President Muhammadu Buhari presides over a virtual FEC meeting at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja on December 15, 2021. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the review and upgrade of salaries of police personnel by 20 per cent. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, said this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting which was chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the newly renovated council chambers. According to the minister, the review exercise is expected to take effect from January 2022. Dingyadi further stated that the review is in response to the demands…
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Nigerian government on Wednesday, arraigned 15 suspected invaders of the residence of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suspects were arraigned before Justice Nkeonye Maha on 18-count amended charge bordering on forgery, criminal trespass, intimidation, extortion, among others, contrary to the sections of the law. In the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/436/2021, they were also alleged to have threatened Justice Odili and members of her household with injury to her person and reputation with intent to execute an illegal search warrant. Although 22 defendants are on the charge, seven of them are still at large.…
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal today, December 15, 2021 set aside the judgment of Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court Abuja refusing the final forfeiture application of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in respect of the sums of $500,000 and N500m allegedly looted from the Zamfara state’s share of the Paris Club refunds made by the federal government to the 36 states. Justice Dimgba had on June 30, 2017 ordered the interim forfeiture of the monies following an ex parte application by the EFCC. But the judge on November 17, 2017 refused the…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill in to law. The Union’s president, Chris Isiguzo in a statement on Wednesday also said that cost should not be considered in entrenching true and acceptable democracy. According to him, the amended bill would give “the people the power to determine who should be their leaders as against imposition usually experienced through the indirect primaries where political godfathers are usually the sole determinants of winners without consideration for the people they desire to lead.” Isiguzo wondered why “politicians that spend billions…
By Abujah Racheal The World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), has observed that Africa was being left behind, with the receipt of only 450 million of the eight billion COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed. The Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme Coordinator, Dr Richard Mihigo made this known while speaking on “Vaccination in Africa: Research Capacity, Advocacy, Manufacturing and Distribution”, at the ongoing first International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2021), on Wednesday. The African Union (AU) and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) organised the first CPHIA 2021, with over 10,000 participants…
…Says bandits are enemies of humanity, they don’t have ideology Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal emphasised that Nigerian leaders must rise to save this country from the malady of insecurity. The governor made the statement on Tuesday when he received a delegation from the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, led by its chairperson and governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, who visited to commiserate with over the recent bandits attack in Sokoto. Calling on all to support president Muhammadu Buhari in the fight against banditry, Tambuwal said leaders must rise to save the nation. “We must rise as leaders to save…
Nigerian government on Monday, obtained the board of African Development Bank’s, AfDB, approval for a $210 million loan to co-finance Phase 1 of the country’s Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone Program. The loan is made up of AfDB’s loan of $160 million and an Africa Growing Together Fund’s loan of $50 million. “The program will help to unlock Nigeria’s agriculture sector potential. It will promote industrialization through the development of strategic crops and livestock”, the bank said. Phase 1 of the project will target seven Nigerian states and the country’s Federal Capital Territory, which will support Nigeria’s efforts to raise agricultural…
Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to investigate allegations of Police complicity in the ongoing banditry in Nigeria. The security agency is alleged to constantly be releasing bandits handed over to them after arrest by communities and other security agencies, thereby frustrating the fight against insecurity in the country. The Deputy House Speaker, Ahmed Wase had severally informed the House that arrested kidnappers and their collaborators who are handed over to the police, were released without being prosecuted. Wase who led the debate on a motion of urgent public importance on the recent attack in a village in his…
As Nigeria’s security situation continues to deteriorate with citizens dying from bandits attack daily, the chairperson of Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF and Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi has stressed that the country requires tough leaders to curb insecurity. The governor stated this when he led a delegation of the Forum to condole with the people and government of Sokoto. Recall that bandits, in the penultimate week, set a 32-seater bus aflame and burned to death 23 people on board along Shinkari-Isa road. Within the same week last Friday, in the same axis of the state, they abducted the Chief Imam…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd, has advised Nigerians against panic buying of petrol during the Yuletides. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the corporation, Garba Deen Muhammad made available to newsmen on Tuesday. “The NNPC is once again giving Nigerians strong assurance that we have product sufficiency that will last far beyond the festive period. “Indeed, our stock has risen from a reserve of 1.7 billion litres to over two billion litres within the last one month. “Thus, we once again urge Nigerians not to engage in panic buying but to fully enjoy the…