THE Federal Government has officially confirmed the first case of anthrax in the country. A statement released by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Monday signed by Dr. Columba T. Vakuru , Chief Veterinary Officer of Nigeria, said animals showing signs of a possible case of anthrax on a farm in Suleja, Niger State, were reported to the Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer of Nigeria on July 14, 2023. “The case was in a multi-specie animal farm comprising of cattle, sheep and goats located at Gajiri, along Abuja-Kaduna express way Suleja LGA Niger State, where some of…
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NO fewer than two persons have been kidnapped in the Mpape area of the Federal Capital Territory. Our correspondent learnt that gunmen stormed the area in the early hours of Sunday and whisked away two residents. A resident of the area, who identified himself as Yakubu told our correspondent that the gunmen were about six. He said, “At about 1am today, gunmen numbering six came to our area shot sporadically while the operation lasted, and kidnapped two people.” The FCT police command spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the incident. She added that the victims had been rescued by the police…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has disclosed a plan by the Federal Government to transfer N8,000 to 12 million poor households in Nigeria for a period of six months. This was contained in a letter the President wrote to the House of Representatives regarding the 800 million dollars loan request of the Buhari administration for the social safety net programme. The president is asking for approval of the House to secure the loan. According to the President, the money transfer to poor households would have a multiplier effect on about 60 million individuals. For credibility, the President said the money will be…
A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja has restrained the Federal Capital Territory Development Authority (FCDA) from demolishing Trademore Estate sited in the Lugbe area of Abuja. In an interim injunction, Justice Mohammed Zubairu ordered that the first to fourth defendants/respondents to maintain status quo and stop plans to demolish the estate. In the Motion No: M/11692/2023 dated July 12, 2023, the first to fourth defendants/respondents are the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, the FCDA, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), and the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The judge granted an order “restraining the Defendants, whether by themselves, agents, employees,…
FORMER Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been appointed Global Advisor to Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). Osinbajo confirmed the development in a series of tweets on Tuesday. “I am excited to announce that I have been appointed Global Advisor to Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet @EnergyAlliance,” he announced. “Together, we will work to unlock capital flows into the clean energy sector and boost Africa’s share in the global carbon market through #ACMI “GEAPP in such a short period has demonstrated a commitment to support developing countries shift to clean energy using models that ensure universal…
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Adamawa governorship election, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called “Binani,” has, again, sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the nullification of her declaration as governor of Adamawa in the March 18 governorship election. Binani, through her counsel, Michael Aondoaka, SAN, filed the fresh suit before Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja. In the ex-parte motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/935/2023, the APC candidate in the poll, sued INEC, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri as 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents, respectively. Binani, again, sought a judicial review…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). “We will take democracy seriously, Democracy is very tough but it is the best form of government,” he said upon his emergence on Sunday in Guinea-Bissau. Tinubu succeeds President Umaro Embalo of Guinea Bissau as ECOWAS chair. Tinubu’s emergence was announced at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS. The 63rd Ordinary Session summit was the first engagement of the President within the African continent since he assumed office on May 29, 2023.
THE Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has again given the assurance that the reconstruction work on the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway will be completed by the first quarter of 2024, which is approximately in nine months time. The Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mahmuda Mamman, gave the assurance on Friday during an inspection of the road and other ongoing federal road projects in Kaduna State. Mamman took a tour of the 375.9 km of the dual carriageway way beginning from the Abuja end through Kaduna to Zaria and extending further to Kano all in the North-West zone. During the inspection tour,…
THE Central Bank of Nigeria has asked Deposit Money Banks and Other Financial Institutions in the country to increase monitoring of transactions with businesses and persons in and from Cameroon, Croatia and Vietnam. This was according to a circular referenced: FPR/AML/PUB/BOF/001/029, which was issued, on Thursday, by the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation, Mr Chibuzo Efobi. According to CBN, Nigerian banks and other financial institutions need to watch transactions with those countries because they had been recently placed on a grey list by the Financial Action Task Force. The Financial Action Task Force is an international body whose purpose is…
NIGERIA has been exempted from the list of 12 African countries that are set to receive the 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine. The Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organisation, and the United Nations Children’s Fund disclosed this in a joint press statement on Wednesday. “Malaria remains one of Africa’s deadliest diseases, killing nearly half a million children under the age of five every year,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing. The Mosquirix (RTS,S) vaccine, developed by British pharmaceutical giant GSK, has already been administered to more than 1.7 million children in three African…
THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Tuesday, revealed the new principal officers of the 10th House of Representatives. They include Julius Ihonvbere (APC – Edo, House Majority Leader), Halims Abdullahi (APC – Kogi, Deputy Majority Leader), Bello Kumo (APC – Gombe, Chief Whip), Adewunmi Onanuga (APC – Ogun, Deputy Chief Whip). Abbas also read a letter from the Minority Caucus which detailed the names of the principal officers. The letter named Kingsley Chinda (PDP, Minority Leader), Aliyu Madaki (NNPP, Kano, Deputy Minority Leader), Ali Isah (PDP, Gombe, Minority Whip), and George Ebizimawo (Labour Party, Deputy Minority…
A FORMER Governor of Zamfara State, Ahmad Yarima, says that President Bola Tinubu has asked him to make efforts to ensure that there is stability in the bandit-torn North-West state. Yerima, who spoke with State House correspondents after a private meeting with Tinubu on Monday, said that the crisis will soon be over with his intervention as a father in the state. “The issue of Zamfara, I am now a father in Zamfara and even Mr President in my interaction this (Monday) afternoon has requested me to put my best to ensure that there is stability in the state and…
THE Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. (Dr) George Akume CON has called on Ministerial Special and Technical Assistants who served during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari to rally Nigerians in support of the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to succeed in the socioeconomic and political development of Nigeria. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation made the call Tuesday when ex-ministerial aides under the aegis of the Network of former Ministerial Aides (NETMA) paid him a courtesy visit in his office. According to him, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu means very well…
IMMEDIATE past minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed has stated that former President Muhammadu Buhari approved her appointment as World Bank Alternate Executive Director following the Bank’s request for the nomination sent to Nigeria in October 2022. Mr. Yunusa Abdullahi, Media Adviser Mrs Ahmed, provided the clarification in a statement made available to News Point Nigeria Monday morning. According to him, former President Buhari, gave the approval for the minister’s nomination in April, before leaving office in May. He said, however, that the April approval was with the understanding that Mrs. Ahmed would not resume in Washington until the end…
THE immediate past Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed has landed a World Bank job as an Alternate Executive Director. Baring last minute hitches, she will resume at the bank’s headquarters in Washington on July 10. However, there appears to be pushback from some interests who alleged that the former minister did not follow due process. An online medium, quoted Washington sources as saying that Mrs. Ahmed circumvented appointment procedures by nominating herself . The report also had it that the World Bank had requested for the nominations of three economists for an AED position, several months before the end…
THE Defence Headquarters has directed all Senior officers with “seniority on commission “above Nigerian Defence Academy Regular Course 39 to proceed on voluntary retirement. This development comes on the heels of the appointment of the new service chiefs by President Bola Tinubu. The notice of resignation was made known in a statement from the Defence Headquarters signed on Monday by Maj-Gen. Y. Yayaha for the Chief of Defence Staff. “I am directed to respectfully request services to direct all officers with seniority on commission above that of Nigerian Defence Academy(NDA) regular course 39 to submit their applications for voluntary retirement…
THE internal wrangling within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State seems to be over as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu appeared at a public function with two of his predecessors in a spectacle rare as hen’s teeth. Sanwo-Olu, Akinwunmi Ambode and Babatunde Fashola met at a reception organised in honour of President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the Lagos House in the Marina area of the state. Sanwo-Olu’s spokesman, Gboyega Akosile, shared the refreshing sight in a tweet, stressing that this is the first time the trio will meet in over four years. Since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999,…
SENATOR Orji Kalu has said that contrary to certain claims making the rounds, there was no cheating in the election that saw Senator Godswill Akpabio emerge as President of the Senate. Kalu’s comment comes on the heels of claims that some Senators under the umbrella of the ruling All Progressives Congress, might be trying to cross-carpet following the outcome of the June 13 election that saw Akpabio become Senate President of the 10th National Assembly. Akpabio had trounced Senator Abdul’aziz Yari to emerge the new Senate President, with the former Akwa Ibom governor being returned elected after scoring 63 votes…
THE Police in Kaduna State have arrested five hundred and three (503) suspects for various offences ranging from banditry, armed cattle rustling,culpable homicide, vandalization of rail tracks and other related crimes. Among the suspects include one Ismail Mohammed of Maijere Village Saminaka in Lere local government area of the state who kidnapped and later killed his brother, Kabiru Mohammed after collecting N120,000 as ransom from the family. Parading the suspects at the command’s headquarter , the spokesman of Kaduna State Police Command, DSP Muhammed Jalige told reporters that the suspects were arrested between May to June 2023. He explains that…
AS Nigerians join their counterparts from across the world to celebrate the Eid-el-Kabir, President Bola Tinubu has asked the citizens to face their future with renewed hope and vigour. The President made the call in a statement on Tuesday. “As we embrace the present challenges, we must face the future with vigour and Renewed Hope with the confidence that our tomorrow shall be better and brighter,” he said. Eid-Al-Kabir is a festival of sacrifice and total obedience to Allah as exemplified in the exceptional action of Prophet Ibrahim AS. n his Sallah message, Tinubu said there is no greater sense…