Author: Ishaku Yohanna

Kidnappers free four FRSC officers, retain six others

Ishaku Yohanna

The Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed that four of its personnel who were abducted by bandits on Monday had been rescued with the help of other security agencies. The Corps Public Education Officer, ACM Bisi Kazeem, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja. 26 personnel of FRSC were reportedly attacked while traveling from Sokoto and Kebbi States Command of the Corps for a training programme at FRSC Academy, Udi on Monday. Two were killed, 10 were unaccounted for, eight escaped unhurt,…

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1,785 new lawyers called into Nigerian Bar

Ishaku Yohanna
Cross Section of Lawyers

A total of 1,785 successful graduates of the Nigerian Law School were on Tuesday called to the Nigerian Bar. They emerged successful at the January Bar Examination, just as a total of 736 were said to have failed the exams. Giving a breakdown of the result at the Call to Bar ceremony held at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the Director General, Nigerian Law School, Prof. Isa Hayatu  (SAN), stated that a total of 2,515 students sat for the examinations but only a total of 1,779 were successful. He said out…

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Don’t Kill Nigeria economy with COVID-19, Senate warns

Ishaku Yohanna

The upper chamber of the National Assembly in a meeting with stakeholders in the Aviation and Health sectors on Tuesday, warned against killing the nation’s economy with the adopting of European style of fighting COVID-19 pandemic. The Senate Committees On Aviation and Health gave this warning during interactive session with the stakeholders on safety measures put on ground in the wake of commencement of International and domestic flights in the country. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Smart Adeyemi (APC Kogi West), in his remarks at the interactive session,…

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Labour, FG lock horns over electricity tariff, fuel price hike

Ishaku Yohanna

… Subsidy must go, FG insists Organised Labour under the auspices of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has again disagreed with the Federal Government over the recent increase in the prices of petroleum products and electricity tariff, stressing that both policies are a burden on Nigerian workers. President of the NLC, Ayubba Wabba, made this known to the Government during dialogue with government representatives on the state of the economy, even as he condemned the fixing of prices of electricity and petrol without consultations…

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Soyinka backs Obasanjo, says Nigeria close to extinction

Ishaku Yohanna

Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka on Tuesday supported the criticism of former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo against the Muhammadu Buhari government, saying the country is close to extinction. “We are close to extinction as a viable comity of peoples, supposedly bound together under an equitable set of protocols of co-habitation, capable of producing its own means of existence, and devoid of a culture of sectarian privilege and will to dominate,” Soyinka said in a statement. “I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with…

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We just have to borrow to fund infrastructure – Buhari

Ishaku Yohanna

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration’s borrowing to fund infrastructure was in order. He said the government took loans in the interest of the country to solve the dire shortfall in infrastructure. Buhari, who spoke on Tuesday at a virtual meeting with members of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) at the State House, in Abuja, said the country must fix its roads to save lives from soaring road accidents. “We have so many challenges with infrastructure. We just have to take loans to do roads, rail and…

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Nigeria Election Rigging: Saraki applauds US Visa sanctions against culprits

Ishaku Yohanna

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has asked the United Kingdom and the European Union to take a cue from the United States and place a visa ban on election riggers in Nigeria. Saraki made the call on Tuesday while speaking at an event organised by the Centre for Advancement of Civil Liberties to mark this year’s International Day of Democracy. It would be recalled that the US, on Monday, placed visa restriction on individuals who undermined the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, about a year after it took…

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N190bn Debt: Abuja-Kaduna train service and burden of China loan

Ishaku Yohanna

Kaduna train project is one of the foremost projects executed with the loans from China, and there are doubts on how this project can generate enough to finance its repayment process, four years after the route was commissioned. In 2010, the Federal Government borrowed $500 million (about N190.5 billion) from the Chinese Government through the China Exim Bank to build the facility. A Chinese firm, the CCECC built the facility as part of the loan terms. The loan which is to be paid over a period of 20 years had…

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FG reopens all airports for domestic commercial flights

Ishaku Yohanna

The Federal Government has announced the reopening of all domestic airports for flight operations. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika made the announcement at the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Monday. Sirika said all airports in the country including those in Jalingo, Gombe, amongst others could restart operations. He said, “Regarding approvals for flights within the country – domestic approvals. All airports in Nigeria are now open for domestic flights. Private charter operations will no longer need approvals from us to operate within domestic airports in all government-approved airports…

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IDP’s in Borno protest over hunger, destroy cars, others

Ishaku Yohanna

Some internally displaced persons in Banki area of Bama Local Government Area in Borno State on Monday embarked on a protest over failure of the authorities to supply them with food items. The affected persons, who say they have been left to deal with severe hunger, destroyed cars and other valuables around the community to drive home their frustration as they demonstrated on Monday. “They are currently protesting seriously that they are hungry. They have destroyed cars and properties. It is very serious,” a resident of the area told SaharaReporters.

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