The Zamfara House of Assembly has commenced impeachment process against the Deputy Governor of the state, Mahadi Aliyu. This is contained in a statement by the Director General, Press Affairs and Public Relations to the legislature, Mustafa Jafaru. According to the statement, the move followed a presentation of impeachment notice by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Nasiru Magarya. “As part of the provision of Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that empowers legislatures to commence impeachment move of a governor or his deputy on allegations of constitutional breaches, wrong doing or abuse of…
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The Shebah Exploration and Production Company Ltd (SEPCOL) has said that the fire which engulfed its offshore Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility has burnt out completely. The Chief Executive Officer, SEPCOL (In receivership), Ikemefuna Okafor confirmed the development in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. The Trinity Spirit FPSO located at at Ukpokiti field (OML 108) in Delta had exploded in the early hours of Wednesday. Okafor said the company had been working with the relevant authorities and stakeholders to contain the situation. According to him, an investigation has been launched to establish the cause of the explosion.…
The immediate past chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Kaduna state council, Adamu Yusuf has moved to reconcile the new executive council members with some aggrieved member of the union. ASHENEWS recall that the union election that ushered in the new officials in December 2021, was met with disagreement that resulted in the aggrieved approaching the court to address the issues. However, the former chairman, who was at the Kaduna NUJ Secretariat on Thursday, said the move is aimed to set aside the differences generated over last council election and chart a way forward for peaceful co-existence among…
By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi The Nigeria Cancer Society has called on mothers to protect their daughters with HPV vaccine against cervical cancer. Bauchi state chairperson, Dr Habiba Ismail made the call in an exclusive interview with our correspondent in Bauchi on Friday. Speaking on this year’s World Cancer Day, the medical expert said cervical cancer is top on the list of cancers among women followed by breast cancer and prostate for the male population in Bauchi state. According to her, the vaccine for girls aged between nine and 26 years will help to reduce morbidity and mortality associated to it.…
The United States Soybean Export Council (USSEC) in collaboration with stakeholders in Nigeria’s agronomy and poultry industry and the Nigerian Government hosted a nutrition and food security forum themed: “Nigeria Now”. In a statement, the U.S. Consulate said the forum was to explore partnership strategies that would help increase access to healthy and nutritional food. USSEC is a non-profit U.S. trade group representing U.S. soybean producers, processors, commodity shippers, merchandisers, allied agribusinesses and agricultural organisations. The group’s main goal is building preference, improving the value, and enabling market access for the use of U.S. Soy for human consumption, aquaculture and…
Niger state governor and Chairman North Central States Governors’ Forum (NCSGF), Abubakar Sani-Bello has lauded the individual and collective efforts of citizens and founding fathers of the state who have made various but exceptional contributions towards the growth and development of the state. The state, created by the Military regime of Murtala Ramat Mohammed in February of 1976, has historically evolved through different stages of growth propelled by the various contributions of previous administrations. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje on Friday, the governor expressed the need to, not only consolidate on the legacies of those…
The Vision FM Media Services Ltd has called on the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to review the suspension of its its program, “Idon Mikiya” broadcast on Vision FM and Farin Wata TV. The NBC had suspended the programmes for six months and imposed N5,000,000 fine in a letter dated 28th January, 2022. However, the chairman of Vision FM, Umar Musa in a letter to the Director General of the NBC, noted that “Idon Mikiya” programme was done in the interest of justice in country. According to the letter, “The suspension and fine orders are undeserving and unwarranted having regards to…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is an interventionist agency created for the development of the oil producing region of the country. Well, it is meant to be an interventionist agency, but one thing is crystal clear. Despite hundreds of billions of naira invested over 20 years, the true intervention has been in the pockets of some select people, rather than on the region, and the lives of the people in general. There’s one thing President Muhammadu Buhari hates with a passion. Grand larceny. Expropriation and purloining. Once it’s confirmed that you are filching from the public purse, you can…
Amb. Joseph Sacko, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (ARBE) on Thursday stressed the need for building resilient food systems in Africa in the post Coronavirus (COVID-19) era. Sacko said this at the virtual inaugural briefing within the framework of the ongoing 35th Ordinary Session of the AU-Summit, which started from February 2 to 3, in in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She explained that ARBE comprises two directorates namely: the Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as Directorate of Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment in the department of the AU. According to her, the directorates…
Nigerian government says the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) had tracked 2,000 projects worth over N300 billion, between 2019 and 2021, through its Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Initiative. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed disclosed this, in Abuja, while briefing the media on the giant strides of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration in the anti-corruption fight. Mohammed said during the same period, 326 contractors, who abandoned projects across the six geo-political zones, were forced by the Commission to return to site, to complete projects worth N32.183 billion. He said that the ICPC’s Assets Tracing, Recovery and Management…