Author: Ishaku Yohanna

N2.67bn school feeding fraud: Humanitarian Ministry not involved, says ICPC

Ishaku Yohanna

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has clarified that the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, did not divert N2.67 billion for school feeding as alleged by some publications. Spokesperson of the ICPC, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, in a statement on Tuesday said that the commission chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, was misquoted and urged the public to disregard such publication. The statement said: “The attention of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has been drawn to some reports…

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Buhari inaugurates Itakpe-Warri rail line today

Ishaku Yohanna

President Muhammadu Buhari will inaugurate the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri standard gauge train and flag-off commercial train services on Tuesday (today). The federal ministry of transportation tweeted on Monday that Buhari will also inaugurate the Itakpe-Warri railway ancillary facility yard. According to the ministry, the event will take place at Goodluck Jonathan railway complex, Agbor (Owa-Oyibo), Delta state. Fidet Okhiria, managing director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), on Sunday, said Buhari will not be physically present but will conduct the inauguration virtually. Okhiria said Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, will lead other…

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Mali crisis: Jonathan, Buhari meet, suggests next action

Ishaku Yohanna

Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the behest of their Chairman, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, may confer again to discuss outstanding grey areas in the Mali political situation, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated. The President spoke after receiving a briefing at the State House, Abuja on Monday, from the ECOWAS Special Envoy to Mali, former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan. Mali has appointed a civilian as Interim President, who will stay in office for 18 months, and lead the country…

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CSOs protest against suspension of strike by NLC, TUC

Ishaku Yohanna

A Coalition of Civil Society Groups in Delta State have lambasted the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC for suspending its planned nationwide strike action which was billed to take place on Monday, September 28. The CSO’s spoke at a peaceful protest at the Ebrumede roundabout in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. They registered their displeasure at the NLC and also condemned the hike in petrol and electricity tariff as well as the Water Resources Bill pending before the National Assembly, which they termed “Government’s Anti-People Policies”. They also dissociated…

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ICPC traces N2.67bn school feeding funds to private accounts

Ishaku Yohanna

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Monday revealed that it has uncovered a whopping N2.67 billion payment made to some federal colleges for school feeding during the lockdown when children were not in school, which ended up in personal accounts. The Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, who stated this at the 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption with the theme: “Together Against Corruption and Launch of the National Ethics and Integrity Policy”said preliminary investigation had indicated that part of the N2.67billion was diverted to…

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Kaduna insecurity: Gunmen kill one, abduct Council Chairman

Ishaku Yohanna

The Chairman of Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Dr. Katuka Humble, has been reportedly abducted by gunmen. Sources said the incident occurred on Sunday as he was being conveyed on a bike to his farm, located somewhere around Kiduni village in Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The bandits were said to have opened fire on them, killing the bike man on the spot, before taking the council boss. “The chairman was kidnapped on his way to the farm on Sunday. The farm is located somewhere around…

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Kano blasphemy: UN experts call for ‘immediate’ release of convicted musician

Ishaku Yohanna

The United Nations human rights experts have called on Nigerian authorities to immediately release a 22-year-old singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, sentenced to death over an allegedly blasphemous song shared on social media. The experts made the call on Monday in a joint statement titled ‘UN rights experts urge Nigeria to overturn death sentence for singer who shared song on WhatsApp’. “We are deeply concerned over the serious lack of due process in Sharif-Aminu’s case so far, especially reports that he has been held incommunicado and that he did not have access…

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Sex-toy shop assault: Court orders Senator Abbo to pay N50m compensation

Ishaku Yohanna

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday ordered a serving Senator, Elisha Abbo, to pay the sum of N50 million as compensation to Mrs Osimibibra Warmate for assaulting her last year. Justice Samira Bature gave the order in her judgment on the fundamental rights enforcement suit instituted by Warmate against the senator. Premium Times had on July 3, 2019, reported how the lawmaker was caught on camera physically assaulting a woman in Abuja, two months after he allegedly committed the act. In the video, Abbo was…

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Why APC lost Edo election – Odigie-Oyegun

Ishaku Yohanna

Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said he did not take part in the party’s campaigns before the just concluded Edo State elections. The former national chairman of the APC attributed the loss in the contest to democracy at play, saying the people voted in line with their conscience as against impunity and imposition of a candidate at the primaries. Speaking to reporters in Benin City, the state capital, Oyegun said “I cannot support injustice” and will only do what his conscience doesn’t…

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Executive Order 10: Nigerian Governors drag Buhari to Supreme Court

Ishaku Yohanna

President Muhammadu Buhari has been dragged to Supreme Court by thirty six state governors (36) over his Presidential Executive Order No. 00-10 of 2020 signed in May, 2020. The states averred that the executive order Buhari signed had pushed the Federal Government’s responsibility of funding both the capital and recurrent expenditures of the State High Courts, Sharia Court of Appeal and the Customary Court of Appeal, to the state governments. They equally argued that except paying the salaries of judicial officers of the above mentioned courts, Buhari had since 5th…

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