Author: Ishaku Yohanna

NCC warns against illegal use of GSM boosters

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigerian Communication Commission has warned telecom consumers to desist from using illegal GSM boosters. The commission published this on its website on Tuesday. According to the notice signed by the commission’s spokesperson, Ikechukwu Adinde, only licensed network operators are allowed to use GSM boosters. GSM boosters are devices that transmit and receive telecommunications signals and can therefore interfere with other radio frequency equipment. The booster, also known as amplifier or repeater is made up of three main elements – exterior antenna, amplifier, and interior antenna. They form a wireless…

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Fuel Hike: Nigerian Nurses, Midwives serve strike notice

Ishaku Yohanna

The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum within which to reverse the increase in the price of fuel and electricity tariff or face an indefinite strike action. This was the outcome of its communique issued by the Central Working Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress held in Abuja on Wednesday. The NANNM expressed these decisions in the directive signed by its General Secretary, T.A. Shettima, issued to its State chairmen and Secretaries and sent to journalists in Abuja on Thursday.…

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Bandits kill DPO, Inspector, abduct housewives in Sokoto village

Ishaku Yohanna

Suspected bandits have killed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Gidan Madi police station in Tangaza local government area of Sokoto state. The Nation learned the incident happened on Wednesday night. The gunmen also killed another police officer said to be the DPO’s orderly before abducting two wives of a prominent businessman in the area. According to a source, the marauders struck around 1.am. The policemen were ambushed and killed while trying to rescue the abductees. Another account said the bandits first stormed the station, killed the DPO, and one…

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Why we arrested Zamfara APC politician – Police

Ishaku Yohanna

The police in Zamfara State on Thursday said an opposition politician in the state, Habu Dan-Tabawa, was arrested by officers after he held a meeting with repentant bandits at his residence in Gusau, the state’s capital on Saturday . Mr Dan-Tabawa, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has since been released alongside 17 others taken into custody from the event. He had said the arrest was politically-motivated. But the police commissioner in the state, Usman Nagogo, at a press conference in Gusau on Thursday, said the police had…

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About 900,000 people living with HIV/AIDs in Nigeria unaccounted for – Group

Ishaku Yohanna

A non-governmental organisation, the Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN), says about 900,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS in the country are yet to show up for treatment and are currently unaccounted for. The Executive Secretary of CiSHAN, Walter Ugwocha, said this in Abuja at a virtual media round table for the commencement of the national campaign for HIV self-testing in the country. “Out of the 1.9 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, about 900,000 are yet to show up for treatment and are currently unaccounted for,” he said.…

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Despite BVN, FG asks bank account holders to register again

Ishaku Yohanna

The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed Nigerians with accounts in any financial institutions to obtain complete and submit Self – Certification Forms to their respective financial institutions. The financial institutions comprise of banks, insurance companies and others. The forms, according to a tweet thread from the verified account of the Government of Nigeria explained that the forms are required by the relevant financial institutions to carry out due diligence procedures in line with the Income Tax Regulations 2019. The federal government said individuals who hold accounts in different financial…

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UNILAG Crisis: Babalakin resigns as Pro-Chancellor, accuses FG’s visitation panel of bias

Ishaku Yohanna

Dr. Wale Babalakin, Pro-Chancellor, University of Lagos, UNILAG has stepped down from the position citing bias from the Federal Government’s Visitation Panel. Babalakin-led Governing Council had sacked the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe from office over alleged corruption and others. Ogundipe took the matter to court and the Federal Government had to wade in by setting up a Visitation Panel to look into the crisis rocking the institution. The panel has submitted its report. But Babalakin resigned his appointment as Pro-Chancellor, thanking President Muhammadu Buhari for giving him the opportunity…

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Chinese Loans: Reps move to amend Treaties and agreement Act, decry draconian clauses

Ishaku Yohanna

The House of Representatives has commenced moves to subject all agreements entered into by the Nigerian government with foreign countries or companies to proper legal scrutiny before they become effective in the country. The House is worried by the draconian clauses discovered in the Chinese loan agreements, especially those ceding sovereignty of the country. A bill to repeal the Treaties Act of 2004 and replace it with a Treaties Act 2020 which will make the Ministry of Justice a depository of all Treaties and agreement and subject them the approval…

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I’m committed to free, fair election in Edo, says Buhari

Ishaku Yohanna

President Muhammadu Buhari has advised political parties, candidates and security agents to behave responsibly in the forthcoming Edo State gubernatorial elections. The president in a message to voters, political parties, election officials and security personnel, reiterated his stance that, “I am passionately committed to free and fair elections, but my own commitment is not enough if other actors at ground zero refuse to abide by the rules.” According to President Buhari, “I want to see democratic standards in the country raised higher at every level, but these cannot be achieved…

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Nigeria has always been divided – Femi Adesina

Ishaku Yohanna

Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, said Buhari inherited a terribly divided country from his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, in 2015. Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Wednesday Adesina said the division in the country predates the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. He was reacting to comments made by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and Wole Soyinka, playwright and Nobel laureate, who said that Nigeria is more divided than ever before. But defending the president, Adesina described Nigeria as an inconvenient amalgamation which has always been…

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