. . . putting the people firstMonday, August 29, 2022 / 31 Muharram 1444 AH @pmlonline peoplesdailyngVol. 40 No. 047 N200 PAGE 28PAGES 3 PAGE 7 I valuesocialtransparency,justice –Osinbajo 2023: State legislators key to APC victory - Gov. Badaru Police arrest fake Army captain for alleged armed robbery Dismissed soldiers were tried in accordance with extant laws – Army Headquarters NDLEA arrests Lagos airport cleaner who leads drug syndicate PAGE 2 PG 28 UPDATE ON SCHOOL CHILDREN HELD CAPTIVE BETHEL BAPTIST HIGH SCHOOL, KUJAMA DAYS421 Apathy, low morale in Senate as govs hijack 2023 return tickets >>PG 4 2023: I don’t have preferred candidate, only national agenda —Obasanjo PEOPLES DAILY www.peoplesdailyng.com PG 5 Special Report: 60 Senators who may not return Near empty chamber worries Senate President Senate spokesman best to respond - SP spox L-R: The Representative of the Inspector General of Police, Nemi Iwo, Representative of the heldstakeholdersSocietythetheJohnny,ComradeInfrastructure,CriticalVandalizationdestructiononStakeholdersandMarshaltheRepresentativeDanladi(NSCDC),DefenceSecurityGeneral,CommandantNigeriaandCivilCorpsClaudiusYàkubu,ofCDS,AirViceDalhatLadantheConvener,SummitCurbingtheandofNationalEmmanuelduring2022editionofYouths,CivilandothersummitinAbuja. Photo: Justin Imo-owo
“This is why some of the work around the Ease of Doing Business among others are all initiatives that have behind them. The whole idea that this environment is one that is welcoming to business and people can come and do business,” he added.Osinbajo also talked about creativity in governance and education.“Alot of that is tied to education that is really something that interests me the most; just using an example of something we did in the Northeast.
Insurgency: Gov. Zulum reassures Military of sustained support Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has reiterated his administration’s commitment to sustain support to the military and other security agencies in the fight against insurgency.Zulummade the declaration on Sunday in Monguno during his visit to the headquarters of Sector 3 of Operation Hadin Kai and Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Kinnasara Cantonment, Monguno. Zulum, who congratulated the new Commander of the task force for his appointment, lauded the role of the task force in maintaining security in the border areas of northern Borno. He noted that the improvement in security in the area had led to return of displaced persons in the zone back to their ancestral homes, particularly in major towns like Baga, Cross Kauwa, and Mallam-Fatori. Receiving the governor, the Sector Commander, Brig. Gen. A. E Abubakar, thanked the governor for the solidarity visit to the command and assured him of the military’s commitment to secured lives and property of people of Borno and the nation in general.(NAN)
“When they talk about economy, we are often compared with smaller African countries, but there are 10 states in Nigeria that have bigger GDPs than those countries, it is a huge target market.”He also responded to the question about some inaccurate characterisation of Nigeria in sections of the international community.Thevice-president said it was important to constantly engage the international community to show them how we feel about the stereotypes.“Itcomes down to the work we do as government and people about the characterisation.
” He narrated how the Learning Centers in Maiduguri were“Istarted.visited Maiduguri, Borno in 2015, and I saw many children whose parents had been killed by the Boko Haram insurgents and in a place where they were; I saw about 49,500 of such children.
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said he places high value on the virtues of integrity, transparency and social justice.Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the vice-president interacted with a group of Harvard Business School students who visited him at the Presidential Villa.Numbering about a dozen, some of the students are Nigerians.The students, who are currently on an African excursion, asked questions about leadership, faith, spirituality, government policies in education, health, economy, and national image, among“Justothers.looking at these values, there is a great deal of unanimity about what is the right thing to do. “The question is whether or not you will do those things, or whether you are motivated enough to do them, or whether you are compelled to do them.
”If you do and there is a good likelihood that you could be detected and the process will go through and you will be punished.
“First, there is a need to appreciate the size of the country, which is crucial to understanding what the issues are. “For instance, Borno is about the size of the whole of the UK plus Sweden or Denmark.
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The students thanked the vicepresident for the opportunity to visitThehim.Team Leader, Mr Daniel Jaiyeoba, said that they wanted to hear from the vice-president.
“We understand your private sector experience and now you are in the public sector.
“That is why we put this visit together,” he said. The students were accompanied on the visit by the Special Adviser to the President on Ease of Doing Business, Dr Jumoke Oduwole, who had taught some of them as undergraduates.Thelistof the Harvard students delegation also included Maan Aldaiel, Dusty Register, Tomas Tussie, Connor Popik, Ruben Anzures, Scott Kimberlee, Thomas Cowan, Laura Romine, Lanre Ojutalayo, Oluwatoyin Ogundele, Etim Imoh and AbdulRahman Buhari.(NAN)
“Spirituality helps in that sense to help you to decide what to do and what not to do; especially where institutions are not strong enough to restrain people from behaving in a particular way or not,” he Osinbajosaid.said that the virtues of integrity, transparency and social justice were also exhorted in the different faiths and religions in theAccordingcountry.to him, spirituality connotes values. “I came into government with values about what I think is important especially around transparency, social justice and justice, among others. “”You are almost always a product of the values you believe in. “”Fortunately, a lot of these values cut across the different faiths, they are not necessarily restricted to a religion or one faith.“In societies that are more developed institutionally, you don’t need to be told that you shouldn’t do certain things, because you could end up in jail.
“We built a school that exposed these children to technology and values, and after five years, the children were able to speak English and Hausa, they were doing robotics, writing programmes and other things they were not able to do before then.“What this showed is that with skills, any child, anywhere can do everything, especially when you provide that child with education that is focused,” he said. More so, Osinbajo spoke about the economy, and the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programme, politics, leadership, education, and energy transition, among others.
“ I had a conversation with the governor and other officials and the idea of starting a school for them came up and we stepped in. “The state government gave us land in Maiduguri that could accommodate 1,300 children, and these were children that could only speak Kanuri.
“I speak about corruption and all that; but where the institutions are weak, some people have reasons for not doing the right thing,” the vice-president said. On the perception on Nigeria in the international community, Osinbajo said that it was in understanding the size of Nigeria that the international community could better appreciate the enormity and complexity of some of the country’s challenges.
I value transparency, social justice –Osinbajo
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” He expressed hope that the partnership would help to ”bring those precious intellectuals to NIPSS for the betterment of Nigeria.“Moving Nigeria to the greater heights is not a task for an individual, but it is a job that needs collective efforts and responsibilities.“President Muhammadu Buhari alone cannot move Nigeria to greater heights, it is our collective responsibility, so let us all come together and solve Nigeria’s problem for a better society,”’ Omotayo added.
T he National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies ( NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau, wants to partner with the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), to enhance national development.TheNIPSS said it was seeking close working relationship with the NLTF in the areas of education and intellectual development.Director-General of the Institute, Prof. Ayo Omotayo, made this known when he led a delegation from the Institute on a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of NLTF, Dr Bello Maigari, in Abuja. “I am here today with my management team to strengthen and seek for strong partnership with the National lottery Trust Fund in areas of needs that will assist us to build a better society.
Responding, Maigari said that no fewer than 30 universities and other higher institutions of learning across Nigeria had sent in requests for educational intervention from NLTF. Maigari said that such requests stemmed from the fact that many of the institutions were lacking social amenities and conducive learning environment. He said : ”And most of these institutions lack social amenities and so some of them had requested for upgrading of their laboratories and other projects which are key to acquiring skills and“Iexpertise.assure you, certainly of collaborative efforts that would concretise learning and research in the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies”. Maigari further assured NIPSS of the fund’s support to help the institute achieve its mandate of impacting knowledge, developing intellectuals’ capacity for the promotion of a peaceful environment and coexistence among“NLTFNigerians.also pledged its cooperation to efforts aimed at ensuring sustainable development that would bring solutions to Nigeria’s many challenges.“Ican assure you that this government under the leadership of was ready to replicate what is happening in developed nations for the impact to be felt here in Nigeria ”The moment we receive your proposal, we will examine it and we will send a delegation to reaffirm our commitment to help NIPSS stand on its feet,” Maigari said.
“We find National Lottery Trust Fund an excellent organisation that we will partner with in areas of education and promoting national intellectuals, to move our dear country forward,” Omotayo said. According to him, Nigeria has a lot of smart and intellectual people who ”were currently idle.
Police arrest fake Army captain for alleged armed robbery
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The Unified Common Entrance Examination is conducted annually by the board. A total of 63,200 pupils registered for the 2022 examination across the 25 local government areas of the state.
Niger State Universal Basic Education Board is unhappy about shoddy jobs executed by contractors handling primary schools projects in the state in the past. Its chairman, Alhaji Saidu Ibrahim, gave a hint at this in Minna on Saturday while monitoring the 2022 Unified Common Entrance Examination for Primary Six pupils. The board’s Public Relations officer, Mr Idris Kolo, stated in Minna on Sunday that Ibrahim promised to engage the contractors on the need to adhere strictly to specifications in future jobs.He commended the process and conduct of the examination, especially the sitting arrangement for the candidates and urged schools’ managements to curtail examination malpractice. The chairman also urged schools managements to ensure integrity in the marking of the examination scripts so as to produce graduates capable of competing with their counterparts from private schools.
P olice operatives have arrested a 39-year-old suspected fake Army Captain, Andy Edwards, in Lagos for alleged armed robbery. Police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest on Sunday in a statement.Hundeyin stated that the fake soldier, who posed as a modelling agent, would invite ladies for auditioning and rob them of their cars and valuables at gunpoint.Hesaid the suspect was arrested following a painstaking investigation that was launched after one of his victims reported the robbery of her Lexus RX330 SUV.“Investigation led to the recovery of one Ford Edge SUV with registration number KRD 276 EG, one sewing machine and one POS machine with six SIM cards from the suspect’s house. “Also recovered from him were two pairs of military camouflage uniforms and one number plate – AFL 469 GD. “While investigation is being rounded off, the owner of the Ford SUV is hereby urged to come forward to claim same. Suspect would be arraigned at the conclusion of investigation,’’ Hundeyin stated. The spokesman assured people of Lagos State of the unwavering commitment of officers and men of the police to end crime and criminality in the state.(NAN)
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A recent chamber with the senate in session showing empty seats.
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A clear case was the last threat by senators across party lines to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over worsening insecurity in the country. Before now, such moves could not be imagined in Lawan-led Senate, but for even APC senators to openly participate in such threats reveals, perhaps, that the centre cannot hold as it used to do. The signs are clear; APC senators are now disavowed, no one listens to Lawan again. Even Lawan is injured and cannot, like before, fight and defend Buhari, despite his notorious ‘same page’ principle.
Apathy, low morale in Senate as govs hijack 2023 return tickets
Close to sixty senators of the 9th Assembly will most likely not return in 2023, our correspondent, Ikechukwu Okaforadi writes on how this ominous sign is negatively affecting legislative output and functions in the red Thechamber.trendhas continued unabated, where experience and competence in legislation are continually sacrificed on the altar of politics. In what started like coincidence, but gradually became a norm, the aspiration of every Governor is to retire to the Senate. Instances abound of governors who may not wish to go to the Senate, but will frustrate senators from their states, just to leave no one in doubt over where political superiority lies. They do this with great ease, given that party structures at state levels are at their beck and call, hence no time is wasted to shove senators away. This has earned the nation’s bastion of democracy the status of retirement ground for ex governors. There are equally cases where some governors sacrificed brilliant senators just to make space for their wives, kids and cronies, despite such beneficiaries lacking the requisite competence and interest to do the job of lawmaking for the nation. Unfortunately most times, it is the best brains that fall victim in the course of this ignoble power play and this has come at an unforeseen and most times, unnoticed huge cost to the nation’s fledgling democracy. An example of this is when the Senate Leader in the 7th Assembly, a refined lawyer, Ndoma Egba, was booted out of the Senate by his Governor, Liyel Imoke, despite interventions by David Mark and even President Goodluck Jonathan. Also, APC Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, prevented Senator Olorumbi Mamora from Senate to accommodate his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, just as in Ogun and Kwara, another fine lawmakers, especially in area of health, Senators Ibrahim Oloriegbe and Olarewaju Tejuoso were sacrificed by their governors to settle political interest at the 9th and 8th Senate, just to mention a few. Ahead of the 2023 general election, Governors of Kano, Kebbi, Abia, Enugu, Jigawa, Sokoto, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Cross River, among others are already warming up to replace their respective Senators. Pundits claim in the very near future, no one may become a senator without first being a governor. This will not be in the nation’s interest given that the upper chamber is supposed to be a technical ground where legislations that deepen and consolidate democracy are initiated and produced, and for this reason, it requires special competence to do the However,job. the reverse is the case. Gory images of sleeping senators, mostly former governors, had emerged in the public spaces. Analysts believe this is a clear indication the interest is neither about capacity nor the will to serve Nigeria, but the pecks that accompany such senatorial offices. The ongoing political throat slitting ahead of the 2023 general election has spared no one through different circumstances; high and mighty have fallen victims, including the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, who contested the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket, but lost to former Lagos Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Lawan has vast experience in the National Assembly spanning over twenty years, but all that is to be lost from all indications because he, like over fifty six other senators, may not return to the Senate in 2023. Aside Lawan, other senators who may not return to the chamber in 2023 include: Hadejia Hassan Ibrahim (Jigawa North East), Sankara Danladi Abubakar (North West, Ahmed Baba Kaita (Katsina North), Bello Mandiya (Katsina South) and Abdullahi Barkiya Kabir (Katsina Central), Lawali Hassan Anka (Zamfara West). Others are: Mohammed Hassan (Zamfara Central), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North), Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Senator Uba Sani (Kaduna Central), Senator Danjumah La’ah (Kaduna South), Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano Central), Nora Ladi Daduut (Plateau South), Dimka Hezekiah (Plateau Central), Gyang Istifanus Dung (Plateau North). Also not returning to 10th Assembly are: Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West), Yakubu Oseni (Kogi Central). In Niger State, while the fate of Senate Bima Enagi (Niger South) is not known yet, the Deputy Whip of the Senate, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (Niger North) lost out. Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe (Kwara Central) and Orker - Jev Emmanuel Yisa (Benue North West), Haliru Jika (Bauchi Central), Lawal Gumau (Bauchi South) and Bulkachuwa Adamu Muhammad (Bauchi North) lost Senatorsout.Emmanuel Bwacha (Taraba South) and Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf (Taraba Central) are not returning, while Senator Amos Bulus Kilawangs (Gombe South) lost out, Ajayi Boroffice (Ondo North), Ayo Akinyelure (Ondo Central) and Nicholas Tofowomo (Ondo South) are not returning. In Lagos State, Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central) is not returning, while in Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun Central) is not returning, Senator Teslim Folarin (Oyo Central), senator Francis Alimekana (Edo North), and Matthew Urohgide (Edo South) are not Similarly,returning.Senators Sandy Onor (Cross River Central) and Gershom Bassey (Cross River South) are not returning, just as Ovie Omo - Agege (Delta Central) and James Manager (Delta South) are out, Bassey Albert Akpan (Akwa Ibom), Senator Gorge Thompson Sekibo (Rivers), Betty Apiafi (Rivers), are not returning. Rochas Okorocha (Imo West), Ezenwa Francis (Imo East), among others are not returning either. From this figure, it is clear that the 10th Senate will certainly witness the highest level of turnover of legislators. The consequences are already manifesting in their apathy towards legislative businesses. The chamber is nowadays less than 10 percent occupied by the supposed number of Senators. In manifestation of lack of interest, most of them breeze in, fill attendance and vanish, while a few that stay in the chamber hardly make any contribution as bills are being considered. There were cases where the Senate President presided over the plenary session with less than ten Senators in attendance.Tothis end, Lawan is therefore forced to either swim and sink with the prevailing despondency or do the consideration alone. Many times, when critical Bills are already laid for consideration, he suddenly adjourns plenary to a letter date hoping for better attendance.Some important bills have been considered with less attention they deserve and the consequences will only become evident in the future when implementation begins.Sources in the Senate revealed that many committee works, including oversight functions, public hearing, executive and private member bills which were before now receiving robust legislative attention, are abandoned due to apparent lack of interest by the sponsors or chairmen of the committees.
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Peoples Daily made efforts to get response from the Senate President’s Media Adviser, Ola Awonoyi, over the sudden dampened moral and lackadaisical attitude and disposition to activities in the red chamber, but he referred the questions to the Senate spokesman, Ajibola Basiru. He said “Glad if you can direct your questions to the Senate spokesman, Senator Ajibola Basiru. He is in the best position to provide answers to your questions. Sorry aboutFurtherthat.” prompting him did not however yield any different results, as he insisted “In my view, the issues are better addressed by him”.However, the spokesman of the Senate, Senator Ajibola Basiru did not respond to messages sent to him at the time of filing this report, just as his number could not be reached.Also, when the Senate Minority Leader, Philip Aduda was contacted, he did not pick his calls, even text messages sent to him by our correspondent on the issues under consideration were not answered as of the time of filing this report.
Over the past six months, contrary to practice at its inception, the Senate now resumes as late as 11:30am and most times adjourns by 1pm. This is despite the fact that since Covid-19 era, it convenes for plenary only two times in a week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays).Theeconomic loss, both in resources and time, which accompanies this laid-back disposition by the senators could only be imagined. Most of the Senators who are not returning in 2023, as expected, may find no more reason to report for work, just as those who report, may not be willing to go the extra mile for a system which they may have perceived as unrewarding and unappreciative. Even the enthusiastic disposition of the Senate President Ahmed Lawan towards coordination of legislative activities when he was initially sworn in, has grossly waned, likewise his bipartisan grip on his colleagues, which today is steadily losing momentum.
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60 Senators who may not return
Director General, National Broadcasting Commission(NBC), Balarabe Shehu Ilelah(middle), Secretary of the Commission, Dr. Igomu Onoja(right) and Deputy director, Public Affairs NBC, Mr. Ekanem Antia, during a press conference on the Revokes Broadcast licenses of Debtors Broadcast stations held at NBC Headquarters, on Friday in Abuja.
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo said he has no preferred candidate in the 2023 Presidential election. Obasanjo, however, said he has only a national agenda for the country.Obasanjo stated this while speaking to journalists after he paid a visit to former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar at his uphill home in Minna.According to him, “I don’t have a special candidate, I have a national agenda”. He added, “I have come to see my brother who was a bit indisposed and when he was abroad, I had wanted to visit him, and the day I arrived in London to visit him, he had already left.”
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2023: I don’t have a preferred candidate, only national agenda —ObasanjovowsAPCDelta to kick PDP out gov’tof A s Delta marks 31 years of its creation, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation in the state has said the party will kick the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) out of power come 2023. In a statement in Abuja on Saturday by Mr Ima Niboro, Director, Communications and Media Strategy of the organisation, the group lamented the level of alleged infrastructure decay in the state, 31 years after creation. Niboro said level of the alleged decay by the PDP in the state had left all reasonable people wondering what the current government did with the humongous oil money accrued to the state in the past seven years and more.He, however, expressed hope to indigenes of the state stating that “we must all collectively speak with our votes next AccordingMarch.”to him, the task of ousting PDP from Government House, Asaba, has become far more urgent than“Beyondbefore. mismanaging the physical resources that have accrued to them, they are now reaching into the future of the state taking loans of mindboggling“Comefigures.March 2023, we must speak with our votes and kick them out. That’s the only way we can regain our lost glory and restore Delta to a pride of place amongst the states of Nigeria,” he said.Niboro added, “Deltans are earnestly looking forward to our EDGE Agenda and OmoAgege will hit the ground running upon assumption of office.“His developmental impact through infrastructural projects, employment and human capital development already speak for themselves. “With Omo-Agege, we have an opportunity to raise Delta to a level where it can compare with other states that are leading the infrastructure change in different parts of the country.”(NAN)
The two statesmen earlier had a closed door meeting which lasted for about 30 minutes.
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From Yakubu Mustapha Minna
NDLEA arrests Lagos airport cleaner who leads drug syndicate
“The drug syndicate bust, which is the first drug arrest at the new terminal of the MMIA comes on the heels of the seizure of a consignment of bottles of viju and fearless energy drinks used to conceal skunk for export to Dubai, UAE through the NAHCO export shed on Monday 15th Aug. A freight agent has already been arrested in connection with the seizure.“Inthe same vein, attempt by a syndicate to export illicit drugs through the Lagos airport on Wednesday 24th Aug was foiled during an outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airline to Oman via Addis Ababa. A suspect Jonah Chukwuemeka was arrested with a total of 1,995 Tramadol tablets with a gross weight of 900 grams hidden in locust beans in his luggage. The bag containing the illicit substance was handed over to him at the airport by one Olagunju Abbas who was promptly“Packsarrested.ofTramadol 225mg containing 119,500 capsules were Thursday 25th Aug transferred to NDLEA by the Nigeria Customs, cargo wing of MMIA. The consignment had come in through Ethiopian Airline from Pakistan. Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on Saturday raided a car shop, Bolak Motors at Ewela bus stop, Oshodi where bags of 615.2kg cannabis were recovered along with nine vehicles. Efforts are ongoing to track the car dealer, Alhaji Ismail who is currently at large.“No fewer than eight suspects were arrested and bags of illicit drugs seized from them when Akerele area of Agege, Shogunle and Mafoluku areas of Oshodi, Fagba area of Ogba, Ipodo area of Ikeja and Iyana Ipaja park were raided in the state.”
By Mashe Umaru Gwamna Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a cleaner at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos, Ohiagu Sunday, who leads a drug syndicate at the international wing of the airport. NDLEA in a statement issued on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, said he was nabbed on Tuesday 23rd August following the arrest of an intending passenger on Airpeace flight to Dubai, UAE, Obinna Jacob Osita who was arrested with three bags, two of which contained eight blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 4.25kg concealed in cassava product, gari and crayfish. “One other member of the airport syndicate who works with Ohiagu has also been arrested while operatives are after anotherInvestigationssuspect. revealed that a Dubai-based drug dealer recruited Obinna, a 42-year-old native of Oyi Local Government Area, Anambra State to traffic the drugs and equally contracted Ohiagu, a 34-year-old airport cleaner from Orlu West Local Government Area of Imo State to create access for the unhindered passage of the trafficker.
The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Abubakar Audi has assured that the agency will stop oil theft across the country.Audi, gave the assurance on Friday in Abuja, during a strategic with Commandants and Heads of Anti-Vandal Units across the country. He tasked the officers to check excesses and inappropriate behaviours of officers so as to address oil theft and bunkering.
Philantropist distributes fire extinguishers to Kwara community
“The Minister has directed that anyone caught sabotaging the image of government will be severely sanctioned.Someof the anti vandals units have been found wanting. We want you to reposition the units for better performance.“Iwarn that the corps has no place for mediocrity and incompetence. Redouble your efforts and reposition the sectors for better performance.”
Bishop charges fathers to prioritise welfare of families
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Police warned in Uyo on Sunday that the ban on masquerades parades is still in force in Akwa Ibom. Police spokesman in the state, SP Odiko Macdon, reiterated the ban in a statement he issued. He explained that the ban became necessary following violent and lawless actions of masquerades leading to murders, threats to lives, assaults and other breaches to fundamental rights.
TTM, Segun Afolorunikan; Arewa Coordinator, TTM, Malam Mukaila Ismaila; South-West Coordinator, TTM, Bankole Dada and National Treasurer, TTM, Olanrewaju Kazeem at the world press conference and unveiling of Nigeria Youth Festival, Tinubu Edition in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos,
Alhaji Ibrahim Ajia, a philanthropist and House of Representatives candidate for the Ilorin Federal Constituency under Peoples Democratic Party, has donated five industrial fire extinguishers to Alanamu Market as preventive measures against fire outbreak. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that fire gutted the market in July, when property worth millions of naira were destroyed but the market was recently reopened to continue normal dailyAjiabusinesses.who addressed the gathering on Sunday in Ilorin, handed over the fire extinguishers to market women. He explained that having known the cause and to prevent future fire disaster, he decided to provide the market with safety devices.According to him, it is very important to put preventive measures in place in markets, to guard against such occurrence in the “Ifuture.was not around when it happened but the delegates I sent studied the situation and based on findings I feel that in market we should have some safety procedures and that is why I am donating industrial fire extinguishers to Alanamu market today.“This is in case we have problem like this which we don’t pray for; we will have something to fight the fire. “Today I also use this opportunity to call on our mothers, the youth and our fathers to unite ahead of 2023 general elections.”(NAN)
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“Today, you must go home and reconcile with your family members; while dropping your ego or holding up to wrongs individuals in the family did to you“Havepreviously.you lost it, and you have started staying and keeping concubines outside the home; it is time to return and reconcile with your immediate family; which should be your top priority,” he said.The bishop said that men were rejected or abandoned in old age due to how they had treated their family members with neglect and lack of forgiveness for long. “When the man needs the family members the most, when his strength cannot carry him again, they are nowhere to be found.“So, there is the need for reconciliation and accommodation of all family members notwithstanding differences and challenges within the family,” he urged.(NAN)
“I want to make it clear that anyone involved will not be spared. We will apply all the rules necessary for sanctions of all recalcitrant elements.“Thecorps will use its hammer on any personnel involved in compromise of oil theft regardless of his position.“Therewill be severe punishment for anyone found wanting. “If you join the corps to make money by cooperating with oil thieves, we urge you to resign.
“A case in point is the `EKONG’ in Mbak Ikot Abasi and Mbak Ikot Idiongo Villages in Mbak Etoi in Etoi Clan, Uyo,’’ he stated. Police also outlawed a curfew imposed by masquerades on the communities to take effect from dusk to dawn on Aug. 20, 22, 27 and 29. The curfew infringed on the fundamental rights of the people to move freely and to associate, Macdon stated. He quoted the Commissioner of Police, Mr Olatoye Durosinmi as warning that anyone who flouted the ban would face the wrath of the law. Macdon advised law-abiding citizens to go about their lawful duties without fear of molestation as the police would spare no efforts at ensuring their safety.
“Some believe that security agencies are part of oil theft in the country, but we must do what is necessary to redeem our image.
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We must stop oil theft—NSCDC boss assures
L-R: South East Coordinator, Think Tinubu Movement, (TTM), Hon Endy Tony Ogalabu; National Youth Leader, TTM, Ayo Omotoso; Director General, Think Tinubu Movement
Rt. Rev. Christian Onyia, Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Nike in Enugu State, has charged fathers to give priority to welfare and care of their families. Onyia gave the charge on Sunday in a homily he delivered at St. Luke the Physician Specialist Hospital, Trans-Ekulu in Enugu, in a special fathers’ programme : ‘Men in His Presence’. The programme was organised by the Nike Diocesan Christian Men’s Fellowship (DCMF). He urged fathers to arise and take their rightful place of being both the administrative and spiritual heads of their homes and “provide needed fatherly love and direction to every home.” He said: ”Each home and children within each home needed the fatherly direction due to negative orientation and ideas of some groups and persons are propagating in the society today. “Fathers must lead their families with love and understanding; while shunning all forms of hatred, wickedness and lack of forgiveness.
“The two dismissed soldiers will be officially handed over to the Nigeria Police, Yobe Command in Damaturu for civil prosecution in the court of law.
“Recall that the NA pledged to institute a Board of Inquiry to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident and speedily bring the suspects to justice, if indicted. “Once more, the NA wishes to commiserate with the family of the victim and the good people of Yobe.“May the soul of the deceased rest in perfect peace,” he said. (NAN)
The distribution of grants to the 2nd batch of FCT FADAMA CARES beneficiaries by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, in Gwagwalada Area Council, was hijacker’s by hoodlums who took away the grants after the minster had disbursed the it to 517 vulnerable people across the six Area Councils. It was observed that the hoodlums hijacked the disbursement of the grants to the beneficiaries due to lack of proper arrangement by the officials of FADAMA III Project/FCT FADAMAPeoplesCARES.Daily gathered that the miscreants who stole the grants were nabbed by the men of Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) and other security agencies. However, during the incident, the Community Development and Gender officer in charge of FCT FADAMA CARES Program, Mr. Husseini Iliyasu screened the beneficiaries after going out from the gate of the Area Council to avoid diversion of the grants. Reacting to the development, the Commander of VGN in Gwagwalada Command, Mallam Abdullmalik Danu, disclosed that about one hundred goats were recovered from the hoodlums by the men of VGN. Danu also revealed that about two hundred bags of rice and other grants were received from the thieves, urging the FCT FADAMA CARES to avoid symbolic disbursement of grants to the beneficiaries in the nearby future.
The Executive Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council in the FCT, Hon. Abubakar Jibrin Giri, has appointed two Special Advisers on Security in the Area Council. The two Special Advisers are: DSP Adamu Yusuf (Retired Police) and Mr. Aboki Yakubu, the Warrant Officer in Nigerian Army (Retired).Inan interview with Peoples Daily Correspondent, DSP Adamu Yusuf, said he would deem it necessary to contribute his quota towards the progress of security in theHearea.added that he would deem it fit to give the Chairman Advice for the sake of peace and Security of the people in Gwagwalada and its environs.Yusuf,however, promised to discharge his duties diligently for the betterment of the Area Council.
Leaders of the two factions led by its Presidents, Aare Prince Osibote and Otunba Wasiu Afolabi arrived at the consensus when they met separately with the Oba of Benin in his palace in Benin City where they expressed appreciation to the Oba for promoting friendliness among the ancient City of Benin and Ile-Ife. Addressing the Benin throne during his visit, Osibote said, “We are your subjects and your sons; there is nothing that we can do without Benin, as far as Oodua is concerned.“Weare from here (Benin Kingdom) and Ile-Ife in Osun State are very important to the organization. Without this, we cannot move forward”, Osibote added.Also speaking, Afolabi who gave a background of how OPC began a few years ago, said, “I really appreciate your own comments. We will call the few people that are outside together. We are really glad for your goodwill.”
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Gwagwalada Chairman appoints Special Advisers on security
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The Nigerian Army (NA) says the two soldiers it dismissed from service, were tried in the Headquarters 241 Recce Battalion, Nguru in connection with the murder of an Islamic cleric, Sheik Goni Gashua Aisami in Yobe.The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Sunday, identified the two soldiers, Lance Cpl. John Gabriel and Lance Cpl. Adamu Gideon.
NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations Mr Eddy Megwa, (3rd left), Special Assistant to NYSC Director General, Mr Yunusa Tanimu (4th left), Deputy Director Press and Public Relations, Mr Emeka Mgbemena (4th right) and some well-wishers during their investiture as Fellows of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) held in Abuja.
OPC factional leaders’ sheath sword after Oba of Benin’s intervention
Aggrieved leaders of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) have agreed to sheath their sword following a peace process that was initiated by the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II towards resolving the misunderstanding that led to the division of the socio-cultural group.
By Usman Shuaibu
Dismissed soldiers were tried in accordance with extant laws – Army HeadquartersgrantsdistributesashijackHoodlumsitems,FCTMinister
Nwachukwu said the soldiers were dismissed after facing trial at the Headquarters 241 Recce Battalion, Nguru on Saturday having been indicted in a report of a Board of Inquiry set up to investigate the unfortunate incident.Hesaid that both soldiers were charged and summarily tried for failure to perform military duties and conduct prejudice to service discipline.Theoffences according to him, are punishable under Section 62 (a) of Armed Forces Act CAP A20 and Section 103(1) of Armed Forces Act CAP A20 Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004. Army spokesman said that the two soldiers were found guilty and awarded reduction of rank from Lance Corporal to Private and Dismissed Regiments.
From Yakubu Mustapha Minna N iger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has said that that employing commercialmechanical- agriculture will lead to food security and improve local farming. The Governor stated this when he received the All Farmers Association, led by it’s Chairman, Alhaji Shehu Galadima at the Government House, Minna. He said the country’s population was fast growing and unless mechanized agriculture is practiced, the country would not be able to feed the Governornation.Bello decried that the security challenges especially in Northern Nigeria may have adverse effect on the prices of food. He expressed optimism that the situation would be brought under control as efforts are being intensified towards putting an end to the menace.
Honours Mallam Mairawani
“And, there have been several calls that procurement activities in Nigeria are areas where much of the corrupt activities are done. “But as it is, most of our members who are professionals are usually not allowed to do what they are to do but rather those who are first to get it are not qualified,” he said. According to him, the ethics of the profession is taught and endangered in the practice of procurement and supply chain in Nigeria.
T he United Nations International Peace and Governance Council’s PanAfrican Leadership Symposium and Honours Conference, PALESH Abuja 2022, ended at the weekend, with the conferment of the prestigious SDGs Peace Ambassador’s award on Mallam Muazzam Mairawani, the Chief Executive Officer of MSMTheGroup.Conference and Awards tagged: “PALESH Abuja 2022” was the concluding part of three-day activities marking the International Executive Masterclass on Leadership, Sustainable Peace-Building and Alternative Dispute Resolution, (ADR) themed: “The Role of Inclusive Governance Towards Consolidating Peaceful Coexistence in Africa, which held at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Abuja during the weekend. The event, which was its eighth edition, and held in commemoration of the United Nations World Humanitarian Day, drew participants and honourees from other countries including United States of America, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Zambia and Gabon, amongAmbassadorothers.
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Cleric tasks parents on godly upbringing of children
From:Femi Oyelola, Kaduna Apostle Yakubu Yusuf of House of Purpose Ministry U/Sunday in Chickun Local Government area of Kaduna state has urged parents to wake up and bring up their children in the fear of God and monitor their activities. He stated this during a sermon, he delivered at the 2022 Children’s Day program of the Church.The Cleric who takes his lead reading from the Book of Proverbs, 22:6 said every child is an upgrade of his or her parents.
Emir of Zazzau unveils ABU smart classroom
“In Nigeria today, there are people who are doing this particular job by way of “manknow-man’’ and they never understand the fundamentals of dignity involved than carries the integrity in procurement.
” But now it has no board overseeing their activities which is inimical to utilising the content of that particular law which was passed in 2007 by the government of late President Umaru Yaradua,” he said.According to him, as a result of that, what we have today is that people tend to believe there are no sanctions that can be meted on them. (NAN)
The Emir described Zazzau as an ancient kingdom, and therefore, called on UNESCO to declare six centuries-old massive buildings that are still standing right inside the Emir’s Palace in Zaria city as a UNESCO heritage site.
Professionalise procurement to curb corruption, Institute tells FG
L-R: Chairman CEO MSM Group, Amb Dr. Muazzam Mairawani, President Future Trends group, Farhan Kamalabadi, Chief Executive officer Rock and Gold International, Amb Alh Ibrahim Liman and President Highstone International University California USA Dr. Oluremi Olutimo during the 8th PAN African Leadership Symposium and Honours Palesh in Abuja
“It is only the current administration that tried in 2017 to inaugurate the council, the council is supposed to be a board to the Bureau of Public procurement (BPP) as the BPP is supposed to be a secretariat.
From:Femi Oyelola, Kaduna T he Emir of Zazzau, Ambassador Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli, has unveiled Ahmadu Bello University (ABU ) Create View Smart Classroom established at the Department of Computer Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University,CommissioningZaria. the facility yesterday, Ambassador Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli, congratulated Ahmadu Bello University on account of being the first institution of higher learning in Nigeria to have such a teachinglearning facility. The facility, according to him is the first of its kind in Nigeria, comprised of modern electronic devices and software solutions to facilitate and assist in teaching and learning environment.Theroyal father urged the University to take full advantage of the facility to achieve the purpose for which the modern teaching and learning device was established.
Jonathan Ojadah, who was Convener and Africa’s Head of Mission for United Nations International Peace and Governance Council (UNIPGC) said the aim of the conference, among others, was to foster peaceful coexistence across Africa and expressed the hope that the wide participation of illustrious Africans as well as recognition awards bestowed on deserving Africans would help sustain peaceful coexistence on the Thecontinent.event, also sub-themed: “Consolidating Peaceful Coexistence in Africa”, featured keynote presentations and discussions by renowned Scholars and policy makers including Nigeria’s Minister of State for FCT, Barr Ramatu Tijjani, Zambia’s Minister of State for Commerce, Trade and Investment, Hon. Chipoka Mulenga; Minister for Rural Development, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ruboka Masumbuko; Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Future Trends Group, Dubai, Dr Farzan Kamalabadi; as well as Nigeria’s Presidential Aide Hajiya Zaliha Sanusi Yusuf; Gabon’s leader Mike Jacktane; leadership educator, Thake Graziella and Prof. Hugh Kelu. In a speech, Mairawani, who appreciated the organizers of the event for the honour bestowed on him, in recognition of his modest contributions to humanity, pledged to do more in order to justify the confidence reposed in him.
Mamman said that professionalising procurement would make people opened to the vagaries and complexities of procurement and understand the technicalities and as such when challenged, they would be able to offer services effectively in line with international best practices.
*Mallam Muazzam Mairawani is a philanthropist and an industrialist who has used his establishment, MSM Group, to empower the poor and needy through job creation, provision of loans for business, and facilitating SMEs
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria (CIPSMN) has urged the Federal Government, especially the Head of Service (HOS) to professionalise procurement functions in civil service to curb corruption.TheNorth Central Coordinator of the institute, Mr Abdul Mamman said this at the 2022 Group B Induction Ceremony of new members in Abuja on Friday.
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“As at the time we wanted to carry out this reform, we decided to domesticate the law as obtained in other countries and other spheres. “But the first chapter of that law that has to do with national council of public procurement has been violated; it has not been inaugurated till this moment.
Africa By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja Pathfinders Justice Initiative, a nongovernmental Organisation has stated that it has assisted in rehabilitating 2,700 women survivors of trafficking even as the organisation launched a new initiative HERS AFRICA. According to Ruth Evon BensonIdahosa, Executive Director PJI, HERS (Hub of Economic Resources for Survivors) Africa, is the first and only digital ‘one stop’ resource hub in Africa to address the unique and complete needs of survivors of trafficking as they navigate a path towards self-sustainability and economic independence.Benson-Idahosa stated that “It is our hope that this one stop digital hub, the first of its kind in Africa will address the unique and complete needs of African survivors, will provide you with the resources you need to journey from victim to advocate. We are so glad you are “Ourhere!mission is to prevent sex slavery/ sexual violence and to liberate enslaved women and girls through the direct eradication of root causes. She stated that by registering with hersafrica.com, survivors of sex trafficking can get access to life transforming and exciting video lectures.
Mann said emotional intelligence referred to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions.According to him, some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it’s an inborn characteristic.
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The Chairman of Fiscal Responsibility Commission(FRC), Victor Muruako, had expressed satisfaction over the support extended by the International Monetary Fund(IMF) to the commission. Muruako described the the support in the area of capacity development as most impactful, adding that it introduced a template which the Commission never had at itsIninception.astatement
According the statement, the Mission, led by Sybi Hida, a Senior Economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF in Washington DC, spent two weeks with Management and technical staff of the Commission during the intensive programme.Speaking at the program, Mr Muruako said, “We have come to the conclusion that amongst all manpower development support and interventions that the Commission has enjoyed since its establishment over a decade ago, this IMF Mission is certainly the most impactful, combining elements of strategy meetings, organizational self-discovery sessions, training and ecosystem development.
“Mastering emotional intelligence will contribute profoundly to lifetime success,’’ he said.According to Mann, the schools visited were Government Secondary School, Life Camp; Federal Government College, Kubwa; and Federal Government College, Suleja. Mann said that current research revealed that some students are ‘book- smart but could not control their emotions,’ adding that such an indicator was quite disastrous. According to him, moral decadence was on the increase and there was the need to teach students at the early stage of life, good behavioural attitude.
By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja The District Pastor of Asokoro Seventh-Day Adventist Church Abuja, Pastor Musa Munaji has called on the government at all levels to apply a stiffer penalty for perpetrators of rape and other gender-based violence. He made the call during the peaceful walk to raise awareness and advocate for the end of violence around the world with the themed “EndItNow Emphasis Day” in Abuja over the weekend. He explained that “we should not hide the perpetrators, once they are accused and found guilty, they should be allowed to face the consequences to put a stop to that act at the same time.” He also noted that men and women were created in the image of God and “we have dignity and we are promoting that every individual either man or woman is valued in the face of the Lord.”
Mr Kaodi Onuoha, Chairman of the Parents/Teachers Association of Federal Government College, Suleja, said that it was important to teach the youths’ emotional intelligence at the early stage.
Reflecting on the phases that the Commission has passed over the years, the FRC Chairman noted that the Fiscal Responsibility Commission has been very well received by citizens and the Federal Government alike since its establishment over a decade ago. He posited that the use of legislation to moderate the behavior of fiscal agents and replace discretionary powers with fiscal rules, ceilings and timelines is reckoned in all decent circles as most proper for a fiscal environment that has suffered considerableConcluding,abuse.Muruako appealed to the National Assembly to conclude the amendment of the Fiscal Responsibility Act which went through Public Hearing in the Senate over a year ago, pleading that it would place the Commission in a better position to support fiscal policy sustainability and straighten public finance management in Nigeria. The recent support by IMF to fiscal responsibility commission is the second mission to the Commission this year alone, the first being a one-month training of over thirty FRC senior staff delivered virtually by IMF’s AFRITAC II. It was that capacity building programme that formed the basis for the latest intervention. support to FRC most impactful -Commission
Onuoha advised the students to ensure that they lived good lives in order to be better citizens in future.
Cleric call for stiffer punishment for rapists
M r Inalegwu Ejembi Adaje, the newly Inaugurated National Coordinator of the National Alliance for Atiku/ Okowa has described as pitiable the current State of affairs in Nigeria, saying the country is in dire economic straits and currently facing an existential threat that requires only a man of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Pedigree to rescue it from it sorry state. This among other reasons has made it incumbent on his group which is made up of formidable grassroots politicians with tentacles accross the nooks and crannies of the country who are ready to go all out and send Atiku’s message of hope to SpeakingNigerians.in the same vein deputy national publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji ibrahim Abdullahi called on the Nigerian electorate to rise like an army and chase out the current occupants of the Presidential Villa in Abuja saying the country has never been so divided in it history like it is been experienced under the current administration.
The PDP chieftain who stood in for Former Minister of Special duties and intergovernmental affairs Barr Kabiru Tanimu Turaki spoke in Abuja at the Inauguration of the National Alliance for Atiku/okowa which held in Abuja bemoaned the current state of insecurity bedeviling the country describing it as unprecedented, with rooftop inflation becoming the order of the day, saying no country in the world would condone the atrocities been committed in the nation saying Nigerians are anxious of the exit of the APC regime.Good will messages where received from the National youth leader of the PDP prince kadade Suleiman ably represented by the director of youths at the PDP nationalDignitariesSecretariat.that graced the occasion include Hon. Olademeji Fabiyi director of Support group and event , Hon. Sunday Zakka FCT PDP state chairman, Engr Jide Adeniyi, Sen. Abdul Ningi, High chief Kingsley Okafor, Chief Duben Onyia former ministry of affairs.
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NGO advocates teaching of emotional intelligence in schools
NGO rehabilitates 2,700 launchessurvivors,HERS
“Some parents concentrate only on academic excellence, not knowing how powerful great behaviour can translate into.
signed, Sunday, by the Head of Strategic Communications of the Commission, Bede Anyanwu, it revealed that the support came, following the approval of the Honourable Minister of Finance, Dr Zainab Ahmed, the IMF deployed a Mission to support the Fiscal Responsibility Commission in establishing a Fiscal Monitoring Framework.
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National Alliance for Atiku/Okowa Inaugurates Executives, Decries APC’s Failure in all Facets of Governance
“The ability to express and control emotions is essential, but so is the ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others,’’ he said.
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‘’This is, literally speaking, the template which the Commission never had at its inception.”Herecalled that, at inception, the Commission was handed a novel mandate without corresponding templates, guidelines, handover notes or depth of access to requisite manpower development. Consequently, the staff, being pioneers in the fiscal responsibility monitoring and enforcement space, found themselves doing the work of both visionaries and operators.“Oftentimes, the scenario looked like we were building an airplane while at the same time, flying it. Thank God, we have been successful at both,” he added. Further in his speech, Muruako lamented the fact that in spite of the many achievements of the Commission, it still encounters stakeholders that appear to be finding it difficult to understand where and how to accommodate the Commission in the public finance management ecosystem. He affirmed that FRC is a fiscal reform organization that has had to use hard work and integrity to break through the fog and deliver on its mandate, which is unique and not a duplication of any other agency’s as assumed in the report of the ‘Orosanye Panel.’
ACivil Society Organisation (CSO), ‘Advocacy for Positive Behavioural Patterns Initiative’, has advocated for the teaching of skills in emotional intelligence in secondary schools. Mr Bamidele Mann, Chairman of the Organisation, said this in Abuja during a lecture on positive behavioural patterns initiative for secondary school pupils in the Federal Capital Territory and environs. Mann said that teachers and parents needed to understand that the best skill they could entrench in children was the gift of great“Thebehaviour.greatest discovery of all times is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
CSOs reject INEC Commissioner nominees, urges Senate to follow suit
“When Tinubu became the governor of Lagos, criminality was at its highest peak in Lagos, robbery, killing ,OPC, everything was in shambles and people were running away from Lagos. “Then, Asiwaju made a special request to the I-G that if he wanted Lagos to be peaceful, he should bring Okiro back to Lagos . “That was how I found myself back in Lagos, so I worked along with him to be able to keep Lagos calm. ”I left Lagos in glory to the extent that I was promoted from Commissioner of Police to DIG, all glory goes to Asiwaju. “If as governor of Lagos, he did it, I have no doubt in my mind therefore, that given this onerous task of championing the course of the entire Nigeria, he is going to replicate what he did in Lagos,” he said. Okiro said that although he was campaigning for Tinubu, ”but it is what I know I am only telling you that one plus one is two.”
The PEBEC boss also unveiled activities lines up for the fourth quarter of 2022 including the 2nd PEBEC Report which would take place mid October and PEBEC performance Award for December 1, 2022.
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“To this end, we, the undersigned, reject their appointment as RECs entirely and urge President Buhari to withdraw their nomination in the public interest and in furtherance of his commitment to leave a legacy of a truly independent electoral institution that enjoys the trust and confidence of citizens and electoral stakeholders. Also, we call for a thorough examination and background checks of the credentials of the nominees. The Senate is urged to reject these nominees that fall short of the threshold of non-partisanship and impeccable character. Electoral commissioners must be individuals with impeccable character, unquestionable neutral inclinations, dispositions, and competence. The nominations and process of confirmation must be inclusive and representative of all segments of the society. “Based on these, we urged the President to withdraw the nomination of these individuals in the public interest and in furtherance of his commitment to leave a legacy of a truly independent electoral institution that enjoys the trust and confidence of citizens and electoral stakeholders.
The Special Advisor to the President, on the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), otherwise known as Ease of Doing Business, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, has revealed plans to entertain Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) relevant government agencies’ officials and indeed the general public to a play titled: “The Future is here”, which will come up 1st and 2nd of October, as part of Nigeria Independence celebration. Dr. Oduwole made the disclosure Friday at a press briefing in Abuja.Shenoted that the play is in two segments, saying each day is meant to appreciate all who have contributed in delivering the reforms so far accomplished in the ease of doing business interventions.ThePresidential Enabling Business Environment Council was launched since 2016 and they have been working since the last six years on enabling reform environment across the country. Ease of doing business, now, in six years period we have done quite a number of reforms for small and medium enterprises, and men and women who have helped deliver these reforms are non other than our public and civil servants across Ministries, Departments and Agencies, at all arms and levels of government. So we have both federal government agencies, we work with state governments, and Local Governments, we also work with all arms of government, we work with National Assembly,and the “AsJudiciary.aswe all know Nigeria’s Independence is 1st of October, and this year, to celebrate Independence Day, PEBEC is staging a play production, on the 1st and 2nd of October.
:Tinubu fixed Lagos, he’ll fix Nigeria too – Okiro
“In making nominations into INEC, President Buhari should be guided by the judgment of the Federal High Court on affirmative action wherein the court directed that all appointments must comply with the 35% affirmative action for women. In the same vein, the President should ensure the representation of Persons with disability (PWDs) and young people in the appointments.
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“We contend that the appointment of these individuals as RECs will significantly undermine the neutrality and impartiality of the Independent National Electoral Commission, and it will increase mistrust in INEC and Nigeria’s electoral process. By the combined effect of Section 156 (1)(a) and Third Schedule, Part 1, Item F, paragraph 14 (1), these individuals are constitutionally prohibited from any appointment as members of INEC. It will be against the sacred spirit of the Constitution to accept their nomination. Given their antecedent and close affinity with political parties, it is improbable that they will remain neutral and objective if successfully screened as INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners“Additionally,(REC). we are constrained to observe that the appointments did not reflect the principles of non-discrimination and inclusivity that the Civil Society Community has and continues to advocate, particularly, in this instant case, with regard to Persons with Disability (PWDs) who represent about 15% of Nigeria’s population and have been completely left out of the process. We submit that it is critical that as we strive to make the electoral process more inclusive, representative, and qualitative, the appointment of PWDS would provide the pulse required to give effect to the provisions of the Discrimination Against Persons Living with Disabilities Act, 2018, and other legislations and guiding principles in that regard.
“We have four shows, two on the 1st and two on the 2nd. And the reason why we are doing this is that we feel it is important to celebrate men and women who have delivered the reforms we have been able to accomplish so far in the ease of doing business interventions. We also want to celebrate our indifatigable entrepreneurs, the MSMEs, who had been working tirelessly to make a living and etch their living through entrepreneurship across the country” she Oduwole,said. who briefed members of the press in company of Ayokunnu Ojeniyi, the Project Manager of EBES, stated that the PEBEC Play is ‘a gamut of business reforms designed to create awareness, further communicate and engage our target audience in celebration of Nigeria’s Independence Day’.
PEBEC 1st October play to entertain, create awareness for MSME’s reform Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu (middle) flanked by the Director, Information, Press and Public Relations Unit, Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR), Mrs Kenechukwu Offie (3rd right), Director, Dams / Reservoir Operation FMWR, Engr. Danjuma Madaki (2nd left), Director, Water Quality Control / Sanitation Dept FMWR, Mr. Emmanuel Awe (left), other officials of the ministry and Journalists, during the Ministerial interactive section with the media on the activities and the achievement of the Ministry, held in Abuja.
By Tobias Lengnan Dapam Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have rejected the appointment of some of the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners by President Muhammadu Buhari. The CSOs which made their position known on Friday during a press conference in Abuja, urged the red chamber not to screen the nominees who fail the constitutional test of nonpartisanship and unquestionable integrity.They said evidence abounds that some of the nominees are either partisan, politically aligned, or previously indicted for corruption.“Tomention a few, Prof. Muhammad Lawal Bashir from Sokoto was a Governorship aspirant under the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2015 elections cycle. Mrs. Sylvia Uchenna Agu, the nominee for Enugu state, is believed to be the younger sister of the APC Deputy National Chairman, Southeast. The nominee for Imo State, Mrs. Pauline Onyeka Ugochi, a former Head of ICT at INEC in Imo state, gained notoriety for alleged corruption and connivance with politicians to undermine elections. Mrs. Queen Elizabeth Agwu, a former Accountant-General of the Ebonyi, was suspended allegedly on the grounds of incompetence and corruption in 2016.
Okiro commended the group for selecting him as the its Chairman, Board of Trustees and pledged his support to make the vision come true. Dr Kenneth Ibe-Kalu, the group’s Chairman, said that Okiro was chosen as BOT chairman because of his wealth of experience, exposure and knowledge.“Hehad contributed immensely to the development of the nation and had a credible career with the Nigeria Police Force, rising to the position of I-G and served as chairman, Police Service Commission.“Heisa destribalised Nigerian, who has earned the respect of most Nigerians, this in a nutshell is what informed our choice of him . “He will bring his wealth of experience, exposure, goodwill and foresight to being our chairman, because we believe in him to be able to guide us to the promised land ,” he said. Dr Umar Yakasai, Deputy National Campaign Director of the movement, said the group made painstaking search before settling on Okiro to add value to its quest of Tinubu’s ambition to fix Nigeria. Yakasai said, ”this is in view of Okiro’s long term closeness to Tinubu and his vantage position to spur other eminent persons to support the group’s plan.“Okiro initiated the idea of the Amnesty Programme that doused the tension in the Niger Delta region during the late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua’s administration, which guaranteed peace in that region. “So, in all ramifications, Sir Mike Okiro qualifies to be recognised as a foremost statesman in Nigeria, ” he added.(NAN)
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“The Senate should accelerate the process of screening nominees without compromising due diligence and comprehensive scrutiny of nominations forwarded by theThePresident.”CSOswhich took part in the press conference included; Yiaga Africa, International Press Center and Center for Media and Society.Others are; The Albino Foundation, Elect Her, Nigerian Women Trust Fund, Partners for Electoral Reform and Inclusive Friends Association.
Aformer Inspector-General of Police (I-G) Mr Mike Okiro, said since Sen. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 presidential candidate fixed Lagos as a governor, he would be able to fix Nigeria.Okiro made this known on Friday in Abuja at the unveiling of the summit planning committee for Tinubu’s support group, ‘Defect Together Movement for Tinubu-Shettima 2023.’ According to him, Tinubu is a man with foresight and capacity to fix Nigeria, because his developmental legacy were glaring.
“The future is here focusses on the narrative of a future that we can collaboratively create, A future riding on Government’s reforms, The future of our dream! This future that we seek! “The future where Government numerous reforms smile at everyone; A future with no artificial barricade; A future where everyone can do business with ease A future built by the strength of our hands and by the resolve of the collective will of the people! One people one nation Handmaids of God’s creation the future is here! “The future is here is an excellent musical that creates awareness for Governments reforms to create an enabling environment for MSME’s and the resolve of the people, a new tribe to do what is right” she added.
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By Charles Onunaiju Despite the provocative visit of the retiring US House speaker, Mrs. Nancy Pelosi to the Taiwan region of the people’s Republic of China in July, obviously designed to obfuscate the status of the Africanregion, Representatives to the recent coordinator’s meeting on the implementation of the Follow- Up Actions of the 8th ministerial conference of the Forum on China – Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) unanimously stood shoulder to shoulder with Beijing in mutually offering “unwavering support to each other in upholding territorial integrity, security and development interests”.
African countries have diligently aligned with the universal consensus by integrating its support for One China principle in the mainstream of their respective national foreign policies. And for African countries this is not just a political expediency, but a fundamental policy commitment.
It noted, however, that “there are so many Muslims and Christians who abhor the ongoing violence and want to live in peace with their brethren of other faiths just as they have done for so long.” The statement said such patriots would “only build a stronger Nigeria that is able to tackle these urgent issues that are destroying the country such as lack of security, accountability, corruption, conflict between different peoples and faiths, hunger and the economic situation, if religious leaders determine together to truly lead their people.”
The Taiwan question is actually a leftover of China’s modern history. From 1949 to 1971, the United States and other western powers helped the rump of the General Chiang Kai Shek (KMT) who had fled from the mainland to Taiwan Island to stake a claim of the leadership and representation of China at the United Nations.
Africa and the China’s Taiwan question
Ayokunle said that the religious leaders pledged to demand that free and fair democratic elections should be conducted in peace and for the benefit of all Nigerians regardless of ethnicity, religion or geographical zone.It is good to know that leaders of the two dominant religions in that do genuinely desire a peaceful and secure Nigeria and determined to work together towards that goal. Specifically, they want see peaceful, free and fair elections in 2023. Their avowal, if carried out sincerely, will go a long way to erase the notion that they are responsible for the tension, sometimes very violent, between Christians and Muslims. It is also heartwarming that their starting point is the upcoming elections.
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The African representatives unequivocally reaffirmed that “there is but one China in the world, and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory and the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of china”. Without any ambiguity, what so ever, the African side restated its commitment to the One – China principle and its support for China’s national re-unification and China’s effort to safeguard sovereignty and territorial integrity. The clear position of Africa in support of One China principle completely aligns with the global consensus, famously expressed in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 passed on the 25th October, 1971, which recognized the government of the people’s Republic of China as the sole legitimate representative of China, with Taiwan as inalienable part of China’s territorial integrity and State sovereignty.Recently in the face of the provocative visit of the U.S House speaker to Taiwan, the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Antonio Guteeres, described the UN iconic resolution as “the orientation we have in everything we do”. In a recent white paper released by the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the Taiwan question, it states clearly that “Resolution 2758 is a political document encapsulating the One China principle whose legal authority leaves no room for doubt and has been acknowledged worldwide and that “the One-China principle represents the universal consensus of the international community, and “is consistent with the basic norms of international relations”
EDITORIAL
As a theme in China national question, Taiwan is universally recognized as China’s internal affairs, and except as a strategy to contain and undermine China’s peaceful development, the United States quite clearly recognized in all the foundational documents of the establishment of bilateral relation between the two countries. In making the common cause, with the small separatist clique in Taiwan, fractions of the U.S political establishment have manufactured a political card out of the China’s Taiwan question. However, just as the world found a common cause in condemning the recent Taiwan card played by Washington with the farcical visit of the U.S House Speaker’s visit to the region, Africa’s response has been a very clear and unambiguous affirmation of her unwavering support for the One China principle. Even as a Taiwan question arose entirely out of the modern Chinese history Beijing has demonstrated enormous sensitivities to some certain historical curves and bends, and has proposed the iconic principle of “One Country, Two Systems” whose content states that “after peaceful reunification, Taiwan may continue its current social systems and enjoy a high degree of autonomy in accordance with the law”. While the “two social systems will develop side by side for a long time to come, One county is the pre-condition and foundation of the two systems .This principle not only embodies the Chinese creative spirit to resolve her own internal problems and but provides elaborate political space to accommodate differences not only in political views but in the more complex stretch of social systems within the overreaching dynamic of their common home land.In the white paper, the Chinese government expressed her utmost resolve “to work with the greatest sincerity and exert our utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reunification. But we will not renounce the use of force”.However, in this context, China will not attack, invade or conquer Taiwan as no country in the world would attack, invade or conquer part of itself. Rather Beijing maintained that it would “only be forced to take drastic measures to respond to the provocation of separatist elements or external forces, should they ever cross our red lines”.Andthe red line is any brazen attempt by the small clique of ambitious separatists in Taiwan to declare “Taiwan independence” or external forces colluding with separatist elements to do such. In such extreme circumstances, no one would be in doubt where Africa will stand along with other members of the United Nations. Mr. Onunaiju, research director of an Abuja-based Think Tank.
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The two religious bodies also promised to embrace a vision of common humanity and speak publicly of hope for Nigeria’s peaceful and bright future by embracing each other as members of the same family
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The recently released white paper acknowledge the historical background stating that “a result of the Civil war in China and the late 1940s and the interference of external forces, the two sides of the Taiwan straits have fallen into a state of political confrontation and it however noted that the sovereignty and territory of China have never been divided and will never be divided and Taiwan’s status as part of China’s territory has never changed and will never be allowed to changed.Inrecognizing that the “Taiwan question arose as a result of weakness and chaos in our nation” the white paper reaffirmed the Chinese government, commitment that the “question will be resolved as national rejuvenation becomes a reality”
General Chiang and his KMT has ruled China as a single party dictatorship supported mainly by the U.S and who in total disregard to the patriotic call of all the Chinese people for an inclusive and coalition government precipitated a civil war in which it lost to Communist Party of China, leading a united democratic front. Despite this historical hiatus further made worse by the interruption of the United States, the two sides of the Taiwan straits (mainland and Island ) found a common ground in the 1992 consensus which restated and the articulated the obvious; the fervent wish of all the Chinese people for complete national re-unification.
According to the statement, that was why it was important for the Sultan and CAN to sign the ‘Declaration for a Peaceful and Secure Nigeria’, and to do so on the world stage of the desire of citizens to live in harmony irrespective of any different. It said the declaration set out a number of principles that the religious bodies believed all Nigerians could readily affirm “as it states that all people are endowed by the Creator with inherent values and fundamental rights, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, culture, region, or the many other differences that often divide them and that the essential freedom and dignity of every person must be respected and protected for the sustenance of peace, unity, and development.
The worthy JNI, CAN accord Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jama’atul Nasir Islam (JNI) have signed a peace pact, pledging “to deescalate religious tension” during the 2023 general elections. The “Declaration for a peaceful and secure Nigeria” is meant to ensure a peaceful and secure environment so that Nigerians could freely vote and be voted for. It was signed during the weekend in Washington D.C., United States, on the fringes of an International Religious Freedom Summit 2022. Prof. Yusuf Usman represented the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, who is the President-General of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and CAN was represented by Rev. Samson Ayokunle, its immediate past president.The leaders of CAN and JNI assured they would “work together to avoid violence, embrace dialogue and remain committed to building resilient communities that are free from fear for Nigerians to be able to cast their votes for candidates of their choice in a conducive environment,” according to a statement by Rev. Ayokunle.Thetwo religious bodies also promised to embrace a vision of common humanity and speak publicly of hope for Nigeria’s peaceful and bright future by embracing each other as members of the same family. They acknowledged that “it is a difficult time in Nigeria, with an everescalating security crisis and an overwhelming loss of trust in the government, saying that “unfortunately, so much of the crisis in Nigeria has had a religious context leading to loss of lives and destruction of property in different parts of the country. This has drawn the country backward in all spheres of life.”
Because of the high stakes involved and the tendency of politicians to use political platforms to fight for political office, the religious leaders, by declaring they would have none of this, have set in motion a tension cooling mechanism. However, in doing so they have their work cut out for them. They have to prove that their followers do, indeed, prefer spirituality to the bread and butter that politicians hold out to them.
Encountering Obasanjo, Tshisekedi and the war in Congo Kinshasa
Opinion PAGE 12 PEOPLES DAILY, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2022
By Elizabeth Badejo
Some marriages fail due to the memories of parents’ failed marriages or experienced as a child from an estranged parent and still traumatised by their past to the detriment of their own happiness in adulthood. Today, some young adults are choosing options that were once undesirable in pursuit of their own individual happiness while some chose to remain single to break the trail of relationship failures witnessed as children.
Goma is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, being home to the Nyiragongo, one of the deadliest volcanoes. It has hidden in its belly a potentially devastating threat of its mountains which contain Africa’s most lethal volcanoes. In the year 2002 for instance, over 100 people got killed when an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo swirled around Goma. People dropped dead one after the other. The lava from the periphery of Nyiragongo emitted gaseous fumes down to the centre of the city and destroyed more than a fifth of it. Fires and explosions followed and by the time the wrath of Mount Nyiragongo subsided, about 120,000 Goma inhabitants had become homeless. Not minding this danger, Goma is paradoxically home to a beehive of foreigners, a stupendous number of whom you may never encounter in any of the suffering Third World countries. It is a common sight to see white UN soldiers in Goma, with huge epaulettes on their shoulders.Congo is about the richest country in Africa. Those scary mountains of its are reputed to hide inside their bellies huge reserves of cobalt, gold, gems, copper, timber and uranium. Its most valuable resource is its large reserve of diamonds. Indeed, the Congo has the world’s second-largest diamond reserves, at 150Mct, or 20.5% of the global total. Substantial diamond reserves can be found in Kasai Occidental and Kasai Oriental.Atabout 10a.m, Obasanjo was ushered into the expansive and chic waiting room of President Tshisekedi by one of the Congolese president’s envoys, Pacifique Kashasha Birinda. A few minutes after, he was led to the office of Tshisekedi, with press photographers alone allowed to take shots of their immediate convivial exchanges. Thereafter, the press was asked to excuse them. After about two hours of talks, Obasanjo and Pacifique came out to address a battery of Congolese and Nigerian journalists waiting for them. Obasanjo and Tshisekedi met for about two hours. Immediately Obasanjo came out of the meeting to address the press, my question to him was why he was in Congo and what he and Tshisekedi discussed. Chaperoned by Pacifique, who also acted as his interpreter, the old warhorse however filibustered of sort as his response was omnibus. He brushed it off in “Sincediplomatese.thePresident became head of the Republic, this is my third visit. I’ve used every opportunity of my visits to discuss issues of mutual interest to his country and mine… We talked at length about the issue of insurgency and insecurity and border issues. We have insurgency in Nigeria, insecurity and we have areas where we have to cooperate and collaborate, especially in the Northeast of Nigeria where Nigeria borders Chad, Niger Republic and even Cameroon. They have to work together. “Here, we have similar issues of insurgency and they have to see what they can do together with Uganda, Rwanda. In both countries, we have to look at the fundamental causes of insurgency; is it lack of education, acquisition of skills, employment of youths or is it as a result of ideological issues? We looked at this. What we are talking about in Nigeria is what they are talking about here. We have to look at carrot and stick issues. Areas we have to carry them along and areas we have to knock them. I was in Maiduguri two weeks ago. What is happening there is slightly different from what is happening in the Northwest. Where are the insurgents coming from? Where are they based? Who is managing and supporting them? These are the questions we have to answer. The insurgents are not only nationally-based, some come from outside the nation where they operate and we must be alert to that,” he said. Festus Adedayo is a Public Affairs Anlayst.
Your parent’s story can become your own strength and moral obligation to safeguard your own marriage and break the cycle of marital failure in your own generation. Your parents were given their own opportunities and now is your time to take charge of your lives. The truth is that marriage is an experience, and nobody has the complete manual, but everyone has a choice to choose happiness. Even though marriage has the potential to create an everlasting commitment and trust between two individuals irrespective of their background and life experiences, however, it is an individual choice to recognise and embrace the opportunity to seek marital pleasure or live in fear of uncertainty.
Memories of failed relationships can ruin your happiness
A man who witnessed his parent’s toxic marriage is more likely to remain single and uninterested in marriage himself while a woman who watched the father she once trusted walk out on the family as a child may live with the memory of that ordeal and wonder if she will ever trust a man again. The hurts and pains of parental failures can cast a shadow on a couple’s marriage and impact their life-long happiness. Several studies have shown that adults with separated or divorced parents are more likely to walk on eggshells in their own relationships to prevent the repeated pattern of relationship failure in their own quest to change the narrative. However, this can lead to anxiety and depression if an individual’s feeling is constantly suppressed to ease conflict which brings memories of parental marital failures. Childhood trauma is personal to each individual and there are no quick fixes for it in any marriage if it is not validated and addressed with love, empathy, maturity, and sincerity. It is important to recognise that you are not responsible for your childhood trauma and keeping your feelings to yourself will only intensify your pain and cause you more grief in adulthood. Insecurity can cause fatal attraction from like minds and trigger fears of being valued and appreciated by others including your spouse. You may be suffering in silence due to fear of being judged by an impulsive and unempathetic partner; start to take small steps at a time to face your fears and plan to seek professional help so that you can mitigate the prospect of marital failure and repetition of the past. The ultimate joy of marriage is finding true love and someone to share your life with and the opportunity to gain experience and grow together in your individual vulnerability. One of the most effective ways to manage your emotional pains is to learn to trust again and even though you may have been negatively impacted by your family dynamics, you owe yourself the opportunity to replenish the past with an optimistic marital future that you truly deserve. Your parent’s story can become your own strength and moral obligation to safeguard your own marriage and break the cycle of marital failure in your own generation. Your parents were given their own opportunities and now is your time to take charge of your lives. The truth is that marriage is an experience, and nobody has the complete manual, but everyone has a choice to choose happiness.
Elizabeth Badejo is a Public Affairs Analyst.
By Festus Adedayo Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC’s) Presidential Villa is a highly fortified palace. Like in many parts of Central Africa, the Congolese have turned their disadvantaged hilly and mountainous topography into aesthetic wonder. At every point in the expansive Villa, you confront menacinglooking, gun-toting soldiers who radio authorities before allowing you entry. White-painted effigies of four lions by the Villa gate compliment this menacing ambience. The Villa itself is an old but well maintained structure, painted white and probably built in the 1970s. Language barrier limited the satisfaction of my curiosity as to whether Mobutu Sese-Seko ruled from this same Villa. That perhaps is where the aesthetics end. Like Nigeria, DRC is in dire security straits. In features, both countries are twined like Siamese twins, as if from same umbilical cord. While Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, DRC has the largest land mass on the continent. With its 2,344,860 km square, compared to Nigeria’s 923,770 km square, Congo is more than twice of Nigeria’s land mass. It also has two time zones. Blessed with abundant mineral resources, since gaining independence however – again same time in 1960 – both countries have been challenged by scant supply of leadership. As a result, Nigeria and Congo are a caricature of Providence’s design for them as Eldorado. Since 1960, they have not been able to appropriate their humongous GodgivenAsresources.Nigeria suffocates under the apparently superior firepower of Boko Haram insurgents and bandits, DRC is muzzled by an armed militia group called the M23. While M23 operates in the eastern flank of the DRC, Nigerian terrorists’ domicile is in its Northern part. Between mid-June and July, 2022, M23 summarily executed at least 29 civilians in Congo while in Nigeria, thousands of lives have been tethered by the bloodthirsty grove of terrorists. In the midst of this tension, it was thus a pleasant surprise last Tuesday to see Nigeria’s military General and two-term president, Olusegun Obasanjo, at the DRC Presidential Villa. He was guest of President Felix Tshisekedi. Having been in Kinshasa on a different assignment, ferreting out what Obasanjo was about became my preoccupation. Armed with a background of the unpleasant time the DRC seat of power was going through in the hands of rebels, Obasanjo’s presence raised some rebuttable conclusions that he had come as an amicus curiae of sort of the Congolese government, in its time of tribulation. A top Congolese government source indeed confirmed to me that Obasanjo had been invited to help mediate in the DRC crises with the M23. My reportorial instinct and logic, added to the quip from my source, made me agree that the august visitor had indeed come on that mission. Former UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, had in November, 2008 appointed Obasanjo as peace envoy to the DRC. Obasanjo’s task was to mediate a deal between regional antagonists like M23 and government. Global apprehension had been on the upsurge that, if not urgently trapped, the tens of thousands of civilians who fled into camps as a result of violent activities of the militia might be in jeopardy. In that assignment, Obasanjo worked with the African Union to tease out a peace deal between the Congolese government and eastern Congo Tutsi rebels, as well as the Rwandan government, suspected to be their funder. Also, Obasanjo, as current UN High Representative for the Horn of Africa, has been playing huge mediative role in the ongoing Ethiopian crisis, a role assigned him by the African Union (AU). A few weeks ago, specifically on August 4, the Ethiopian media reported that Obasanjo briefed the Peace and Security Council (PSC) on the Ethiopian crisis and what he had done after PSC’s last meeting. As High Representative, he had earlier briefed the AU during its 1064th session held in February. In June, Obasanjo had flown to Ethiopia to interact withTigray’s Regional State President, Dr. Debretsion Gebremichael and his Ethiopian counterpart, the country’s first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde. M23 is a codename for the March 23 Movement or the Congolese Revolutionary Army. It is a rebel military group of mostly Tutsi ethnic group that operates in the province of North Kivu. It was given birth to on March 23, 2009 through the political party, National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) signing a peace treaty with the Joseph Kabila government. With this, it translated into a political party, with its members getting integrated into the Armed Forces of the DRC called FARDC, M23 thus got its name from the day of the signing of the agreement. It has had commanders like Bishop Jean-Marie Runiga Lugerero, General Makenga Sultani and General Bosco Ntaganda, popularly known as The Terminator. The M23 opposed the Hutu power militia called the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda whose members, the Interahanwe, majorly carried out the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Since its founding, M23 has terrorized DRC. Between 2012 and 2013, its attacks led to the displacement of thousands of people. On November 20, 2012, it annexed Goma, the capital of the Province of North Kivu, with its over a million population. The rebels were however repelled a few weeks after by Congolese army, fighting alongside UN troops and retook control of Goma. In its report of the crisis, the UN stated that Paul Kagame, whose Rwanda borders DRC, was the sole sponsor of the rebellion. M23 resumed its offensive in 2017 and, about two months ago, captured the DRC border town of Bunagana. Though Kagame withdrew his support for M23 after intense international pressure in 2012, he is alleged to have meandered back into sponsoring the rebels. Ugandan army commanders were also alleged by the UN to have reinforced the rebels with troops and weapons, as well as assisting them with recruiting of soldiers. On June 21, 2022, as the rebels fought Congolese forces in Ruvumu, a village in the eastern province, the M23 rebels allegedly summarily executed about 17 civilians, a figure that included two teenagers. It executed even more within a spate of two weeks. The guilt of the victims was that they allegedly acted as informants to the Congolese army about the rebels’ whereabouts. Some other civilians got shot dead as they fled, with others executed at close range. Both the M23 rebels and the Congolese army-backed UN troops fighting in North Kivu have been alleged to have deployed explosive weapons like mortar fire and artillery shelling in their fights, which most times hit civilians and civilian structures. There is no government worth its onions that would not be bothered by the incursion of the M23 into its territory. President Tshisekedi surely is. In November 2020, during a trip to the North Kivu town of Goma, I had seen firsthand indications that Goma would soon get back to the trenches. Closer to be accessed from the Ethiopian ancient capital city of Addis-Ababa, Goma habours virtually all the paradoxes and trajectories of Walter Rodney about underdevelopment and the underdeveloped. It is beautifully scenic, situated in an idyllic location and grafted by nature on the leafy green shores of an equally arrestingly beautiful, salty Lake Kivu. Kivu is 90 km long and 50 km wide, covers a total surface of about 2,700 km² and 58 percent of its waters lie within DRC borders. The lake is also 1,460 m above sea level. Inside the hilly, smouldering and menacing mountains of Goma hide treasures, globally scarce mineral resources which the modern world uses to accentuate its modernity.
By Adamu Yalwa Gabi
Assuming Nigeria, the country we tend to be proud of is divisible; every bonafide person that owes allegiance to the doctrine of Nigeria’s constitution must legitimately have a share just as that of the will from its inheritance because no body from whatever kind of a particular advanced family or section can claim or prove the ownership of a quarter,
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It is left to be said that there is no weapon equal to the tenacity of purpose and holding firmly to its principles. ASUU is sending the message that let us draw strength from the hopes of tomorrow and refuse to perish in the darkness of today. But more than that, the ongoing strike is meant to show that freedom can never be given voluntarily by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed. For many years, the ideological nature of political struggle in Nigeria has been systematically suppressed by the press. When Nigeria politics is written about, it is in misleadingly crude terms of power struggles between political parties— usually the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and (very recently) the Labour Party. Or sometimes, the reportage is about individual personalities—Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi—or the economic problems (hunger, poverty, disease, joblessness, soaring energy prices and lack of access to quality education, among others) supposedly caused by poor leadership. As a matter of fact, such strands of politics, reported by the Nigerian media, are mere subplots in the battle between a backwards-looking regime, erected on the structures of shameful revisionism, corruption, denial of truth and unpatriotic divisiveness on the one hand, and the nationalists and intellectual workers headed by Academic Staff Union of Universities on the other. It is important to state from the outset that this latter group (led by ASUU) is acting as a check on the increasing gross inequality between the bourgeoisie and the 90% of the Nigerian population who are peasants and urban workers.
‘the only thing necessary in life as in art is to tell the truth’. But here is the real difficulty: truth itself is a very expensive gift which you can hardly find among cheap people. Those who stand for the truth (like ASUU) are not cheap people, they are brave and courageous people who also serve as the conscience of society. Some people cannot hold onto the truth because they are afraid of the iron hand of the ruling class. Yet, others shy away from the truth because they have sold their conscience for pecuniary rewards. Perhaps, a recent example from the media would be insightful. There is a media friend, Farooq Kperogi. I believe strongly that he needs some education about truth-telling. When the current ASUU strike began in February this year, he sensationally threw his weight behind it. But just some weeks ago he made a quick U-turn. His action is not surprising, though it is amazing, because in Nigeria when people criticise (like Kperogi, Keyamo and Adamu) they are only drawing attention to themselves so that they could be given a chance to join the looting. As soon as a Nigerian critic grows rotund from the fat of the land, he abandons the working class and joins forces with the oppressor. Kperogi’s recent essay entitled, ‘ASUU Call off this Strike Now’, is the clearest example of a dozen untruths flowing from the pen of a writer in this modern era. Needless to say that the essay is also the grossest falsehood and the cheapest propaganda. But, most importantly, the essay shows that Kperogi has acquired the dog’s facility for throwing up and returning again to eat vomit.Undeniably, the ASUU strike has the potential to unite both the lecturers, students and parents; the strike has the capacity to persuade Nigerians to be more organised, to resist bad governance and tyranny on a scale they had never beforeAndattempted.fromall indications, the strike has brought out those aspects in Nigerians: resistance, solidarity, courage, defiance and outright rejection of misrule. This is as much as to say that the strike has the capacity to determine who becomes Nigeria’s helmsman in 2023. And since the contours of both life and poverty are the same in Nigerian cities and villages, since only a few can eat while the majority squirm in poverty, since some few privileged children can go to school while the majority cannot, people, peasants and workers are already organised in their villages and cities and will refuse to be cowed by a backwards-looking regime. All Nigerians united by the strike should now be courageously calling for power to the people. It is left to be said that there is no weapon equal to the tenacity of purpose and holding firmly to its principles.
Since no one among us can add a single time frame of a second to any vagabond for continued existence or heal the patient lying on a sick bed from an illness weather at home or hospitals without the will of the Almighty God who is master of the day of resurrection and that of the day of judgement, I think we all supposed to close the chapter of conceiving any hatred or finding a portion in the heart to keep malice be it those from diverse ethnoreligious affiliations or that of a divergent political class as a case close for things to move from the stagnation stage to that of a motion energy.
half or even the entire country blessed with its abundant natural resources ranging from the long term abandoned agricultural farm produce of groundnut pyramid and that of the cotton production all from the northern region or the cocoa production historically recognised in the west and that of the crude oil from the riverine areas of Niger Delta region that is still serving as the country’s major economic source of income over the years. Unfortunately enough, even with the rich oil wells the country was blessed with, there is lesser benefiting factor by the lower class since it undergoes the refining process here but subsequently end up exporting the accomplished refined products to other developed countries like USA and UK among others whose names had already taken a prolonged time frame in the list of world powers, leaving the main producer yet to be among the world economies for centuries perhaps, I wish these could have been a topic of its own, so let me not deviate from where am heading to so as to make my writing more coherent and convincing before losing a single reader of my piece for the sake of another ideas without dabbling in my future piece.
Doki is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Head, Department of English at the University of Jos; 08034529344
Why ASUU strike is for benefit of
By Jeff Doki
needy Why we should strengthen our bond of relationship
ASUU is sending the message that let us draw strength from the hopes of tomorrow and refuse to perish in the darkness of today. But more than that, the ongoing strike is meant to show that freedom can never be given voluntarily by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Things could have change for the better if other citizens may have the same like minds with me in understanding the truth by trying not to hide under the agony of life, though am not bragging to be an exceptional person that is highly focused and well determined in ensuring that Nigeria belongs to all of us not you or I alone. So, please let us not shield our sword to cause whatever sort of mayhem for the interest of a few amongst the many innocentNigeria,lives.united we stand divided we fall!!! Gabi, a journalist wrote from Bauchi and could be reached on:08033990884, adamumgabi@gmail.com the poor,
Straight to the point. The Federal Government has over the years treated ASUU so monstrously. From the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida to the democratic administration of Olusegun Obasanjo, to that of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, to Goodluck Jonathan and now Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), it has been the same farcical drama of sham, indifference and disdain. Promises were made but not fulfilled, negotiations began and were stopped only to begin again and stop. For the past three decades, no Nigerian leader has dealt with the ASUU/FG agreement seriously, sincerely, honestly and honourably. From 1992 to date, the rot in the university system has continued unabated; from 1992 to date the university teachers have embarked on several warning strikes and sometimes indefinite strikes all in an attempt to press the government to tread the path of honour by respecting its promises.Now,one can understand why since 1992 the university has been the target of government animosity. On February 14, this year, ASUU embarked on yet another warning strike reminding the Federal Government to honour the terms of the renegotiated 2009 agreement which, among other things, include IPPS vs UTAS, payment of EAA, Revitalisation Fund, release and implementation of Visitation Panel reports. Lamentably, instead of addressing these issues faithfully and honestly, the government opted for its usual mischievous and malicious tactic of hiring its cronies and acolytes like Festus Keyamo, Chris Ngige and Adamu Adamu to blackmail ASUU. In Nigeria, as in other parts of the world, our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous battle between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those forces determined to dismantle it. It is these two forces that are in conflict every day and everywhere. They are with us in schools, in offices, at the market, in the churches/mosques and even in our homes. In simple terms, there are two classes in society: the rich and the poor, the ruler and the ruled. ASUU, as a union, is made up of a breed of university scholars who are bright, confident, original, honest and whose simple lifestyle is a stunning contrast to the dominant imported culture associated with Nigerian leaders who are the oppressors. In other words, ASUU is the only body in Nigeria that fits the honest, anti-imperialist intellectual, who is armed and prepared to fight, in a certain measure, for the elimination of injustice and the mass participation of the people in the ordering of public affairs. It could easily be perceived that only the intellectual has the capacity to put Nigeria first, to love Nigeria and insist that education is a right and not a privilege. It is only the intellectual that has faith in the capacity of the people to change their lives, to demonstrate that people are subjects and not just passive objects of development, to insist on certain minimum professional ethics and democratic principles, to reject a society based on corruption, to reject the rule of fear, to reveal that the children of ordinary peasants and workers have a right to free education, to insist that it is the primary responsibility of any responsible government to provide education for all its citizens. But over and above all, it is the duty of the intellectual to criticise the policy of privatisation of education and the whole program of looting and plundering of our commonwealth. This strike has demonstrated abundantly that the government has deliberately refused to live up to its primary responsibility of providing education for its citizens. Also, the strike has revealed that ASUU is the messiah and deliverer by insisting that education should be a right and not a privilege. In this regard, ASUU has assumed the unassailable position of the champion of the poor, or better still, the voice of the voiceless. A strike for that matter is not a crime, it is just a resultant product of discontentment or intense provocation. The motive for embarking on a strike is to effect a positive change in an unacceptable condition. In this regard again, ASUU is speaking on behalf of all students, artisans, cobblers, market women, farmers and carpenters—the oppressed members of the Nigerian society. The ongoing ASUU strike has revealed the intolerable gap that exists between the rich and the poor. The strike has shown that there is education and prospects of a good life for the rich but only hunger, poverty and ignorance for the poor.Leo Tolstoy, that famed Russian writer, once wrote that
Things could have change for the better if other citizens may have the same like minds with me in understanding the truth by trying not to hide under the agony of life, though am not bragging to be an exceptional person that is highly focused and well determined in ensuring that Nigeria belongs to all of us not you or I alone. One may really be amazed with most of my published articles on the national dailies if not bothered on why I always tried to hampered on the need for Nigerians to be united devoid of any primordial sentiment or rancour while I remained not fully or even half known to be a religious bigot nor a preacher or scholar but still propagating the gospel of peace at this trying moment when our dear country with a population of over one hundred and forty millions people as per 2006 last census conducted is almost about to break. The logic behind this is to contribute my quota as a patriotic Nigerian towards the nation building by way of cementing the cracks emanating from the olden days muddy or sandy wall just as that of the ancient city walls that were built using traditional method while serving as a defence against enemies during intra communal crisis or even beyond, before the advent of present day construction techniques but still standing the taste of time even when compared to modern construction driven technology as every one owe a responsibility to sanitise on the dare need of our peaceful coexistence as a bridge builder in making not to leave everything in the hands of government alone with the belief that no any meaningful development could be achieve in chaos. Lest, I do not want to be fingered or caught as not been a pious by not backing up the religion I was born and brought in to no matter the circumstances or even be suspected as half a Muslim though I belong not to a mixed religion as mostly found in some northern parts of the country where members of a particular family are leverage to practice any of the two religions like that of a polygyny family type of marriage some times referred to as polygamy which allows a man to marry more than one wife concurrently or simultaneously as mostly found in Asia and a case study of Cameroon from the African continent where a king is allowed to tie a knot with up to 300 wives. At a different fora, I kept emphasizing on why a human being that was created by God Almighty after passing a circular process of forty days each from the sperm which later changes to blood and finally a flesh before been blown with a life spam plus all the goodies and bodies he or she may encounter as a destiny before coming to the universe for a prescribed grace period of time could try to witch hunt his fellow creatures that were created by the creator for the same purpose of worshipping the creator of all and sundry.
516 Personnel got upgraded/converted to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Corps II (ASC II) accordingly.
Principal Legal Officer,Small and Medium Enterprises Develoment Agency of Nigeria SMEDAN,Paul Ajidua Director General of SMEDAN,Olawale Fasanya,Executive Director Fate Foundation, Adenike Adeyemi ,a member of the foundation,Amaka Nwaokolo during the signing the Memorandum of Understanding MoU to develop MSME competitiveness in Nigeria , in Lagos at weekend
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for scholarships for talented African youths who are disadvantaged by low incomes.Jonathan made the call in his remarks during the 11th graduation ceremony of the Cavendish University Uganda (CUU), Kampala, Uganda.
The Chairman gave the assurance when the committee on the resolution of the lingering Bagana crisis submitted their report to him on Thursday in Lokoja.The chairman who commended the committee for their painstaking efforts in profering solutions to the crisis said that he will study the report with the aim of implementing it for the overall interest of the people.He lamented that the crisis has taken tolls on the people and their economic lives and urged the belligerents to lay down their arms and embrace peace. He disclosed that he will set up a review committee to understudy the report in order to make workable input that will permanently resolve the imbroglio.Heassured the people that Governor Yahaya Bello is working assiduously to end the senseless crisis as he had directed the setting up of the AccordingCommittee.tohim, he is confident of the capacity and integrity of the members of the Committee and promise to forward the final report to Governor Yahaya Bello for implementation.Hecommended the Ata Igala , HRH, Matthew Alaji Oguche Akpa and Ojogba of Ife HRH, Boniface
A statement issued at the weekend by DCC Olusola Odumosu, Director, Public Relations, said the promotion list comprises of personnel from the rank of Inspector of Corps II to Deputy Commandant of Corps (DCC), including officers upgraded/converted with effect from 01/01/2020 and 01/01/2021Accordingrespectively.tothe Corps helmsman, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, the promotion of officers and men of the Corps is part of his administration’s drive to encourage hard work, promote the culture of merit and award excellence.“Asthe man occupying the drivers seat, i have resolved to ensure that deserving personnel, most especially dedicated ones are promoted accordingly, to increase their level of productivity.“Froma total of 5010 upgraded personnel, 4494 were promoted while 516 got upgraded by conversion” the CG explained. From the approved list of promotion, a total of 116 Assistant Commandants of Corps (ACC) got promoted to the rank of Deputy Commandant of Corps (DCC), 362 Chief Superintendents of Corps (CSC) were promoted to the rank of Assistant Commandant of CorpsAlso(ACC).promoted are 399 Superintendents of Corps (SC) to the rank of Chief Superintendent of Corps (CSC) and 550 Deputy Superintendents of Corps (DSC) to the rank of Superintendent of Corps.Another 888 Assistant Superintendents of Corps I (ASC I) are now Deputy Superintendents of Corps (DSC), 1191 Assistant Superintendents of Corps II (ASC II) got promoted to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Corps (I) while 988 Inspectors of Corps II (IC II) were also promoted to Assistant Superintendents of Corps II (ASC Furthermore,II).
Jonathan, who is the Chancellor of the University, in his remarks made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, assured the University of his continued support. “We will continue to focus on removing barriers to access of higher education for many African youths who are talented but disadvantaged by low “Weincomes.willtherefore need to look for scholarships for the talented but poor youths, even if it means connecting them to loan schemes where they can pay later,” Jonathan said.
“To succeed, you must be intentional in embracing success, anchor habits such as time management, planning and executing your plans, continuous learning and reflection He urged them to be Committed to excellence, taking personal care to avoid causes of preventable diseases or death and networking with other resourceful persons. “It is important you develop big goals and a determination to realise them.“Understand that what differentiates the powerful from the powerless in the 21st Century is mindset.“The powerful have understood that they can create a lifestyle they desire.“They are driven from within; they apply relevant wisdom to fill gaps and solve challenges of society. They are able to do all these because they utilise the power of their mind.
Jonathan commended the CUU leadership’s efforts to surpass the school pre-pandemic performance at a time when other universities were still struggling to recover from the effects of COVID-19.Healso commended CUU’s collaboration with other universities and institutions, saying “I know this leads to exchange of ideas and creation of opportunities for students and faculty in the collaborating institutions.“Progressive institutions know that collaboration is better than competition; and that there is a lot we can do together to take our universities to greaterJonathanheights.”who congratulated the 2022 class granduands and their parents, also advised the students to embrace success.
The Chairman, Omala Local Government Council in Kogi state, Hon. Ibrahim Aboh has appealed to the displaced victims of Bagana crisis to return home as he has put necessary security measures in place to guarantee their safety.
The Commandant General charged the newly promoted officers to justify their promotion by contributing to the growth of the Corps through hardwork, renewed zeal, vigour, loyalty to service and patrotism to the nation.He appreciated the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola who also doubles as the chairman of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) for his unwavering support to the NSCDC which translates to improved staff welfare and motivation. He also commended the Secretary to the Board, Aisha Rufai for ensuring that due diligence is followed in the entire process.Dr Audi promised that, the Corps under his watch will continue to deliver on its mandate in the interest of peace and progress of the country. He stated that personnel’s welfare will continue to take center stage in his administration’s program for the Corps while training, manpower development will be intensified to drive the implementation of the Corps mandates.
Musa for their positive concern at resolving the over a decade crisis that has destroyed property worth millions of Naira and sources of livelihood of the people. While presenting the report to the Executive Chairman, Hon Ibrahim Aboh, the Chairman of the Committee, Col. Suleiman Babanawa, Rtd commended Governor Yahaya Bello and the Chairman, Hon. Ibrahim Aboh for their efforts in the resolution of the Hecrisis.noted that while arriving at the conclusion, the committee adopted a proactive method to enable her look at the historical perspective, the legal implications and the natural justice and social economic variable to influences the Col.crisis.Babanawa added that the committee has identified the relocation of traditional stools to their domains, and for the country to take decisive action on the collection of revenues from the town as a panacea to the clashes. The committee specifically directed the Onu Omagede , Chief Salifu Anyebe and his counterparts at Ihankpe to immediately relocate their palaces to their respective domain and to recognise the constituted traditional institution in the order of hierarchy. He urged the Government to provide both conventional and unconventional security apparatus to forestall incursions of militias from the neighbouring estates.Hetold the chairman to always call on the committee and well meaning sons and daughters of the council whenever their advice is needed and urged him to discharge his duties without fear or favour.
Kogi Council boss urges Bagana crisis victims to return home
From Adama John, Lokoja
“Today’s accomplishment is already a sign that you can achieve more if you continue to work hard. You have no excuse to fail. “I charge you to go out and change the world beginning with your person, families and communities,” he added. (NAN)
NSCDC promotes 5010 officersscholarshipseeksJonathan for African youths
The former Nigerian president also advocated for collaboration between academia and industry within African continent to address some of the challenges facing the region. “We need to engage industry across the region and the continent with a view to creating meaningful and productive academia-industry partnerships.“Thiswill work better if the academia supports industry with action research to strengthen production, distribution and marketing while industry supports the university.
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By Tobias Lengnan Dapam A s part of efforts to improve the welfare and conditions of service for officers and men of the Corps, the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has promoted/ upgraded 5010 officers and men of the Corps across board.
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The activist noted that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is clear on the composition and structure of the electoral body. He cited allegations that the recent “unmerited promotions and strategic deployments across the country” by INEC were to upturn votes or create inconclusive situations that will help unscrupulous politicians rig their way into power.
L-R : Head of Political, Andrew Webb, Permanent Secretary, Mr. Temitope Fashedemi, Canadian High Commission, High Commissioner James Christoff and Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi; Head of Security, Thomas Francuz, and Senior Special Assistant (HM), Harande Mahe during the visit of the Canadian High Commission to Nigeria led by High Commissioner James Christoff to the Ministry Headquarters in Abuja.
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By Christiana Ekpa D r Moses Omojo, a clergyman in Kaduna, has warned politiians not to divide Nigerians on the basis of religion.He urged the politicians to stop using God’s name in vain, saying wordly things are immeasurable to the standard of God.According to him, since politicians are bent on winning at all costs, they devise different ways to get attention, including using religion to bring hatred among Nigerians who have lived in peace with one another for several“Politiciansyears. nowadays want to win by all means. They adopted different means, including religion. They use the name of God in unholy ways just because of worldly things. They should stop using the name of God for worldly affairs, and do the right thing,” he said, “If you are faithful doing the right things, be focus and provide dividends of democracy to the people of your constituency, nothing will stop them from voting for you,” the Regional Pastor of the United Evangelical Church added. Dr. Omojo also frowned at some political parties using Muslim-Muslim or ChristianChristian, or Christian-Muslim tickets noting that all that will not make them win the election, but their attitude towards the electorates.
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“We are keen about Yankari Games Reserve because Bauchi State is supposed to be a Pearl of Tourism and we want to maximize our capacity in that sector,” he said. According to Kashim, the privatization process was done in line with the international best practices, adding that it is better for any reasonable government to have a certain percentage share in a working company than to have a 100 percent share in a dead enterprise.While citing instances with the Nigerian Telecommunication Industry NITEL, the SSG said that the privatization of the sector had created millions of job opportunities for Nigerians.Itcanberecalled that the Deputy Governor of the state, Senator Baba Tela, had asserted that privatisation of the six Bauchi moribund companies was in the best interest of the people of the state. The deputy Governor who doubles as the Chairman of Bureau for Privatisation and Economic Reforms, had also revealed that more government enterprises will be privatized to improve their management and generate revenue for the Notstate.contented with the government’s decision, the leading opposition APC in the state viewed the process as skewed to benefit family and friends of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government and shortchange the people of the state. The APC, led by its Chairman in the state, Alhaji Aliyu Babayo Misau, had, while addressing a press conference, called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and other antigraft agencies to probe the entire process.
Bauchi State Government has reacted to the threat by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to go to court and seek redress if the recent privatization of the state’s moribund companies is not Speakingreversed. at a press conference in the New Banquet Hall of the Government House on Saturday, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barrister Kashim Mohammed, said that the process was done more transparently for the interest of the people of the state. The SSG, who said if the APC-led Federal Government can privatize Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the APC in Bauchi State should bury its head in shame for not taking exception to the action but choosing to criticize the present administration in Bauchi for doing a similar exercise.
TMG knocks Buhari over APC members’ nomination as INEC Commissioners
2023: Cleric warns politicians against using religion to divide Nigerians
The group called on President Buhari to ensure the commitment of his administration’s fight against corruption by withdrawing the names of party members. The TMG counseled the National Assembly to insist on democratic values and electoral integrity by rejecting the nominations.
Olawepo-Hashim lamented that what is at variance today is far from what was obtainable in the good old days, adding that parties have lost their voices to the supremacy of candidates and their the political parties and their candidates of dancing around the insecurity, economic, power, unemployment, and other crisis bedeviling the country rather than speaking of how they intend to solve them. “Sadly, the North is currently being divided between Christians and Muslims and not-Muslimenough, while the South is been ripped apart by propaganda that pitch Christians of the South West against their Muslim siblings; on the one hand, Yorubas against the Ibos on the other hand as well as the old against the young,” he said.He added that Nigeria could not afford to sacrifice its democratic process on the altar of self-interest by politicians.
By Musa Baba Adamu The Transformation Monitoring Group (TMG) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to uphold fairness ahead of the general elections in Nigeria. The organization condemned the nomination of All Progressives Congress (APC) members for key positions in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).TMG, the leading civil society election observation group in Nigeria, has more than 400 member organizations. A statement signed by its Chairman, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, warned against any strategy that seeks to influence the process and outcome of the 2023 polls in favour of the ruling APC. Rafsanjani said the appointment of card-carrying party members as INEC Commissioners and State Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) must not stand.
“On their demand that government should reverse the decision or they will go to court, I would have said they can go to hell, but at least since they want to go to court let them go to court,” the SSG said.The state government, who said that decision had come to stay, insisted that privatizing the six moribund industries was in the best interest of the people, adding that the Yankari Games Reserve is also going to be privatized.
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–Olawepo - Hashim to candidates By Ikechukwu Okaforadi Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned presidential candidates against further dividing the country in their campaigns ahead of the 2023 election.Hestated this in a press release on Sunday in Abuja. The former presidential aspirant said the candidates are inflaming the passion of tribal and religious anger among the people rather than addressing the important issues in the country. He added that their supporters are also not helping matters by driving campaigns with intimidation, threats, misinformation, and blackmail.
“We are more concerned by the potential impact of such a major push from the Presidency on the overall credibility, transparency, and integrity of the upcoming elections in 2023. “Just as we condemn in totality the appointments of card-carrying members of any political party as a controlling strategy that can compromise the competence and objectivity of INEC.”
Privatization of moribund govt companies legal – Bauchi govt replies APC
R-L: Presidential Candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, Former Minister of Youth and Supports, Barr. Solomon Dalong and Senator Ugwo Chuku Uba, during the Media parley by SDP Candidate, at the weekend in Abuja. Photo: Mahmud Isa Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has announced that he has no special candidate in the build-up to the 2023 presidential election, rather, he only has a nationalObasanjoagenda.made this known during a visit to the former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, and former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) at their uphill country homes in Minna. Responding to questions from journalists on the outcome of the consultations with the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, as well as various prominent Nigerians, Obasanjo noted that what he is presently doing is a national agenda. He said, “I don’t have a special candidate, I have a national agenda.”
“It has never been this bad for the country’s economy until the coming of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to power in 2015, which has proven to be a bad omen for the country and her“Noeconomy.foreign investor can go into any country where its legitimate funds cannot be remitted in a hitch free manner”, the CNPP stated.
$265m to foreign airlines: CNPP hails CBN for intervention to avert total shutdown
I have only one national agenda, no special presidential candidate – Obasanjo By Ikechukwu Okaforadi C onference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has hailed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for its release of $265 million to foreign airlines operating in the country for the remittance of part of their revenues trapped in the Recallcountry.that not a few foreign airlines had raised the alarm over their inability to remit their revenues in Nigeria totaling about $450 million, forcing Emirates Airlines to announce its planned suspension of all flights to Nigeria from September 1, 2022 over its stuck $95 million. The CNPP, in a statement signed by its Secretary General, Willy Ezugwu, noted that “the bailout will give a lifeline to the the foreign“Theairlines.CBNhas no doubt given the operators and travelers a huge sigh of relief as this singular intervention has averted the withdrawal of the services of some foreign airlines in the face of the growing unremitted funds for their outstanding sale of tickets”, the CNPPAccordingsaid. to the umbrella body of all registered political parties and political associations in the county, the CBN’s intervention has proven that “without the consistent industry specific bailouts by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the country’s economy would have long“Itcollapsed.iseven worse when key sector corporations like the now commercialised NNPC Limited have continued to failed to live up to their revenue remittance responsibilities, leading to several allegations of non-remittance of due revenues to Nigeria’s national treasury.“The CBN’s $230 million special foreign exchange intervention and the release of the sum of $35 million through Retail SMIS auction have saved Nigeria from international embarrassment and ridicule. “Mr. Godwin Emefiele and his team have indeed shown their deep concern about the ugly national development and the impact of what such international embarrassment portends for the sector and travellers as well as the country among the comity of nations.“The CNPP therefore urges the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to rise up to its responsibility and save Nigeria’s economy from total collapse in the remaining days of its tenure as Nigerians can no longer feed due to increasing prices of commonest commodities nationwide.
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Speaking about Amosun, the governorship candidate said the immediate past governor also did well while in Accordingpower.tohim, Amosun’s achievement could be attributed to the fact that he was a member of the PDP. “During Amosun’s administration, he did excellently well. He built roads and bridges that would last hundred years. He is our leader. Senator Amosun should forgive us if we have done anything wrong,” he stated. Our correspondent reports that Amosun, a current Senator of the APC, was elected into the senate under the PDP in 2003. He left the PDP for the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2007, when he contested the governorship seat with Daniel, who was seeking a second term then.
Ogun: Gbenga Daniel will return to PDP, Amosun is our leader – Adebutu
At the end of this, Chief Obasanjo was accompanied by General Abdulsalami and his wife Justice Fati Abubakar to his car at exactly 1:13 pm before leaving for Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s home.The former President arrived in a black jeep with plate number Kaduna DKA 621FQ at 12:30 pm on Sunday.
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Speaking shortly after his meeting with Gen. Abdulsalami, OBJ stated, “I have come to see my brother who was a bit indisposed and when he was abroad I had wanted to visit him, and the day I arrived in London to visit him was the day he left.” “So I said, well, since I could not see him in London, I will come to see him in Nigeria. And so, that is what I have come to do. “He is special in a way and he was indisposed, so I had to come and see him. If there is anybody again who is special and indisposed that I have to see, I will see him. I am still strong enough”. The two had earlier held a closed-door meeting that lasted for 30 minutes.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Hon. Ladi Adebutu, has ‘prophesied’ that former Governor Gbenga Daniel would return to the opposition party soon. Adebutu also described Daniel’s successor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, as a leader who he said was bred politically by the PDP.Recall that Daniel governed Ogun from 2003 to 2011 under the platform of the PDP. The Remo politician is currently the senatorial candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun East, even after he claimed to have withdrawn from partisan politics in 2019.But, Adebutu has expressed confidence that Daniel will return to the PDP very soon. Adebutu, who said the former governor performed well while in office, maintained that he was not pleased that he defected from the PDP to the AddressingAPC. a crowd of supporters in Abeokuta, Adebutu said: “Our leader, Gbenga Daniel, when he was elected, he did very well. The only thing we are not happy with was that he left the PDP. But very soon, he will return to the PDP. Very soon, he will come back. Check the time. This is three o’clock. You will recall that a prophet had said it today.”
Bauchi Gov dumps deputy, Baba Tela, picks Ex-PDP matecandidateguberas
By Musa Baba Adamu Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has dumped his deputy, Baba Tela, ahead of the 2023 general elections and picked the former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Mohammed Auwal Jatau, as his running mate. It was reported that Hon. Mohammed Auwal Jatau is the current member representing the Zaki Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. Hon. Auwal Jatau, the Bauchi PDP Gubernatorial flag bearer in 2015, was defeated by Mohammed Abdullahi of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who served only one term in office. The House of Representatives member who announced his nomination as Governor Bala’s running mate to journalists in Bauchi on Sunday thanked the Governor for finding him worthy of theHonourableposition. Jatau, a former Speaker of the Bauchi State Assembly, promised to reciprocate the honour by being a loyal and supportive running mate for the success of the PDP-led administration in implementing Governor Bala’s people-oriented projects.“Iwant to use this medium to express my profound appreciation to His Excellency, the incumbent Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed for finding me worthy to be his running mate in the 2023 governorship election in Bauchi State”, Hon. Jatau said. The lawmaker described his nomination as a great honor. While assuring the Governor of his readiness to justify the confidence reposed in him, Hon Jatau asserted that no government in the history of Bauchi had performed well like that of Bala Mohammed. He, therefore, urges the Bauchi people to support Governor Balaled administration in the state for progress and continuity of good governance.
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Supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, on Sunday held a rally in the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State, shutting down most streets in the city.Young men and women doning white polo shirts with Obi’s picture and inscription of his party started gathering at Zik Avenue at around 11:30am, from where they moved to other parts of the town. The group held banners with several inscriptions supporting Obi and marched peacefully along most streets, terminating at the Chinua Achebe’s Stadium, Fegge, Onitsha.Convener of the rally, Mr Chibuike Akpotue, who addressed supporters said: “We just want to show the world that Obi has our support, he was born in Onitsha, he grew up in Onitsha, his businesses are here. So, we decided today to show him solidarity because we were told he does not have structure, we want to tell them we are his structure.
The current administration has been doing alot. Our team wants any incoming president to address the issue of insecurity since it is a national issue. Security of citizens and infrastructure is paramount,”
By Christiana Ekpa Business mogul Valentine Ozigbo has said Peter Obi and Labour Party (LP) have gained acceptance in all states in Nigeria.Ozigbo made the comment in a statement on Sunday on the 31st anniversary of the creation of Anambra.Heencouraged people of the state to play their part in the new wave of political awakening sweeping through the country. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in 2021 expressed hope that the 2023 election would spark a revolution in Anambra’s political landscape. Noting that the state has made “unsteady progress”, Ozigbo urged citizens to prioritise the character and competence of leaders and the processes through which they emerge.Hebelieves Anambra is not suffering because of a shortage of qualified individuals in politics but because leading parties and the processes corrupt or discourage those who can achieve positive change.‘While we will always ask for better leadership, Ndi Anambra can beat their chests and say they have been dealt a better hand compared to other states.
Arewa group tables northern agenda to 2023 presidential candidates
Peter Obi’s supporters hold mega rally in Onitsha, shut down major streets Nigerians in all states have accepted Peter Obi, LP – Ozigbo
By Musa Baba Adamu Bauchi State Government has reacted to the threat by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to go to court and seek redress if the recent privatization of the state’s moribund companies is not Speakingreversed. at a press conference in the New Banquet Hall of the Government House on Saturday, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barrister Kashim Mohammed, said that the process was done more transparently for the interest of the people of the state. The SSG, who said if the APC-led Federal Government can privatize Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the APC in Bauchi State should bury its head in shame for not taking exception to the action but choosing to criticize the present administration in Bauchi for doing a similar exercise.
“On their demand that government should reverse the decision or they will go to court, I would have said they can go to hell, but at least since they want to go to court let them go to court,” the SSG said.The state government, who said that decision had come to stay, insisted that privatizing the six moribund industries was in the best interest of the people, adding that the Yankari Games Reserve is also going to be privatized.
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The groups tagged the rally, ‘Onitsha mega rally: The mother of all rallies’ caused a gridlock with many motorists diverting to other routes as the supporters sang Obi’s praise during the long trek.
“This is not about the Labour Party. The most important thing is that we want someone that can change the economy of this country. Since I graduated, I did not find any job to do and I went into business, which is not a bad idea.“We know the amount it cost us to load one truck in 2010 and the amount it is costing now. We know the amount it costs us for the upkeep of our families before 2015 and the amount it is costing us now. So, no one can say that the economy is comfortable for him.
“We have had several leaders who have left their marks and played their part in shaping the state.
AhmedAlsosaid.speaking, Prof Adamu Kyuka, said they are a group that seeks to engage the issues confronting Northern Nigeria. “We are partisan with quality. We want someone with record and quality to be president and we are engaging with the presidential candidate.“Weare looking at issues based on the prosperity of the country. All of us whether from north and south, we are working for the interest of the country, “ Kyuka said adding that they are meeting other groups in the south are also meeting, adding that their interest is addressing insecurity”, he said.
“Fortunately, one of the most impactful leaders in our history (Obi) is vying to become Nigeria’s president and replicate the unique leadership that has won him global acclaim.” He added that 2023 signifies a point Nigerians must get it right at all levels.Ozigbo and his Ka Anambra Chawapu political movement were formally received into the LP last Tuesday by Obi and the party’s national leadership.
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“We are looking for a person that can turn around the economy of this country for good and not a party. Check out Obi’s record as Anambra governor, you will see that he is the only governor that served eight years and yet never had any issue with the EFCC and he goes out without any escort.”
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By Ikechukwu Okaforadi Apolitical pressure group, under the auspices of Arewa Agenda-2023 has begun mobilising key demands to be presented before the 2023 presidential candidates of various political parties, as conditions to earn northern support ahead of the next general election. Speaking at a press conference before the commencement of a 2-day conference, the forum coordinator/convener of the Arewa Agenda-2023, Senator Ahmad Abubakar MoAllahyidi, said there interest is to ensure the development of the north and that the region is not left behind in the scheme of things. He said the compendium will serve as the regional road map that will continuously be built upon now and in years to come as the confluence of the northern ideas and a pivot for its development.“Ourdesire for development and socio-economic change is to better the north and Nigeria; which outweighs our sociopolitical“Consequently,differences.the Northern Agenda 2023, is an all-inclusive approach as prioritized in the aforementioned agenda. This will serve as a panacea for the development of the entire northern region”, the senator said.Also speaking, the former Director General (DG) of National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Prof Danfulani Ahmed said they are inviting all the ethnic nationalities in Northern Nigeria to form the compendium.“Whoeverbecomes a president, will follow the compendium. We want to examine the challenges. Insecurity issue is national. Boko Haram kidnapping, oil bunkering.
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“We are keen about Yankari Games Reserve because Bauchi State is supposed to be a Pearl of Tourism and we want to maximize our capacity in that sector,” he said. According to Kashim, the privatization process was done in line with the international best practices, adding that it is better for any reasonable government to have a certain percentage share in a working company than to have a 100 percent share in a dead enterprise.While citing instances with the Nigerian Telecommunication Industry NITEL, the SSG said that the privatization of the sector had created millions of job opportunities for Nigerians.Itcanberecalled that the Deputy Governor of the state, Senator Baba Tela, had asserted that privatisation of the six Bauchi moribund companies was in the best interest of the people of the state. The deputy Governor who doubles as the Chairman of Bureau for Privatisation and Economic Reforms, had also revealed that more government enterprises will be privatized to improve their management and generate revenue for the Notstate.contented with the government’s decision, the leading opposition APC in the state viewed the process as skewed to benefit family and friends of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government and shortchange the people of the state. The APC, led by its Chairman in the state, Alhaji Aliyu Babayo Misau, had, while addressing a press conference, called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and other anti-graft agencies to probe the entire process.
TAJBank to kick off N100bn Sukuk bond issuance, lists benefits ...targets N30bn capital base by year end
When asked if Twitter has a timeline on a wider rollout or desktop launch of podcasts, a spokesperson for the social network told TechCrunch that the company will gather feedback on the initial test and build out the feature in the near future. Twitter says the addition of podcasts is part of its plans to provide users with an “all-in-one, personalized audio destination” by giving users even more audio content to listen to.
of live and recorded Spaces. The hubs will also feature the most popular podcasts from around the world. Once you come across podcasts, you can give a podcast a thumbs up or thumbs down to let Twitter know if the content is interesting to you. Once you open the Spaces Tab, you will see three sections. The top of the tab will show you Stations, which scroll horizontally and showcase different themes and Topics to listen to. Below that, you will see Spaces spotlight, which lists some of the top curated audio content. Lastly, you’ll see a list of upcomingToday’sSpaces.announcement isn’t exactly a surprise, given that the social network has been spotted testing a podcast addition for the past couple of months. However, initial tests indicated that Twitter was working on a dedicated podcasts tab, but today’s launch shows that Twitter is instead interested in making podcasts a part of Spaces, as opposed to giving them their own home on the platform. TechCrunch also previously reported that Twitter was developing audio stations and a personalized audio digest.
From Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja T AJBank Limited, Nigeria’s leading non-interest lender, has formalized the kick off the bank’s N100 billion Sukuk bond issuance with the signing of all the parties for issuance of the first ever noninterest private Sukuk bond offer in the nation’s capital market. The Bank has secured all regulatory approvals required for opening the Sukuk to the general public and the bond will be listed on the Nigerian Exchange.Speaking during the epochmaking event at the bank’s headquarters in Abuja, the bank’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hamid Joda, described the bank’s latest investment initiative as a very important milestone in the annals of Nigeria’s capital market development and assured investors of good returns on their investment in the TAJBank Sukuk bond. He explained: “The Sukuk bond issuance by TAJ Bank is a very important milestone in the history of Nigeria’s capital market. I believe that after this issuance, we will see a number of companies in the Nigerian market coming out to issue Sukuk bonds and that will lead to deepening of the non-interest market and eventually economic development of Nigeria.
“Private sector investment in Africa’s infrastructure rose to $19 billion in 2020, representing 23 per cent, the highest since 2016. This counter-cyclical role played by the private sector shows the importance of its growing role in infrastructure financing in Africa,” he said. Also speaking, Keichiro Nakazawa, the senior vice president of JICA, said the discussion would focus on growth prospects for African countries and the role of the private sector in providing high-quality, sustainable infrastructure.
“My message to the investing public is to take advantage of the opportunity in view of its potential for good returns. The instrument is coming out at an expected rate of 15 percent. It is also an ethical instrument and there are very few ethical instruments out there and I believe a lot of investors are looking for instruments that have ethical leaning”, Joda assured.Inhis remarks, the bank’s Executive Director, Mr. Sheriff Idi, also stressed the importance of the Sukuk bond to the TAJ Bank’s operations, capacity to provide financial support to needy enterprises with the attendant positive implications for the nation’s economic growth.The non-interest banking expert clarified: “In the last two years of the bank’s operations we have raised additional capital apart from the Sukuk we are issuing now. With the Sukuk bond issuance, we wanted to raise TAJ Bank’s capital base to about N30 billion by the end of the year and that means we can now finance those sectors that probably some initially thought we cannot provide funding support. That is the essence of this Sukuk bond issuance.”
The online event was held in the run-up to the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), expected to occur in Tunisia from August 27 to 28. The theme was ‘Private Sector Infrastructure Development Opportunities in Africa’.The vice president said the greater private sector investment came as most African governments contended with the COVID-19 pandemic, limited fiscal space and high debt-togross domestic product ratios.
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From Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja T he African Development Bank (AfDB) said private sector investment in Africa’s infrastructure in 2020 was $19 billion, the highest since 2016.Solomon Quaynor, AfDB vice president for the private sector (infrastructure and industrialisation), disclosed this at a webinar organised by the bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This is according to the bank’s communication and external relations department statement.
Twitter is officially delving into the world of podcasts. The social network has announced it is integrating podcasts into its platform as part of its newly designed Spaces tab. The revamped Spaces tab and the addition of podcasts would be visible to a group of global Englishspeaking audiences on iOS and Android a report by TechCrunch disclosed.The redesign introduces personalised hubs for users called ‘Stations’ that group content together based on different topics, such as news, music, sports, and more. The recommendations that you see will be based on the themes and people that you follow.
The bank’s Chairman, Alhaji Tanko Isiaku Gwamna, further clarified: “The funds raised through the Sukuk bond and innovative deployment to needy sectors of the economy will help to create jobs, boost economic activities and improve the noninterest banking sub sector’s contributions to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the years ahead.”
Twitter users will now be able to access a personalised selection
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The panellists were Rami Ghandour from Metito, Tshepidi Moremong from Africa 50, Vuyo Hlompho Ntoi from African Infrastructure Investment Managers, and Yoshio Kushiya from Sumitomo Corporation. They were joined by representatives of leading development finance institutions, JICA’s Shohei Hara, Mike Salawou from the AfDB, and Sue Barrett, the director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.Thepanellists shared perspectives, success stories and the challenges they faced to plug Africa’s estimated $67 billion to $107 billion annual infrastructure gap.
“Integrating podcasts into Spaces, where audio conversations happen on Twitter, is another way we’re continuing to invest in audio creators,” Twitter said in a blog post. “To do this in a simple and intuitive way that allows listeners to simply hit play and go, we started with a redesigned audio experience in the Spaces Tab.”
Twitter says its internal research indicates that 45 per cent of people who use Twitter in the U.S. also listen to podcasts monthly, so now the company will automatically suggest podcasts to help users discover content based on the topics they’re interested in.
“The entirety of stable condensate produced at the Purovsky Plant from the feedstock coming from Novatek’s subsidiaries and affiliates, including Terneftegas, is delivered to the Ust-Luga processing complex in the Leningrad region. The range of products derived during processing at the Ust-Luga Complex includes jet fuel (Jet A-1) that is exclusively exported outside Russia, and it does not even have the certification to be sold inside the country.”
TotalEnergies sells stake in Russian gas field to Novatek
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“Pursuant to Russian regulations, a request to authorise this transaction was addressed to the Russian authorities on August 8, 2022,” the statement reads. “On August 25, 2022, Russian authorities issued their agreement to the proposed sale. Closing is expected in September 2022, subject to customary conditions”.TotalEnergies — formerly Total — owns 49 percent of Terneftegaz, the company that extracts gas from the Termokarstovoye field. The other 51 percent is held by Novatek, in which TotalEnergies also holds a 19.4 percent stake. On Wednesday,last week, Le Monde, a French newspaper, had accused TotalEnergies of
supplying gas condensate that ends up in Russia’s fighter jets used in the ongoing war with Ukraine.However, the company denied the report, saying it was not involved in the supply of fuel to Russian military aircraft in any form. In a follow-up post on Wednesday, TotalEnergies said it sought information from Novatek, its JV partner on “what happens to the gas condensates produced by the Termokarstovoye field in Russia”. It quoted Novatek as saying: “All of the unstable condensate produced by our subsidiaries and joint ventures, including Terneftegas, comes into our Purovsky condensate processing plant. The Purovsky Plant also stabilises condensate from other Russian producers, whose share in the plant’s load does not exceed 20 percent.”
“Thus, there is the urgent need for a conscientious effort to diversify to other non-oil sectors. As I have often said, it is important that we work to create an economy that will enable us feed ourselves, create jobs for our teeming youths and improve the standard of living of our people,” said the CBN governor. “Our population is growing by over three per cent per annum over the past seven years, against a less than steady growth in output sinceHe2019.”added that the economic challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had also made the idea of economic diversification imperative.
“There is no gainsaying that since 2019, the world has been facing severe shocks, propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war that have continued to threaten global growth and overall macroeconomic stability,” Mr Emefiele stressed. “As the world was gradually exiting the devastating negative shocks and impact of COVID-19 pandemic, the economic sanctions against Russia have further worsened the subsisting supply-chain disruptions across the globe.” According to him, the accompanying trade dislocations aggravated supply shocks across regions and triggered unprecedented increases in commodities, energy and food prices.
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Osita Nwanisobi, director, corporate communications, CBN, said this in a statement issued recently.Nwanisobi said Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor and his team were concerned about the development and what it portends for the sector and travellers as well as the country in the comity of nations.He reiterated that the apex bank was not against any company repatriating its funds from the country, adding that what CBN stood for was an orderly exit for those that might be interested in doing so. “A breakdown of the figure indicates that the sum of $230 million was released as a special FX intervention while another sum of $35 million was released through Retail SMIS auction,” the statement reads.“With Friday’s release, it is expected that operators and travellers as well will heave huge sighs of relief, as some airlines had threatened to withdraw their services in the face of unremitted funds for the outstanding sale of tickets.”Nigeria is facing a forex exchange crisis to meet various obligations, including revenue repatriation by foreign airlines and dollar requests by citizens and businesses. Last week, the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) said foreign airlines’ funds trapped in Nigeria increased from $450 million in May to $464 million in July. Due to the development, Emirates Airlines announced the suspension of flight operations to Nigeria.
Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja A n economic expert, Ken Ife, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to improve its commitment to the agricultural and manufacturing sectors of the economy to spur diversification. Mr Ife said this on Saturday in Abuja at the 33rd Finance Correspondents, and Business Editors Seminar organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He made the call in his paper ‘Unlocking opportunities in the non-oil sector’. The expert noted that despite huge intervention in the agricultural sector recently, output appeared to be inadequate.“Public leadership of agricultural development programmes has resulted in the construction of 300 dams, huge strategic grain reserves, and other investments,” the economic expert stressed. “The high number of dams, together with the rains and rivers, give Nigeria four times surface water than South Africa.” Mr Ife added, “But only a handful of the dams are used for power generation, irrigation for dry-season farming and aquaculture.”Hecommended the CBN for its various interventions in agriculture and other non-oil sectors.“Asof February, N948 billion in loans has been given to 4.4 million farmers cultivating 5.2 million hectares, creating 12.5 million direct jobs,” Mr Ife further explained. “The government could not have been able to deliver this order of ‘targeting’ and private-private arrangement and depositors’ monies that need to beSpeakingrepaid.” at the event, the CBN governor Godwin Emefiele said the quest for building a more sophisticated economy was the major component of monetary policy.He said such an economy would be anchored on agriculture, MSMEs, industrial and manufacturing concerns. According to him, Nigeria has largely depended on the oil sector for revenue generation over the past four decades. Mr Emefiele stated that the sustained decline in crude oil production had continued to negatively undermine the performance of the economy.
Invest more in Agricultural sector -Expert tells Buhari
By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja To halt the crisis in the aviation sector, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has released $265 million to airlines operating in the country to settle outstanding ticket sales.
T otalEnergies says it is selling its 49 percent stake in a Russian gas field to Novatex, an oil and gas company in the country. The French energy firm made this known in a statement issued recently.Thedevelopment comes amid accusations that the oil major was supplying gas to Russia’s military in Ukraine. The company said it had signed a deal with Novatek, its joint venture (JV) partner to sell its stake in Termokarstovoye gas field “on economic terms enabling TotalEnergies to recover the outstanding amounts invested in the field”.
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“This is a response to the present administration’s agenda of diversifying the nation’s economy from petroleum oil-based to agriculture and solid mineralsdriven national development strategy,” he said.
By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja T he national association of Nigeria travel agencies (NANTA) says British Airways (BA) has closed inventory on Nigeria in the global distribution system (GDS), over foreign airlines’ trapped $464 million.Susan Akporiaye, president of NANTA, said this on Friday. A global distribution system (GDS) is a computerised network system owned or operated by a company that enables transactions between travel industry service providers, mainly airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and travel agencies.
Regarding BA’s suspension of operations in Nigeria, NANTA in a statement said no other airline has expressed the desire to pull out of Nigeria’s air space.
come following reports earlier on Friday that the association had issued a statement stating that BA had stopped selling tickets in the country, and planned to also suspend its operations in Nigeria.However, she said the airline has not stopped selling tickets but rather, the inventory was yanked off from the global distribution system (GDS).
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According to Akporiaye, the implication of the removal from the GDS is that travel agents cannot make bookings from their portals.“They closed inventory on the GDS only,” Akporiaye said. “That means travel agencies can’t issue tickets from our portal but you can book online on their site that is why I said they did not stop sales. “Even if you go to their office they can’t issue a ticket for you. You only have the option of bookingAkporiaye’sonline.”comments
The federal government has inaugurated a sixyear national agricultural technology and innovation policy (NATIP) from 2022 to 2027 to enhance agribusiness in the country.The six-year policy aims at achieving sustainable development of national technological and innovative capacity to fast-track importMohammedsubstitution.
“The quest for building a more sophisticated economy and agricultural; micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs); industrial and manufacturing concerns have become the major component of our monetary policy,” he said.“Nigeria has largely depended on the oil sector for revenue generation over the past four decades, and the sustained decline in crude oil production has continued to negatively undermine the performance of the economy. “Thus, there is the urgent need for a conscientious effort to diversify to other non-oil sectors.”
“The strike affected the operating parameters of the landing gear which made the pilots follow regulatory safety procedures by returning to Lagos where they landed the aircraft safely without any incident.
“Passengers disembarked normally and another aircraft has been deployed to operate the flight. “We apologise for the inconveniences caused to all passengers affected by this situation and be assured of our strict compliance with established safety standards.”
“The ministry sustained all various initiatives for the development of the agriculture sector; the issue of embracing technology and innovation became inevitable for transforming the nation’s agricultural system,” he added.On his part, Bedru Balana, country programme leader, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said women and youth should be mainstreamed across the agricultural value chains, within the framework of innovation and“Thisenterprises.iscrucial as Nigeria continues to focus on creating jobs through agriculture for its growing youth and vulnerable population in the face of the current economic and environmental sectors, and climate shocks among others,” he said.
Abubakar, minister of agriculture and rural development, who spoke at the inauguration in Abuja on Friday, said the policy was needed especially to prioritise the reduction of rice, dairy and fish imports. He added that it also aims to increase resilience and digital agriculture, thereby, promoting agricultural investments.
An Owerri-bound plane belonging to Air Peace made an emergency landing in Lagos on Saturday due to a bird strike. A bird strike is a collision between a bird and an aircraft which is in flight or on a takeoff or landingAccordingroll. to a statement by the management of Air Peace, the flight from Lagos to Owerri took off around 12 noon. The plane, which was enroute to Owerri, could not land due to the impact of the bird strike, and as such, returned to Lagos for an emergency landing. The airline added that the passengers disembarked unhurt.
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“This would empower smallscale farmers to adopt new technologies and best practices for enhanced production, processing of agricultural commodities for local consumption, and export to other countries.“Thefocus of the new NATIP 2022- 2027 was premised on the 10 thematic areas of stakeholders’ synergy and alignment, knowledge creation and transfer, rapid mechanisation, and agricultural development fund establishment.
FG inaugurates six-year policy to promote innovation, investment in agric sector
“The national executive council of NANTA went into a business meeting with British Airways, where British Airways conveyed the assurance that it remains committed to servicing the needs of travel agencies in Nigeria,” the association said.
The CBN governor said the apex bank had supported non-oil sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, education, power and aviation and other allied economic valueHechains.said Nigeria had become a rice-exporting country as the bank’s flagship Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) changed the longstanding dependence on imported rice.He added that the 100 for 100 policy on production and productivity (PPP) was beginning to yield quality results.He also said the RT200 FX scheme, designed to take advantage of Nigeria’s large domestic production to other regional markets, was targeted at increasing foreign exchange inflows to the economy and supporting exchange rate stability. On digitalisation across all sectors, Emefiele said the bank had established various strategic initiatives and policies in the financial sector.
Emefiele, represented by Osita Nwanisobi, director, corporate communication department, CBN, said the quest for building a robust economy had remained the major component of the monetary policy.
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By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja
“Others are, extension service delivery revitalisation and livestock development, priority crop valuechain strengthening, fisheries and aquaculture.“Alsoincluded, marine and inland fisheries development, market development, and agriculture land investments partnership.”Abubakar, however, said it was on record that the ministry’s operation over the last six years had been shaped by the agricultural promotion policy of 2016-2020. He said the 2016-2020 framework facilitated an appreciable increase in agricultural production and job creation through infrastructure, research, extension, mechanisation, and value-chain activities in the country.
Godwin Emefiele, apex bank governor, said this at a seminar organised by the apex bank for finance correspondents and business editors on Saturday in Lagos.
“This is to inform the flying public and our esteemed customers that Air Peace flight P47154, which departed Lagos at 12:00hrs today, August 27, 2022, for Owerri, could not land due to a bird strike that got the bird stuck on the left main landing gear,” the statement reads.
By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says Nigeria must build a broad-based and well-diversified economy that will guarantee overall macroeconomic stability.
Emefiele: Nigeria must build well-diversified economy to boost revenue generation Air Peace aircraft makes emergency landing in Lagos over bird strike
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“Now, most of our security guards are still at Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital and Kubwa Hospital receiving treatment for the injuries inflicted on them by these hoodlums, so it is no longer a situation that affects only Kubwa Extension II Relocation, but the whole FCT, that is why we are looking for a lasting solution from the government.
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“The Coordinating Committee is poised to do everything within the ambit of the law to recover every dime owed government and will take advantage of this robust partnership with these highly professional legal firms to realize this.
By Stanley Onyekwere Abuja residents in Kubwa Extension II, Relocation community, have sent a strong Save Our Souls (SOS) appeal to the FCT Administration and other relevant authorities to quickly mitigate multifaceted insecurity, dearth of basic amenities and developmental issues that have subjected them to daily nightmarish experiences. In particular, they are crying out to the government to their aid, by swiftly prioritising provision of functional police post or station, motorable access roads, schools, hospitals, electricity supply and potable water supply in the community, having about one thousand households. They decried that the relocation settlement, sited on Arab Road, in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, which was mapped out by FCDA in 2003, and duly signed and commissioned to exist, is yet have government presence. This call was made through Vice Chairman, Kubwa Extension II, Relocation Residents Association, Mr. Francis Bobai, who spoke to newsmen, at the end of the community’s emergency meeting, at the weekend, in the aftermath of a deadly attack on their private security guards, by suspected hoodlums that attempted to rob the community. Bobai, said the insecurity situation is becoming alarming, because five of their security guards were attacked last week’s Tuesday, resulting to the death one, while four are hospitalised. He said: “We deemed fit to cry out to the government to come to our assistance, as we can no longer help ourselves. We pay our taxes, and there is no presence of government within our locality “We have lived here over 25 years, but to our greatest surprise, we have been neglected by the government. This is because we have provided all the necessary infrastructure in terms of access road, electricity supply, water supply (boreholes), in the community, no presence of hospital not even a clinic for emergency cases, no schools, no police.“The roads are bad, and we have tried our best to fix both the drainage and roads, but it is so bad that every week we must visit the mechanic.
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said that henceforth, all property developers in the FCT, must show evidence of ground rent payment before the Department of Development Control considers and approve any building plan application. This measure, the FCTA said was taken in view of the huge debt of over 29 billion naira owed the Administration by property owners, who have failed to pay their outstanding debt, despite several warnings and appeals.
Earlier, FCT-MPC Chairman, Alh. Hudu Yakubu, who described the AMAC Chairman as a media friendly person, noted that the current administration has so far recognised the media as strategic development partners, which reflects in the appointment of two active Abuja based media practitioners into its cabinet.Hudualso used the occasion to congratulate Maikalangu as the 19th chairman of the Council, as well as commended him for remaining patient and peaceful, even in the face of challenging political and judicial battle. He adds: “Thank you for seeing the media practitioners as partners in his quest towards ensuring a better life for the people of the council”.
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It recalled that the FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr. Adesola Olusade recently inaugurated a debt recovery committee with the mandate to recover the outstanding debts owed the FCT Administration with particular interest in ground rents and other sundry fees in the Land Administration as well as other Land related departments. “It would be recalled that the Committee has earlier announced the engagement of five law firms, owned by Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), who have been hired to prepare legal documents to commence legal action against the defaulting titleholders. “The FCT Administration decided to set up this Coordinating Committee due to the failure of titleholders to pay the prescribed land charges, despite several appeals and notices served on the affected property owners.
Kubwa community sends SOS to FCTA over insecurity, amenities
A statement signed and issued by Director, Information & Communication, FCT / Chairman, Media & Publicity Sub-Committee, Muhammad Hazat Sule, at the the weekend explained that the clearance of all outstanding ground rents is now a requirement for the processing and approval of building plan submitted by property owners in the Abuja, the nation’s capital city.According to the statement, the Director of the Department Development Control, Mukthar Galadima, affirmed that the Department will do everything to enforce this new requirement.
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“We believe that the government can act upon our appeal to curtail the situation, because they have been doing so in many communities, so such should be replicated in our community.
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“We have purchased four transformers for a community with over eight hundred residents (households), it is not enough, so we are also crying out to the government to provide more transformers.“Wehave written so many letters, and follow up, yet there is no solution on ground for us in terms of power supply, schools, as our children are forced to go out of the community to get basic education, and we need the presence of security, either police post or Continuing,station”. he points out that “So, we have the issue of insecurity, which is the most peculiar situation that we are facing, and some members of the community were kidnapped and ransome was paid by the community and families of the victims. Many times, hoodlums invade our community to rob and matchet most of our residents.
“The Committee wishes to appeal to the defaulters to be honourable and responsible to pay their outstanding ground rents as it is a better option left to avoid punitive action”, the statement read.
“I want you to make good use of your offices and position in the society, to please address injustice, because it is injustice that gave birth to crisis and insecurity in our society today, especially when you are trying to forcefully takeover the peoples’ mandate.“Youhave the responsibility to always defend the votes (the peoples’ mandate), by advocating that let justice be done. “You will all agree with me that on the 12th of February, 2022 election, election was conducted, and it was went smoothly, free and fair. “I got over 19, 300 votes while my main opponent had 13, 200 plus votes. These figures are right there in the INEC Portal. But , to our surprise, the Tribunal got different figures from nowhere. And from what happened, I believe that the Tribunal was misled. We campaigned and made promises people better lives, which we intend to fulfil, but someone is trying take it from them (people).“Bynow, ICPC should be investigating those who brought fake INEC result to the Tribunal, otherwise, our 2023 general election is not safe, because is happening here can equally happen next year”, he stressed. He however, adds that “I must commend our President, Muhammadu Buhari, and our FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, for trading on the path of peace in the FCT. They allowed peaceful elections in the FCT, this ensured that people came out and voted for their candidates. And with the help of God Almighty, I emerged as AMAC chairman.Also,we commend INEC for introducing B-vas machine, which ensures that during elections, the moment voting is concluded at the polling units, the result sheet is immediately sent to INEC server. So INEC is moving forward, but some people are trying to take INEC backward, which should not be allowed to stand, as Nigeria must move forward”.
By Stanley Onyekwere T he Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon Christopher Zakka Maikalangu has charged media practitioners to always advocate for justice to be done in every facet of the society, in order to pave way for inclusive and rapid development. He noted that journalists as members of the third estate of the realm, should make good use of their position to address injustice, which, according him, gave birth to crisis and insecurity in the society today. Maikalangu, who gave this charge during an interaction with the leadership and some members of the FCT Minister’s Press Corps (FCT-MPC), at the Council’s Conference room, at the weekend, described AMAC as one of the biggest area councils in the nation, and one of the best in the FCT.
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“The Administration had earlier sent out letters serving as last warning to such defaulters, as the government is committed to recover every dime owed it.
Three off-duty Dutch commandos shot outside hotel in Indianapolis
Pakistan’s officials, who have dealt with floods many times before, say the hell unleashed by the heavens was nothing they could have prepared for. “People around the world talk about climate change and something it’s only a theory,” said one official, who has been running a relief operation in Larkana, a badlyhit city.“We are seeing for ourselves on the ground that climate change is happening. We’ve never seen such rains in one year…now we need to think about how we build for the future - how do we even start?” The torrents from swollen rivers in the mountainous north are due to arrive in the coming days. But the devastation is not isolated to Sindh province. One man told the BBC his daughter had been swept away by a flooded river in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Two US warships are passing through the Taiwan Strait, the US Navy has announced. It is the first such operation to take place since tensions between Taiwan and China increased following a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan earlier this month. The US and other Western navies have routinely sailed through the strait in recent years.China reacted to Ms Pelosi’s visit by holding military drills in the area. On Sunday, Taiwan’s defence ministry says it detected 23 Chinese aircraft and eight Chinese ships operating around Taiwan. Among the detected aircraft, seven crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait - an unofficial barrier between Taiwan and China. Washington says its two guided-missile cruisers - the USS Antietam and the USS Chancellorsville - are demonstrating freedom of navigation through international waters. Beijing views such actions as provocative and maintains that the island of Taiwan is an integral part of Chinese territory.
“She told me: ‘Daddy, I’m going to collect leaves for my goat,’” said Muhammad Fareed, who lives in the Kaghan Valley. “She went to the bank of the river and a gush of water followed and took her away.” The US, UK, UAE and others have contributed to a disaster appeal, but more funds are needed, officials say. According to reports by the Dawn newspaper, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced a grant of 10bn rupees ($45m) for those in the most affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Every flood-affected family would be given 25,000 rupees ($112), Mr Sharif said, which would be disbursed within a week. Mr Sharif said 33 million people had been hit by the floods - about 15% of the country’s population. He said the losses caused by floods this season were comparable to those during the floods of 2010-11, said to be the worst on record.Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, echoed Mr Sharif’s calls for more aid. “I haven’t seen destruction of this scale, I find it very difficult to put into words... it is overwhelming,” he told Reuters.
Taiwan: Two US warships sail through strait Muhammad Fareed, whose daughter died in the Kunhar river
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“As a result of periodic shelling, the infrastructure of the station has been damaged, there are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,” Enerhoatom said on Telegram. Local officials have also reported that Russian artillery is firing at Ukrainian towns across the Dnipro river from the plant.Also on Sunday, the Ukrainian army shelled a factory in the Russian-occupied town of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson region. Serhiy Khlan, a senior Ukrainian official in the region, said Russian troops were using it as a military base. On Saturday, Russia’s defence ministry claimed it had destroyed a large ammunition depot in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk southeastern region containing US-made Himars rocket systems and shells for M777 Howitzers.Theministry also said the Russian air force had shot down a MiG-29 aircraft in the eastern Donetsk region, and destroyed six missile and artillery weapons depots in the Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, Reuters news agency reports. The BBC is unable to independently verify the claims on either side.
hree Dutch commandos, who were in the US for training, have been shot and wounded outside a hotel in the city of Indianapolis while off duty. The incident occurred at around 03:30 on Saturday local time in the city’s entertainmentIndianapolisdistrict.police say officers found the three men with gunshot wounds and they were taken to nearby hospitals.TheDutch defence ministry said one of the men was in a critical condition and that the other two were conscious. It said all three were members of the Commando Corps, one of the special operations units in the Netherlands armedTheforces.shooting occurred during their free time in front of the hotel where they were staying, the ministry added. Local police said they believed there had been an earlier altercation between the men and another person or group.
Speaking to FOX59, an officer with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said: “Right now the information we’re willing to disclose is that it was not something that occurred inside the hotel. “It was a previous altercation we believe at another location.”
“These ships transited through a corridor in the strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state,” the statement added.
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The Dutch defence ministry said the men’s families had been informed and that an investigation by local police was under way. No arrests have been made.
One of Pakistan’s southern provinces, Sindh, is bracing itself for worse to come as the country deals with catastrophic floods. Deluges from swollen rivers are heading for lower-lying areas, officials say, threatening more misery for millions. The floods have killed nearly 1,000 people across Pakistan since June, while thousands have been displaced - and millions more affected.InSindh, the message in every village the BBC visited was: “Send help.” In this province - which has a population of almost 50 million - there has been a little reprieve from the rains. But it will take more than a few days of sunshine to make life right again. This year’s floods have been devastating - and their impact is far from being fully realised.The infrastructure was already basic in many rural communities. Many of the roads are not tarred, and some bridges are worn out after years of little maintenance. But this can’t just be blamed on poor infrastructure.
On Sunday, its military said it was monitoring the two vessels’ progress, maintaining a high alert, and was ready to defeat any provocation, Reuters news agency reports. The US Navy said in a statement that the transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrated the “United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific”.
Vladimir Putin recently signed a decree to increase the Russian armed forces’ military personnel to more than 1.15m - a potential increase of 137,000. But the MoD said the boost was unlikely to increase Russia’s combat power - partly because of ongoing losses. President Putin’s decree came amid a military recruitment drive. There have been reports that recruiters have even been visiting prisons, promising inmates freedom and money. Currently, Russia has a limit of just over a million military personnel, plus almost 900,000 civilian staff. In one of its regular updates on the war, the UK ministry said it was not clear if the planned increase would be achieved by recruiting more volunteers - or by increasing conscription. But any increase was unlikely to have an impact in Ukraine given that:
Ukraine war: Russian recruitment drive unlikely to have impact - UK Russia’s plan to expand its armed forces is unlikely to have an impact on the Ukraine war, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.
• Russia has lost tens of thousands of troops,•Very few new contract (i.e. nonconscript) servicemen are being recruited
• Conscripts are not technically obliged to serve outside Russian territory, the MoD said. Western officials say some 70-80,000 troops have been killed or wounded since Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago. Russia planned a short, decisive campaign when it invaded Ukraine in February, but Ukrainian resistance has stalled its progress, and in recent weeks front lines have hardly moved. Currently, Russian men aged 18 to 27 are subject to conscription, although many are able to avoid or reduce their service - usually one year - through medical exemptions or by enrolling in higher education.Meanwhile, Ukraine has accused Russian troops of shelling the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant again over the past 24 hours. But Moscow in turn says Ukrainian forces have been shelling the Theplant.head of the plant’s Ukrainian operator, Petro Kotin of Enerhoatom, has warned that radiation could be released locally if missiles hit the spent fuel stored beside the reactors.
Pakistan floods: Sindh province awaits more deluges and devastation
“There is no entity to help push, or to ask for the reasons behind the delays. Dissolving the parliament is a huge obstacle for people to get their rights.” Ms Ksiksi also worries about what she sees as a lack of clarity over whether the new constitution would protect civil rights legislation, particularly Law 50. BBC Arabic News has reached out to a spokesman of the new government appointed by President Kais, but has received no reply so far. However, a prominent Tunisian politician and an ally of the president has denied the fight against racism has been sidetracked by recent events.“The judiciary’s work has never stopped. They are still implementing Law 50,” said Amal Hamrouni of the El-Tayyar El-Chaabi party.As for scrutinising the work of the government, Ms Hamrouni said President Kais had no choice but to suspend parliament.
Angola held a state funeral for expresident José Eduardo dos Santos in the capital Luanda after his death in Spain in July. Several African leaders and Portugal’s president were in attendance. His death sparked a political row after his daughter, Tchizé dos Santos, opposed holding the funeral in Angola. Mr dos Santos, a veteran of the independence war, was a dominant figure in Angolan political history having ruled the country for 38 years. However, his legacy has been soiled by allegations of high levels of corruption and human rights violations while he was in power.Aside from the political class and foreign leaders, Angolan citizens outside the funeral have been paying tribute to Mr Dos Santos, with some wearing t-shirts with his face on them. “He was a great example for the people who did a lot for us,” Adilson Quaresma told the BBC. His funeral comes just days after national elections, with the governing party, the MPLA, expected to return to power. However, the opposition, Unita, has rejected the preliminary results from the National Electoral Commission. Due to the presence of foreign leaders at the funeral, on what would have been Mr Dos Santos’ 80th birthday, authorities have asked local people not to protest amid tensions over the expected election result.
Lassad Karim loved his job and had spent 12 years at the same company, until he said he faced racism at the hands of a new manager. “We were having a discussion when out of the blue she insulted me,” he told the BBC. Mr Karim accuses the manger of using a term commonly used to demean black people as servants: “This is not an acceptable word, it’s hurtful.”“Iwas in shock. Why? What am I guilty of? What did I do? I was broken.” It shook his self-esteem, even to this day. “I loved being out and about. Now I’ve lost the will to go anywhere beyond my front door,” he told the BBC. New legislation, called Law 50, was introduced in 2018, making Tunisia the first country in the Arab region to outlaw discrimination specifically on racial grounds. It was the culmination of years of campaigning by activists who felt empowered by the 2011 democracy protests which saw the overthrow of long-time President Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali. Under Law 50, those found guilty of racist language or acts can receive a prison sentence of up to three years. Authorities can also impose a maximum fine of 3,000 dinars ($950; £775). It has so far succeeded in prosecuting some of those guilty of discrimination, including a case in the city of Sfax where a woman was found guilty of racially abusing her daughter’s Afro-Arab teacher. But this was not the case for Mr Karim. His employer denied racism or firing him and his case was dismissed due to lack of evidence. Mr Karim is one of many black people who say they are still victims of racism, despite this relatively new legal deterrent, as the country’s first black MP explained. “Almost daily, I receive letters from citizens, especially black people. I receive their messages. I receive their complaints,” Jamila Ksiksi said. She said after the suspension of parliament, lawmakers can no longer raise in the channels of power the plight of constituents suffering from racism, nor scrutinise the efforts of the government to tackle it. “The Tunisian people have no voice without a parliament,” she continued. Tunisia’s ongoing social and economic crisis deepened last July after President Kais Saied suspended parliament and dismissed the Presidentgovernment.Saied had said his decision was the only way to reform the country and break Tunisia’s political paralysis. The 64-year-old president last month ordered parliamentary polls after a referendum on a new constitution granted him sweeping newAccordingpowers. to Ms Ksiksi, Tunisia’s parliament used to have a central role in scrutinising the implementation of the landmark anti-racism legislation, but that is no longerShepossible.fearsthat court cases looking into racial discrimination will now take longer to be processed by the courts because of the political turmoil.
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José Eduardo dos Santos: State funeral for Angola ex-president
According to a survey commissioned by BBC Arabic, 80% of Tunisians believe that racial discrimination is a problem in their country - the highest figure in the Middle East and North Africa region. With black people making up 10-15% of the Tunisian population, there are fears the fight against racial discrimination is now at a standstill after the suspension of parliament, the country’s first black female MP has told the BBC.
Zenu dos Santos, a son of the former president who attended the funeral to the surprise of many, has been jailed for five years for fraud. José Eduardo dos Santos died aged 79 after a cardiac arrest while undergoing medical treatment at a clinic in Barcelona, Spain.He stepped down in 2017, bequeathing power to Mr Lourenço who was then defence minister.
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“The legislative chamber was not doing its job. It was mired in internal struggles. It was right of the president to suspend it,” she said.
ceasefire after 32 killed T he UN has called for an immediate stop to hostilities in Libya following a day of deadly clashes between political factions in the capital, Tripoli. At least 32 people were killed and dozens more wounded during the fighting, the health ministry said. Among the dead was young comedian Mustafa Baraka, an official said. Libya has been in chaos since the Nato-backed uprising in 2011 that ousted long-serving ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.Despite this, the country had enjoyed a relatively calm period over the past two years.On Saturday, armed forces of the internationally recognised government tried to push back a convoy of militia loyal to Fathi Bashagha - the man who is recognised as prime minister by a rival, eastern parliament and is vying for control of the country. There were reports of small-arms fire and explosions in several areas of the capital. Black smoke could be seen rising across the Emergencycity. services said a number of hospitals had been hit. People were also evacuated from areas around the fighting.OnSunday, there was quiet in the capital.The UN’s Libya mission said the fighting had included “indiscriminate medium and heavy shelling in civilianpopulated neighbourhoods” and called for an immediate ceasefire - which was backed by the US ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland on Saturday. The oil-rich country once had one of the highest standards of living in Africa, with free healthcare and free education. But the stability that led to its prosperity has been shattered and Tripoli has seen frequent fighting between rival forces since 2011.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on Chinese and African media to better tell stories about China-Africa cooperation in the new era and promulgate common values of all humanity.Ximade the appeal in a congratulatory letter to the 5th Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation, which was held in Beijing under the theme of “New Vision, New Development, New Cooperation” on Thursday.Inthe letter, the Chinese president noted that China and African countries are a community with a shared future that goes through thick and thin together, and the media on both sides shoulder major responsibilities regarding enhancing mutual trust and cooperation, upholding world peace and promoting global development.Hehailed the role the forum has played in promoting exchanges and mutual appreciation between Chinese and African civilizations and deepening the China-Africa comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership since its founding 10 years ago.
Xi urged the media on both sides to continue upholding the spirit of friendly China-Africa cooperation and work to promote people-to-people exchanges, safeguard fairness and justice and advance global development to better tell stories about China-Africa cooperation in the new era, promulgate common values of all humanity and contribute to building a community with a shared future for mankind.Source: CGTN Xi Jinping calls on Chinese, African media to better tell stories about bilateral cooperation
“The national police appeals to all citizens, civil society and organised groups that intend to organise activities on Saturday and Sunday, to contain themselves out of respect for the former head of state,” local media quoted Angolan police as saying. Mr dos Santos wanted to be buried in Spain his family says. It is also thought he was afraid his death would be politicised because his children would not be able to travel to Angola for his funeral or to visit his Agrave.Spanish court eventually ruled that he should be repatriated to his widow in Angola.Isabel and Tchizé dos Santos currently live in exile in Europe after the current President, João Lourenço, pursued a vigorous anti-corruption campaign, which some members of the Dos Santos family have been linked to. Isabel dos Santos has been charged with mismanagement and embezzling public funds when she headed the state oil firm, Sonangol. She has denied the charges and says she is the victim of a political witchhunt.Meanwhile
The government has already announced an inquiry into Mr Morrison’s actions, but she wants it to look at the governor-general and his office“Iftoo.the inquiry is to find out what happened in order to fix what happened, it would be extremely problematic to leave out a key part of that equation.”
Amira Saber, an Egyptian MP who has campaigned for women’s rights, said the Egyptian constitution was clear that discrimination of this kind was not “Iallowed.willcertainly use one of my parliamentary tools to ask the officials in the government how we can ensure that this does not happen again, and if it does happen, the perpetrator must be punished,” she said.
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Emeritus professor Jenny Hocking finds the suggestion Mr Hurley didn’t know the ministries had been kept secret“The“ridiculous”.lastofthese bizarre, duplicated ministry appointments… were made
Mayar Omar, a 25-year-old research executive from Cairo, says she has faced repeated problems going to some high-end restaurants.“Youwant to feel that you can be yourself when you enter a venue and no-one is forcing you to do something, or make you feel that you are the cause of a problem for the venue or your friends.”
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Neither Kazan nor Andiamo responded to requests for comment.‘Findan alternative’
BBC News Arabic presented the evidence to Adel El Masry, chairman of the Chamber of Tourism Establishments and Restaurants.“Neverin any era of the ministry of tourism has a decision been issued banning veiled women [from leisure venues],” he said. “This is not acceptable. Discrimination is unacceptable, these are public places.”
BBC News Arabic also gathered evidence suggesting that hijab-wearing women were being restricted from buying holiday apartments by a major developer, La Vista. The company has projects in Cairo as well as several high-end coastal developments. In the past it has sold properties to women with hijabs, but our investigation found many social media posts accusing La Vista of changing its policy and now placing restrictions on them.
Women with hijab found to face bias in Egypt
PM defends governor-general Prof Twomey says the criticism of Mr Hurley is unfair - there’s was no “conspiracy” on his part to keep things secret.“I don’t think it’s reasonable for anyone to expect that he could have guessed that the prime minister was keeping things secret from his own ministers, for example. “Nobody really thought that was a possibility until about two weeks ago.” Even if he had taken the unprecedented step to publicise the appointments or to reject Mr Morrison’s request, he’d have been criticised, she says.“There’d be even more people saying ‘how outrageous!’” she says. “The role of governor-general is awkward because people are going to attack you either way.”
Australia: Scott Morrison saga casts scrutiny on Queen’s representative
the right thing, the solicitor-general said in his advice this week. It would have been “a clear breach” for him to refuse the prime minister, regardless of whether he knew the appointments would be kept secret, Stephen Donaghue said. Critics push for investigation
Ultimately, Mr Hurley had to sign off on Mr Morrison’s requests, but critics say he could have counselled him against it and he could have publicised it himself.But representatives for the governor-general say these types of appointments - giving ministers the right to administer other departmentsare not Andunusual.itfalls to the government of the day to decide if they should be announced to the public. They often opt not to.Mr Hurley himself announcing the appointments would be unprecedented. He had “no reason to believe that appointments would not be communicated”, his spokesperson said.
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In the past fortnight, Australia has been gripped by revelations that former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to several additional ministries. The move has been labelled a “power grab” by his successor as prime minister, and Mr Morrison has been scolded by many - even his own colleagues.Butthe scandal has also dragged Australia’s governor-general into the fray - sparking one of the biggest controversies involving the Queen’s representative in Australia in 50 years.
The historian says it’s one of the biggest controversies surrounding a governor-general since John Kerr caused a constitutional crisis by sacking Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975. Prof Hocking famously fought for transparency around that matterwaging a lengthy and costly legal battle that culminated in the release of Mr Kerr’s correspondence with the Queen. And she says the same transparency is needed here. The Australian public need to know whether Mr Hurley counselled the prime minister against the moves, and why he didn’t disclose them himself.
So does Governor-General David Hurley have questions to answer, or is he just collateral damage? ‘Just paperwork’ Governors-general have fulfilled the practical duties as Australia’s head of state since the country’s 1901 federation. Candidates for the role were initially chosen by the monarch but are now recommended by the Australian government.Thejob is largely ceremonial - a governor-general in almost every circumstance must act on the advice of the government of the day. But conventions allow them the right to “encourage” and “warn” politicians.
Key duties include signing bills into law, issuing writs for elections, and swearing in ministers. Mr Hurley has run into trouble on the latter. At Mr Morrison’s request, he swore the prime minister in as joint minister for health in March 2020, in case the existing minister became incapacitated by Covid.
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull - Mr Morrison’s predecessorhas also voiced support for an inquiry. “Something has gone seriously wrong at Government House,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.“Itisthe passive compliance along the chain… that did undermine our constitution and our democracy… that troubles me the most. This is how tyranny gets under way.”
Women wearing hijabs (Muslim headscarves) are being discriminated against by businesses in Egypt, a BBC Arabic investigation has discovered.Theevidence appears to violate Egypt’s constitution, which bans discrimination based on religion, sex, race or social class. Since 2015, some Egyptian women wearing a hijab have taken to social media to complain about such treatment.
On hijabi lifestyle social media groups, BBC News Arabic found what appears to be a growing trend, with women accusing numerous venues of refusing them entry if they are wearing a hijab.“In most cases the main cause is classism,” Nada Nashat, a lawyer and women’s rights activist, said. “So we find discrimination against hijabi women in venues that like to present themselves as uppermiddle or upper class. “But we also find discrimination against non-hijabi women in lower and middle classes.”BBC News Arabic tried to make a reservation at 15 upmarket venues across Cairo that had been accused online of discriminating against hijab-wearing women. Most of the venues asked for the social media profiles of all guests and 11 venues stated that head coverings were not allowed. We sent an undercover married couple, with the woman wearing a hijab, to some of the venues that told us that hijabwearing women were not allowed entry.At L’Aubergine in the upmarket neighbourhood of Zamalek, the doorman immediately told the couple that the headscarf was forbidden as they had a bar inside, and that this might offend women wearing a hijab. The manager too was adamant, saying: “The headscarf is forbidden.”Whenpresented with our recorded evidence, L’Aubergine told us it was “inaccurate” and that refusing women who wear the hijab is not a house rule, adding: “We denounce it.” The venue also told us: “We have reiterated our house policies to staff to avoid any confusion in the future.” At Kazan, in the same neighbourhood, the couple was once again told by the doormen: “The problem is the headscarf.” When asked why, they simply stated: “This is the house rules.”
At the final venue, Andiamo in Heliopolis, the couple was initially refused entry. After appealing, they were told they could enter but would have to sit in a corner as the manager said: “It’s a ministry of tourism instruction, and if they find any hijabi woman beside the bar, they’ll fine us.”
Discrimination based on religion or social class is barred by the constitution in Egypt Mayar Omar says she has repeatedly been refused entry to venues
Over the next 14 months, he also signed off Mr Morrison as an additional minister in the finance, treasury, home affairs and resources portfolios. Mr Morrison already had ministerial powers, so Mr Hurley was basically just giving him authority over extraIt’sdepartments.arequestthe governor-general “would not have any kind of power to override or reject”, constitutional law professor Anne Twomey tells the BBC. “This wasn’t even a meeting between the prime minister and the governorgeneral, it was just paperwork.”
But Mr Morrison’s appointments were not publicly announced, disclosed to the parliament, or even communicated to most of the ministers he was job-sharing with. Australia’s solicitor-general found Mr Morrison’s actions were not illegal but had “fundamentally undermined” responsible government. But the governor-general had done
An executive at a multinational company told BBC News Arabic how he had contacted several property brokers to buy a property at La Vista, but that they told him: “Sorry, La Vista are a bit difficult regarding the hijab.” BBC News Arabic contacted six property brokers, posing as a buyer whose wife wears a hijab and who wanted to buy a unit at a La Vista coastal project. They told us it would not be possible to purchase a unit. One told our undercover reporter: “Can I speak to you frankly? Definitely look for an alternative.”Another went even further, stating: “To be frank with you, regarding the North Coast and Sokhna projects, they are discriminatory.”Onebrokerexplained how the process worked. “They will not say that we won’t sell you a unit, but they will say that this project you have selected is closed now and when it’s open, we will call you, and they Whenwon’t.”ourundercover reporter phoned La Vista stating that his wife wore a hijab, he was told he would be put on a waiting list and there were no properties available.Several weeks later he visited the La Vista office but this time didn’t say that his wife wore a hijab. He was told there were property units available immediately and when he asked what kind of people lived there, the agent told him: “The idea is that all the people we have look like each other.” She stated that one La Vista development “has no veiled women at all”. La Vista has not yet responded to requests for comment.
more than a year after the first, so clearly by then the governor-general did know that they weren’t being made public,” she says. “I don’t agree for a moment that the governor-general has a lot of things on his plate and might not have noticed.”
“We also express our profound appreciation to His Excellency, the President, for his wonderful support he has given to TETFund. With the effect from this year, TETFund is now getting 2 and half per cent not two per cent as education tax, and Mr President has assured us that before he leaves, before the end of his administration, it will get to three per cent,” Echono said. Earlier, the governor, who lavished praise on TETFund for the various intervention projects in Nasarawa State University and other public tertiary institutions in his state, commended Echono and his predecessor, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, for ensuring that the university benefited from high impact projects and other regular interventions.
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“After I assumed office as governor, I visited here and I told him I need your help. I want to introduce the faculty of engineering and faculty of medicine at the Nasarawa State University but we don’t have the money.... “We got the high impact and we were able to set up the faculties of medicine and engineering in Nasarawa State University. So, I thank the management of TETFund for the support we received...“Secondly, when I came in, we look at the courses we have in Nasarawa polytechnic, now Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic, and we did not have one single accreditation on technical course, and I said we cannot be a polytechnic because polytechnic means many technical.
The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) said it would upscale e-learning in 400 schools in nine Local Government Areas of Kebbi State.Mr Isa Usman-Sokoto, UNICEF Representative in Kebbi State, made the disclosure at the presentation of computers, radio sets and first aid kits to Kebbi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital.
The UNICEF Representative said the essence of the intervention was to reduce the number of outof-school children by creating enabling environment for the children to have access to stay in school and move to the next level of learning and completing their education circle. “We didn’t stop there, we looked at how to improve teaching and learning to really take place in our intervening schools and other schools that we have not intervened.“Thishas been done through series of training, through the methodology and modern approach of teaching,” he said. While assuring that primary education was very sensitive, Usman-Sokoto stressed the need to have all hands on deck to ensure the attainment of desired goals and Receivingobjectives.the items, the Executive Chairman, KBSUBEB, Prof. Suleiman Khalid , commented UNICEF for the gesture and assured that it would be judiciously put to use. He described UNICEF as a dependable development partner, adding that it was not just about the tangible materials donated, but it was about the best practices they always bring in providing support to improve teaching and learning.Khalid said the organisation had brought state-of-theart teaching and learning methodologies, assuring that the state would key into the new innovation for the good of the pupils and the state. The chairman recalled that COVID-19 had taught the world a great lesson, saying, “in view of that, it shows that there is no alternative to e-learning.”
“We are intervening in 400 schools in nine local government areas, UNICEF cannot do everything, but we can complement the efforts of government.“Wearegoing to distribute 80 computers because the world is not only becoming a global village, it is now becoming a global hamlet. We want somebody to learn what is in Lagos , while he is at Gwandu or Danko Wasago or Argungu.”
ICT firm debunks report on alleged award of N289.8m JAMB’s contract
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Solutions in all sectors of the economy globally. “We hereby state in strong terms that this allegation is false, illfounded, a blatant lie from faceless individuals with fictitious addresses.Thisreport has caused our company serious embarrassment as such we have instructed our lawyers to take appropriate legal action.“Our journalists should at all times report verified facts and not fakeWenews.therefore request that the general public should therefore ignore this mischievous, wicked and very unfortunate reportage in our collective quest to fight corruption and fraud.”
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“We did not have accreditation, and we realized the reason for that was that we did not have some workshops, buildings, and others. and I came for assistance from TETFund and today we have four technical courses,” the governor said.While saying that Nasarawa State still wants more from TETFund in order to meet the developmental needs of the state, Governor Sule expressed the wish that education tax would be reviewed to four per cent to ensure more robust performance from the Fund.He, however, expressed satisfaction with President Buhari’s move to ensure increment of the education tax to three per cent by next year.
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By Maryam Abeeb An Information Communicationand Technology (ICT) firm, International Control System (ICS), has dismissed report by an online newspaper which alleged that it was awarded a N289.8 million contract to supply office stationeries to Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). ICS, which dismissed the report that called for a probe of JAMB over the purported contract, said it has instructed its lawyers to institute legal action against the authors of the embarrassing report. A statement issued by the company and signed by Fidelis Okpala, which was made available to newsmen in Abuja, said it is an aberration for a renowned IT company to be involved in the supply of office stationeries in this present era of digital transformation.Thecompany’s statement was titled: ‘Refutal on the alleged award of contract for the supply of office stationeries worth N289,859,700 VAT inclusive, to International Control System on 14th June and May 14th 2021 which worth was over (N18,984,420.84) by JAMB’. It reads : “The attention of the management of International Control Systems Limited, an IT Solutions and Services provider, has been drawn to an article recently published exclusively by an online media platform titled ‘:”EXCLUSIVE: Anti – graft Agency, ICPC To Probe Education Agency...JAMB”.“Itwasalleged in the said article that a contract for the supply of office stationeries worth (N289,859,700) VAT inclusive was awarded to International Control Systems on 14th June and May 14th, 2021 which worth was over (N18, 984, 420. 84) signed by one Mufutua A. Bello. “This is a very malicious and false allegation as International Control Systems Limited was not awarded any contract of the alleged amounts to supply office stationeries. It is indeed an aberration for a renowned IT Company to be involved in the supply of office stationeries in this era of Digital Transformation
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it will commence the construction of its North-Central zonal office in Nasarawa State, in January 2023. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known during a courtesy visit to the Fund by Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State on Thursday in Abuja. Echono, who expressed delight over the tremendous impact of TETFund intervention projects in tertiary education institutions in Nasarawa State, said the zonal office would bring beneficiary institutions in the North-Central region closer to the Fund. He expressed appreciation to the governor for allocating land for the construction of the north central zonal office. “Your Excellency graciously approved and allocated land to us as the North Central zonal office. We plan to commence construction in January 2023. It will afford us the opportunity to get closer to beneficiaries of our intervention projects,” Echono said. While expressing readiness of TETFund to reposition public tertiary education institutions for better performance, Echono lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for his massive support for the Fund, which has seen an upward review of education tax to two and half percent.
Usman-Sokoto described the donation as a commitment of UNICEF to ensure that children received both qualitative and quantitative education in their respective primary schools as well as Integrated Quranic Schools. He noted with satisfaction that visits to such schools showed that pupils could now read, write and even solve simple arithmetic , unlike wahat was obtained before.
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TETFund to commence North Central Zonal Office In Nasarawa
W estern countries are trying to cut the amount of Russian oil and gas they import following the invasion of Ukraine in February. How much Russian gas does Europe use? Russia supplied the EU with 40% of its natural gas lastGermany,year. Europe’s largest economy, was the largest importer in 2020, followed by Italy.In2021, the UK imported 4% of its needs from Russia, and in June this year,imported no Russian gas for the third month in a row. The US doesn’t import any gas from However,Russia.they are affected when Russia restricts supplies to mainland Europe, as this causes global gas prices to rise.It is also burning off an unusually large amount of gas from a plant near the start of the pipeline,although it is not clearWhatwhy. sanctions are in place on Russian gas? The EU says it will cut gas imports from Russia by twothirds within a year, but has stopped short of a total ban. To help reach its goal, member states have agreed to cut gas usage by 15% over the next seven However,months.there’s doubt over where the EU will find alternative supplies, and may need to ship in liquefied natural gas (LNG) in tankers from producers like the US andHowever,Qatar. energy advisor Kate Dourian says that “there aren’t enough LNG terminals in Europe. This will be a problem for Germany, particularly.”How has Russia responded?President Vladimir Putin has demanded that “unfriendly” nations in Europe pay for gas in Russian roubles. This helps support the value of Russia’s currency. Poland, Bulgaria and Finland refused to do so and Russia cut off their supplies. Several European energy companies are paying for gas via Russian bank accounts, which convert euros into roubles. They insist those payments are in line with sanctions.WillEurope run short of oil?The EU has agreed to ban all Russian oil imports which come in by sea by the end of thisItyear.will allow oil to continue to be imported by pipeline, as a “temporary measure” because countries like Hungary and Slovakia depend on it. The US has declared a complete ban on Russian oil imports, and the volume of oil imports by the UK has fallen sharply in the last year. Some European nations could have their oil supplies squeezed by the ban. Lithuania and Finland got about 80% of their oil from Russia in November last year, the latest data available. However, EU countries can buy oil from other producers.TheIEA - a club of oil importing countries - has released 120m barrels-worth of crude from their stocks, and President Biden ordered a major release of oil from America’s“Nationsreserves.likeSaudi Arabia might start putting more oil onto the world market later in the year, and there could be more supplies from the US,” says Kate Dourian. Will sanctions work? Helped by soaring energy prices, Russia received an estimated €400bn ($430bn, £341bn) over the past year from oil and gas exports to Europe.The EU says its latest sanctions could cut the amount of oil it buys from Russia by 90%. However, this will take months to come into full effect, and even then Russia will be able to sell oil elsewhere in the world. India and China have both been buying more Russian crude in recent months because its price has dropped. What will happen to my heating and fuel bills? Consumers are facing rising energy and fuel bills as sanctions on Russian energy kickHeatingin. prices are likely to increase even further if Russian gas exports to Europe are restricted. In the UK, household energy bills have been kept in check by an energy price cap. But bills rose £700 to about £2,000 in April when the cap was increased. They will hit more than £3,500 for a typical household from 1 October when the cap goes up again. UK petrol and diesel prices have also soared, and the government has announced a cut in fuel duty as motorists struggle with record prices.
Russia sanctions: Can the world cope without its oil and gas?
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A key Russian gas pipeline is to close at the end of August for three days, further reducing supplies as European countries struggle with high energy prices.
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“We met and discussed succesess and progress of our party. We equally showcased some of the problems and challenges aimed at proffering solutions towards attaining successes at all levels comes 2023 elections,” he said.According to him, as closest to the voting population their roles are very vital in driving or mobilising for the overall success of the APC at any given election.
The governor also assured his maximum support towards achiveing victories during the 2023 generalGovernorelections. Badaru said legislators are important grasssroots mobilisers in any given democratic settings. This was contained in press release issued by the Public Relation Officer of Northern Nigeria State Assembly Forum (NNSAF) and a serving Chief Whip of Katsina State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdul-Jalal Haruna Runka yesterday. He said Governor Badaru, made the statement, Sunday, while responding to the , under the APC, on a courtesy visit at his Kano residence.“TheAPC is mindful of the fact, and importance of State Assembly members as good drivers and mobilisers at the grassroot level.
By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja T he Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) said it has signed a partnership deal with Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST), a Turkish energy firm, to ramp up energy generation andInsupply.astatement over the weekend, the trading company said the cooperation agreement was signed at EXIST’s campus in Maslak, Turkey. It said the signing ceremony was witnessed by Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, who doubles as chairman, board of directors, NBET; Nnaemeka Ewelukwa, chief executive officer (CEO), NBET, and Ahmet Türkoğlu, chief executive officer (CEO), EXIST.The statement added that the partnership was designed to explore mutually beneficial opportunities for growth between both“Theagencies.cooperation agreement covers the transfer of experience and business knowledge, and the design of a functional trading structure for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI),” it said. With the partnership, NBET said the NESI can leverage the EXIST experience towards the design and implementation of policy frameworks that will ramp up energy solutions to the manufacturing sector and other vital economic sectors towards increasing Nigeria’s GDP and improving the living conditions of its“Thepeople.agreement also aims to liberalize the current market in Nigeria; simultaneously, for the cooperation, the parties have agreed to establish a partnership to support the optimisation of NBET’s current energy portfolio and identify sustainable means to scale up energy generation and supply in Nigeria,” the statement added.
”We urge motorists to desist from driving against the traffic. They should avoid route violation and strictly obey traffic rules,” he said. He said that accidents and gridlock could be avoided if motorists and other road users obeyed traffic rules.
2023: State legislators key to APC victory - Gov. Badaru
People’s democratic party (PDP) deputy Governor Candidate, Dr. John Ayuba,- Presenting a Certificate to New Elected Thumb Revolution Movement (TRM) Executive Member, Abigail Johnson,- and State Thumb Revolution Movement, Coordinator, Abubakar Ahmad,- during the Thumb Revolution Movement (TRM) Inaugurated 13 State Executives Ahead of 2023 General election in kaduna on Sunday 28/8/22
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”Motorists need to be patient. The road has been demarcated and the lanes narrowed. ”We need patience and cooperation with FRSC personnel for effective traffic flow,” he said. ((NAN)
FRSC cautions against traffic violation
The Forum Chairman, Hon. Aliyu A. Aliyi, had informed Governor Badaru, that they held their second meeting wherein, some problems and challenges of the APC were looked into.
”The ongoing construction work by Julius Berger is actually affecting traffic flow on the expressway.Wedon’t have to compound it.
“Concerning areas of cooperation, the parties also agreed to ensure knowledge development and share crossvisits to learn from each other’s experiences. Both parties have committed to further research and development in relevant areas that are beneficial for enhancing the energy sector in Nigeria.”Thestatement further said EXIST would also assist “NBET in the design and implementation strategy and plan that would enable optimal bulk electricity trading that adopts a least cost trading model for energy efficiency”.
”This attitude is causing heavy traffic jam on the road, causing road users to spend long hours on the ”Routeroad. violation by motorists not only causes traffic jams, it makes our work more difficult.
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“I am highly honoured that your forum deemed it worthy to pay a visit. “I am equally assuring you that we will do all the best at ensuring that your forum is carried along towards attaining the desired victories in the forthcoming 2023 general elections,” he said.
Yobe State majority leader, Hon. Bukar Mustapha, also treasurer of the Forum, told Governor Badaru, that they purposefully, visited him as one of the elders and shakers of the APC, to acquaint him with their nobleHeideas.appreciated Governor Badaru’s statesmanship, foresights and efforts at moving the APC to greaterHon.heights.Adamu Aliyu, from Plateau State also commended Gov. Badaru, for his unshaking commitment to the advancement of the APC.
From Mustapha Adamu, Kano Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, has described serving members, candidates and ex-members of State Houses of Assembly, under the All Progressives Congress (APC) as key to the victory of the party in 2023 elections.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun has cautioned motorists plying the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway against violating traffic rules. The Sector Commander, Mr Ahmed Umar gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ota on Sunday.Heexpressed worry that some motorists plying the expressway violated the one-way restriction.
2023 CHAN Qualifiers: Nigeria Match Officials Listed For Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso match
A part from Nigeria’s Super Eagles team B taking part in the 2023 Championship of African Nations qualifiers, match officials from the country will also be in Accordingaction. to the update from CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt indicated that Nigeria’s Joseph Ogabor will be the Centre Referee for the clash between Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Celestine Efosa Igudia will serve as Assistant Referee 1 and Hope Igho as an Assistant Referee 11 while Abdulsalam Kazim from Zamfara State will work as 4th official. The match is slated for Stade De Stadium in Yamoussoukro on Sunday while the second leg will come up in Quadadougou the capital of Burkina Faso. Abuja International Marathon sign more elite runners, add 10km Fun Run
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Determined to achieve its objective of becoming the first full marathon in Nigeria to have an elite field that will run a sub 2hrs: 10 mins, the Abuja International Marathon has signed more elite runners for its inaugural race slated for December 17, 2022. In a statement signed by Race Director Olukayode Thomas, the Abuja International Marathon Managing Director Zsuzsanna Ogunmiloyo disclosed that the December 17 race will also include a 10 km fun race apart from the full marathon which will start at the City Gate and take runners through the most beautiful parts of Abuja and the 5km race for youths and children in their early teens. According to Ogunmiloyo, the newly signed elite runners are Emmanuel Naibei with a personal best of 2:08:27, Josphat Kiprop Kiptis with a personal best of 2:13:47, and Benard Sang with a personal best of They2:10:59.alsoinclude two women Beatrice Cherop with a personal best of 2:31:07 and Esther Macharia with a personal best of 2:27:15 Earlier, Ogunmiloyo confirmed the signing of four gold labelled runners: two men and two women they are Andrew Kimtai, who boasts a personal best of 2:08 32. Gilbert Masai, with a personal best of 2:09:49, h two female runners, Caroline Jepchirchir with a personal best of 2:26 and Naomi Maiyo with a personal best of 2:30.Ogunmiloyo who was in Birmingham, England for the 2022 Commonwealth to support the Team Nigeria contingent said discussions are ongoing with some Nigeria elite athletes who won medals and global acclaim at the Commonwealth Games to be part of the Abuja International Marathon.
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‘’The weeks leading to the Abuja International Marathon will be a celebration of the best of Nigeria sports. Apart from the Marathon Expo which starts December 1 and ends December 16, we have so many other activities which include elite athletes from Nigeria and other parts of the world organizing clinics for pupils from schools in different parts of FCT.We are going to celebrate the best of FCT and a lot of positives about Nigeria,’’ About 200 elite runners will participate in the Abuja International, 80 from different parts of the world and 120 from Nigeria,‘’We are working closely with the High Altitude Club of Jos and other elite running clubs in Nigeria. Our aim is to see Nigerians excel in middle distance races, long distance, road races, marathons, and other aspects of athletics not only in Nigeria but worldwide.Wehave the to achieve and the dream of Unicentral Resources Generation Limited, the licensee of Abuja International Marathon, is ensuring we achieved that potential soon’’ said Ogunmiloyo.
Paul E Football Club sign partnership agreement with Romanian outfit
An Abuja based Football Club Paul E Football Club at the weekend signed a partnership agreement with a Romanian based outfit Best Sports GM International. The agreement which was endorsed by Cristian Hossu, the Chief Executive Officer of the organization and the President of Paul E Football Club Chikebebe Somtochukwu is aimed at properly positioning the Academy in empowering young players in the club in the round leather game. According to the President of Paul E FC, Chikebebe Somtochukwu, the Romania outfit which is a FIFA Licensed agent with links with various clubs in Europe and beyond. “There outfit would assist our young players will add value to what we are doing in the Academy” He said that the scout was in Nigeria recently where he was able to see the abundance of talents that are bound in the country, and believed that the scout will help in placing the players into various clubs.Mr. Somtochukwu said his team organized a scouting program which involved include Jay 1 Academy, Camp Utd, Paul E Club , Gamji Sports, Future Guarantee and Hamada Academy. The program took place on 19 August.
Bassey Helps Ajax UtrechtAfterUnbeatenMaintainRunWinAt
“I am very happy to sign here. Saint-Étienne has a rich history and becoming a member of this great is cleally incredible. It is also a major step in my career, as I dream of playing in France since I was little. Today, a different experience and a new challenge are in front of me. I am looking forward to training, playing and having an impact on the results of the team,” Yewande said. The lanky goalkeeper made her Super Falcons debut in the year 2021.
French Feminine side St Etienne has announced the acquisition of Nigeria’s Super Falcons goalkeeper Yewande Balogun. Born in Washington, D.C. Yewande trained at the University of Maryland and signed her professional contract with Ottawa (Canada) in 2009, then played for Washington Freedom (2010) then Chesapeake Charge (2011) before playing the next seven seasons with Youngbloods FC where they were crowned Champion of the Amateur League in 2017. She wore the jersey of the American national teams very early on representing them from the U14 to U20 category before switching allegiance to Nigeria.
“This Saturday, Yewande Balogun signed up for AS Saint-Étienne. The Nigerian international joins the SaintEtienne Division 2 squad and offers Laurent Mortel a second profile for the position of goalkeeper,” the club said.
2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifier: Côte d’Ivoire Beat D’Tigers
The Nigeria’s D’Tigers started their campaign in the fourth window of the 2023 FIBA African Word Cup qualifier on a losing note on Friday. They started their campaign in the qualifier against the host Ivory Coast and it ended in defeat for the Nigeria side. Despite the dominance of the host, the first quarter ended in 1414 but the Ivorians began to show their superiority in the second quarter and by halftime they are leading by D’Tigers42-36.tried to recover in the third quarter but the Ivorians still claimed a 60-52 win before securing the game in the last quarter 78-66 points. Josh Okogie recorded the highest points for Nigeria 23 points and 10 rebounds while Chimezie Metu has 20 points and 11 rebounds.D’Tigers will play Guinea on Saturday in their second group match.
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Super Falcons Goalkeeper Joins French St Etienne Super Eagles left-back Calvin Bassey was in action for Ajax who defeated Utrecht 2-0 away in the Dutch Eredivisie yesterday.Theresult means Ajax have so far won all their four league games of the season. Bassey who joined Ajax from Scottish giants Rangers, featured for 90 minutes in the encounter. First half goals from Steven Berghuis and Brian Brobbey secured the win for the Eredivisie champions.Berghuis opened scoring in the 10th minute before Brobbey added the second goal in one minute of first half added time. Ajax are top in the 18-team league table after four league games played, just two points above second placed Feyenoord. It was not the best of debuts for Bassey as he was shown a straight red card in Ajax’s 5-3 loss to PSV in the Dutch Super Cup.
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Italian Serie A club Atalanta have signed Nigeria winger Ademola Lookman from German Bundesliga side RB Leipzig for an undisclosed fee. The 24-year-old former England youth international, who scored eight goals in 42 appearances on loan at Leicester City last season, has agreed a four-year contract. After struggling to settle down in Germany, Lookman, who spent the 2020-21 campaign on loan at Fulham, says he is “happy to find a new home” in the northern Italian city of Bergamo. An Under-20 World Cup winner with England in 2017, he switched international allegiance to Nigeria, the country of his parents, in February. The former Charlton Athletic and Everton player scored five times in 24 appearance for RB Leipzig after moving to Germany for a fee of £22.5m in 2019. Rise to the top Lookman joined Charlton’s academy in 2014 and made a rapid rise through the ranks before his first-team debut in November 2015. Over two seasons, he went on to feature 49 times in all competitions for the Addicks, scoring 12 goals, before signing for Everton on a four-and-ahalf-year-deal in January 2017. He scored four goals in 48 appearances for the Toffees, before enjoying a brief loan spell with RB Leipzig in the 2017-18 season which led to a permanent five-year deal in July 2019.
Indeed President Muhammadu Buhari had times without number underscored the importance of unity and peace of the country no matter our differences and challenges. Peace and unity of the country at all costs must not be compromised especially in view of the fact that they are the bedrock and building blocks of progress, growth and development.Thereisno gainsaying the fact that our politicians must resist the temptation of their self centredness to reincarnate another civil war in the country. Should that happen today, Nigeria will face its worst times in itsNigerianshistory. must therefore as a matter of fact try and avoid actions that are capable of generating tensions which may further degenerate into a full blown war. Ilallah wrote in from Emeka ANYAOKU street, musahk123@yahoo.comAbuja
Buhari’s caution against civil unrest
Lookman has four caps for three-time African champions Nigeria and scored his first international goal in the record 10-0 win over Sao Tome e Principe in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in June.
F or the purpose of refreshing our memory, it’s important we begin this discussion by taking a look at what Nigeria’s Civil War was all about.TheNigerian Civil War, which began on 6th July 1967 and ended on 15th January 1970, is also referred to the NigerianBiafran War. It was a civil war fought between the government of Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigerian side was led by General Yakubu Gowon, while Biafra was led by late Lt. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu.TheUnited Kingdom and the Soviet Union were the main supporters of the Nigerian government, while France, Israel and some other countries supported Biafra.
The United States’ official position was one of neutrality, considering Nigeria as ‘a responsibility of Britain’, but some interpret the refusal by USA to recognize Biafra, as one favouring the Nigerian government.Speaking against the background of personal involvement in the war as a senior military officer and one of the frontline commanders on the Nigerian side, President Buhari had in the strongest terms ever, warned politicians “never to allow the self-centeredness that led to the loss of about a million lives during the 1966- 1970 Civil War, repeat itself in the country.”President Buhari gave this warning while granting audience to former state Chairmen of his defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC which went into coalition to form the now ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in 2014.Noting that the defunct party was founded on the bedrock of patriotism and loyalty to the unity of Nigeria, the President used the opportunity to urge political leaders to remain focused and uphold the ultimate objective of promoting interest of the country at all times. Noting that the passion and zeal for improving the livelihood of Nigerians which culminated in creation of the CPC, had not dwindled, Buhari called for more steadfastness, adding: “We are Nigerians; God willing, “ It is therefore not in doubt that as one of the commanders of the civil war on the Nigerian side, PMB is a living example of a first hand executer of the cost and consequences of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war.
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In furtherance of his desire to consolidate attempts to further unify the country, PMB stated: “We shall remain resolute to continue to deliver on the promises we made to Nigerians, and to ensure that we attain greater milestones in terms of economic growth, infrastructural development, provision of security, and the war against corruption, among other responsibilities of government.”
