Month: September 2021

Nasarawa Assembly passes Judiciary Financial Autonomy bill into law

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The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed into law ” A Bill for a Law to Repeal and Re- Enact the Nasarawa State Judiciary Financial Management Law and Other Matters Connected Therewith. The Speaker of Nasarawa state House of Assembly,Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi announced the passage of the bill into law during the House proceedings yesterday in Lafia. Balarabe Abdullahi said that the bill if assented to by Gov. Abdullahi Sule will ensure the financial autonomy of the judicial arm of government . According to him, ” A Bill…

Nigeria’s eNaira Platform records One Million hits ahead of October launch

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A few hours after the official website of the upcoming Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) digital currency, enaira.com, went live, it has recorded over one million hits. This comes one week before the planned launch of the initiative.   The development could pass as a reflection of the level of interest in the proposed digital currency.   According to information made available on the website, the digital currency will ensure easier financial transactions for users of eNaira. It offers the opportunity for peer-to-peer payments which allow users to send money to one…

NCC remits N294.3bn to Consolidated Revenue Fund

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In an apparent demonstration of the potency of the telecommunications sector is a sustainable cash cow, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed it remitted a total of N294.312bn generated from spectrum licensing fees to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which pools government’s receipts.   The regulator also declared an operating surplus of N248.34bn including payments from MTN Nigeria amounting to N71.97bn from spectrum licence and Unified Access Services (UAS) licence.   The regulator said the N294.312bn remitted to the CRF represented cash received from spectrum fees from 2015 till date…

FCT Ohanaeze leadership crisIs: Our election was declared valid by court –Nweze

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Incoming President of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Federal Capital Territory, FCT Chapter, Nze Ifeanyichukwu Nweze, said yesterday that all the new executives led by him were elected in accordance with the bye-laws of the Igbo socio-cultural group as amended 2019, which has since been declared valid by the court.   This was even as he disclosed plans by his team to acquire the office of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Abuja where various committees would be inaugurated to ensure peace and unity among all Igbo people in the FCT and the entire Northern…

Gov Yahaya Bello knocks Chinese contractors over Shabby Job …says pace,quality of work unacceptable

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The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has bemoaned the contractors handling the renovation of the State’s Specialist Hospital, Lokoja for executing a below standard project while delaying the delivery of the project. The Governor stated that his administration would never accept such shabby quality of work which he stated was largely below the standard of the project in his government while he expressed total displeasure with the concerned ministries and parastatals. He stressed that it was unimaginable that his administration was spending so much funds with the quality of work…

Gov Yahaya Bello eulogized,as Kogi celerates 2021 World Tourism Day

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The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello has been commended for his role towards promotion and development of Tourism in the state. The Honourable Commissioner for Culture and Tourism,Salifu Isah Idachaba gave this commendable in his speech delivered at the occasion marking 2021 World Tourism Day celebration in the state capital, Lokoja. Hon.Salifu Isah Idachaba described Gov Yahaya Bello as adynaHonmic, tourism-friendly and security conscious Governor. He said; “Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello who made it possible for us to celebrate this day by strengthening the State security architecture especially…

Self Development as Panacea For Youth Leadership By Hashim Suleiman

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Apparently, the cry and wish for youth to take over leadership has become a myth and has become an uphill task in our clime. However, many have not realized such reality and this has continued to create lots of difficulties for the youth to understand how to navigate the Nigerian system and make a living out of it. Honestly, some of us have utilized opportunities that came our way and we have learnt almost perfectly and realistically how you can aspire in the so much misunderstood Nigerian system. I am…

The return of Taliban in Afghanistan By Jauhar S. Salihu

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Muslims in Nigeria join many people around the world in viewing the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan this last week with great concern. While we do not yet know how they will govern, their policies and actions when they were last in power twenty years ago are grounds for considerable anxiety, as demonstrated by the massive waves of people rushing to leave the country as the Taliban took over. In a nation of nearly 40 million people of diverse perspectives, languages, and ethnic groups, it is estimated that only…

Can Fani-Kayode Bring Secessionist Agitators to Peace Table? By Yushau Shuaib

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The title of this article was the exact question posed by a senior security official at an informal breakfast in August. It was at a time when speculations were rife that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode would defect to the All-Progressives Congress (APC) from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). I have always referred to Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) as a *”Fire-for-Fire”* advocate, since February 2004 when I wrote a rejoinder to his unacceptable public outburst while he was Special Adviser on Public Affairs to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. My rejoinder exposed the…