Month: July 2021

Niger commences second phase of Whole School Development Approach ….. facilitates purchase of 400 tricycles at 464.1m

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Following the ban of commercial motorcycles in Minna, the Niger State Capital, due to insecurity, the State Ministry of Transportation is standing as guarantor to purchase 400 tricycles to the operators at the cost of N464.1m to ease the movement of people. Commissioner for Transportation, Hajiya Ramatu Mohammed Yar’adua, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Ibrahim Garba Musa disclosed this during post State Executive press briefing at the Government House, Minna. Hajiya Ramatu said 400 tricycles (200 each of BAJAJ and TVS) are to complement the existing…

NORTH-EAST: NHRC calls for transitional justice

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The Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Tony Ojukwu Esq, said the path to Reconciliation, Reintegration and Reconstruction of Communities that were affected by insurgency in the North-East can be effectively sustained in the atmosphere of peace and community process of transitional, restitutive and restorative justice. Ojukwu stated this during the Entry Dialogue and Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop on Reconciliation, Transitional and Restorative Justice in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe State. At the event which served as an inaugural activity of the Commission’s new partnership with the United Nation Development Fund…

Niger Govt set to establish Agency for Motor Vehicles Administration, Agency for Traffic Management

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Niger State Governor,Abubakar Sani Bello has, on July 28, 2021, assented to the Laws establishing the Agency for Vehicle Administration as well as that of an Agency for Traffic Management in the state. At a brief event in Government House Minna, the Governor said the Motor Vehicle Agency is mandated to register Motor Vehicles, issue and renew Motor Vehicle Licenses as well as issue Road Worthiness Certificate among others. Governor Sani Bello disclosed that the Traffic Management Agency was to ensure general superintendence and management of the road and Waterway…

ALLEGED INDICTMENT : IGP orders probe of DCP Abba Kyari

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Following the receipt of allegation and indictment processes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against one of the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, DCP Abba Kyari, the Inspector General of Police IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered an internal review of the allegations.   The Nigeria Police Force also reaffirmed its commitment to the pursuit of justice and the strengthening of its professional with the FBI and other international partners.   Police said further developments on this case will be communicated to members of the public accordingly.

Muslim Group urges Makinde to compensate families of lawyers denied Judges positions

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Political Awareness Group has called on Oyo State Government to immortalize three Muslim lawyers who were selected as judges of high court but died after Governor Seyi Makinde stopped their confirmation. Dr Moruf Yusuf, the Vice-Chairman of PAG, an Association of Muslim Professionals and Technocrats for Good Governance made the call in Ibadan at its Secretariat, Ososami, Ibadan at a news conference. He listed the names of the lawyers as Alhaja Fatima Badirudeen, Mr. Wasiu Adetunji Gbadegesin and Mr. AbdulRasaq Bolaji Agoro. Dr Yusuf said apart from immortalizing them for…

Nigerian Navy,ABU hold Research Session on use of local materials to protect ship decks

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The Nigerian Navy (NN) and a delegation from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Thurday 29th,July,2021 had a presentation on a research effort for the use of local materials to protect ship decks (floors) against corrosion. The session featured the presentation of a report on the Joint Research Work between the NN and ABU from the Department of Glass and Silica Technology. The presentation centered on the First Phase of the development of composite laminate using glass polymer for ship deck system. It presented the development of a coating system…

NYSC losses corps members in ghastly motor accident

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The National Youth Service Corps NYSC has commiserated with the families of five Prospective Corps Members that lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident at about 2am today, Wednesday, 28th July, 2021, along Abaji/ Kwali Expressway. The Director-General and Management in a statement signed by Director, Press and Public Relations, Mrs.Adenike Adeyemi ,also condoled with the Governments and people of Akwa-Ibom and Imo States over the tragic incident that has left the scheme devastated. “Indeed, it has been a black Wednesday for the NYSC Family. “May God grant the…

AIG Adamu Usman bids farewell to Niger Gov …. takes up new posting

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Newly appointed Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) and immediate past Commissioner of Police Niger State Command, Adamu Usman has bid farewell to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger. AIG Usman, who was at the Government House, Minna, appreciated the Governor for the support and synergy Nigerian Police Force Niger State Command under his watch has enjoyed. He said that working in Niger State worth it, and urged the people of the state to continue to give all necessary corporation to police in order to end security challenges in the…

The Politics of Foreign Exchange in Nigeria, CBN Governor Emefiele becoming a sacrificial lamb By Aliyu ilias

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Banning forex sales to Bureau De Change in Nigeria would be amounted to daring a cabal with an iron hammer, I commend the apex Bank especially the CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, the bureau de change in Nigeria is designed to serve some set of people in Nigeria, looking at the antecedent, it was established during the time of Abdukadir Ahmed, the longest-serving Governor of the CBN, between the year 1982 to 1993, a lot of argument have been put in place that he tends to use it to enhance the…

Nigerian Navy hands over convicted pirates to Correctional Services

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The Nigerian Navy has handed over the 10 pirates convicted by Federal High Court Ikoyi for the hijack of FV HAILUFENG II to the Nigeria Correctional Service, Kirikiri, Lagos. The handling over ceremony took place yesterday Tuesday 27 July 2021 at about 1205 noon. It could be recalled that a Nigerian Federal High Court had sentenced 10 pirates involved in the 2020 hijack of a merchant vessel FV HAILUFENG II to 12 years imprisonment each with a fine of N1,000,000.00. Delivering his judgment, Justice Faji said the Federal Government proved beyond…