Author: Ishaku Yohanna

N’Assembly postpones resumption of plenary for two weeks

Ishaku Yohanna

Nigeria’s National Assembly has postponed its resumption to September 29 after embarking on an eight-week recess that is to elapse on September 15. Ojo Olatunde Amos, the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, announced this on Saturday. He said, “This is to inform all distinguished senators and honourable members of the National Assembly that the resumption of plenary sessions, earlier scheduled for Tuesday, 15th September 2020, is hereby rescheduled for Tuesday 29th September 2020. “We regret any inconveniences caused by this change of date.”  The recess by the lawmakers had…

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Why we haven’t protested against increase in petrol price, electricity tariff – NLC

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has explained its reason for not organising protests against the increase in pump price of petrol and the new electricity tariff. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) had announced an increase in the price of premium motor spirit, better known as petrol. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) also increased electricity tariff from N30.23 to N62.33 per kwh. Speaking with NAN in Lagos on Saturday, Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, said the organised labour will soon come out with a position on the price adjustment.…

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Nigeria slowly becoming a failed state – Obasanjo

Ishaku Yohanna

…Revisit 2014 confab report, PANDEF urges Buhari Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria is slowly drifting towards a failed state mainly due to the poor management of its diversity and socio-economic development. Obasanjo spoke in Abuja Thursday at a forum of socio-political groups from there different regions of the country. He delivered a paper, ‘Moving Nigeria Away from Tipping Over.’ Obasanjo said, “I do appreciate that you all feel sad and embarrassed as most of us feel as Nigerians with the situation we find ourselves in. “Today, Nigeria is…

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Rape: Women Affairs Minister advocates death penalty for perpetrators

Ishaku Yohanna

Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has advocated death penalty for rape and related offences. Tallen made her stand public during the Flag-off of National Cooking Gas and Tree Planting project held in Girei town, headquarter of Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa on Friday. The minister also advocated stiff penalty for child labour offences and other dehumanizing treatment against children. “For the first time in the history of Nigeria, we have a President who has brought the issues of gender based violence to the national focus. “Nigerian women and…

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2023: Crooks within APC want to install serving Gov as Buhari’s successor – Marafa alleges

Ishaku Yohanna

The political quagmire between the former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari and Senator Kabiru Marafa has taken a new twist as the latter has taken a swipe at the former, saying that Yari was misleading the All Progressives Congress, APC Caretaker Committee chaired by the Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni. Marafa, who represented Zamfara Central in the 8th Senate, said that Buni’s Committee was failing to reconcile aggrieved party members because he was listening to the former Zamfara State governor. The former Zamfara governor said he told Buni…

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Strikes: FG reaches truce with JOHESU, meets NLC, TUC, others Saturday

Ishaku Yohanna

Officials of the Joint Health Sector Unions may shelve its strike scheduled to start on Sunday sequel to the conciliation meeting between it and the Federal Government. The unions had been directed to consult its members on the agreements reached with the FG and report back to the Ministry of Labour by Saturday, September 12. A communiqué issued at the end of the parley said the FG has appropriated N126 billion in the 2020 COVID-19 intervention Appropriation Act for infrastructure upgrading and equipment for the health, noting that lack of…

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Expect 50 percent increase in prices of bread, bakers warn Nigerians

Ishaku Yohanna

Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN) says a 50 per cent increase in retail prices of bread and other finished baked items is inevitable. The leadership of the association disclosed in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos. Mr Raji Omotunde, Lagos State chapter Chairman of AMBCN attributed the proposed increase in price to the inflated prices experienced in the purchase of baking ingredients. Omotunde said that several engagements with flour millers revealed constraints with access to foreign exchange to procure…

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Ondo election to hold Oct 10 despite fire outbreak – INEC

Ishaku Yohanna

The Ondo State Office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) the electoral body on Friday declared that the inferno would not stop it from conducting the October 10 governorship election, as scheduled in spite of the fire incident that gutted its Akure office. The Residents Electoral Commissioner in the state, Rufus Akeju, who spoke with journalists at the commission’s headquarters in Alagbaka, Akure, on Friday, said the schedule of the election remained unchanged despite the ugly development. Akeju, who explained that that the cause of the inferno was yet…

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Fake Commissioner who received salaries for two years uncovered in Niger state

Ishaku Yohanna
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State

The Niger state government has sacked 80 civil servants over alleged fraud.  Speaking with journalists on Thursday, in Minna, the state capital, Salamatu Abubakar, the state’s head of service, said the affected workers fraudulently paid themselves salaries above their level. She said the fraud was discovered during the recent verification exercise for all civil servants. Abubakar said some of the sharp practices discovered was an office messenger receiving the salary of a high court judge and a fake commissioner of agriculture getting salaries for the office for two years.  The…

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Edo, Ondo Polls: CJN inaugurates, reads riot act to tribunal judges

Ishaku Yohanna

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Thursday warned against recklessness, abuse of power and public trust as he swore in 85 judges for Edo and Ondo States Elections Petitions Tribunals. The CJN urged the members to be firm and not to be swayed by sentiments and blackmail in the course of discharging their duties after the main elections and by-elections. He said: “There is no doubt that temptations, tribulations, intimidations and even sheer blackmails may be unleashed on you. But as thoroughbred judicial officers, you must gird…

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