Day: September 4, 2023

‘FG to rejig N-Power scheme, pay beneficiaries’ – Minister Edu

Aminu Imam

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, says plans are underway to rejig the N-Power scheme to accommodate more people and ensure prompt payment of beneficiaries’ stipends. Edu disclosed this in a statement issued yesterday by her Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Rasheed Zubair, in Abuja. The statement reported the Minister as saying that the challenges faced by N-Power beneficiaries in terms of delay in payment of their stipends would soon be addressed. “We will change the modalities so that people will get their delayed stipends,…

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‘Tinubu is legitimate President as declared by INEC’ – NBA

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said it was wrong to refer to President Bola Tinubu as an illegal president since no court has set aside his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). The body of lawyers submitted that as of today, “there is only one President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the person of President Bola Tinubu.” President of the NBA, Yakubu Maikyau made the assertion during the weekend, at a public presentation of the communique issued at the 63rd Annual General Conference of the association,…

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Federal Government issues illegal miners 30-day ultimatum

Aminu Imam

…To review mining licenses The Federal Government has issued a 30-day ultimatum to illegal miners to desist from such activities in the country. Speaking during a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, explained that all efforts to formalise unlicensed miners into cooperatives have proved abortive. He further stated that the ministry will review all mining licenses in the country as part of its transformation agenda. Other transformation agenda listed out by the minster are formation of the Nigerian Solid Minerals Cooperation, joint ventures with…

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Escalating Insecurity: Kaduna trains additional 7,000 vigilantes 

Aminu Imam

Governor Uba Sani, of Kaduna State, has flagged-off the training of an additional 7,000 vigilante members to arrest the worsening insecurity in the State. The 7,000 personnel, drawn from all the local government areas of the State, are being trained at the Police College, Kaduna. Recall that banditry and other forms of insecurity in the State have increased in frequency. Just on Friday about nine bandits arrived at Saya-Saya village, Ikara local government area on motorcycles and killed seven people while praying in a mosque. The governor said, at the…

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“APC is the only vehicle to convey Nigerians to prosperity”, Says Chairman Ganduje

Aminu Imam

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, says his party is the only vehicle to convey Nigerians to prosperity. Ganduje spoke in Lokoja, Kogi State’s capital, at the inauguration of the APC campaign council for the State governorship election during the weekend. “It is also my belief that the innovations the campaign council will initiate during the campaign period will convince the electorate that the APC remains the only option for development, the only alternative for good governance and the only political vehicle to convey the…

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‘Coups, Democratic Reversal: Citizens tired of voting, not seeing results’ – West African elders

Aminu Imam

The West African Elders Forum, (WAEF), has urged African leaders to respect constitutions and put citizens’ welfare, peace, and security at the centre of governance. According to a statement by the forum’s Communication Officer of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, Wealth Ominabo, the forum gave the advice during a webinar, themed: ‘Making meaning of democratic reversals in West Africa’. Eight countries in West and Central Africa have witnessed coups in three years, with Gabon being the most recent. The Forum examined the challenges to democratic governance in the region and how…

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“No military takeover will happen in Nigeria but political coups” – Primate Ayodele

Aminu Imam

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has assured the Federal Government that there will be no military coup in the country but to expect more political coups. In an issued statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele explained that any plans for a military coup would fail in the country because God has cancelled it. He stated that till eternity, there will be no record of a military coup but that a revolution is coming. Ayodele noted that the revolution can be described as…

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Constitutional lawyers declare NNPCL, Afrexim bank’s $3bn loan illegal, threatens court action

Aminu Imam

…Demands transparency A group of lawyers under the umbrella of Constitutional Lawyers Forum (CLF) has declared the $3 billion emergency loan recently secured on papers by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) from the African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) to stabilise the country’s foreign exchange market and crude oil repayment, as illegal and unconstitutional. Recall that the national oil company and the bank on August 16 jointly signed a commitment letter and term sheet for the emergency loan. The facility, according to them, will provide some immediate disbursement that will…

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