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MURIC Calls For Impeachment Of Governors Who Allowed Congregational Eid Prayers
Ishaq Akintola, director of Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, says governors who allowed congregational Eid prayers committed impeachable offences. On Sunday, congregational prayers held in different states while some religious faithful openly flouted guidelines issued by the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19 such as physical distancing and compulsory use of face masks in public places. For instance, in Kano, which currently...
FEC Has Become Cancerous Under Buhari, Should Be Disbanded – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP says the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council, FEC has become cancerous, disorganized, chaotic, and incapable of driving an organized, result-oriented system and as such should be disbanded. The party’s position is predicated on the degenerated hostilities among officials in the Buhari Presidency, including Presidential aides, ministers, and heads of agencies, which have further...
Wike Denies Solely Taking Decision To Demolish Hotels
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied solely taking the decision to demolish two hotels in the state for a violation of Coronavirus lockdown order. The governor of Rivers State made the comments on Tuesday after coming under intense public fire for several days with many individuals and groups calling for his ‘head’ after the decision to demolish two hotels. He...
Lawmakers Accuse NDDC Of Illegal Spending, Failure To Present Performance Records
Lawmakers of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have accused the leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, of engaging in illegal spending of funds belonging to the commission. The lawmakers also accused the NDDC of refusal to submit its performance budget since 2018. A forensic audit is ongoing in the NDDC after the commission squandered N40bn in three months. The NDDC was...
Anambra State Records First COVID-19 Death
Anambra state has recorded its first death from COVID-19 just as three patients have been discharged from the state's isolation centre. ABN TV reports that The Anambra state governor, Willie Obiano, disclosed this to newsmen while giving an update on its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the governor, the deceased, a 66-year-old man died in a private hospital in the...
Palliatives Donated By FG Rotting Under Rain, Sun
Food items delivered to Kano State government by the Federal Government as palliatives are left rotten at open space and are being beaten by rain and sun, The Guardian has gathered. The Federal government two weeks ago delivered 110 trucks of food items to the state meant to be distributed to vulnerable and less privileged whose sources of survival are being...
National Assembly Staff Threaten To Embark On Strike Over Working Conditions
National Assembly staff, under the auspices of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, Tuesday, threatened industrial action, if conditions at their workplace were not improved by the Management and presiding officers of the Senate and House of Representatives. The staff in a Press Statement issued today by its President, Comrade Muhammed Usman, said their demands for a better service,...
FCT Minister Forfeits Salary To Secure Release Of 5 Inmates
The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has forfeited her May salary to secure the immediate release of five inmates unable to pay for their fines at the Kuje Correctional Centre. The minister, who made the donation while felicitating with the inmates as part of activities to celebrate this year’s Sallah, said the donation would...
We’ll Jail Parents Who Enrol Children Into Almajiri System — El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has warned that parents who enrol their children in the Almajiri education system stand the risk of prosecution and two years imprisonment. ABN TV Reports that Governor El-Rufai stated this when he visited 200 Almajiri children repatriated from Nasarawa State and undergoing rehabilitation and optical screening at Government College, Kurmin Mashi, Kaduna, on Monday,...
Time For Igbo To Mobilise, Give Our Governors Necessary Support Is Now – Elliot Uko
Founder, Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) and Secretary, Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA), Elliot Uko, has urged Igbo to rally round eastern governors to enable them to secure Igboland and resist the marginalisation of the region. ABN TV reports that In a statement he signed, Uko noted that ‘given the obtuse political arrangement in Nigeria today, the deliberate isolation and oppression of...
