Author: Ishaku Yohanna

Go on the ‘offensive’ when trumpeting our successes, Buhari charges ministers

Ishaku Yohanna

  President Muhammadu Buhari has charged his aides, ministers and top officials to vigorously defend his government. Buhari said they should defend his government against those he described as irresponsible and politically-motivated activists spreading falsehoods about his government. The president charged his appointees to make public the achievements of his administration. Buhari, speaking at the end of the First Year Ministerial Performance Review Retreat organized for Ministjers, Permanent Secretaries and top government functionaries at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday, said he has directed that essential coordination delivery unit in…

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ECOWAS halts single currency launch

Ishaku Yohanna

The Economic Community of West African States has postponed the planned launch of its single currency, the Eco. The body agreed to maintain a gradual approach for the launching of the currency. ECOWAS explained that a new date for the launch would be announced later. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the 57th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on Tuesday. The body said the postponement was in order to consolidate its achievements. Consequently, a new road map for the single…

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75 stranded Nigerian migrants, others rescued in Sahara desert

Ishaku Yohanna

Seventy-five Nigerian migrants, 41 of them women, including twin four-year-old girls, as well as four Togolese, three Ghanaians, and a Malian, were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern Niger, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. A team from the IOM and Niger’s Civil Protection service found the group of eighty-three 230 kilometers (140 miles) from the crossroads town of Dirkou on September 3, the agency said. They had left the Nigerien town of Agadez, the main stepping-off point for…

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Ogun Gov grants all students automatic promotion to next class as schools set to reopen

Ishaku Yohanna

The Ogun state government has announced that all students have been given automatic promotion to the next class, including automatic placement for primary 6 students in public primary schools into JSS1 of public secondary schools. The state government has said schools should reopen on September 21st for the first term of 2020/2021 session, after they have been closed for five months to curb the spread of COVID-19. This was made known in a statement by Kunle Somorin, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Dapo Abiodun, on Monday. He noted that…

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Policeman, NSCDC officer,14-year-old girl killed by abductors in Kaduna

Ishaku Yohanna

 A Police officer and personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) have been killed by their abductors. The NSCDC personnel, along with the Police officer, who was sick and had just come from another state, including a 14-year-old girl and a security man were abducted by gunmen at their houses at Mararaba-Rido, Chikun Local Government area of the state on August 28 August. They were held captive for 13 days after they were kidnapped from their houses and later killed by yet to be known persons. Confirming…

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FG, states, LGs shared N3.88trn in six months – NEITI

Ishaku Yohanna

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee shared N3.879trn to the Federal Government, states, local governments, and other statutory recipients in the first half of this year, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has said. A breakdown of the disbursements showed that N1.53tn went to the Federal Government, while the states got N1.29tn and the 774 local government areas received N771.34bn. This is contained in the latest edition of the quarterly review of NEITI in Abuja on Tuesday. The review stated that the N1.53tn received by the Federal Government in the first…

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Petrol: FG officially begins full deregulation, as PPPRA jettison price bands

Ishaku Yohanna

…Says price to be determined by forces of demand and supply The Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is no more going to be releasing guiding price bands for the sale of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, at filling stations. It disclosed this in Abuja through the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, adding that based on this, the downstream arm of the oil and gas sector had been fully deregulated. Responding to questions from journalists during a briefing at the headquarters of PPPRA, the agency’s Executive Secretary, Abdulkadir Saidu, stated that…

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APC Governors laud FG over certification of Nigeria as Polio free

Ishaku Yohanna

Commend Buhari for ‘efficiently managing Nigeria’s economy’  By Godwin Amunde The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), an umbrella body of elected governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has applauded the Federal Government over the country’s certification by the World Health Organization (WHO) as polio free country. The Forum also restated its commitment to continue to work with the federal government for the eradication of all communicable diseases.  This was part of resolution of the emergency teleconference of the PGF held on Sunday, September 6th, 2020. Kebbi State…

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Reactions over El-Rufai’s claim of spending N400,000 to treat each COVID-19 patient

Ishaku Yohanna

Reactions by Nigerians have trailed the statement made by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, that his government spends at least N400,000 to treat each COVID-19 patient in the state. El-Rufai said the amount was as a result of the increasing cost of drugs, feeding and personal protective equipment for doctors. He disclosed this during an executive committee meeting with traditional rulers in Kaduna, chaired by Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto. The governor noted that telling patients to take responsibility of the medical bills would lead to widespread of the…

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Rapist lured my 6-yr-old daughter with rice, egg, man cries out

Ishaku Yohanna

A middle-aged man identified as Okhehelem Onyenma Monday protested the purported rape of his six years old daughter (name withheld) in Edobor Street, Uwelu quarters alleging that the suspect, Destiny Obiyan lured his six years old daughter with rice and egg to defile her. Oyenma who took his protest to the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Benin City said he became aware that all was not well with his daughter when he noticed that she was bleeding from her private part. He said “He took my…

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