…as Gov, housing minister launch construction of 250 units of ‘Renewed Hope Estate . Minister lauds Gov Yahaya for leading urban renewal initiatives with 550 Housing units at Shongo Gardens, others Segun Babatunde in Gombe Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, alongside Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa and his Minister of State, Engr. Abdullahi T. Gwarzo, have launched the construction of 250 units of Renewed Hope houses in Gombe. The Renewed Hope Housing Programme is an initiative of Bola Tinubu’s administration which the president launched earlier in February this year with the aim of…
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Segun Babatunde, Bauchi Women groups in Akko LGA of Gombe State have stressed the need for grassroots sensitization to educate communities against threat to the lives of women by cervical cancer and the urgent need to accept the vaccine irrespective of cultural and religious misinformation being peddled. The women group leaders spoke at a one day town hall meeting held in Kumo to create awareness about the efficacy of vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. While commending Azurfa women and youths development initiative (AWOYDI) for organising the awareness campaign, women leader Asabe Ali requested that similar exercise be replicated at ward…
Segun Babatunde, Gombe Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has reiterated his support and commitment to the full functioning and optimal operations of local governments for holistic grassroots development. The governor stated this Wednesday while presenting brand-new Toyota Hilux vehicles to the 11 local government chairmen during a brief ceremony held at Government House, Gombe. The vehicles were procured to support LGAs’ operations and ensure effective and efficient governance. According to him, “These vehicles are not for leisure or luxury; they are for work.They are provided to support the operations of local governments, whose basic responsibility is to look…
Agency Reporter The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed June 13 to hear a suit filled by the Federal Fovernment against the 36 state governors over alleged misconduct in the handling of local government affairs Justice Garba Lawal fixed the date while ruling in an application for abridgment of time argued by Lateef Fgebemi, SAN to allow time for all parties to file their processes and exchange same. He ordered the 36 state governors of the federation to file their respective defense to a suit instituted against them by the federal government seeking for full autonomy for the 774 local government…
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule and 24 other lawmakers from parading and holding themselves as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The presiding judge, Justice C.N. Wali, gave the order in a suit filed by the pro-Governor Siminilayi Fubara lawmakers led by their Speaker, Victor Oko-Jumbo and two others, Sokari Goodboy and Orubienimigha Timothy. The suit listed the 25 lawmakers as 1st to 25th defendants and Rivers Governor , the state’s Attorney-General and the Chief Judge of the state as 26th to…
Barring any changes, the airlifting of pilgrims to Israel may commence as from June 29. Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) with all the leaders of Christian Pilgrims Boards left Abuja, on Wednesday, to Israel to put finishing touches to accommodation, transportation and logistics for the intending pilgrims to the Holy Land. They have gone to Israel to assess the state of readiness of the facilities to be used by the Nigerian contingent in the Holy Land. They are to assess all arrangements made so far so as to have a smooth and easy pilgrimage to Israel. Everything…
An Adamawa State grassroots mobilzer, Alhaji Bello Hong, has described the one of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Nigeria’s highest political office as “nothing to write home about.” Hong, who has been an advocate for the masses, said the government of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the leadership of President Tinubu has scored very low in terms of performance. The grassroots mobilizer, while x-raying the 365 days of the current administration in the area of Health, Agriculture, Youth inclusive in government, Education, security, finance and Banking, said Tinubu has failed to deliver on the mandate of the masses that…
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State said his saddest moment was any time he received news of bandits’ attacks in the state. Radda, who stated this on Wednesday in Katsina at a press briefing for his one year in office, also revealed that his elder brother was killed by bandits. “My saddest moment is when I receive calls that people were killed, houses burnt and women raped by bandits in a particular village. The only way to appreciate that is to put yourself in their shoes, and you will feel it. I have developed that feeling and it remained with…
The Federal Government has stepped in to address the recent deportation orders issued against some Nigerian students at Teesside University in the United Kingdom. A delegation led by a representative of the Nigerian Embassy in the UK, Ambassador Christian Okeke, along with leaders of the Nigerian Students Union in the UK, will meet with the university’s management to seek a resolution. This decision follows a virtual meeting chaired by the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, and attended by Okeke, the President of the Nigerian Students Union UK, Yemi Soile, and several affected students. The meeting was…
Federal Government, on Wednesday, expressed commitment to ending torture at detention centres where people don’t have the freedom to live at their own will. Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Mrs Beatrice Jedy-Agba, disclosed this at a sensitization and advocacy workshop for law enforcement agencies and other critical stakeholders on the United Nations Convention against torture, in Abuja. Jedy-Agba noted that the sensitization forms part of measures aimed at eradicating the use of torture by public officials, describing the act as cruel, inhuman, and degrading. She added that the law on preventing the use of torture…