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Wednesday, 22 September 2021 06:20

Southern govs wasting their time with anti-open grazing laws they can’t implement - El-Rufai

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has advised his southern counterparts not to dissipate energy on anti-open grazing laws that cannot be implemented. Speaking when he paid a short visit at the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, El-Rufai revealed that Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has supported his state with N7.5 billion out of the N10 billion required to build a ranch. He also disclosed that since there are over 14 grazing reserves in Kaduna State he would want to convert into ranching, he would be glad if the Federal Government can support his state with…

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 06:13

Medical doctors’ emigration intensifies as UK alone employed almost 4 Nigerian doctors daily in the last 100 days

At least 353 Nigerian doctors have been registered to work in the United Kingdom in the last 100 days. Checks on the website of the General Medical Council – the body which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the UK – showed that the GMC licensed at least 353 Nigerian-trained doctors between June 10, 2021 and September 20, 2021. The statistics also showed that between July 24, 2020 and September 21, 2021, about 862 Nigeria trained doctors were licensed in the UK despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, 8,737 doctors who obtained their degrees in Nigeria currently…

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 06:12

2 out 10 Nigerians lost their jobs in 2020 - NBS

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said 20 per cent of Nigeria’s fulltime workforce lost employment during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Both organisations said this in a new report released on Tuesday in Abuja titled “The Impact of Covid-19 on Business Enterprises in Nigeria”. The report highlights the significant decline in revenue faced by enterprises and establishments across the country as a result of the pandemic. It based its findings on in-depth interviews with almost 3,000 businesses from both the formal and informal sector across major industries of the economy. The report said…

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 06:11

Buhari seeks senate confirmation for the following nominees into EFCC, oil industry boards

PRESS RELEASE President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm appointments of Secretary and Board members of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); Chairman, Chief Executive and Executive Commissioners for the Upstream Regulatory Commission; and Chairman, Chief Executive and Executive Directors for the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority. In letters to President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan, the President said he was acting in accordance with the provisions of the different laws governing the establishments. Nominees for the EFCC Board are; George Abang Ekpungu, Secretary of the Commission (Cross River); Lukman Muhammed, (Edo), Anumba Adaeze (Enugu), Kola…

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 05:49

Buhari asks N’Assembly to amend Petroleum Industry Act

President Muhammadu Buhari has sought amendments to the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), 2021. Buhari’s request was contained in separate letters addressed to Senate President Ahmad Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, and read at the commencement of plenary on Tuesday. Buhari, in the letter, said the amendments became imperative after a review of the administrative structure of both the Upstream Regulatory Commission and Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority. PIA provides for the establishment of the two agencies to regulate activities in the upstream, midstream and downstream oil industry. The president specifically sought for the expansion of…

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 05:46

North can survive without VAT revenue from South - Northern elders

Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesman of Northern Elders Forum, has said the north can survive without the billions from Southern states. There has been controversy since Rivers and Lagos States enacted laws to be in possession of VAT. The Court of Appeal halted the move by states to collect VAT pending determination of the suit before it, but Rivers government filed an appeal at the Supreme Court. Speaking when he featured on Arise TV on Tuesday, Baba-Ahmed said the north is rich and does not need to depend on any other region. “I will advise that we wait to hear what the…

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 05:45

Mailafia was taken to 3 health facilities before he passed on. Officials of the last 2 hospitals narrate their side of the story of how the ex-CBN deputy gov died

Authorities at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) have described as “false and inaccurate” the allegation of poor management of the former deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, by the staffers of the facility. The hospital’s management exclusively confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday evening that Mailafia died of coronavirus disease “due to comorbidities.” This revelation was reluctantly made by the hospital’s management, which had insisted that the confidentiality of its patients is sacrosanct. According to the hospital’s chief medical director, Bissallah Ekele, a professor, Mailafia had been managed at two other hospitals where his…

Wednesday, 22 September 2021 05:44

Troops in Niger state ambush bandits fleeing military onslaught in Zamfara, kill 42

As the war against bandits continues, the Joint Security Taskforce again recorded another success in Niger State as about 42 bandits were neutralized in Allawa, Shiroro Local Government Area. Recall that Shiroro LGA was said to be the most hit council in the state with activities of the bandits resulting in the killing and maiming of many, while others were rendered homeless. The Joint Security Taskforce comprising the Military and Mobile Police, according to sources, was reported to have ambushed the bandits who were suspected to be fleeing from Zamfara as a result of military operations going on in the…

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:58

Electricity tariff to increase as FG ends monthly subsidy

More difficult times await Nigerians in the months ahead as the Federal Government yesterday announced it is ending the N30 billion monthly electricity subsidy by January 2022. The decision is also to affect all forms of subsidies hitherto extended to operators in the power sector value chain. Special Adviser to the President on infrastructure, Ahmed Zakari, disclosed this at a stakeholders’ engagement meeting, organised by Nigerian Electricity Commission (NERC) in Lagos. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, had last July said the government expected the electricity sector to generate its revenue from the power sector market. The VP noted that government would…

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:56

FG extends phone blackout to Sokoto as crackdown on banditry spreads

Federal authorities imposed a communications blackout on Monday in several parts of Sokoto state as a crackdown against armed kidnappers in the country’s northwest region spreads. Gangs of armed men seeking lucrative ransom payments, known locally as bandits, have spread across northwestern Nigeria over the past year, kidnapping more than 1,000 students from schools and taking others from hospitals, homes and roads. Muhammad Bello, Sokoto state’s special adviser for media and publicity, said the state governor, in collaboration with the country’s Communications Ministry, had blocked communications services in 14 local government areas. The state earlier this month closed some roads…

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Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:55

Vaccinated or not, Nigerians visiting UK will still quarantine - Report

The United Kingdom has said it would consider vaccinated travelers from Nigeria, South America, UAE, India, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Russia and other African countries ‘unvaccinated’ from 4am on Monday, October 4. In new changes to its international travel rules posted on its official website, the UK government said if a person was fully vaccinated for at least 14 days under an approved programme in the UK, Europe, US or any of the ‘recognised’ countries, the individual would not have to quarantine for 10 days and would only be required to carry out Covid-19 test on day two after arriving the…

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:54

US easing foreign travel restrictions, requiring vaccines

President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions into the U.S. beginning in November and allow foreign nationals into the country if they have proof of vaccination and a negative Covid-19 test, the White House said Monday. The new rules replace a hodgepodge of restrictions that had barred non-citizens who had been in certain countries in the prior 14 days from entering the U.S. It would allow families and others who have been separated by the travel restrictions for 18 months to plan for long-awaited reunifications. White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients announced the new policies, which will require all…

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:52

Cameroon secessionists kill 15 soldiers in attacks using bombs

Separatist rebels have killed 15 Cameroonian soldiers and several civilians in two bomb attacks this month, the government said on Monday, marking a new phase of a conflict that has dragged on for nearly five years and cost more than 3,000 lives. Insurgents are seeking to form a breakaway state called Ambazonia in western Cameroon. They began fighting the military in 2017 after civilian protests calling for greater representation of the French-speaking country’s Anglophone minority were violently repressed. What began with occasional raids by secessionists on police and army outposts has turned into a protracted fight that has sucked the…

Monday, 20 September 2021 05:52

Obadiah Mailafia, ex-CBN deputy gov and social critic, died on Sunday. Middle Belt Forum narrates the suspicious circumstances of his death in a govt hospital

PRESS RELEASE The death of the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital Gwagwalada, Abuja, Sunday morning came to us as a great shock. As someone who relentlessly participated in the activities of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), his untimely death has dealt a deadly blow on ethnic nationalities of not only the Middle Belt but the country at large. Arising from various enquiries from Nigerians over the circumstances of his death, the Forum wishes to state as follows: That Mailafia arrived Abuja last Sunday September 12, 2021 from Akure…

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