By Miriam Humbe Nigeria’s Federal Government has urged States to make lands available for the establishment of bamboo plantations for the benefits of degraded land restoration and sustaining availability of raw materials for the existing and the potential bamboo based industries across the country. Minister of the Environment, Mallam Balarabe Abbas Lawal said this on Wednesday at the event to mark the 2023 World Bamboo Day in Abuja. The World Bamboo Day is a day set aside to commemorate and raise awareness about the importance of this giant grass to the world’s social, economic and environmental survival. The Minister said:…
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By Miriam Humbe In line with his determination to bring world class standards to Nigerian Civil Aviation in consumer protection and the promotion of the wellbeing of Nigerian passengers and other sectoral stakeholders, President Bola Tinubu has approved the suspension, removal, and replacement of some Chief Executive Officers under the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development. Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale said this in a statement signed on Wednesday. The statement said the affected Chief Executives Officers included: “Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Kabir Yusuf Mohammed…
By Miriam Humbe Members of the Senate and House Committees on FERMA have agreed that FERMA is poorly funded and have advocated for increased annual budgetary allocation for the Agency. This was contained in a statement signed on Wednesday by FERMA’s Director of Communications/Public Relations, Mrs. Maryam Sanusi. The Chairman, Senate Committee on FERMA, Sen. Hussaini Babangida Uba, said this recently during a joint sitting of the Senate and House Committees on FERMA at the hearing of the presentation of the FERMA 2023 Performance/2024 Budget Defence. The Chairman said FERMA could not meet up with the people’s expectations of making…
By Nana Musa The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun has said that the registration of all vehicles in Nigeria under the National Vehicle Registry (VREG) would help the government to mobilise more revenues. He said this during the zonal Sensitisation Seminar on VREG in Abuja on Monday, themed Strengthening Policy Collaboration for Impactful Economic Revitalisation. VREG is platform connected to multiple global Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) databases and vehicle history repositories for real-time international interconnectivity and robust curation and storage of vehicular data of all vehicles entering into the country. Edun said that…
By Nana Musa The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has commenced an expanded computation project for verified pensioners and Next-of-Kin (NoK) of deceased pensioners. The Executive Secretary of PTAD, Dr Chioma Ejikeme said this in a statement issued by Mr Gbenga Ajayi, PTAD’s Head of Corporate Communications, on Tuesday in Abuja. According to her, the project will resolve complaints of non-payment of gratuity and death benefits respectively. She said the project followed a deluge of complaints from some pensioners and NoK of deceased pensioners, over non-payment of their gratuity and death benefits, many years after verification. According to Ejikeme, the…
…As C’ttee Members Commend Agency’s Effective Utilisation Of Resources The Director General National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Habib Ahmed on Tuesday, defended the Agency’s 2024 Budget Proposal before the National Assembly. The defence was during a joint sitting of the Senate Committee on Special Duties and House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness. While defending the 2024 proposed budget estimates, the NEMA DG also presented the 2023 budget performance to the joint committee and highlighted the enormity of challenges, progress made and supports required to entrench efficient disaster management in the country. The Committee members commended the…
The office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on Tuesday said it’s attention had been been drawn to the purported fake appointments by unscrupulous elements with the aim to swindle unsuspecting individuals. Segun Imohiosen, the Head, Information in the SGF’s office said this in a statement signed on behalf of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume. The SGF therefore described as false, the information circulating on the social media, emails, text messages, and other outlets urging members of the public to submit their Curriculum Vitae at a fee, to a non-existing desk…
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Country Representative in Nigeria Ms Cristian Munduate was guest at the headquarters of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday. The UNICEF Country Representative was received by the Director General NEMA Mustapha Habib Ahmed. She and NEMA’s Director General with their management team members discussed how to strengthen the existing partnership between the two organizations and towards improving capacities for disaster management in Nigeria. The UNICEF Chief commended the DG of NEMA for the continuous improvement in timely response to disaster situations and the recent launch of the National Contingency Plan…
By Miriam Humbe The Minister, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, (FMITI), Dr. Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite has charged the newly appointed Chief Executive Officers of Agencies under the Ministry to align the strategic mandates of their Agencies with the eight-points agenda priority areas of the present government. A statement signed by Edet E. Etuk, for Director, Press & Public Relations department of the Ministry said Dr. Uzoka-Anite gave the charge at the inauguration of the newly appointed Chief Executive Officers on Monday, in Abuja. The Minister pointed out that the priority areas of the present administration included; Food security,…
Justice James Omotosho of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, may have finally settled the leadership crisis of the Action Alliance, (AA). The Court on Monday, dismissed the suit brought against the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), and three other chieftains of the party. Suing on behalf of the party, Hon. Alfred Kuboro, Samuel Bamidele Obaro and Chief Chinedu Ukadike, who are plaintiffs in the matter dragged INEC, Bufuomo Alex, Ogunewe Lincoln Jack and Braimoh Olayinka Adenehon before the Court. The Court dismissed the matter after it was withdrawn by their Counsel, Oba Maduabuchi SAN. Recall that there has…
By Miriam Humbe Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), Mustapha Habib Ahmed has said that poor internet connectivity and inadequate technology for early warning information dissemination have necessitated the need for increased financing of Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action System Program. The NEMA boss said this on Sunday at the African Pavilion for Increased Financing Of African Multii-Hazard Early Warning AND Early Action in the ongoing 28th Conference of the Parties, (COP28) in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Ahmed said the need for increased financing of early warning systems in Africa had become highly inevitable…
For leading Nigerian artist and superstar musician, Dapo Oyebanjo, widely known as D’banj, freedom has come at last; for Dbanj, it is now Uhuru. D’Banj was completely exonerated of all allegations of rape and N-power fraud by both the Nigeria Police Force and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). His defence in both matters bordering on rape and fraud was spearheaded by Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN (the lead counsel in both matters), who led other lawyers. In exclusive documents obtained on Friday, the Police and the anti-graft agency issued clearance reports separately, confirming the crooner’s innocence…