Category: Governance

Osun Guber: INEC vows to prosecute vote buyers

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will arrest and prosecute anyone that engages in vote-buying in the Sept. 22 governorship election in Osun. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this known at the commission’s quarterly consultative meeting with political parties on Friday in Abuja. He said that the commission would no longer take lightly, issue of vote-buying which had become a recurring decimal in the country’s elections. “We are witnessing an ugly trend of vote-buying in recent elections in the country; this is giving our democracy a…

FG to recover $7bn bailout from commercial banks

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The Special Presidential Panel for the Recovery of Public Property is to recover the seven billion dollars bailout fund granted commercial banks between 2006 and 2008. The panel Chairman, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, said in Abuja on Friday that the banks had yet to refund the money over a decade after. Obono-Obla said that the bailout fund was not a gift to the commercial banks and so must be recovered and returned to government’s coffers. “We are currently doing a lot of investigations to recover monies that have been taken away…

FLOOD DISASTER: Gov Sani-Bello Donates N60M worth Relief Materials …. As he orders resettlement of affected communities

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has directed the immediate distribution of relief items worth over N 60 million to flood victims of Kede community in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state.   The Governor gave the directive, when he received traditional leaders of the community led by Hakimin Wuya, Alh Ibrahim Yawa at the Government House, Minna, the state capital.   Concerned by the state of hunger faced by the communities as a result of the submerging of their houses, livestock and farms, the Governor directed the release…

Respect for Rule of Law, Vital for Societal Rebirth – Gov Sani-Bello

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has maintained that for any society to be great, it’s citizens must ensure strict obedience and maintenance of law and order. He stated this in Minna, the state capital when he hosted over 1,500 Sanitory, Green Guards and Traffic Vanguards in the state. The Governor who noted that effective discharge of the role of each of the segment of the Vanguards would go a long way in improving the health sector which he said was critical to the development of the state and for…

BREAKING: Recession Hits South Africa

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South Africa entered recession in the second quarter for the first time since 2009, according to data released on Tuesday by the country’s Statistician-General, Risenga Maluleke. The statistics show the economy contracted by 0.7 percent in the second quarter, led by declines in the agricultural, transport and retail sectors. Despite the prediction of analysts that the economy would grow 0.6 percent in the latest quarter, the rand instead stretched losses against the dollar to more than 2 percent while government bonds fell. “We are in a recession. We reported a…

Flood claims 14 lives in Niger

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The Director Relief, Niger State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Garba Salisu, says 14 persons have so far died due to flooding in different part of the state. In an interview on Saturday in Minna, he said that the agency had engaged the services of no fewer than 200 local divers in affected communities for rescue operations. He said that the local divers would complement the efforts of agency rescue unit whenever the need arose. Salisu also appealed to residents of the state to desist from building on waterways and to…

Buhari to Merkel: We respect rule of law, international agreements

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President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja said his administration will always uphold the sanctity of the rule of law in governing the country, while assuring German Chancellor Angel Merkel that all agreements will be fully respected. President Buhari received the German Chancellor, who was accompanied by top government officials and a business delegation, at the Presidential Villa. In his remarks during a bilateral meeting, the President said unity and harmony in every society can only be preserved by observing the rule of law, and ensuring that agreements reached in good…

NYSC DG Urges Corps Members To Develop Good Leadership Qualities

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The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps NYSC, Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure has advised Corps Members to embrace all programmes of the three week Orientation Course to groom themselves into becoming responsible leaders at all levels.   Kazaure stated this today in Kano State Orientation Camp in Dam Karaye, while address the 2018 Batch Stream Two Corps Members deployed to Kano and Borno States during his visit.   The NYSC boss then urged them to use their wealth of experience as graduates to contribute their quota to National development through leadership…

Gov Sani-Bello Urges FG to Expedite Action on Federal Roads in Niger State …Directs Immediate Construction Of Collapsed Gulbi Boka Bridge

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has again appealed to the Federal Government to hasten up its intervention on the federal roads across the state in order to ease the people’s hardship.   The Governor made the call when he had on the spot assessment of the collapsed bridge at Gulbin Boka community in Mariga Local Government Area of the state. Governor Sani-Bello who emphasised the economic importance of the road to the state as well as the entire country, directed the state Ministry of Works and Infrastructural Development to…

UK to create 100,000 jobs in Nigeria

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The UK Government has announced a new £70million programme to create 100,000 jobs in Nigeria says the Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin. Baldwin said this during a business event as part of the activities for Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Nigeria on Wednesday. Baldwin, who led a business delegation to the event, said that the programme would raise the income of three million people from the poorest parts of Nigeria. “We are here today to talk about technology links between the UK Fintech sector and the Nigerian…