The Director General of the African Democratic Congress, ADC Global Campaign Council, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, has dismissed claims that the National Working Committee of the party has been dissolved as desperate lies by frustrated expelled who lack respect for constitutionalism. Reacting to pieces of flyers circulated on the social media purported to suggest that factions exist in the party Suleiman said, the ADC is intact under its legitimate national chairman, Chief Ralph Nwosu. “The ADC national Secretariat is quite aware of the desperate propaganda being churned out from hotel bars by a renegade group sponsored the party’s expelled presidential candidate, Dumebi…
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The federal government says it will continue to negotiate with ASUU in spite of Wednesday’s court ruling restraining the union from continuing with its seventh month strike. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja ordered the striking lecturers to return to the classroom following a suit filed by the Federal Government. Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, made Federal Government’s position known when he hosted visiting members of the Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics. “The court ruling does not preclude us from going on with further negotiation and consultations,” he said. ASUU began…
In what could be described as supporters harvest, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto state, has again received a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Haliru Aliyu Sanda Gudu Rinin Tawaye. Sanda who dumped the PDP along with 700 other supporters of the party, said his decision was informed by his refusal “to allow himself to be used in deceiving the people of the state by the incumbent government of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.” He was received into APC’s fold by APC Chairman in the state, Isah Sadiq Achida and APC governorship candidate, Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto at the state…
A French court on Tuesday found three police officers guilty of manslaughter over the death of a black man in Paris in 2015. The court sentenced each to a 15-month suspended jail term. Amadou Koume, 33, died after he was pinned to the ground by officers in a bar and put in a chokehold. Koume was subsequently left on his front, his hands cuffed behind his back, for more than six minutes. In the order for reference consulted by AFP, the examining magistrate notes “the lack of discernment” of the officials who kept him on the ground for more than…
At least 21 people died in India’s eastern state of Bihar in incidents of lightning amid rains over the past 24 hours. An official at the state’s disaster management authority on Tuesday said that those who died were farmers or workers in agriculture fields who were busy sowing crops or engaged in other agriculture-related activities. Accordingly to the official, the deaths were reported around 10 districts in the state. Purnia and Araria both reported four deaths, three died in the Supaul district, two deaths were reported each from Banka, Jamui and Nawada, and one death occurred each in Begusarai, Sheikhpura,…
The United Nation’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced the release of $10 million under the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERT) for urgent aid to victims in a Northeast Nigeria food and nutrition crisis. This is contained in a statement by OCHA in Maiduguri on Monday. The UN says no fewer than 1.74 million children under the age of five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in north east this year. “This CERF allocation is the latest in a concerted effort to address the food and nutrition crisis. In May 2022 CERF allocated $15 million to…
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering crisis between them. Sanusi made the call in an interview in New York on the sidelines of a three-day Transforming Education Summit after he chaired an event tagged ‘Transforming Education through Grassroots Innovation: A Localised Teacher-Led Approach’ on the sidelines of the ongoning UN General Assembly. Sanusi, said ASUU strike could be addressed through dialogue, noting that the union needed to know that the longer it stayed out of school, it was…
The 36 states of the federation grew their combined Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by N360 billion in two years. They grew the IGR from N1.31 trillion in 2019 to N1.67 trillion in 2021. Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti made the declaration in Abuja on Monday at the 8th IGR Peer Learning Event and launch of the NGF public finance database. He said the share of IGR in total recurrent revenue of the states also rose from 31 per cent in 2019 to 35 per cent in 2021. Fayemi attributed the improvement to the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the recent successful operation of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) leading to the smashing of an international drug syndicate and recovery of 1,855kg of cocaine. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, said in a statement on Monday in Abuja that the president made his feelings known when he originated a telephone call to Chairman of the NDLEA, retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, from New York. The president is currently in New York, United States, where he is attending the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 77). Buhari said that the news…
The Debt Management Office (DMO) said Nigeria’s total public debt stock, which was N41.60 trillion ($100.07 billion) in March rose to N42.84 trillion ($103.31 billion) by June. According to a statement obtained from DMO’s website o Tuesday, the total debt represents the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It, however, said that while the foreign component of the debt remained at the same level of N16.61 trillion ($39.96 billion), the local component increased to N26.23 trillion ($63.24 billion). The local component of the country’s borrowings…