By Fadlillah Abdallah The Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA), has said that bandits on Wednesday attacked a mining site in Ajata-Aboki village in Shiroro local government area of Niger state, killing 32 people and abducting three Chinese national, with scores injured. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA), Barrister Salis Sabo made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday. “The terrorists numbering about 300 and riding on 100 motorcycles, invaded the mining site in Ajata-Aboki where 32 people were killed at a mining site owned by some expatriates. The mining activities has been going…
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U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris created new uncertainty on Wednesday about President Joe Biden’s intentions to run for re-election in 2024, pulling back from a definitive statement she had made earlier in the week. “The president intends to run and if he does, I will be his ticket mate. “We will run together,’’ Harris told an LA Times reporter as she prepared to depart for California aboard Air Force Two. Advisors had told the reporter that Harris wanted to come to the back of the plane to clarify what she told CNN on Monday. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash,…
Some environmentalists on Thursday lamented the adverse impact of the ongoing gas and oil leaks from Cawthorne Channel well15 within OML18, operated by Eroton Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd. The June 15 incident has been discharging massive crude oil and gas under high pressure into the environment. Reacting to the development, Dr Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), described the incident as a big blow on the biodiversity of the Niger Delta region. Bassey, a renowned rights activist who hold a national honours of Member of Order of Federal Republic (MFR) for Environmental Activism, regretted that respite…
Rap artiste, Abdulrasheed Bello, popularly known as “JJC Skillz”, has announced separation from his actress wife, Funke Akindele-Bello after seven years of marriage. JJC Skillz took to his official Instagram page, @jjcskillz on Thursday to announce this. He said the last two years of their lives had been extremely difficult, adding that they were now pursuing separate lives. He wrote: “Dear Friends and family, I need to let you know that Funke and I have separated. While it lasted, we shared a lot of things together and have created two beautiful children. “The last two years have been extremely difficult…
Following the state of emergency declared by Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal on education, 75 students sponsored by the state government to study various medical and paramedical courses abroad, have graduated with first class degrees from India and Sudan. This is contained in a statement by the permanent secretary of the state Scholarship Board, Bello Isah made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday. According to the Isah, the state government in 2016 sponsored 200 indigenes to study medical and paramedical courses abroad with a view to increase healthcare delivery in the state. “55 graduands who were part of the 200 sponsored students all graduated…
Nigeria now depends 100% on crude swap+ why no refinery functional in Nigeria at the moment, NNPC GMD opens up Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd, Mele Kyari, has said that no single litre of product is being produced from Nigerian refineries as no single refinery working at the moment in the country. Nigeria has four refineries with 445,000 barrels daily cumulative capacity. Kyari disclosed the status of the refineries when he appeared before the House of Reps joint Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) on Tuesday in Abuja. The committee is investigating the increased…
The Niger state government has declared Thursday and Friday as work-free days to enable civil servants who had not obtained their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), to do so. The Commissioner for Information, Dr Emmanuel Musa disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the outcome of the state weekly Executive Council Meeting at Government House Minna on Wednesday. Musa said the government harped on the importance of the PVC to the performance of their civic responsibilities. The government said it did not want people, especially civil servants, to miss out on the opportunity of exercising their constitutional right of participating in the…
The Senate, on Wednesday at plenary, screened and confirmed all the seven ministerial nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 21. Buhari had in a letter that conveyed the names of the ministerial nominees to Senate, explained that the confirmation request was in accordance with the provisions of Section 147 subsection 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. The seven nominees screened and confirmed by Senate, three were excused from taking questions from lawmakers. This was because of their legislative background and experience, in line with the tradition of the Senate, while four…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved reforms to shore up the non-oil revenue to N3.8 trillion and oil revenue to N160 billion annually. Mr Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, briefed State House correspondents after the FEC meeting on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was presided over by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as President Muhammadu Buhari is on a state visit to Portugal. Akande said that the reforms would boost Federal Government’s finance especially the non-oil revenue. “Among several on the memos presented was…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto state has challenged the state government to explain why it is abandoning projects it has started. A statement by the state chairman of the party, Sadiq Isah Achida made available to ASHENEWS on Wednesday, also challenged the state governor to explain reasons for the inability of his government, to renovate the Sokoto Central Market and the fate of shop owners who lost fortunes in the ill-fated fire outbreak early last year. “We would like to call on the Sokoto state sovernment to explain to the people of the state, its reasons for abandoning…