The Nigerian Army has violated the 2017 revised Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers, by failing to provide artificial limbs for hundreds of soldiers injured during the Boko Haram war in the North-East and other operations across the country. At the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna State, alone, there are more than 400 injured soldiers who are attached to Operations Lafiya Dole and Sahel Sanity. SaharaReporters obtained the new HTACOS 2017 which replaced the 2012 edition, and where it is stipulated that “where the limb was lost as a direct result of an accident while on duty,…
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The Ekiti State Government in Nigeria has taken the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, to court over the dismissal of a constable, Ms. Omolola Olajide, for getting pregnant without serving for the required number of years. The state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Wale Fapohunda, in a suit challenging the police’s decision contended that the state government took the legal option having considered the dismissal as a constitutional infraction, aberration and flagrant discrimination against women in the force. The commissioner, in a statement on Sunday by his Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Mr. Olalekan Suleiman, said…
The leader of Fulani herdsmen and Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, in Kano State, Zubairu Ibrahim, has disclosed that herdsmen from South West, South East and other parts of the country have indicated interest to relocate to the Kano RUGA settlement. According to Ibrahim, some of the herdsmen are from states such as Nasarawa, Niger, Enugu, Oyo, among others. He said that herdsmen from five states of the federation have already relocated to Kano. “We have some Fulani herdsmen from Kebbi, Zamfara, Kaduna, Sokoto, and Jigawa who are now in Kano,” Ibrahim was quoted by…
A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari’s government over the cryptocurrency ban by the apex bank. Recall that CBN ordered banks and financial institution in Nigeria to close the accounts of cryptocurrency traders. CBN in its circular signed by Director of Banking Supervision, Bello Hassan, directed financial institutions to halt any transactions in crypto or to facilitate payments for crypto exchanges. Reacting to the development, which Nigerians have greatly criticised, Moghalu in an interview on Channels Tv Sunday Politics, said the move was as though the Buhari-led administration is always making…
A former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has replied former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido who berated him and other All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders for not speaking out against the farmers/herdsmen clashes in most parts of the country. Amaechi, who appeared on Channel Television’s Sunday Politics yesterday, said his position as Minister would not allow him speak on the farmers-herders crisis. Lamido had recently berated the former Rivers Governor and others for being indifferent over the travails of Fulani in the South despite working hard for President Muhammadu Buhari to emerge as Presiden…
President Muhammadu Buhari, former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu; former Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; President, African Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina; and the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, are among dignitaries lined up to speak to participants at Ehingbeti, the Lagos economic summit, scheduled to hold from next Tuesday to Thursday. Other speakers expected at the summit are Founder and Chair of Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Mo Ibrahim; Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola and Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akabueze; and United Nations…
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has dismissed suggestions that he is being touted as the country’s next president, noting that only God knows Nigeria’s next leader. Amaechi who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics explained that he is focussing on his job as a minister and would not want to be distracted. “I am still the Minister for Transportation and only God can tell who will be the President of Nigeria in 2023,” the 58-year-old Minister said during the programme. The Minister had earlier said the Kano-Maradi (Niger Republic) rail project will cost the Nigerian government $1.9bn. “The project…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has opened investigations into bank accounts of companies involved in the trading of cryptocurrencies with the intention of blocking those with suspicious transactions and fraud. A top central bank official while giving THISDAY more insight into last week’s decision mandating banks to close all accounts belonging to cryptocurrency traders, also pushed back criticism of the policy, saying the bank won’t abandon its regulatory roles to critics. The bank also insisted in a statement on Sunday by its Director of Communications, Mr. Osita Nwanisobi, that the restriction regime is to protect Nigerians and the financial…
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a comprehensive reform of the structures and operations of the African Union, to make it more functional in meeting targets, warning that the organization would become stale, except it becomes more result-oriented. In an intervention at the ongoing two-day 34th Summit of the AU, held virtually, the President said: “As your excellences are no doubt aware, global realities demand that the AU be overhauled if it must remain relevant in intergovernmental processes. We must work concertedly to ensure a productive, self-sufficient, and purpose driven organization that will fully serve the interests of the people.…
DR Congo on Sunday announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of the country’s previous outbreak. “We have another episode of the Ebola virus” in the Biena health zone of North Kivu province, Health Minister Eteni Longondo told state television RTNC. “It was a farmer, the wife of a survivor ofEbola, who showed typical signs of the disease on February 1,” he added. She died on February 3, after which a sample of her blood tested positive for Ebola, the health ministry said. The Democratic Republic of Congo declared…