “Speeding, Overloading and Unsafe Tyres to Arrive Alive”. “In Nigeria, data from the National Bureau…
The Nigerian government has ordered the reopening of Dangote’s Obajana Cement factory in Kogi state and allow for legal resolution of the dispute. ASHENEWS recalls that vigilantes, Acting on the orders of the Kogi state government penultimate week, stormed the factory, shot some staff and closed the factory over alleged tax and ownership issues. However, in a bid to resolve the matter, the presidency summoned both parties to a meeting attended by the President of the Dangote Group, Dangote, Governors Yahaya Bello (Kogi) and Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa) on Friday after which the Federal government ordered the reopening of the factory.…
A Federal High Court sitting in Yola on Friday nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary that produced Senator Aishatu Binani as the party’s governorship candidate for Adamawa state. With the nullification, Nuhu Ribadu who came second during the primary and had dragged Binani, the APC, and INEC before the high court, seeking the nullification of the primary election conducted on 27th May 2022, has also lost He sought the court’s disqualification of Senator Binani over alleged vote buying and list of illegal delegates from Lamurde local government area of the state. Ribadu argued that the primary election witnessed over-voting as a…
Kebbi High Court has set up an administrative panel to investigate allegations of alleged misconduct against two Chief Magistrates. One of the magistrates, Mustapha Umar-Maccido was alleged to have absconded from duty while other Umar Salihu-Kokami was said to have slapped a lawyer and two other persons. This is contained in a statement by the Chief Registrar, Kebbi High Court, Hussaini Abdullahi-Zuru issued in Birnin Kebbi on Friday. He said that Umar-Maccido would proceed on suspension while Salihu-Kokami has been moved to Headquarters. “Chief Magistrate Mustapha Umar-Maccido was reasonably suspected to have absconded from his duty post, Chief Magistrates Court,…
The European Union on Friday signed a 100 million Euros grant agreement (about $97.2 million) for the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT). This is contained in a statement published on IMF website on Friday. The statement said the funds would allow the IMF to make about 630 million Euros worth of zero-interest loans for PRGT-eligible countries, including African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP), facing balance of payments difficulties. “Access to affordable finance is key to helping these countries address the economic and food crisis situation worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The EU’s contribution is…
Indications are rife that the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan has finally lost out because the All Progressives Congress (APC) has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Bashir Machina as the Yobe North senatorial candidate as directed by the Federal High Court, Damaturu. The letter, signed by the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, directed INEC to also publish the name of Machina on its portal in line with the court order. “We write to notify the commission of the attached judgment dated September 28, 2022, and order dated October 5, 2022,…
The National Security Council has ordered nation’s security agencies to ensure the immediate stoppage of all illegal mining activities across Nigeria. The Council, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, which gave the order at the end of its meeting in Abuja on Friday also directed the National Security Adviser to the President, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno to investigate cases of oil theft in the Niger Delta areas. Ministers of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and his Police Affairs counterpart, Maigari Dingyadi disclosed these when they briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting held in Abuja on Friday. According to…
By Justina Auta Mr Lamine Sow, Officer-in-Charge of UNESCO Regional Office, Abuja, says over five million girls from 10 states have been empowered on reproductive health, life-saving education, among others. Sow made this known during an interactive session with girls from selected schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on State of Nigerian Girls. He said that the empowerment was under the UN body’s “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future” (03) Programme in Abia, Benue, Cross River, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Imo, Lagos, Nassarawa, Taraba and the FCT between 2018 to 2022. He added that the programme enabled the girls to realise…
Following an instruction allegedly by a senior official of Polaris Bank last week that Muslim staff were not allowed to attend Jumuah service, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has demanded unreserved apology from the management of the bank to apologise within seven days or face Muslim customers’ boycott of the bank. The boycott threat was issued in a statement by the Director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola and made available to ASHENEWS on Friday. “A senior official of Polaris Bank, Damilola Adebara, last week addressed a mail to Muslim staff of the bank in which she instructed them that they…