Author: Khadijah Olowode
President Bola Tinubu has signed the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024, into law. The bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on July 27, 2023, and the Senate on November 14, 2023, was sponsored by Honourable Babajimi Benson, who represents Ikorodu Federal Constituency of Lagos State. The Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024, seeks to address the development and environmental concerns of host communities, and sets aside five percent of the actual annual operating expenditures of power generating companies (GENCOs) from the preceding year for the development of their respective host communities. The Bill further provides that the funds…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has called on Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso who recently announced their withdrawal from the subregional bloc to have a rethink and follow the path of dialogue and reconciliation. The Chairman of the Mediation and Security Council at the Ministerial Level and Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar while insisting that the choice of the three countries would only hurt the people, when responding to questions at the end of the sub-region extra ordinary session of the Council. Tuggar regretted that the decision of the three Sahelian countries under military…
The Executive Secretary of the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA), Prince Paul Ikonne, has urged other stakeholders to emulate the efforts of the Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, in reviving agriculture, which he said is in line with President Tinubu’s agricultural agenda for food security. Ikonne said, “I want to call on all other stakeholders to quickly key into this agricultural revolution of Mr. President by adopting the method of the Governor of Borno State, the method of unconditional land donation, and the method of total commitment.” He added, “This is the mission and mindset of the President,…
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has sealed off a total of 15 facilities in the Federal Capital Territory for various forms of environmental crimes, threatening to extend the clampdown across the 36 states of the country. Briefing newsmen after the exercise on Wednesday, 7 February, 2024, the Director General of NESREA, Professor Aliyu Jauro said the facilities were sealed for failing to abate their environmental infractions after series of compliance concern notices had been issued to them. He disclosed that the agency had followed due process in clamping down of the establishments, adding that, “before enforcement,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Militia group terrorizing parts of Nazarawa State have killed no fewer than three soldiers and two members of a vigilante group in the state It was gathered that the incident occurred when the assailants ambushed the soldiers in the Katakpa community of Toto local government area of the state. Chairman of the LGA, Abdullahi Tashas, and the state lawmaker representing Ugya-Umaisha constituency, Ibrahim Saad, confirmed the sad development to AIT. According to them, the soldiers were on a peace mission to the troubled Katakpa area when they were unfortunately murdered. They explained that the soldiers were deployed…
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction and sentencing of Abdulazeez Isah to three years imprisonment for parading himself as a staff of the EFCC. Abraham Adama and Uzoma Isaac Iwu were also jailed for fraud by Justices Darius Khobo and A. Isiaka of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna. While Justice Isiaka jailed Isah after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering on impersonation, Justice Khobo handed Adama two years imprisonment for cheating by impersonating American movie star Sylvester Stallone on social media and three years to Iwu for cybercrimes. The charge against Isa reads: “That you Abdulazeez Isah sometime in…
President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, 8 February, 2024, performed the groundbreaking of the 3,112 housing-unit Renewed Hope City in Karsana, Abuja, and reiterated his administration’s resolve to provide decent and affordable housing for Nigerians. The project is a part of 20,000 housing units to be delivered in the Federal Capital Territory under a Public Private Partnership Arrangement being implemented by the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and it represents the first practical expression of the administration’s desire to implement a New City Development Plan under the Renewed Hope Agenda. The President said under this plan, integrated living communities…
By Segun Dope I have known Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, CON, initialled JKF, for what now seems ages. I dare say that his leadership qualities are legion. So, it should not surprise anyone that despite all that has been said about him in the past, people cannot stop talking about those values he espouses in different tones and ways. For starters, Dr. Fayemi deserves all the accolades he has been getting in and outside of office as governor, minister, lecturer, activist and globally sought-for speaker. He reads, he writes, he talks and he walks his talk in a passionate manner. …
A media watch group in Nigeria has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to shield any individual or group involved financial crimes in the country. Muslim Media Watch Group, a non-governmental organization, says exposing them will help the country to get rid of corruption and economic problems bedeviling the country. The call came on the heels of recent revelations by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede that some religious organisations were aiding and abetting corrupt practices and money laundering At a one-day dialogue with stakeholders in Abuja, the nation’s capital, Olukoyede…