The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $95 million for Cambodian government to purchase COVID-19 vaccines from 2022 to 2023, it said in a press statement on Tuesday. “The project will help Cambodia save lives by reducing the number of severe COVID-19 cases and accelerate the country’s economic recovery from the pandemic,” said ADB senior social sector specialist, Rikard Elfving. “ADB will also provide $1 million in technical assistance to help Cambodia boost the effectiveness of logistics and supply management systems and reduce access barriers among women, girls, children, and hard-to-reach populations,” he said. In addition to…
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Your Excellency, every committed leader and member of our great party, All Progressives Congress (APC), is very apprehensive that with less than two weeks to the scheduled February 26, 2022 National Convention, preparations are very low key, to put it very mildly. There is no indication that sub-committees have been setup to drive processes of organising the Convention. Every day, we wake up with different speculation about either Governors will be meeting to decide on zoning or Governors are going to be meeting with Your Excellency, etc. Communication from the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) is very poor and…
ASHENEWS – The European Union (EU) says it plans to invest €820 million through its Gateway Initiative in the Nigerian Digital Economy sector over the next three years. The ministry’s spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman in a statement on Monday, said the Executive Vice President of the Union, Margrethe Vestager made the disclosure during a working visit to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Pantami in his office. According to the statement, Vestager extolled the exemplary leadership style of Pantami, adding that the need for stronger partnerships had brought global attention to the country’s digital economy sector. She enumerated…
The House of Representatives Committee on Customs and Excise has set the sum of N3.01 trillion as the 2022 revenue target for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).The committee also approved N369 billion as the 2022 budget for the service. Rep. Leke Abejide, Chairman House Committee on Customs and Excise, said this when the Comptroller-General of the service, Hameed Ali appeared before the committee to defend the 2022 budget. Abejide commended the NCS for exceeding the N1.678 trillion for the 2021 revenue target. He recalled that during the 2021 budget defence, the CGC presented the sum of N1.465 trillion, which he…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confirmed the arrest of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and four others. The spokesperson of the Agency, Femi Babafemi made the confirmation in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Babafemi said that this came few hours after Kyari was declared wanted by the agency over his involvement in a 25 kilograms cocaine deal. He confirmed that the Nigerian Police Force has handed over the suspended DCP Abba Kyari, the erstwhile Commander of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) at the Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigerian Police Force, to the anti-narcotic agency. “Five of…
Following a vote by 18 members of the Zamfara state House of Assembly to impeach the Deputy Governor of the state, Mahdi Aliyu, the Chief Judge, Kulu Aliyu has inaugurated a seven-man panel to investigate allegations against him. The said members had last week voted to impeach the state deputy governor from office, following a motion by the state deputy speaker and chairman House Committee on Public Accounts, Musa Yankuzo and seconded by Yusuf Kanoma, Maru North.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared the suspended DCP Abba Kyari wanted for being member of a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline. This was disclosed at a press briefing by the agency in Abuja on Monday. According to the agency, some law enforcement agents, including Kyari were at the forefront of breaking the law by aiding and abetting drug trafficking in the country. The statement said that Kyari tried to lure operatives of the Agency to cover up an intercepted 25kg cocaine imported from Ethiopia. “He proposed a drug deal whereby he and…
President Muhammad Buhari on Sunday sent a delegation of four ministers to condole the government and people of Sokoto state over the death of Magajin Garin Sokoto, late Hassan Danbaba. The delegations were ministers of justice, aviation, water resources and police affairs: Abubakar Malami (SAN), Hadi Sirika, Suleiman Adamu and Muhammad Dingyadi, respectively. The Managing Director of Sokoto Rima River Basin Development Authority (SRRBDA) Buhari Bature and Muhammad Daura, son of President Buhari’s nephew were also at the condolence. Earlier in the day, Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje and the Emir of Bichi, Nasiru Bayero condoled the people and government…
As the day for the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention draws close, indications have emerged that the presidency may have decided that the party’s national chairmanship be left in the Northeast as it is consistent with the norms and traditions of the party. It would be recalled that when Chief John Odigie-Oyegun from the South South was dropped as the APC national chairman, the party still went to the zone to elect Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo under a consensus arrangement. In the same vein, now that Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni who heads the APC…
Northern Nigerian youth and students have been mobilized to prepare for future leadership responsibility by working to reclaim their destiny from what was referred to as exploitative condescending class that has manipulated the democratic process and governance system. The charge was made by a convergence of academics and a progressive section of the northern leaders and elders at the Kano state edition of the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series, held at the Bayero University Kano (BUK) at the weekend. Speakers at the event, which was chaired by a former Deputy Governor of Kano State, Professor Hafiz Abubakar, unanimously agreed that…