**”Mobilizes to evacuate victims trapped The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has expressed shock, grieve over gas cylinder explosion that claimed many lives at Aba Road in Sabon Gari area of Kano state. A statement issued by her special adviser on media Nneka Ikem Anibeze quoted the National Emergency Management Agency under the Ministry to have announced that a building also collapsed as a result of the explosion where nine dead bodies have so far been recovered from the rubbles of the collapsed building close to the explosion site. According to her, the…
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By Naseer Mijinyawa, Minna The acting Chief judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik has cautioned Magistrates in the service of Niger State Judiciary against any misconduct as they would be sanctioned in accordance with the laid down rule of the judicially service Commission.She said that the Judiciary under her watch will no longer accept any unprofessional conduct from any Magistrate warning that she will use the sledge hammer on any erring Magistrate.Addressing participants at a two day interactive session organized for newly appointed magistrates into the service of the Niger State Judiciary held at the conference Hall of…
The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service has introduced Electronic Tax Clearance Certificate (E-TCC) to improve service delivery and checkmate activities of fraudsters who could forge such document This was coming just as the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, (PAC), promised that it would support the Federal Capital Territory, Inland Revenue Services, FCT- IRS and other revenue generating agencies to enhance their operations. The Acting Executive Chairman of the Service, Mr Haruna Abdullahi gave the indication when he appeared before the Committee on Public Accounts, (PAC), being Chaired by Rep Busayo Oluwole Oke The visit to the green…
Conflicting reports have continued to trail an early morning explosion which occurred near the Winners Kids Academy on Abah Road, in Sabon Gari.While some believed it was a bomb explosion, the police said it was gas explosion.The blast killed four persons causing collateral damage to some buildings in the area.However, the police command in Kano State confirmed the death of four persons after what it referred as gas explosion on Tuesday morning in Kano. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Samaila Dikko, confirmed while speaking in a radio and television broadcast on Tuesday in Kano. Dikko said that the gas…
As the 2023 general election draws closer, the agitation for the youth to take over the reigns of leadership has become the major issue at the front burner.The fact remains that there is need to salvage Nigeria from the grip of genrotocrat politicians who do not want to yield the ground for the promising younger generation. In Benue, it is not different as various groups have been drumming support for 38 year old Dr. Sadiq Ewaoda Amali who is gunning for the governorship position in the State under the New Nigeria’s Peoples Party (NNPP).Though, Dr.Amali is young and ebullient he…
The national President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Supo Ayokunle has berated the Nigerian President Muhammad Buhari for donating $1m to Afghanistan an Islamic country with an illegitimate Government.The President’s insensitive posture in the face of the strike by the Academic Staff Union of universities and the harrowing experience of university Students who have been locked out of school since three months.Ayokunle speaking against the background that the Nigerian constitution only captured the legal system of one religion out of the rest which he said has always continued to generate tension because of those that were not captured.…
***Suspects plead not guilty Two suspects, Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci were arraigned in court on Monday over the lynching of a 200-Level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, by the policeFor alleged blasphemy.A mob lynched the student, Deborah Samuel.For their alleged participation in the crime, the suspects, who are the co-students of the deceased, were docked at a Sokoto Chief Magistrate’s Court .They pleaded not guilty to the crime. Prosecuting Insp Khalil Musa told the court that investigation was in progress as Deborah’s corpse was still in a morgue at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching…
Serving Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris has been nabbed by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) over alleged diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of N80b. Intelligence gathered by the anti graft agency shows that the AGF profited immensely off the funds through vague consultancies and other illegal activities using proxies, family members and close associates. The funds were laundered according to reports through real estate investments in Kano and Abuja.After failing to honour invitations by the EFCC to respond to issues connected to the fraudulent acts the commission…
Politics which is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status is local.In Jigawa the electorate are inclined to supporting people that are committed to leading from the grassroots, leadership that has passion for the local people’s welfare.For Mustapha Sule Lamido he had already been groomed from the house of leadership, hence the grassroots level is a familiar terrain. He easily communicate with the masses, understands their pains, he visits them, know what their troubles are, hence for them, he…
By Ehichioya Ezomon Nigeria’s absurd political situation is playing out before our eyes in the plethora of presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) competing for the number one spot in the polity.Lately, the stories involving the aspirants are a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly in the drama-filled processes of the general election that cruises into a crescendo in February 2023.If you consider political influence, reach, mobilisation, and perhaps war chest for the primaries, you’ll place the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in front to lead the stories.But you’ll be…