The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives has called on the party’s National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, to resign from office to save the opposition force from collapse. The caucus made the call in a communique signed by the Chairman, Rep. Kingsley Chinda (PDP- Rivers), on Monday in Abuja, at the end of an online meeting on the current crisis rocking the party. Chinda said that the call followed the accusation of inept leadership against Secondus, which was frustrating party members across the country. According to the lawmaker, the situation has resulted in mass exit of…
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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, says the oil and gas sector accounts for about 10 per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sylva added that crude oil exports represented about 86 per cent of total export earnings, while the actual government revenue from the sector is 40 per cent. The minister stated this while delivering the Graduation Lecture of the National Defense College Course 29, titled, “Enhancing Digital Technology in the Oil and Gas Sector of Nigeria for National Development” on Monday in Abuja. He said Nigeria, with more than 200 million inhabitants, remained the…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF; United Nations Development Programme, UNDP; World Food Programme, WFP and the International Labour Organisation, ILO, have organised a training for the technical working group for the development of Sokoto State Social Protection Policy, SSSPP. Organised in conjunction of the state government to hold in Birnin Kebbi, capital of Kebbi state, the training is scheduled to hold between August 9th and 11th 2021. The Social Protection Policy in Nigeria, which is funded by the UN Joint SDG Programme and implemented by UNICEF, UNDP, WFP and ILO, has Sokoto as its pilot state.…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe “Kogi is the next big thing to happen in agriculture” – Governor Yahaya Bello Ranked 20th most populated in Nigeria with 3,278,487 (National Population Commission 2006), pre-2015 Kogi state was rated among the most poorest in Nigeria until Yahaya Bello became governor when he wrestled it, first, out of the list of 10 poorest; and in the recent data by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, out of the 20 poorest. This has been achieved by the governor when more economically-advantaged states like Kano, Kaduna and the FCT fell among the latest data. Kogi has four major…
Abba Kyari, the first time I heard of his name was when I had the misfortune of being visited by the night marauders at the early hours of the night (9:30 pm) a few years ago. It was a 30-minute operation but became the most terrifying period of my life, the type you cannot even pray for your known-sworn enemies to experience. Thank God, no life was lost, the injured became fully recovered, the lost properties were replaced with better ones and we have all been moving on with our lives. In the melee of the unfortunate incident, one security…
A member of House of Representatives, Musa S Adar has opined that Northern elders were no longer capable of influencing the direction of elections. According to Adar, who represents Goronyo/Gada Federal Constituency of Sokoto and is chairman House Committee on Petroleum Resources Upstream, was reacting to a question by newsmen at his residence in Sokoto on Monday. “Northern elders are like Afenifere. They can no longer influence elections because the youths have taken over. You will realise that 95 percent of party followers are the youths,” the lawmaker said. He advised them to work on the unity of the country…