Tag: Senator Ali Ndume

‘Nigerian military to recruit 8,000 soldiers’ – Ndume

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian military will soon recruit 8000 soldiers for counter-terrorism and anti-banditry campaigns. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Nigerian Army, Senator Ali Ndume, who made the disclosure during a media chat in Maiduguri, Borno State, said that the Nigerian military counter-terrorism operations would curtail the activities of Boko Haram and other security challenges in 2021. Ndume said, “In terms of numbers, instead of the normal recruitment of 4,000 or 6,000 soldiers at a time, we have asked them (military) to recruit about 8,000 soldiers. “The new recruits are undergoing training…

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Court remands Maina in Kuje correctional facility

Aminu Imam

..Ndume commends IGP over extradition  The Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Okon Abang, yesterday remanded the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, (PRTT), AbdulRasheed Maina, in Kuje Correctional Facility. The court had on November 18, ordered security agencies in the country to arrest Maina wherever he might be found. Also, Justice Abang ordered that Maina’s trial will be resumed in his absence. The fugitive was arrested in Niger by the Nigerian Police following his escape from the country in a bid to evade…

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Maina: Court grants bail to Ndume over ‘good behavior’

Aminu Imam

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the Borno-South Senator, Ali Ndume, who has been detained in prison since Monday over his suretyship for the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, AbdulRasheed Maina, believed to have jumped bail. The presiding judge, Justice Okon Abang, in a ruling yesterday, said he chose to grant the senator bail based on his record of good behaviour before the court, notwithstanding that the other grounds of his bail application failed. The judge granted bail to the senator pending…

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Arewa Youths react to Ndume’s arrest, question failure to also arrest Abaribe

Aminu Imam

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, (AYCF), has in strong terms condemned the detention of Senator Ali Ndume, calling it unfair. A Federal High Court had on Monday ordered that Ndume be remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre for failing to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Task Team, AbdulRasheed Maina Ndume, who represents Borno-South at the National Assembly, stood as surety for Maina who is standing trial on alleged money laundering charges. However, Maina has repeatedly failed to appear in court for the continuation of his trial which led…

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Buhari’s social intervention programmes have made little impact – Ndume

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The Muhammadu Buhari administration’s Social Intervention Programmes (SIP’s) has made little impact in addressing challenges facing Nigerian youth despite the billions invested in it over the past five years, according to Senator Ali Ndume. The Senator representing Borno-South senatorial district, said this at the weekend, while he appeared on a television programme. According to him, “For the past five years, the president has been supporting the people. He came up with TraderMoni and then Anchor’s Borrower’s project; he came up recently with a Youth Investment programme of N75 billion and…

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Boko Haram: FG can’t be resettling, pampering ex-terrorists while country is still at war – Ndume

Aminu Imam

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has again reiterated that the Federal Government cannot be resettling and pampering former terrorists while the country is still at war. Ndume, who has always been of the opinion that de-radicalizing ex-Boko Haram members is a misplacement of priority stressed that he disagrees with the Federal Government’s move to rehabilitate and reintegrate repentant Boko Haram members. His position which was the same as that of the committee was made known on Wednesday at the closed-door budget defense session with the Nigerian…

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