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Deputy Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Ojeladun Okunromade (Sitting 4th, left); State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ikechukwu Obi (5th left) and other participants during a Sub-National Health Security Assessment of International Health Regulations Core Capacities meeting in Enugu on Wednesday, April 14. PHOTO: MIKE AGADA/BJO/NAN. Embattled Minister Pantami Blames Opponents, Bandits BY SALOME UNWUCHOLA the National Identification it is not only for citizens. government, it will go a government appointee, and commit crime will not be Number registration is not And it is also important to long way in reducing crime at this level, if you say you able to do that. The Minister of only meant for Nigerians know that this is not just and based on the statistics are going to be intimidated “If they do that, the Communications and and that it could be an indication that they are we have been seeing now, by everything, then you government will be able to Digital Economy, Isa obtained by anybody in citizens of Nigeria. it’s really encouraging. cannot do the work. You intercept them easily. This Pantami, has blamed Nigeria. “It is rather an indication “As government, our cannot do the work. I is what they don’t want to forces against the Federal “Now they have started that you presented your priority is the protection was with the Minister of happen.” Government policy of coming with the news that biometric data, so the of the lives and property Foreign Affairs this week, And this is a mandate compulsory National people are coming from government has control of our citizens. Security on April 12. I was with the given to me by President Identity Number (NIN) neighbouring countries over your data. is our priority as a minister. I was with the . He registration for all to register. What they fail “And that data government – whether ambassadors of the U.K., personally signed the letter Nigerians and those to understand is that the of NIMC (National in agric, digital economy, the U.S., South Korea, and that ‘you are mandated to residing in the country for National Identification Identity Management education or in health, many other countries. do that’. the attacks against him. Number is not only for Commission), nobody has in whatever. President “Even this issue that we “As his appointee, I He further denied Nigerians; anybody in access to it in any way he Muhammadu Buahari is so are talking about, based on should either do it or say links to extremist views, Nigeria can obtain it. likes. Getting access to passionate about security, our findings, preliminary I cannot. So, since I am saying criminals and other “Section 16 and 17 of the it illegally is 10 years in and he directed me to do investigation, many people willing to serve my country, ‘entrenched interests’ are Act mention the registrable prison. It is there in the that because he knows I are not happy with what we I must continue to do it to behind the attacks on him. people in the country – law. But people will like to try to persevere despite have been doing – linking the best of my ability. He said, “I have no doubt citizens, legal residents, discredit it, because they challenges and do what is National Identification “So, in my meeting with about this. It has to do with legal permanent residents, don’t like it. right in the interest of our Number with SIM. Because them, they even encouraged the National Identification and legal residents for a “As long as it is citizens and humanity.” a situation will come that me to push it and make it Number. Do you know minimum of two years. So, implemented by the “You know as a all the people using SIM to very successful”. one thing? This policy was started in 2011, it was not successful. Why? It was of peace in all parts of the fought. country, further assured that “In 2015, it came up, it Army Won’t Be Discouraged From Protecting Lives his administration would was not successful. In 2018 BY HENRY IBYA MAKURDI Ortom, at Government act must be apprehended and said he had lost sleep since cooperate with security there was a time that there House in Makurdi, said the made to face justice. the unfortunate incident agencies to ensure that those were meetings between The Nigerian Military, Nigerian Army is deeply Gen. Magashi, also occurred. responsible for the dastardly government and mobile Thursday, assured the saddened as well as equally conveyed President The governor, who act were apprehended and network operators. public that it will not be disappointed over the Muhammadu Buhari’s acknowledged the brought to justice. “And it was actually discouraged from carrying killings. displeasure over the killings enormous support and announced that by out its responsibility of The minister who was of the soldier’s describing contribution of security agreement with the protecting lives and property accompanied on the visit the act as barbaric but agencies with particular government, the deadline of Nigerians despite the by the chief of Defence and warned that any attempt by emphasis to the military for was January 2018. It is recent killing of 12 of its that of Army staff,as well as disgruntled elements to make ensuring peace in the state, there online, I will share personnel in Konshisha Local other top military Officers the country ungovernable informed the team that he it with you if you like. By Government Area of Benue told the governor that they will be resisted. had directed stakeholders January 2018, it was not State. were in the state to restore In his response, Governor from the Konshisha Local implemented, because Minister of Defence Gen. confidence of the troops but Ortom, expressed deep Government Area to fish out there are forces against it. Bashir Magashi (retd), who insisted that for the moral of sympathies with the the murderers. 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ةLike our facebook page www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng news e-mail: [email protected] ISSS Honors On Omojuwa Bello, Attestation IGR: Lagos Tops Other States Alleged Forgery: Of Inclusive Ezekwesili Petitions With N418.99bn In 2020 IGP, Demands Governance BY UMORU ABDULKADIR, LAGOS The report indicated that N117,19 billion IGR in 2020; with 1.31 per cent; Cross contributed a share FCT generated N92.06 billion River had 1.24 per cent with Prosecution – Ohere Lagos State topped other of 32.08 per cent of the total with a share of 7.05 per cent, N16.18 billion; and Abia had BY WISDOM ONYEISI BY SULEIMN ABDUL states of the federation, IGR of N1.31 trillion realised Delta contributed a share of a percentage of 1.10 with its including the Federal Capital by the states in the country in 4.57 per cent with N59.73 N14.38 billion. The former Minister of Ed- Kogi State Commissioner for Territory (FCT), in Internally 2020. billion IGR while Kaduna Kebbi generated N13.78 Generated Revenue (IGR) ucation Obiageli Ezekwesi- Works and Housing, Engr. ”The 36 states and FCT generated N50.77 billion — billion — 1.05 per cent; Ebonyi li has asked the Inspector Abubakar Ohere, says the State in 2020, realising a total of IGR figure hit N1.31trn in 3.89 per cent. State had 1.04 per cent with N418.99 billion in the year. General of Police Usman Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza 2020 compared to N1.33trn Ogun State contributed N13.59 billion revenue; Bauchi Baba to investigate and Bello will run an inclusive gov- This is indicated in the recorded in 2019. This 3.89 per cent with its N50.75 generated N12.50 billion — National Bureau of Statistics’ prosecute a social media ernance if elected as the Coun- indicates a negative growth of billion; Oyo 2.91 per cent with 0.96 per cent; while Nasawara influencer Japhet Omoju- try’s President come 2023. Published Internally Generated -1.93 per cent year on year. N38.04 billion, Kano had 2.44 followed on 0.96 percent with Revenue for State level for wa over allegations of forg- Engr. Ohere stated this while ”Lagos State has the highest per cent share with N31.82 N12.48 billion. ery and misrepresentation. reacting to the Investiture of Fourth Quarter and Full Year Internally Generated Revenue billion, Akwa Ibom had 2.35 Bayelsa had 0.93 per cent 2020. This was contained in a Gov. Yahaya Bello as Fellow by with N418.99bn recorded, per cent with N30.70 billion N12.18 billion; Sokoto realised petition seen by Aljazirah- the Institute of Security and It showed that in spite of closely followed by Rivers with and Anambra had 2.14 per cent N11.80 billion — 0.90 per cent; the challenges posed by the Nigeria titled, “Petition Strategic Studies (ISSS) which N117.19bn while Yobe State after generating N28.01 billion Borno had 0.89 per cent with Against Mr Japheth Omo- was held at the Yar’Adua Cen- COVID-19 pandemic and the recorded the least Internally EndSARS mayhem, Lagos in 2020. N11.58 billion; Katsina on 0.87 juwa for Forgery, Fraud- tre in . He said Governor Generated revenue,” the NBS Also, Edo generated N27.18 per cent with N11.40 billion; ulent Misrepresentation Bello since his assumption of State increased its IGR by 5.08 report indicated. per cent. billion — 2.08 per cent; Ondo Niger generated N10.52 billion and Fraudulent Use of the Office as the Executive Gover- The Lagos State 2020 IGR Name, Identity and Partic- nor of State Kogi has been run- The state generated a total of realised N24.85 billion — 1.90 — 0.81 per cent; while Benue showed that the state realised per cent; Enugu, 1.81 per cent stood at 0.80 per cent with ulars of Mrs. Obiageli Eze- ning an inclusive governance in N114 billion in first quarter of N278.89 billion from the Pay the State, stressing that if elect- 2020; N90.51 billion in second with N23.65 billion IGR; Osun N10.46 billion. kwesili as a Director of Al- As You Earn (PAYE) taxes; had 1.51 per cent with N19.67 Ekiti had 0.67 per cent with pha Reach Limited RC No: ed as President in 2023, he will quarter, N107.84 billion in N17.07 billion from Direct help reset the Country through third quarter, and N106.63 billion; Kwara, 1.50 per cent N8.72 billion; Jigawa on 0.66 1066507” and dated April Assessment, Road Taxes — N19.60 billion; and Plateau per cent with N8.67 billion; 14, 2021. It was submit- inclusive governance. billion in fourth quarter, contributed N12.14 billion, making a total of N418.99 had 1.46 per cent with N19.12 Gombe had 0.65 per cent with ted and acknowledged by Engr. Abubakar noted that while a total of N51.79 billion Governor Bello will as well, pro- billion. billion revenue. N8.54 billion; Adamawa, 0.64 the Force Headquarters in The state’s 2020 IGR of was from the Ministries, Zamfara generated N18.50 per cent share with N8.33 Abuja on Friday. vide leadership beyond region- Departments and Agencies al sentiments, describing him N418.99 billion increased billion having a share of 1.42 billion; Taraba, 0.62 per cent In the petition signed by as a detribalized personality by N20.26 billion, when (MDAs) revenue. per cent; Kogi had 1.33 per with N8.11 billion; and lastly, Marshal Abubakar of the who will help unify the vari- compared with N398.73 Following after Lagos State cent with N17.36 billion IGR; Yobe, 0.60 per cent with N7.78 Falana and Falana Cham- ous tribes of the Country. generated in 2019. is Rivers with 8.97 per cent — Imo realised N17.08 billion billion IGR. bers on behalf of Ezekwesi- The Commissioner appre- li, Omojuwa was accused of ciated the Institute of Secu- listing the name of the for- rity and Strategic Studies for mer minister as a director conferring the Fellowship on of a company, Alpha Reach the Governor whom he de- Limited, without her con- scribed as one that has dem- sent in 2012. onstrated commitment and The petition claimed used innovative approach to that Ezekwesili was not secure the lives and proper- aware that her name was ty of the people of Kogi State. listed until March 30, He lauded the Institute for the 2021, when she was con- addition of the institute’s first tacted by someone from ever ‘Security Personality of Buzzfeed informing her The Year Award’ on Gov. Bel- that she was listed as one lo, describing the feat as well of the directors of Alpha deserved. Engr. Ohere point- Reach Limited alongside ed out that Nigeria needs a vi- Nasir El-Rufai and Japhet sionary youth with an impec- Omojuwa. cable character at a period like Ezekwesili noted that she this, stressing that Governor contacted Omojuwa to con- Yahaya Adoza Bello is an em- firm whether he forged her bodiment of all the Country signature and other incor- needs to move forward hence, Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen (R back) with members of the committee on Strategic Knowledge Management and poration documents, but he the need to rally round him to National Technical Working Group on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, during their inauguration in Abuja on Tuesday, April 13. informed her that the Al- ensure his success. PHOTO: DEBORAH BADA/HB/NAN pha Reach Company Lim- The Commissioner congrat- ited was his company and ulated Gov. Bello for scoring she was not involved in it. yet another plus and prayed Ezekwesili also claimed God to guide and endow him Don Advocates Deployment Of Corps Members To ECOWAS States that her name was later del- with more wisdom as he pre- BY JOEL AJAYI his lecture titled; “Strategies labour market”, he said. development. isted in 2017 as a director pares to pilot the affairs of the for Sustaining the NYSC in a The Varsity Don, who NYSC Director-General, and replaced with the name Country come 2023. A Lecturer in the University of Changing World”, delivered bemoaned inter-ethnic Brigadier General Shuaibu of one Indimi Ahmed Mo- Ibadan, Prof. Oka Obono has at the 2021 NYSC Top distrust as the bane of the Ibrahim in his remarks said hammed in 2017. advised the National Youth Management Retreat held in county’s problems commended that the retreat was a platform Noting that she had nev- Service Corps to utilize the Suleja, Niger State. Brigadier General Shuaibu for the Scheme’s appraisal er at a time signed docu- provisions of the ECOWAS He advocated that all Ibrahim for his exemplary of its operations by the top ments as a director of the Free Movement for the stakeholders should embrace leadership style since assuming management. company, the petition fur- deployment of Corps Members expansion strategies that duty as the 18th DG of NYSC. He added that it would ther read that throughout across the Member States. would be of benefit to the He further advised that also help to formulate new the time Ezekwesili was He said this will reduce youths. all stakeholders must adopt strategies that will guide its ‘fraudulently’ made a di- unemployment among the “Expand operations to the a high level of diplomacy operations in a changing world. rector of the said company, youth, and also curb the West African region thereby and advocacy to positively “We will intensify more on no notice of meeting, an- increasing rate of social vices reducing internal graduate engage the unlearned youths our proactive disposition to nual returns, accounts and among them. unemployment and reducing who are potential threats to official engagements to move board resolution was ever Bello Obono stated this during pressures on the Nigerian societal peace and national the Scheme Forward”, he said. issued to her. الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 7 ةالجزير نيجيريا

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news and ready to have such a Gunmen Attack relationship with any willing airline. First Bank Plc In He disclosed that his airline had signed a Memorandum of Anambra, Destroy Understanding (MoU) with Vehicles some airlines in the country. This is just as the airline Gunmen on Thursday is in the process of acquiring struck at the First Bank Plc, land space from the Federal Abagana in Anambra state Airports Authority of Nigeria shooting sporadically into (FAAN) in a bid to set up its the air, dispersing bank Maintenance Repair Overhaul customers and passersby. (MRO) facility aimed at Eyewitness said the serving the airline and others gunmen, numbering about ten, who drove in black both domestically and in the Honda Pilot Sports Utility sub-region. Vehicle (SUV) set fire on He said the new airline that a Nissan Pathfinder SUV commenced operations eight with registration number weeks ago had airlifted 25,000 UR 640 KJA, and smashed passengers already with an glasses of a Honda car with average of 3,200 passengers registration number FST weekly. 456 AC, all parked in front Director of Administration of the airline, Linus Awute, of the bank. From left: Zonal Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), RS 11, Emmanuel Abe; Oyo State Sector Commander, Uche Chukwurah; It is not clear if anyone and Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Prof. Abiodun Otegbayo, at the commissioning of RS 11.3, FRSC, Oyo State said the airline was trying to sustained gunshot injury, Command Staff Clinic Laboratory, facilitated by Chukwurah in Ibadan on Wednesday, April 14. PHOTO: TIMOTHY ADEOGODIRAN/BJO/NAN grow steadily, and monitoring just as normal human the trend to inject more and vehicular movements capacity as necessary. continued after the Financial Secretary of gunmen left. Forex Scarcity Cripples Local Airlines, Spikes Airfares the National Association of Many observers say this BY CYRIL OGAR arrangement to cut down the given that the sector requires to increasing fares through Nigerian Travel Agencies could be the handiwork cost of operation and enhance dollars for all aspects of its adjustment in the ticket price (NANTA), Daisi Olotu, also of the newly formed The foreign exchange (FX) survival chances. operations. as a result of the high cost of confirmed the FX challenge, Ebubeagu security outfit liquidity crisis is eating deeper But the effect is telling on Regrettably, “CBN has not the commodity. saying that local authorities, by South East governors into the daily operations of air travelers, who have to pay given dollars to airlines since The price of the commodity especially, the Central Bank of to discredit the widely the local airlines, causing more airfares for less than an February 2021 owing to the is said to be more expensive Nigeria (CBN), could do much accepted IPOB’s #ESN, airlines’ capacity to dwindle hour travel time. Fact check scarcity of foreign currency. in other airports aside from more to support the industry noting that the “Unknown and hitting up airfares. yesterday showed that future Aircraft business is very Lagos, Abuja and Enugu to survive the difficult period Gunmen” which most AljazirahNigeria, flights still range between capital intensive. The solution airport. Most airports have and begin the recovery phase. South Easterners support learned that operators in N35, 000 and N55, 000, on to the survival of airlines is one aviation fuel marketer; Olotu said NANTA do not hoist flags and the aviation sector have one-way Economy Class, and access to spare parts. Aircraft thereby leading to the members’ mandatory annual do not attack public not received FX requests an average of N90, 000 for spare parts are not sold here in monopoly of the supply of the dues to IATA had been institutions like banks. from the Central Bank since return tickets on most of the Nigeria, they are sold overseas. commodity to airlines, who remitted to the bank, saddled The attack took place February, which explains airlines. The aviation industry should queue to get their supplies in with converting the same to barely hours after IPOB why multiple airplanes However, most sticky for be given all the necessary many of the airports. dollars for onward remittance Leader, Mazi Nnamdi are stuck in maintenance travelers are today’s flights, support to ensure the survival The airline chief, however, to IATA. Kanu raised alarm of DSS’ facilities overseas, and a lot currently billed by some of airlines”. stated that he would want “But the CBN has not been plan to attack banks in the more unserviceable and on airlines, over-the-counter, for Similarly, the rise in the cost to believe that the operators able to grant our members South East to accuse IPOB the ground at airports. between N100, 000 and N130, of aviation fuel, from N160 would not be unreasonable just $60,000. In place, they of being responsible for it. The chairman of United 000 for one-way Economy per liter to N260 per litre, in with the fixing of ticket prices. are offering $4000. What Confirming the incident, Nigeria Airlines, Obiora Class. the last few weeks was also Okonkwo said the airline the Anambra State Police are we to do with that? IATA Okonkwo, who confirmed the konkwo, told reporters in fingered for over 50 per cent might be condemned to has been magnanimous and Command Spokesman, dire straits, said local carriers Lagos yesterday that the forex rise in the cost of airfares. interline and code share DSP Ikenga Tochukwu said showed understanding, but it might have to consider scarcity remains the major Okonkwo said that airlines to scale the hurdle, adding is not just fair on our survival it received a distress call of interlining or a codeshare alleged robbery attack on challenge facing all operators, would in most cases resort that his airline was willing plan”, Olotu said. a bank customer at about 3: PM. He said the man was trailed to a bank by the : 65,000 Borno Residents Flee To Niger Over Persistent Attacks –Report suspected armed robbers BY HASSAN JIRGI that since April 10, the NGO staff managed to hide how residents and their the lives of its citizens. in the Ogbunike area. The jihadist sect have carried out and escape the town, but livestock are fleeing their “A large number of victim on sighting the No fewer than 65,000 three consecutive attacks their private houses were set home towns. vulnerable children, women hoodlums abandoned his residents in Damasak town, on Damasak town and the ablaze after house-to-house However, the statement and men will have no relief car in front of the bank and Borno State have fled their humanitarian community. searches, demonstrating noted that about 8.7 million and no protection, unless the escaped. homes to neighbouring “A series of attacks by an unprecedented level of people in the North-East Nigerian government and According to him, the Niger Republic over incessant armed groups on Damasak targeting of humanitarian region of the country are in international donors do more hoodlums in anger burnt attacks by Boko Haram the yet unidentified young town in North-East workers,” the statement dire need of humanitarian to help us stay and deliver. terrorists between April 10 Nigeria, including multiple revealed. assistance due to ten years of “Governments cannot shy man’s vehicle and in a and 14. bid to escape and started humanitarian compounds, Damasak is the conflict. away from their responsibility The violent attacks by the has forced the majority of the headquarters of Mobbar “Currently, more than a to protect civilians. Our access shooting sporadically in terrorists have also halted the air. population to flee the city and Local Government Area in million of these people receive and ability to safely support “Unfortunately Stray multiple humanitarian humanitarian organisations northern Borno. The town no assistance and have no the millions of people in need bullets hit two persons who activities in the entire region to suspend their operations. is a few kilometres from the access to basic social services is shrinking day by day, at a were rushed to the hospital that has been ravaged by “The violent attacks border of Niger. because humanitarians time when needs are reaching for medical attention. insurgency for over a decade. pushed an estimated 65,000 Multiple media lack safe access to the areas alarming levels”, he said. “Meanwhile, Police This was made known people from Damasak on the organisations on April 14 where they are,” the NGOs The onslaught of Boko Operatives are on their Friday in a joint statement road. Thousands of families reported how Boko Haram disclosed. Haram insurgency has trail and efforts are being issued by Non Governmental and elderly people in dire fighters attacked the city of Jan Egeland, Secretary led to the deaths of tens intensified to get them Organisations (NGOs), need, and largely dependent Damasak, killing at least 10 General of the Norwegian of thousands citizens and apprehended in order to Action Against Hunger and on humanitarian aid, are people. Refugee Council, said the rendered over two million bring them to Justice”, he Norwegian Refugee Council. currently crossing the Yobe In a viral video published Nigerian government has people homeless since it said. The report mentioned river towards Niger for safety. on social media, displayed failed in its duty to protect started in 2009. الجزير نيجيريا

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ةLike our facebook page www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng news e-mail: [email protected] NMA Disowns Explore ‘Medical Doctor’ PIB Faces Another Hurdle As Endowment With Links Senate Receives Fresh Petition Option For BY CYRIL OGAR document. Enhanced Funding To Bandits In Rather, it recommended, BY RUTH GBAKA Nigerians in diaspora, members of the board Zamfara under the aegis of Isoko The Minister of FCT, must be selected by the Muhammad Musa Bello has The Nigeria Medical Association of North host communities and America, have petitioned urged the Vice-Chancellor of Association (NMA) has oil companies, saying the Ahmadu Bello University denied media reports the Senate President, Ahmed the responsibilities of Lawan, over the Petroleum Zaria, Prof. Kabir Bala connecting medical the settlers relating to to pursue the options of doctors with banditry in Industry Bill, alleging that approval of the project, the document would worsen individual and corporate Zamfara State. administration of the endowments as a means of This is contained in the already-cold relationship board of trustees, meeting between oil companies and enhancing funding for the a statement signed in procedure determination, institution. Gusau on Friday by their host communities. fund disbursement among The Minister gave this the association’s state The group, in a petition others should be left for advice when a delegation from Chairman and Secretary, exclusively obtained by jointly-selected trustees to the University led by the Vice- Dr Mannir Bature and Dr AljazirahNigeria, is determine. Chancellor paid a courtesy Remigius Nwachukwu. seeking the redrafting Where there are visit to the FCTA last week. “The attention of of the host community sabotages, the group said, While responding to the the Nigerian Medical development section of the there should be a joint issue of alumni support Association (NMA), controversial bill, saying community - cor porate through endowment raised Zamfara State Chapter, the “it marginalises rather by the Vice-Chancellor, Sylva mechanism body to has been drawn to a than adopts an inclusive investigate the events Malam Bello said it was an publication from various approach towards the host companies,” the document of the common trust fund rather than take action option that had not been fully implemented and encouraged media organisations communities”. noted. as against fragmented solely on the basis of the with a caption, ‘Police The petition, which was To reduce transaction him to fully exploit its trustees as provided in the assessment of the affected possibilities and potentials. in Zamfara arrest tendered on April 9, 2021, costs on the parts of the bill currently before the oil companies. said the section in its original According to the Minister, medical doctor, 7 others oil companies and host National Assembly. The bill says that “The issue of university in connection with design confers “significant communities, the group is It faulted the provision, “wherein any year, an act decision-making powers funding came up at a forum banditry. proposing a joint trust fund powers of “settlors” (oil of vandalism, sabotage or and alumni support was very “However, we will like on the oil communities” to arrangement that would companies), who are saddled other civil unrest occurs that control the proposed trust prominent. This included to make it clear to the enable oil firms operating with the responsibilities of causes damage to petroleum endowments by people who general public that the fund. It was signed by its in a community to establish selecting members of the and designated facilities President-General, Obaro are well to do and endowments above caption, which and manage a common trust board of trustees, funding or disrupts production by companies”. emanated from a joint Odu, Prof. Obenekhome fund to which 2.5 per cent approval, project selection activities within the host Malam Bello continued “I press statement between Onokpise among others. of their actual operating cost among others. community, the community think it’s not something that the state Ministries of “We fear that the would be channeled. It warned that the shall forfeit its entitlement has been well implemented Information and that institutional arrangements According to the body, suggestion that the board to the extent of the cost and I’m sure that during of Security and Home are a recipe for tension and a joint board of trustees, of trustee members does of repairs of the damage your tenure, if you continue Affairs is incorrect. conflict rather than harmony consisting of representatives not necessarily be members that resulted from the the way you are doing, Our investigation at a time every effort should of the firms and host of the host communities is activity with respect to the you will encourage more revealed that the said be exerted to reduce the communities, would be an unimaginable “colonial provision of this Act within people through the way of person is not a medical potential of friction between an appropriate structure arrangement” that must the financial year”. endowment for educational doctor, but a Medical the host communities and oil for optimal management be expunged from the institutions to give back, Laboratory Technician, as part of giving back to the who is parading himself society”. as a medical doctor to The Minister said that the defraud unsuspecting Irabor Reiterate Shoot-on-sight Order On Illegal Bearers Of AK-47 FCT Administration will also explore the option of working individuals. BY SALOME UNWUCHOLA He added: “The armed since his appointment, will in no time begin to closely with the Consultancy “The person is neither forces and other security commended Governor experience greater levels of Services arm of the University a resident nor does he The Chief of Defence Staff, agencies are the only Ifeayin Okowa for his peace and security.” General Lucky Irabor, has for the Provision of needed work in Zamfara state. institutions that are support to the armed forces Earlier, Okowa had professional expertise. He said “This clarification described illegal bearers mandated to carry arms in and other security agencies congratulated the CDS on his “There are lots of areas where becomes necessary owing of AK 47 as enemies of the the course of their duties. in the state. appointment and promotion we need expertise and I’m sure to the fact that only country, and deserved to “So anyone who is carrying His words: “Delta is my and urged him to do more to you will have it, whether it’s in holders of MBBS, MBChB be shot on sight as directed an AK-47 or any other home and it feels good to secure the nation. survey, town planning, urban and BDS are entitled to by President Muhammadu weapon, for that matter, is be home, and I said that I Buhari issued the shoot renewal and so on”. be called medical doctor”, Buhari. considered a threat to the cannot come home without on sight order last month The Minister continued “we they said. Irabor told reporters existence of the state. paying a courtesy call on the following the outcry of are trying to encourage and in Asaba, the Delta State “And because he is an Executive Governor of the Nigerians over the activities improve on our enforcement capital, that the presidential enemy of the state, it must state who has done pretty of AK47 bearing individuals, activities. For instance, directive to shoot on sight be addressed; so it’s not a well, giving very credible many of them herders. our testing capacities for anyone with an AK-47 rifle question of my view but support to the members The President’s Senior materials, so as to ascertain was very clear and must be rather a question of having of the armed forces and Special Assistant on Media what people are using either enforced. to carry out the mandate of security agencies. and Publicity, Mallam in constructing the roads He said the proliferation Mr. President.” “I am aware of the threat Garba Shehu, said in a of the FCT or the public of illegal arms in the country Irabor said the Armed dispositions within Delta BBC Hausa interview that buildings and even private was a threat to Nigeria’s Forces, in partnership with even though it is stable now, Buhari ”ordered security buildings. I assure you that we corporate existence. will continue to provide you other security agencies, but we know that there are forces to go into the bushes the needed support through “The mandate of the would do all that is necessary areas of interest that we will and shoot whoever they see President for dealing with consultancy”. to bring peace and security need to do a lot to add value with sophisticated weapons Speaking earlier, the Vice everyone holding AK-47 across the land and Nigeria in up-scaling the security like AK-47.” illegally is a mandate that Chancellor said that the FCT “certainly will know peace disposition of the state, and The President, according Minister was one of the most must be enforced because again.” this is part of what myself to Shehu, also “ordered that distinguished members of the we are a state that does not The Delta State born CDS, and my colleagues were whoever is seen with terrible institution’s alumni and the condone illegal bearing of who said he was visiting doing. weapons at all should be shot meeting was intended to reach Faduyile arms,” Irabor said. the state for the first time ”I believe that the state immediately.” out to members such as him. الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 9 ةالجزير نيجيريا

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BY CYRIL OGAR Shiroro, Kainji and Jebba while others are gas- fired plants. Hence, they need a constant supply Power outage looms in major parts of the of gas to produce electricity. country following the inability of some thermal The latest quarterly report of the Nigerian stations to generate optimally due to low gas Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) supply. shows that gas supply shortage remains a It has been a battle for the electricity supply challenge in the sector. in Nigeria to stay above 3,000 megawatts “Gas continues to dominate the electricity recently because factors such as gas shortage generation mix accounting for 81.53% of the and power grid collapse continue to limit electricity generated during the second quarter generation. As Nigeria is currently hit by power of 2020. This implies that approximately blackout given that 13 Power generation plants 8.15kWh of every 10kWh of electric energy are said to be short down. generated in Nigeria in the second quarter of According to the Minister of Power, 2020 came from gas”, the NERC report stated. Mamman Saleh, the problem is caused by the But why would gas be an issue for the power breakdown of some plants supplying electricity sector in a country that has the largest gas to the national grid. reserves in the continent, while the energy In March, Nigeria’s power sector lost about demands of its population are not met? N6.8bn to challenges related to insufficient It is on record that Nigeria holds the largest gas supply to electricity generation companies natural gas reserves in Africa and occupies an (GenCos) including other constraints. But that enviable global position with an estimate of is not a new thing in the sector. In 2020, the 200.79 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), yet only a little sector lost N1.71bn in just one day over these is tapped. The reserve is estimated to rise to constraints, and the losses keep mounting 210.8 tcf by 2022. Unarguably, Nigeria’s oil daily. and gas sector is the mainstay of the country’s The economy and in particular, the real economy. sector, may experience further unsavoury In 2019, Mordecai Ladan, then director hardship from the ubiquitous power supply of the Department of Petroleum Resources crisis, as poor gas supply to the local electricity (DPR), said the country’s gas reserves are more generating plants has threatened to unleash a than its crude oil reserves. He added that the regime of total blackout on the country. nation’s daily gas production stood at 1.2 billion Indeed, indications have emerged that unless standard cubic feet (scuf) with 41 per cent of the President extracts actual commitment the daily production exported while 48 per cent and gas deliverable targets from the Nigerian went to the domestic market, and 11 per cent Mamman National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and was being flared. the International Oil Companies (IOCs) on gas Speaking on Monday at a one-day also affects the Discos’ remittance to the Nigerian supply to the domestic power plants, the nation Gas supply agreement public hearing organised by the house of Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET) and may soon be heading towards an embarrassing Over time, gas producers have been cautious of representatives joint committee on gas and market operators. Most of the DisCos do not blackout. investing in gas infrastructure in the country as petroleum resources, Mele Kyari, Group offset up to 50 per cent of the market invoice for While the Federal Government is currently a result of low gas prices and lack of assurance Managing Director of the Nigerian National energy received. pushing for full implementation of its auto-gas or guarantee of payment from the GenCos. Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), said investors NBET is the body that buys power from the initiative to make Nigerians use gas for their Hence, the processes for gas supply agreement need clarity on fiscal terms before they can invest GenCos through power purchase agreements cars, the country is producing less than 5,500 have been fraught with challenges. in gas development projects across the country. (PPAs) and sells to the DisCos through vesting megawatts (MW) of electricity for its teeming A Gas Sale and Aggregation Agreement “The PSC simply says the parties can sit down contracts. population owing to limitations from low gas (GSAA), which is typically between the GenCo, and agree on a framework for monetising the gas As a result of low remittances by the DisCos, supply to power plants. Misplaced priority has gas supplier and the gas aggregation company, on terms that are mutually acceptable”, the NNPC NBET too has been unable to meet its obligations been blamed by many. For over 200 million stipulates contractual framework, rights, GMD said. to GenCos. The ripple effect means GenCos people, 5,500MW electricity supply out of over obligations and risk allocation for gas supply However, the NERC said it will rally round too will be unable to pay gas suppliers. A key 13,000MW generation capacity implies erratic to the GenCo. stakeholders to ensure a lasting solution to the operational and financial data of the industry power supply and lack of energy access in most The most prominent case was the sloppy gas shortage challenge in the power sector. indicates that between January 2019 to parts of the country. gas supply deal between Calabar GenCo and “The Commission continued consultations with September 2020, NBET had a payment shortfall In 2020, the Transmission Company of Accugas Ltd, forcing the Federal Government relevant stakeholders to develop lasting solutions of N865 billion to GenCos. Nigeria attributed the country’s epileptic power to keep paying over $10 million monthly with to the gas impasse in the power industry”, the In 2019, GenCos threatened to shut down system to gas constraints, hampering the or without gas supply to the plant. regulator recently stated. power plants across the county if the Federal production capacities of generating companies It must, however, be noted that a final solution Government failed to intervene in the challenges (GenCos). to the low gas supply to GenCos may not solve the troubling them. Some of the affected thermal power stations electricity jinx in Nigeria. If the GenCos operate “GenCos indebtedness to their gas suppliers is according to the Minister are Olorunsogo NIPP, half of its full capacity of 13,000MW, they will due to NBET’s indebtedness to them. No Genco Ihovbor NIPP, Ibom, Egbin, Alaoji. be compelled to shut down some of its thermal has any outstanding gas payment that is more Jebba Power generating Plants were shut plants because the transmission infrastructure than what NBET is owing to the Genco. Put down for annual maintenance. In fact, four of Other plants, cannot wheel beyond 6,000 megawatts; while the differently, NBET is indirectly charging 0.75% them generated zero megawatts. DisCos, who are known for load rejection, cannot for paying its debt to GenCos!!!” the Association Other plants, experiencing gas constraints experiencing gas successfully send 5,000MW to Nigerian homes as of Power Generation Companies (APGC), the are Geregu, Sepele, Omotosho, Gbarain, a result of poor distribution network. umbrella body for GenCos, he said. Omuku, Paras and Alaoji while Shiroro plant constraints are Geregu, To resolve this, the Federal Government has water management problems. Liquidity Challenge came up with the Power Assurance Guarantee The Ministry claims not to be unaware of the Sepele, Omotosho, One of the major challenges bedeviling the (PAG), like the N701 billion released in current power outages/shortages bedeviling Gbarain, Omuku, Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) and 2017, for NBET to guarantee payment for many parts of the country. This unfortunate threatening its sustainability is the liquidity the evacuation of electricity produced by the development has drastically affected Power Paras and Alaoji while challenge; hence the sector is not financially GenCos, so that they can pay gas suppliers. generation, thus effectively minimizing “ viable. Another N600 billion was later approved. performance of the national grid. Shiroro plant has water The electricity distribution companies With the expiration of the payment assurance Out of the 28 electricity generation (DisCos) are finding it hard to collect significant scheme, GenCos had raised the alarm over a companies (GenCos), only three are hydro management problems. revenue for energy distributed to customers. This N1.7 trillion shortfall. الجزير نيجيريا

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ةLike our facebook page www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng cover extra e-mail: [email protected] When Dangote, BUA Take Case To Public Court BY AMEH GEORGE concerns relating to the backward integration policy of the Nigerian sugar industry, The lingering altercation on who rules the compounding an already knotty wrangle over Nigerian, Africa’s biggest economy sugar the ownership of a cement site in Obu Okpella, industry has not seen a respite in a long time Edo State. despite attempts by various stakeholders to Dangote told the Commerce, Trade and broker a truce between the Dangote and BUA Investment Minister, Mr. Adebayo in a conglomerates. letter which is in the public domain, that However, recently, Governor Abdullahi the establishment of a sugar plant by BUA Ganduje of Kano State and Alhaji Aminu International Limited in the free Dantata, a prominent northern billionaire trade zone was out of tune with export laws. who is Mr. Dangote’s uncle seem to have waded “BUA intends only on importing and refining into the latest clash between the two Nigeria’s raw sugar whilst claiming to be investing in richest men, Aliko Dangote and Abdul Samad developing sugar plantations in order to qualify Rabiu, who are chairmen of their respective for quotas to import raw sugar”. companies over sugar production rights in Relations between both men became sour in Nigeria. June 2020 when BUA Cement, where Mr. Rabiu Earlier, this medium had reported that the owns the majority interest, got a restraining dispute between the duo is over who controls order against Dangote Cement, also majority- the sugar market in Africa’s biggest economy. owned by Mr. Dangote, after the police stormed The crux of the controversy seems to rest its three sites in Obu Okpella, Edo State. on the claim and counterclaim from both “BUA takes serious exception to the ludicrous parties. While Dangote Group accuses their claims by its two major competitors that it aims competitor of attempting to appropriate an to circumvent the BIP of the sugar industry – undue advantage, BUA Group says Dangote an initiative in which it has invested billions of Dangote Rabiu Group wants to monopolise the market and Naira and is almost nearing completion”, it said manipulate prices, a claim Dangote group in a rejoinder to the sugar policy contravention commercial capital of Kano. be attributed to excellent execution. denied as false. indictment. Abdulsamad Rabiu also has a heritage Still, accusations are directed towards what In the course of the events, spokesperson to “To thus claim that the BUA PH export in commodities trading. His late father, is claimed as favouritism towards him – to the Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, focused refinery in an Export Zone will amount Isyaku Rabiu, was a renowned merchant and the detriment of his major rivals – regarding Abba Anwar, said in a statement that the Kano to an undermining of the NSMP (National industrialist in Kano State in the 1970s and preferential access to foreign exchange and Emirate and Kano State Council of Imams have Sugar Master Plan) is false”. 80s. preferential tax arrangements. Between 2010 resolved the rift between the two men both According to Mr. Rabiu, President But a 1983 military coup under Major- and 2015, Dangote Cement paid N12bn in of who are Kano indigenes, all thanks to Mr. Muhammadu Buhari had consented to the General Muhammadu Buhari overturned the taxes, an effective tax rate of just 1%, it is Dantata’s intervention. establishment of the Port Harcourt plant. fortunes of the senior Rabiu for his failure to alleged by some. According to Anwar the reconciliation If anything, this battle or clash of the titans pay for rice imports. In 1988, eleven years after The BUA chief allegedly wrote a petition meeting took place at the Kano governor’s can only be a good thing for the country, and Dangote struck out in business, the young to the current President Muhammadu lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, on Wednesday, April indeed the continent. America was built by Rabiu made up his mind to change his family Buhari, detailing how policies of successive 14. bold industrialists, each vying for dominance. fortunes and founded BUA International. governments over the last two decades have At the end of the truce seeking engagement, The Korean chaebols (large, conglomerate Over 30 years later, the Dangote Group ‘unduly’ favoured his kinsman. the warring parties have agreed to work family-controlled firms) which are now global stands out as a leading pan-African brand with But it now seems the gloves are off as the together and ensure sufficient supply of sugar giants grew huge thanks to fierce competition interests in commodities, energy and logistics. rivalry heats up and the battle for cement to meet local demand, he said in the statement. amongst themselves that pushed them Its companies have over 30,000 employees and supremacy intensifies. “They all dismissed as allegation that to innovate, be lean and become globally his group represents nearly a quarter of the Apart from the generational business Dangote Group was planning to increase the competitive. Nigerian Stock Exchange’s N28 trillion ($75bn) interests of both men, favourable government price of sugar, through pressuring BUA to The cynics might ask why is Rabiu trying value. Its crown jewel, Dangote Cement, single- policies have often determined the direction succumb to the increment. They described that to get a finger into yet another Dangote pie? handedly boasts a market cap of $14bn and and expansion of their businesses. A backward allegation as baseless and lacking any iota of Rabiu explains that the move represents controls 60% of the market. integration policy introduced under the truth”, Anwar furthers. diversification, especially given the pressure The ‘challenger’, BUA Group, has interests Obasanjo administration to reduce over Recall that Mr. Rabiu, chairman of BUA on commodities related to FX and the dollar in cement production, sugar refining, real dependence on imports created opportunities Group, in a letter to the Minister of Commerce, crunch. But it’s fascinating to understand the estate, logistics and port operation. Its largest for each of them to establish operations in key Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo in two men and their businesses. operation and only publicly listed company, industries – cement, sugar and flour. February had alleged that Dangote Group The clash in business interests between BUA Cement, which came to market earlier Dangote Sugar has a 70% market share. intended to eliminate his sugar business from Dangote and Rabiu has its roots in traditions this year, has a $3bn market capitalisation and The subsidiary possesses an 800,000 tonnes competition and establish a monopoly in the pre-dating both men’s business careers. Alhaji 17.6% market share. annual production capacity plant which is the sugar trade, going further to say Dangote felt Aliko Dangote comes from a celebrated lineage Leveraging its dominance in the market, largest sugar refinery in Africa and the third- threatened by the potential of BUA Sugar’s of wealthy merchants from the northern the Dangote Group has always responded by largest in the world. It is the main supplier to Lafiagi and Port Harcourt refineries to “drive weaponising pricing to put its competitors out the country’s soft drinks companies, breweries, the prices of sugar downwards for Nigerians”. of business. and confectioners. “The two business moguls agreed to work For example, when BUA Cement started But BUA puts up an impressive fight. It broke together as brothers for the growth and production and reduced prices by about Dangote’s total grip on the market in 2008 by development of the nation at large. Assuring $20/tonne to attract customers, one of the establishing a plant with an annual capacity that, henceforth, there would be no differences Dangote strategies was to temporarily beat of 720,000 tonnes. The facility remains the that could cause any disharmony between down their prices. Rabiu was unperturbed second-largest in West Africa after the Dangote them”, Anwar added. “The two business and instead focused on meeting the demands Sugar Refinery. The Commerce, Trade and Investment of underserved markets in the northern region, Not a few Nigerians have commented on the Minister, representative of the Kano Emirate, moguls agreed which eventually earned BUA the title ‘King of now rested intense disconnect between BUA Aminu Agundi, Chairman of the Council of the North’. and Dangote. While in court of public opinion, Kano Imams, Muhammad Adam, the chief to work together Their rivalry really intensified under the some hold that it is a good omen for an aspiring Imam of Sheikh Ahmadu Tijjani Friday administration of ex-president Olusegun economy which intends to live above personal Mosque, Kofar Mata, Kano and the chairman as brothers for Obasanjo. Many attribute Dangote’s interest to the overall national interest. But of NEPZA, Adamu Panda, were all part of the the growth and success to favouritism by the Obasanjo-led others say the situation has uncovered the truce initiative. administration. It’s true that Dangote benefited selfish nature of many industrialists who Dangote and Rabiu, Africa’s richest and sixth development of the from favourable government policy towards are only interested in milking the nation dry richest men respectively according to Forbes’s “ certain goods to encourage import substitution, through unnecessary incentives at the expense estimate, have had squabbles over compliance nation at large. but he was already powerful and his success can of national concern. الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 11 ةالجزير نيجيريا

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BY AHMED GIMBA witnessing an increasing activities of these bandits and terrorists is also a major factor Going by security experts’ postulations on in making the state a haven for bandits. the activities of criminal who always latch A security source close to this paper have on a situation of a relaxed vigilance, bandits also disclosed that the anti- open grazing law and other criminal elements seem to be and the lingering conflict with the people of increasingly finding Nasarawa State a haven Agatu in Benue state is another reason for the of respite. In view of the latest development, increasing presence of bandits in the state. where members of the Boko Haram are Among the locations where the bandits regrouping in some parts of the state to have built their camps are in areas around launch attack on target areas, an expanded Sardauna forest, Angwan Mada forest, emergency security council meeting was held Gurku around the Mararaba area of Karu in Lafia, the state capital recently to avert any local government area, Farin ruwa in Wamba possible attack from the suspected terrorists. among others. The terrorist’s group were alleged to have The recent killings of some soldiers of been regrouping in some communities, the Nigerian military in Nasarawa toto, the cutting across four local government areas state chairman of MACBAN, Mohammed of the state, namely Karu, Wamba, Nasarawa Hussaini, the abduction of the wives and and Awe. children of Alhaji Kankau in Agwada, Kokona These are identified localities sharing local government area by a splinter gang who borders with the FCT, Kaduna, Plateau, was later released through some internal Benue and Taraba States. negotiations within the gang members, and The security meeting which was in the the killing of Ardo Barkono can all be linked instance of Governor Abdullahi Sule was to the increasing activities of the bandits and attended by the state Deputy Governor, skirmishes within their ranks in the state. Emmanuel Akabe, members of the State Earlier, the state governor had said that Executive Council, Heads of Security communities in the state are alerted anytime Agencies in the state and representatives of there is information on a likely raid by traditional rulers led by the Emir of Lafia, bandits, and residents defend themselves Justice Sidi Bage (rtd). when attacked. The expanded meeting was primarily to “Everyone has their own approach to address cases of insecurity being orchestrated Sule security challenges. What we do in Nasarawa by the terrorist groups recently in the state. is that the moment we see the bandits During the meeting held at the Areas, whose activities posed a major Ondo and Oyo States, where the Hausa/ coming in, we actually alert our people; we Government House, Lafia, Governor threat to the people and socio-economic Fulani community was attacked, Nasarawa let them know. And then, the communities Abdullahi Sule attributed the increased influx development of the state. State is witnessing the influx of unknown actually rise up to the occasion and they also of unknown Fulani herdsmen and strangers Governor Sule said, emerging security herdsmen in Wamba, Karu, Doma and Awe fight them,” he said. in those localities to the event in the south situations within the country and Nasarawa local government areas. Sule, who noted that grazing reserves in West, starting from Ondo and Oyo, where the State, in particular, necessitated that the On the recent kidnapping of mostly the north have become a hideout for bandits, Hausa/Fulani communities migrated from, state Security Council meet, to deliberate school girls by bandits in some states, said if such areas are put to good use, persons thereby worsening the security situation of and proffer solutions to identified security Engineer Sule warned that Nasarawa State with criminal intentions will have nowhere the state. threats. must not be caught off guard, especially to hide. Governor Sule, who was worried about Sule expressed concern that the bandits, from what governors learnt after students “We’re coming up with plans that will the trend of abduction, especially on school mostly members of the banned Darassulam were kidnapped in Niger State. reduce all these crises. Most of these grazing children said that the meeting was also aimed sect, which have paid allegiance to the Boko According to the Governor, there is a reserves today that are not utilised, especially at addressing issues bordering on banditry, as Haram, are presently regrouping in places need to take proactive measures towards here in the north, have become hideouts for well as providing adequate security in public like Bakono, Kabusu, Panda, Bahashabiyar, protecting public schools in the state. some of these bandits. By the time we utilise schools, especially in girls’ schools. Ambaka and Gidanrai, all in Nasarawa, Karu To this end, Engineer Sule disclosed them, we will put some of these bandits He specifically identified the regrouping and Wamba local government areas. that the Federal Government drafted under check; they’ll have no place to go to,” of Boko Haram terrorists, earlier dislodged He disclosed that the aftermath of recent several special mobile forces to the state, he said. from the Toto Local Government Area, who incidences in the South West, especially in with his administration dispatching a unit The governor also disclosed that leaders are now regrouping in parts of the state, each to Gitata, Mararaban Udege, Okuba are working round the clock to ensure the as well as the recent invasion of schools by in Bakono/Tunga/Loko area, Gudi/Maroa eradication of criminals, but catching them bandits who kidnap mostly female students. and Ambaka in Farin Ruwa development after they attack has made it difficult. This is happening in less than three area. “Every time we say something, we try months after Governor Abdullahi Sule lodged In addition to that, the Governor said to provide solutions. Just recently, we had a complaint to President Muhammadu military surveillance teams have been a meeting for two days of the northern Buhari over the regrouping of the dislodged engaged especially in Wamba and Garaku governors — the northern elders forum Boko Haram insurgents along the Benue/ The terrorists are not to secure the girls’ schools there, as well was there; the Arewa consultative forum Nasarawa border. as in Udege, Panda, Gitata, Wuse/Akiri/ was there; our traditional rulers were there. The terrorists are not only spreading their only spreading their Tunga and Toto/Umasha/Gadabuke, Everybody was there to give their own wings back to the state, their presence was wings back to the state, because of the activities of bandits. solution,” he said. being felt in three local government areas as “We decided to send some surveillance “So, it is not that the leaders are sleeping. a base, from where they would be launching their presence was in those areas, in addition to the air The leaders are up to the task. They are attacks to their targets areas. police surveillance with the helicopter,” working day and night, but you see, these Governor Sule, who was at the State being felt in three local he stated. criminals are hit and run. They are not House, Abuja sometimes in January this government areas as a Sule pointed out that officials of criminals that confront you. When they year to seek urgent presidential intervention “ the Ministry of Education, Nasarawa carry out an activity, say in Nasarawa, before in checking the dastardly activities of the base, from where they State Universal Basic Education Board morning, on motorcycles, they have already insurgents, then alleged that the Boko Haram (NSUBEB) and traditional rulers, were passed Niger and are somewhere in Zamfara elements active in the State belonged to the would be launching part of the meeting, to ensure that public or Katsina.” Darussalam group that had been dislodged schools are protected. This paper has reported that states in the from Niger. attacks to their targets The proximity of Nasarawa state to Abuja, northern part of Nigeria have witnessed an The terrorist’s group were camped in the areas. the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, like Suleja increase in attacks by bandits, leading to forest of Toto/Nasarawa Local Government in Niger state that has and is indeed still killings and abductions. الجزير نيجيريا

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Like our facebook page ةwww.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng special report e-mail: [email protected] Terrorism: New Nigerien President’s Promises And Implications BY AMEH GEORGE opportunity is negligible. In the West, Laundering in West Africa, a Financial Action terrorist organizations leveraged a sense of Task Force-style regional body. There were no The new Nigerien President, Mohamed injustice and a desire for protection stemming significant updates in 2019. Bazoum has since taken the oath of office from historic farmer-herder violence. Niger’s The Government of Niger undertook CVE after he was declared winner of the run-off efforts to fight terrorism are challenged by projects supported by international partners presidential election which took place in its small defense force, strained coordination and non-governmental organisations, February. The swearing-in ceremony was held between security services, budget shortfalls, including CVE radio programming, at the Mahatma Gandhi conference centre in and continuing instability in Burkina Faso, sensitization caravans, peace committees, Niamey. It comes despite a failed coup earlier. Libya, Mali, and the Lake Chad Basin. and youth symposia. Local leaders in Diffa This is Niger’s first democratic transition Instability in the bordering nations has led continued DDR efforts supported by the of power since independence from France in to multiple terrorist incursions into Niger. Ministry of Interior and the High Authority 1960. Terrorist groups active in Niger included for the Consolidation of the Peace. Local The former President Mahamadou Issoufou, ISIS in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS), BH, ISIS- authorities have set up and trained more who stepped down after two five-year terms WA, and JNIM, which is an amalgamation of than 400 village-level peace committees to handed power over to Mohammed Bazoum, a the Sahara Branch of al-Qaida in the Islamic strengthen communities’ involvement in 61-year-old, former Interior Minister who had Maghreb, al-Murabitoun, Ansar al-Dine, and monitoring and addressing terrorist threats. been the right-hand man to Issoufou. the Macina Liberation Front. Niger is a member of and contributes troops A coup attempt failed after a military Terrorist organisations carried out dozens to MNJTF and the G5 Sahel. Nigerien officials unit tried to seize the presidential palace. of attacks in Niger during 2019. Two main hosted and attended multiple international The assailants, from a nearby air base were meetings on stabilising Libya and on fronts saw attacks from Boko Haram or ISIS- Bazoum reported to have fled after the presidential WA in the Southeast, and from al-Qaida (AQ) countering BH or ISIS-WA. guard met their attack with heavy shelling affiliates and ISIS-GS in the West and the State. In December 2019, Niger’s National Niger is also a member of ECOWAS and gunfire. Northwest. Assembly passed an amendment to last and is party to its agreements on counter- Government spokesman Abdourahamane Earlier on December 14, 2018, the year’s law defining the conditions under trafficking and illicit financing. Former Zakaria said several people had been arrested GoN passed an amendment to its Penal which a person associated with BH or ISIS- Nigerien President Issoufou Mahamadou while others were still being sought but that Code that provides either conditional WA could benefit from support services, chaired an ECOWAS Summit on Terrorism the situation was under control. amnesty or a mitigated sentence for allowing increased international cooperation in Ouagadougou on September 14, 2019, The government had condemned this terrorists who voluntarily surrender to for the Disarmament, Deradicalisation, aimed at coordinating efforts among West cowardly and retrogressive act that aims to authorities. Shortly after the passage of the and Reintegration (DDR) of former BH African nations to combat terrorism. Niger endanger democracy and the rule of law to amendment, the GoN adopted on February participants. is a member of the TSCTP. which our country is resolutely committed”, he 14, 2019, a corresponding decree making the Counterterrorism investigations are President Bazoum has promised to step said in a news conference. Niger has witnessed Goudoumaria Defection Center an official primarily the responsibility of the Central up the fight against the jihadists. In a video four military coups since independence. GoN entity. Together, these two pieces of Service for the Fight against Terrorism and message he underlined that the attacks The outgoing president, Mahamadou legislation ratify Niger’s National Program Transnational Organised Crime (SCLCT- which preceded his inauguration showed that Issoufou presided over the swearing- for Managing Defectors from BH and ISIS- CTO), an interagency body comprising “terrorist groups constitute a serious threat in ceremony of two new members of the WA. Following the ceremony, 125 defectors representatives from Niger’s National Police, to cohesion within our communities and a constitutional court, and bid farewell to the were reinserted into communities throughout National Guard, and Gendarmerie. Niger danger unlike any other. “Issoufou earlier presidential staff. the Diffa region. A smaller second wave of continued to use rudimentary terrorism watch expressed his condolences in a statement It was the constitutional court that defectors is expected to graduate and be lists that it shares with the security services on Twitter in which he also condemned the validated the run-off election results in reinserted in January 2020, following their and at border checkpoints. Since 2017, it “cowardly and barbaric attack”. February which declared Mohammed Bazoum successful completion of vocational training. moved more than 700 of about 1,400 Boko “The main issue is to solve the insecurity winner over rival, Mahamane Ousmane. Niger’s laws criminalised acts of terrorism Haram related detainees fully through its issue at the borders with Nigeria, Burkina Ousmane is still contesting the results and consistent with international instruments criminal justice system. Faso, Mali and the insecurity at the border on March 22, he called on the opposition not and best practices under the civil law Niger is recognised by regional partners as a with Libya,” Nigerian journalist, Seidik to sit in the national assembly and on the system. Niger finalised a National Border leader in processing and prosecuting terrorist Abba, told the media army to disregard orders from an “illegal and Security Strategy in 2018 with support incidents using dedicated counterterrorism “All presidential candidates promised to illegitimate” authority. from the U.S. Global Security Contingency apparatuses such as SCLCT-CTO and the resolve the insecurity problem. The Nigerien Mahamane Ousmane, a former president Fund, an interagency program between the Special Antiterrorism Judicial Pole. SCLCT- government is doing everything possible, has refused to concede and has instead taken U.S. Departments of Defense, Justice, and CTO benefits from specialised training, but it requires international support in his case to the courts, sparking mass supporter equipment, and persistent mentorship terms of tools, skills and equipment”. protests that have since been quelled. provided by DOS’s ATA Program. The GoN The new president will have to face the It remains to be seen if his call or his also signed an agreement with the U.S. major challenge of protecting the country’s rejection of the election results has any impact government to establish protocols to improve security from further jihadi attacks. on the attempted coup. the use of battlefield evidence and train Together with Mali, Mauritania, Chad and Niger faces terrorist threats on five of its Nigerien security forces accordingly. Burkina Faso, Niger is part of the G5 Sahel seven national borders. The Government of Niger continues to enhance its capacity group, which aims to combat terrorist Niger (GoN) remains committed to denying All presidential to detect and deter terrorist incursions at groups. terrorists safe haven within its territory. candidates promised to its borders and ports of entry through the From the foregoing, the implication of a It cooperated with its neighbors and with expansion of new technologies, critical successful war on terror in Niger under its international partners, including INTERPOL, resolve the insecurity infrastructure development, and additional newly sworn in president in particular and and is a member of the Global Coalition to problem. The Nigerien specialised security forces assigned along the the entire Sahel region in general would spell Defeat ISIS, the Multi-National Joint Task border. much positive impact the security situation Force, and the G5 Sahel Joint Force. Terrorist government is doing Although the GoN recognises the in Nigeria especially in the North-East region organizations take advantage of Niger’s everything possible, but importance strengthening its borders in the where the Boko Haram and other terrorists lengthy borders and sparsely populated desert fight against terrorism, it was dependent groups such as ISWAP are holding sway and regions to move fighters, weapons, and other it requires international on international partnerships to fund and giving the security forces a good run for “ implement these initiatives. contraband. Terrorist organisations recruit their money and seeming to defy all solution among border populations, where access to support in terms of tools, Niger is a member of the Inter- that has been proffered since the nefarious government services are weak and economic skills and equipment. 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Like our facebook page www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng ة Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng special report e-mail: [email protected] “The scheme was riddled with so many complexities, the operators were accused of many ill acts, but we have resolved the issues, so in May this year the scheme will kick-off. “In the past seven years, the Administration had embarked on various measures aimed at addressing the concerns raised by the Court and the public with regards to the scheme, the FCT Administration in collaboration with its legal team produced FCT Parking Regulations 2019 to amend the parking section of 2005 FCT Road Transport Regulations”. The Acting Director stated that the four operators will be engaged to cover the whole Federal Capital city which will be divided into districts for proper enforcement. Therefore, the policy allows residents to park their cars at some designated place and pay a sum depending on the number of minutes or hours spent. Some FCT residents who spoke with AljazirahNigeria expressed different views over the proposed reintroduction of ‘park and pay’ by the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) some uttered their support while others were against the policy. A Resident, Mrs. Mercy Alfred expressed “I was not in support of the policy; it was another form of double taxation. “I am not in support of that policy; FCT should look at other means of generating revenue. “The government is supposed to provide car parks at strategic places in the city for people to park their cars; you do not expect them to carry their cars on their head. “If car parks are provided and people still Fresh Hurdle For FCT Residents park their cars in wrong places then you can charge them for illegal parking”. As for Timothy Sholola, who works in the central area of the city he said the re- introduction of the park and pay policy within the city center was a welcome development As Park & Pay Policy Returns that would generate more revenue for the BY JOEL AJAYI to educate the public. AljazirahNigeria also scooped that council. The clamping of the tyres of individuals the FCT administration rushed into “What I just want from FCT Administration There are worries in some quarters that the who park their vehicles in the wrong places implementation of motor parking policy is to ensure the funds generated from the Federal Capital Territory Administration, has generated quarrels and even fisticuff without embarking on adequate public policy go a long way to help in the development FCTA, is about re-introducing a Park and Pay between motorists and operators of the enlightenment to sensitize motorists as to of the city. Policy, it had jettisoned seven years ago. These scheme. These schisms were largely due to areas where they are no longer allowed to “The idea of reintroducing the park and individuals are concerned that rather than disagreements between both parties. Often, park. pay is a welcome development, this will also initiate programmes that will improve the vehicle owners feel cheated as the electronic Some residents decried the high serve as a means of generating revenue for living standard of citizens, the administration parking enforcement teams would always handedness of operatives and queried the the council to provide more infrastructure, if is working out an agenda that would further want to have their way. ownership of companies being used for properly managed’’, he said. drain their pockets. In some cases, arguments arising from ticketing and enforcement by approaching Also, Uche Uwodoh lampooned the FCT Particularly, they are stressing that there the clamping of motorists’ cars have often an FCT High Court which stopped the FCT Administration for proposing another are a plethora of issues they are already degenerated into fisticuffs and violent Administration from further collecting fees insensitive, inhuman and heartless policy, dealing with even as it is obvious that they are exchanges. from residents for on and off the street when people need a policy that ameliorates just about coming out of the COVID-19 shock. But the FCTA insisted it will reintroduce parking within the metropolis seven years the suffering of residents. Many Nigerians, unarguable, are struggling the policy that will strictly enforce regulated ago. “The policy was illegal and should not be to survive the harsh economic conditions parking in designated parts of Abuja After the long suspension, the FCTA is back reintroduced. Nigerians do not need that and expect that the government at all levels metropolis so as to bring about some order to the same controversial ‘park and pay policy policy now. People are already suffering should initiate policies that will further help in traffic and transport management in the which is believed to be irreversible given the as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in the the citizens fare better rather than impose capital city. government’s position. country, the government should be sensitive additional burden. FCT is one of the few cities in Nigeria with The FCTA has been vehement to reintroduce enough not to make the citizens suffer more. It has become imperative that from May 1, a Master-plan but over the years, it has been the policy as it stressed it has “straightened “The government should initiate programs 2021; a policy that is seriously generating a so badly distorted and the government insists the crooked parts” of the policy before delving that will improve the living standard of lot of reactions would commence by the FCTA it is only trying to restore it. into its reintroduction. citizens and not the policy that will add to in the city centre. Even as many residents Tuesday April 13, the hardship of citizens.” She said. AljazirahNigeria revealed that in 2021, were unprepared for such a ‘bombshell’, On his own, Idris Mohammed, a staff of 2014 four companies were authorized to the Acting Secretary of FCT Transportation Sharia Court in Gudu Area of FCT said that generate revenue through the enforcement Secretariat, Usman Yahaya hinted that the the re-introduction of the policy would assist of an electronic parking system which is not policy is being reintroduced to curtail the in reducing traffic congestion in the city. backed by any law and each of the companies rate of wrong parking in the city, saying that He said that with the policy in place it would generated millions of naira daily from issuing though a court had ruled against the policy help to check the indiscriminate and wrong parking tickets to motorists in the metropolis because the scheme was not recognized in the parking in the city center by some car users. before it was stopped by the court. The government should laws of the FCT, the situation is different this “Am in support of the reintroduction of However, the issue of revenue generated initiate programs that time around. this policy; it will help to check the way and from this parking scheme was cloaked in so He said the on-street parking policy was to manner some people park their vehicles much secrecy that not much was known about will improve the living bring about sanity in the city. indiscriminately”. the details. Another issue was how and what standard of citizens and According to him, on-street parking But the question on the lips of many the money was appropriated for. management was suspended in 2014 as residents, begging for an answer is: Has FCT The parking policy caused many motorists not the policy that will a result of an FCT High Court ruling that Administration actually ‘amended’ the law anguish and heartache as operators of the declared the operation illegal because it was backing the policy before the re-introduction scheme go about clamping people’s vehicles add to the hardship of not specifically mentioned in the 2005 FCT of the policy which was hugely criticized, even without any enlightenment campaigns “ Road Transport Regulations. occasioned by unprecedented discord? citizens . الجزير نيجيريا

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Like our facebook page ةwww.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng special report e-mail: [email protected] Five Years After Paying N27.3m, Hortigraph Estate Developers Fail To Deliver Homes The corporate affairs manager of Aso The Nigeria Real Estate industry is troubled with several concerns or cases of people being swindled Savings, Tope Onamada, said some of the either by estate representatives or firms. Subscribers to home ownership plans in Abuja say the failure of subscribers in the completed phase one had complained to the bank about the quality of government to regulate the sector has put people seeking to own homes at the mercy of unscrupulous work on the units that were handed over to estate developers. Cyril Ogar reports them. Hortigraph is also accused it of illegal charges on its account and reported it to the Shelter along with food and clothing remain CBN in 2019 over the charges. essentials of life and human basic needs, but A meeting was scheduled between as the demand for accommodation precedes the developer and the bank at the CBN. supply, it then doesn’t come as a shock when Afterwards, CBN suggested that both parties some people fall easy victims to scammers in should meet and sort out their differences desperation. upon ASO’s presentation of its position,” she Despite the growth, the quality of said. housing stock in Nigeria is poor because Hortigraph later filed a suit against Aso the construction industry is driven by cost Savings on the same matter, while the two minimization rather than value maximization. parties were still seeking a solution, only for The lack of a regulatory body and a non- the developer to withdraw the suit without existent legally binding building code has led to notice. the continued poor performance of contractors “The developer also filed the case at leading to poorly constructed buildings as seen Arbitration which had several sittings. Whilst here and there. at Arbitration, Hortigraph withdrew from the Other reason for people getting scammed sitting without giving any reason to ASO for easily is because they fail to realize that when withdrawal,” she said an opportunity looks too good to be true, She said the managing directors of both you don’t just jump at the offer; In fact, just parties held a series of virtual meetings but jump over that opportunity. With increase in they could not agree because Aso Savings fraudulence committed within the industry, considered the position of the developer it is advisable that you protect yourself from not acceptable, as it was at variance with the being a prey. These various real estate scams proposals they put forward for the project. can be avoided by working with a reputable real estate agent, company or developer. to contribute 2.5 per cent of their monthly sector that involves so much money. People LAMENTATIONS This is the case with Patrick, a retired basic salary to the NHF. The funds mobilised are putting in their life savings and the Hortigraph is not the only developer unable civil servant who opted to buy a home will be made available to contributors at government doesn’t want to regulate it,” he to meet its customers’ expectations. In 2017, from Hortigraph Nigeria Limited, an estate affordable interest rates to build homes. But said. Hall 7 Real Estate Limited, a real estate developing firm in Abuja. the housing problem in Nigeria seems to be He said developers are behaving as they like development firm in Abuja, presented plans to He sold off some properties to raise money. getting worse. and duping people without fear of sanction. develop land at Aso Gardens Estate through its Between 2016 and 2017, paid N27,390,000 The Pwc report quoted the Nigerian Bureau He said most of the billboards and banners project tagged “Step One.” Abdulrazaq Umar, a for a three-bedroom terrace duplex with BQ of Statistics that Nigeria has a deficit of 17 in strategic positions on Abuja major roads civil servant, was among those who embraced apartment at Hortigraph Housing Estate in million houses as of August 2012 and requires announcing one housing project or the other, the plans. Abuja. 700,000 houses annually, compared to less are deceptive. He was told to pay 30 per cent of the cost, He made the payment into the bank account than 100,000 currently being constructed. “They are just using it to dupe people,” he while the developer would take a loan from of the developers with Aso Savings and Loans Ironically, it said the cost of building a house said, urging the National Assembly to look into the Federal Mortgage Bank (FMB) through the Plc in four tranches, according to documents in Nigeria is relatively higher while the average happenings in the sector. Federal Housing Authority (FHA) to cover the seen by this newspaper. income level is relatively lower compared to When contacted, Hortigraph’s remaining 70 per cent. The document showed that the project is global average. representative, said they stopped work on Mr Umar said after he made the initial jointly developed by Hortigraph Nigeria Ltd “This means even when there is a supply of the estate over problems they had with the deposit, they put up a repayment plan for the and Hallmark Synergy Integrated Services Ltd., housing units, the price tag whether self-built financiers of the project, Aso Savings. FMB loan and that he should pay his 30 per with Aso Savings and Loans Plc. as the project or off the shelf purchase is out of the reach He said the company started phases three cent equity contribution within a year. financiers. of the majority of Nigerian workers thereby and four of the estate in 2017, after much work He said he raised N1.9 million to pay the According to him, he was told he would making affordable housing still a dream,” the had been done on the earlier phases. “We are contribution within the stipulated period. But get the keys to his home within six months report said. almost done. In fact, some parts have been later, he received a letter from the developers of completing the payment. However, almost roofed.” advising him to change from FHA Homes five years after the payment, that has not BOTTLENECKS He said their problem with Aso Savings to AG Homes Mortgage Bank, because they happened. Mr Patrick said his experience was the result of began when they started noticing irregular thought that the loan from FHA would not “I feel disappointed and helpless, battling the housing sector not being regulated. deductions from their account with the arrive on time. with unclear promises here and there, while “This is a sector that is unregulated, a financiers. In 2018, they made him sign a letter to I keep paying N1.1 million as house rent “We started seeing charges here and there, the FMB requesting to change his primary annually for a small space that cannot contain restructuring and a certain amount of money mortgage bank to AG Homes. my family,” he said. was taken out of the company’s account In April 2019, Mr Umar said FMB granted and they got no reasonable explanation for his loan request of N11m. But AG Homes did UNDERPERFORMING SECTOR the deductions. “So they contacted some not notify him that the money had arrived According to a report by PriceWaterCooper subscribers that they could reach out to, until August 2019 when they needed a letter (PwC), Nigeria’s real estate sector has struggled and instructed them to stop paying into the from him to grant them approval to release the for decades, contributing less than an average account with Aso Savings because of these money to the developers, Step One. of seven per cent to the GDP and under one I feel disappointed and irregularities. He said the developers encouraged him to per cent to employment. helpless, battling with The company sued Aso Savings, but later sign the release letter, telling him he would get It said the sector is the largest in countries decided to settle the matter out of court last his house within six months of the release of like the US and Australia in terms of unclear promises here month. The represesentative said the company the money to them. contributions to GDP and that also provides and there, while I keep has moved back to site and expect to complete “I signed the letter, and the money was the largest employment in Australia. the buildings over the next 12 months. moved to Step One. That means 100 per cent Act 3 of 1992 which established the National paying N1.1 million as In its reactions, however, Aso Savings of the investment amount has been paid since Housing Fund (NHF) was to mobilise funds blamed the developers for a myriad of issues, August 2019. that will facilitate the provision of affordable house rent annually for a including low quality project, non-adherence However, he said the agreement they had housing for Nigerians. “ to the project manager’s recommendation in 2017 was that his house would be delivered small space that cannot Under the extant NHF law, every Nigerian and developer’s outstanding obligations to 45 days after confirming payments from the earning N3,000 or more per annum is required contain my family. the financiers. mortgage bank. الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 15 ةالجزير نيجيريا

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ة sports news NIGTEQ President Embarks On Tree Planting BY JOEL AJAYI Engr. Gumel who personally planted “We all know the importance of We Are Ready For Tokyo Olympics – Team Nigeria one of the nem trees during the exercise trees around us. They provide fresh Edo, another opens to a 100 days countdown to the Determined to help fight climate change said that the move was part of NIGTEQ’s air, add beauty to our surrounding and Open Camp In Lagos, P/Harcourt This Week Tokyo 2020 Olympics where athletes are expected and create a healthy environment for all, in her four-day training programme and most importantly, help protect us from BY JOEL AJAYI Lagos, and Port-Harcourt to commence earnest to notify the world that we are ready and that we the Nigeria Teqball Federation NIGTEQ initiatives to help in protecting the climatic change. build-up. mean business. The successes recorded here would Tuesday embarked on tree planting. environment and beautifying it. “We will continue to do this annually After the successful conclusion of the Edo 2020 According to the Minister of Youth and Sports propel us to achieving greater success in Tokyo. The exercise which took place at the He called on the general public because as a federation, we believe National Sports Festival on Wednesday night and Development Chief Sunday Dare “ With the Preparations will now begin in earnest with the River Park, Business District, Abuja particularly Nigerians to see the need to that for us to do well in sports, our the impressive performances of some athletes, successful completion of the Edo 2020 National athletes to be camped in Port Harcourt and Lagos. was coordinated by the President of plant a tree as a national and personal environment must be healthy and focus now shifts to the Tokyo Olympics with Sports Festival, all our attention now shifts to the We are also monitoring closely the performances NIGTEQ, Egnr Habu Gumel. assignment. protected”. home-based Team Nigeria expected to camp in Tokyo Olympics. As the curtain draws to a close in of the foreign-based athletes”. Sports Minister Assures ‘I Have A Special Bond With Kano Pillars’ – Musa On Speedy Completion Of BY LAWAL IBRAHIM The deal for the 28-year-old was confirmed because of the smooth relationship he professional footballer that I am today, so Blatter Super Falcons on April 13, 2021. He will pitch tents with enjoyed with the club in the past. this is more than just football but a very The then club-less Super Eagles captain, the Kano club until the end of the season. “Anything that improves the image of strong bond”. I Will Not Appeal Moshood Abiola Stadium Ahmed Musa has said his “special bond” Musa has been without a club since leaving Nigerian football is something that I strive to Musa scored 18 goals for Kano Pillars to Drop One Spot In BY JOEL AJAYI with proper maintenance, we won’t be drawn with Kano Pillars was the reason he decided Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr in October. embark on and Kano Pillars holds a special finish as top scorer in the 2009/10 Nigeria back to it for another 10 years”. to re-join the Nigerian Professional Football Speaking after the official announcement, place in my heart”, Musa concluded. Professional Football League (NPFL) Against Ban – Blatter In line with his commitment to the speedy He reassured that plans towards the Tokyo League club. Musa said he decided to return to Pillars “It’s the team that helped me become the season. Former FIFA boss, Sepp Blatter, has stated FIFA Rankings completion of the ongoing renovation of 2020 Olympics are on track. he will not appeal against the ban imposed Sports infrastructures in the country, the “We are done with the National Sports on him last month, claiming the members BY SALOME UNWUCHOLA Minister of Youth and Sports Development Festival, now as a country and a ministry; our of the world governing body’s ethics Chief Sunday Dare on Friday inspected the eyes are on the Olympics for which we have committee are “biased”. World soccer governing body (FIFA) Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja started a 100 days countdown. The 85-year-old was issued with a on Friday morning released the ranking to assess the level of work, with a charge to In another 7-10 days the camps will be suspension of six years and eight months for women’s football in the first quarter the contractor to complete the rehabilitation opened in Lagos, Port Harcourt, probably Delta on March 24, which will begin when an of the year and Nigeria’s Super Falcons on schedule. and Florida where we have most of our relay existing ban expires in October. maintained its position as Africa number Speaking after an inspection tour of the team athletes. From there other members of the FIFA’s ethics committee found Blatter one but dropped a spot in the world, facilities, Chief Dare expressed “I am team will be joining them and possibly we will was part of a “vicious circle” of officials BSNSports.com.ng reports. satisfied with the progress so far, the delivery have another camp in Europe. The preparation who sought to award themselves over Unlike men ranking that comes up every date is now June. There are technologies for the Olympics never stopped even with the £50m in undeclared payments. month, women ranking is fixed for every attached to football pitches like this, when you effect of Covid-19 and preparations for the just He was given 21 days from notification 3 months and makes it 4 times in a year. see standard pitches, it is not just about the concluded National Sports Festival. We will try of the sanction to send a statement of Current African champions who were sand and grasses, but there are underbellies of to maintain a 60-70 days camping by doubling appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport not active in the just concluded FIFA technologies like the water sprinklers among the 25-30 days camping we used to have in the (CAS) if he wished to challenge the ruling, window for women dropped to 38th others. We are trying to get things right so that past”, the Minister affirmed. but has opted not to do so. position in the world against 37th it was According to him, “I do not consider the in the last ranking. FIFA ethics committee to have jurisdiction In the last three months, Super Falcons in this matter. garnered 1459.57 points against 1614 it “Further, the committee members are amassed in the last ranking. Boxing: Joshua, Fury Approve biased. So it doesn’t make sense to appeal.” The Indomitable Lioness of Cameroon The decision not to appeal means Blatter who lost out to Chile in the Olympic will be banned from football until June playoff still maintains its position as Africa 2028, when he will be 92. number two and 52nd in the world. Offer For World Title Fight BY JOEL AJAYI as the sport’s No 1, heavyweight. NIGTEQ President Embarks Matchroom boss Hearn, who met Fury on Kaduna Agog As NSM/ Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have Tuesday, is yet to reveal a date and venue, On Tree Planting “approved” the site offer for their undisputed but did confirm that unified champion Joshua Walin Kakuri Ramadan world heavyweight title fight this summer. and the WBC titleholder had reached an Determined to help fight climate change Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn, “Both agreement over a location. Competition Begins and create a healthy environment for all, sides have approved the site offer that Saudi Arabia, America, China, Qatar, the Nigeria Teqball Federation NIGTEQ they want to go with, and now we’re just Singapore, Dubai and Britain have all been BY LAWAL IBRAHIM Tuesday embarked on tree planting. finalizing the site deal and we’re in a great in the running to host Joshua vs Fury, which The exercise which took place at the place.” Hearn insists will go ahead this summer. The city of Kaduna, in the North-west River Park, Business District, Abuja Britain’s rival champions have been “One hundred per cent”, he said. “That’s Nigeria will be agog as top football was coordinated by the President of considering ‘multiple’ offers to stage their the thing. Everybody wants this fight as soon personalities converge this week for the blockbuster battle, with the winner emerging NIGTEQ, Egnr Habu Gumel. as possible.” annual Walin Kakuri Ramadan football Engr. Gumel who personally planted tournament that takes centre stage. one of the nem trees during the exercise This year’s event which is being organised in conjunction with the award- said that the move was part of NIGTEQ’s winning Nigeria Sports Mouthpiece (NSM), in her four-day training programme promises lots of exciting football action and and initiatives to help in protecting the some fantastic goals. environment and beautifying it. The opening ceremony of this He called on the general public competition took place Friday with top particularly Nigerians to see the need football stakeholders, football scouts to plant a tree as a national and personal and agents present. Organizer of the assignment. event and top aspirant for the soon to be “We all know the importance of trees Europe Big Clubs Eager To Sign AMOO vacant Kaduna State Football Association around us. They provide fresh air, add Brazil 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup Mundial, where he and his team fell out forces with the Nigerian duo of Kelechi chairmanship position, Sani Abdullahi is beauty to our surrounding and most happy to invite chairman 36 Lion FC Hajj importantly, help protect us from climatic expose, Akinkunmi Amoo is back in in the second round, European scouts are Iheanacho and Wilfred Onyinyechi Ndidi the news, with transfer interest buzzing thinking in different light about the lad who at Leicester City. Gafar and the chairman/CEO Bet9ja, Kunle change. Soname to Kaduna as supporters of this “We will continue to do this annually round him from Leicester City of grew up in Ibadan. “Atlético Madrid, Valencia, Borussia England, Atletico Madrid of Spain and The report have it that, the petit Dortmund, Ajax and Leicester City are all year’s event. because as a federation, we believe According to the association chairman, that for us to do well in sports, our Borussia Dortmund of Germany. midfielder-cum-winger, who is currently keen. Hammarby expects the first bids for we are offering them a platform to watch environment must be healthy and Although many Nigerians felt that with Hammarby of Sweden, is also wanted Amoo will arrive within a few weeks. The and possibly sign some of the best young protected”. Amoo did not meet up to expectations by Valencia of Spain and Ajax Amsterdam 18-year-old has a contract with Hammarby footballers in northern Nigeria. with his performances at the Cadet of Holland, but he appears keen on joining that extends until the summer of 2024”. Amoo الجزير نيجيريا

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ة sports news NIGTEQ President Embarks On Tree Planting BY JOEL AJAYI Engr. Gumel who personally planted “We all know the importance of We Are Ready For Tokyo Olympics – Team Nigeria one of the nem trees during the exercise trees around us. They provide fresh Edo, another opens to a 100 days countdown to the Determined to help fight climate change said that the move was part of NIGTEQ’s air, add beauty to our surrounding and Open Camp In Lagos, P/Harcourt This Week Tokyo 2020 Olympics where athletes are expected and create a healthy environment for all, in her four-day training programme and most importantly, help protect us from BY JOEL AJAYI Lagos, and Port-Harcourt to commence earnest to notify the world that we are ready and that we the Nigeria Teqball Federation NIGTEQ initiatives to help in protecting the climatic change. build-up. mean business. The successes recorded here would Tuesday embarked on tree planting. environment and beautifying it. “We will continue to do this annually After the successful conclusion of the Edo 2020 According to the Minister of Youth and Sports propel us to achieving greater success in Tokyo. The exercise which took place at the He called on the general public because as a federation, we believe National Sports Festival on Wednesday night and Development Chief Sunday Dare “ With the Preparations will now begin in earnest with the River Park, Business District, Abuja particularly Nigerians to see the need to that for us to do well in sports, our the impressive performances of some athletes, successful completion of the Edo 2020 National athletes to be camped in Port Harcourt and Lagos. was coordinated by the President of plant a tree as a national and personal environment must be healthy and focus now shifts to the Tokyo Olympics with Sports Festival, all our attention now shifts to the We are also monitoring closely the performances NIGTEQ, Egnr Habu Gumel. assignment. protected”. home-based Team Nigeria expected to camp in Tokyo Olympics. As the curtain draws to a close in of the foreign-based athletes”. Sports Minister Assures ‘I Have A Special Bond With Kano Pillars’ – Musa On Speedy Completion Of BY LAWAL IBRAHIM The deal for the 28-year-old was confirmed because of the smooth relationship he professional footballer that I am today, so Blatter Super Falcons on April 13, 2021. He will pitch tents with enjoyed with the club in the past. this is more than just football but a very The then club-less Super Eagles captain, the Kano club until the end of the season. “Anything that improves the image of strong bond”. I Will Not Appeal Moshood Abiola Stadium Ahmed Musa has said his “special bond” Musa has been without a club since leaving Nigerian football is something that I strive to Musa scored 18 goals for Kano Pillars to Drop One Spot In BY JOEL AJAYI with proper maintenance, we won’t be drawn with Kano Pillars was the reason he decided Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr in October. embark on and Kano Pillars holds a special finish as top scorer in the 2009/10 Nigeria back to it for another 10 years”. to re-join the Nigerian Professional Football Speaking after the official announcement, place in my heart”, Musa concluded. Professional Football League (NPFL) Against Ban – Blatter In line with his commitment to the speedy He reassured that plans towards the Tokyo League club. Musa said he decided to return to Pillars “It’s the team that helped me become the season. Former FIFA boss, Sepp Blatter, has stated FIFA Rankings completion of the ongoing renovation of 2020 Olympics are on track. he will not appeal against the ban imposed Sports infrastructures in the country, the “We are done with the National Sports on him last month, claiming the members BY SALOME UNWUCHOLA Minister of Youth and Sports Development Festival, now as a country and a ministry; our of the world governing body’s ethics Chief Sunday Dare on Friday inspected the eyes are on the Olympics for which we have committee are “biased”. World soccer governing body (FIFA) Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja started a 100 days countdown. The 85-year-old was issued with a on Friday morning released the ranking to assess the level of work, with a charge to In another 7-10 days the camps will be suspension of six years and eight months for women’s football in the first quarter the contractor to complete the rehabilitation opened in Lagos, Port Harcourt, probably Delta on March 24, which will begin when an of the year and Nigeria’s Super Falcons on schedule. and Florida where we have most of our relay existing ban expires in October. maintained its position as Africa number Speaking after an inspection tour of the team athletes. From there other members of the FIFA’s ethics committee found Blatter one but dropped a spot in the world, facilities, Chief Dare expressed “I am team will be joining them and possibly we will was part of a “vicious circle” of officials BSNSports.com.ng reports. satisfied with the progress so far, the delivery have another camp in Europe. The preparation who sought to award themselves over Unlike men ranking that comes up every date is now June. There are technologies for the Olympics never stopped even with the £50m in undeclared payments. month, women ranking is fixed for every attached to football pitches like this, when you effect of Covid-19 and preparations for the just He was given 21 days from notification 3 months and makes it 4 times in a year. see standard pitches, it is not just about the concluded National Sports Festival. We will try of the sanction to send a statement of Current African champions who were sand and grasses, but there are underbellies of to maintain a 60-70 days camping by doubling appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport not active in the just concluded FIFA technologies like the water sprinklers among the 25-30 days camping we used to have in the (CAS) if he wished to challenge the ruling, window for women dropped to 38th others. We are trying to get things right so that past”, the Minister affirmed. but has opted not to do so. position in the world against 37th it was According to him, “I do not consider the in the last ranking. FIFA ethics committee to have jurisdiction In the last three months, Super Falcons in this matter. garnered 1459.57 points against 1614 it “Further, the committee members are amassed in the last ranking. Boxing: Joshua, Fury Approve biased. So it doesn’t make sense to appeal.” The Indomitable Lioness of Cameroon The decision not to appeal means Blatter who lost out to Chile in the Olympic will be banned from football until June playoff still maintains its position as Africa 2028, when he will be 92. number two and 52nd in the world. Offer For World Title Fight BY JOEL AJAYI as the sport’s No 1, heavyweight. NIGTEQ President Embarks Matchroom boss Hearn, who met Fury on Kaduna Agog As NSM/ Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have Tuesday, is yet to reveal a date and venue, On Tree Planting “approved” the site offer for their undisputed but did confirm that unified champion Joshua Walin Kakuri Ramadan world heavyweight title fight this summer. and the WBC titleholder had reached an Determined to help fight climate change Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn, “Both agreement over a location. Competition Begins and create a healthy environment for all, sides have approved the site offer that Saudi Arabia, America, China, Qatar, the Nigeria Teqball Federation NIGTEQ they want to go with, and now we’re just Singapore, Dubai and Britain have all been BY LAWAL IBRAHIM Tuesday embarked on tree planting. finalizing the site deal and we’re in a great in the running to host Joshua vs Fury, which The exercise which took place at the place.” Hearn insists will go ahead this summer. The city of Kaduna, in the North-west River Park, Business District, Abuja Britain’s rival champions have been “One hundred per cent”, he said. “That’s Nigeria will be agog as top football was coordinated by the President of considering ‘multiple’ offers to stage their the thing. Everybody wants this fight as soon personalities converge this week for the blockbuster battle, with the winner emerging NIGTEQ, Egnr Habu Gumel. as possible.” annual Walin Kakuri Ramadan football Engr. Gumel who personally planted tournament that takes centre stage. one of the nem trees during the exercise This year’s event which is being organised in conjunction with the award- said that the move was part of NIGTEQ’s winning Nigeria Sports Mouthpiece (NSM), in her four-day training programme promises lots of exciting football action and and initiatives to help in protecting the some fantastic goals. environment and beautifying it. The opening ceremony of this He called on the general public competition took place Friday with top particularly Nigerians to see the need football stakeholders, football scouts to plant a tree as a national and personal and agents present. Organizer of the assignment. event and top aspirant for the soon to be “We all know the importance of trees Europe Big Clubs Eager To Sign AMOO vacant Kaduna State Football Association around us. They provide fresh air, add Brazil 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup Mundial, where he and his team fell out forces with the Nigerian duo of Kelechi chairmanship position, Sani Abdullahi is beauty to our surrounding and most happy to invite chairman 36 Lion FC Hajj importantly, help protect us from climatic expose, Akinkunmi Amoo is back in in the second round, European scouts are Iheanacho and Wilfred Onyinyechi Ndidi the news, with transfer interest buzzing thinking in different light about the lad who at Leicester City. Gafar and the chairman/CEO Bet9ja, Kunle change. Soname to Kaduna as supporters of this “We will continue to do this annually round him from Leicester City of grew up in Ibadan. “Atlético Madrid, Valencia, Borussia England, Atletico Madrid of Spain and The report have it that, the petit Dortmund, Ajax and Leicester City are all year’s event. because as a federation, we believe According to the association chairman, that for us to do well in sports, our Borussia Dortmund of Germany. midfielder-cum-winger, who is currently keen. Hammarby expects the first bids for we are offering them a platform to watch environment must be healthy and Although many Nigerians felt that with Hammarby of Sweden, is also wanted Amoo will arrive within a few weeks. The and possibly sign some of the best young protected”. Amoo did not meet up to expectations by Valencia of Spain and Ajax Amsterdam 18-year-old has a contract with Hammarby footballers in northern Nigeria. with his performances at the Cadet of Holland, but he appears keen on joining that extends until the summer of 2024”. Amoo الجزير نيجيريا

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ةLike our facebook page www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng news in hausa e-mail: [email protected] Daraktan Asibitin Kwalejin Sojoji Masu Tavin Ta Fara Taro Hankali Ya Buqaci Ma’aikata Su Riqa Kan Sha’anin Bin Qa’idojin Aiki Tsaro Dakta Shehu Sale, Daraktan Likita Kwamandan Sojojin Soja da na Asibitin masu tavin hankali Kwalejin Ma’aikata (AFCSC) Jaji, na Kware, Jihar Sakkwato, ya yi sun fara wani taron kwana uku kira ga ma’aikatan asibitin da su na tsaro da taron tattaunawa da tabbatar sun bi qa’idoji da dokokin nufin gano sabbin hanyoyin yaqi aikin da gwamnati ta shimfixa. da barazanar tsaron qasa. Sale ya yi wannan kiran ne AljazirahNigeria ta ba a wani taron qarawa juna sani da rahoton cewa jigon taron na horon yini xaya da aka yi wa tattaunawar shi ne, “Daidaitawa laqabi da: ‘Mafi kyawun Hanyoyi da haxin gwiwa na samar da game da Gudanar da Ma’aikata da kayan aiki ga Sojojin Nijeriya”, Tsarin Ladabi a Qungiyar,’ wanda kuma an shirya shi ne don xaliban asibitin suka shirya a ranar Talata. Babban Makaranta da suke kwas Ya ce horon an tanade shi ne na 43. don inganta qwarewar ma’aikata A jawabinsa na buxe taron, da tabbatar da kwazonsu. A Daga dama: Gwamna Abubakar Sani-Bello na Neja; Kwamishinan Lafiya, Dr Muhamnad Makusidi; da Babban Daraktan Hukumar Kwamandan, Rundunonin cewarsa, rashin sanin qa’idojin Bunkasa Kiwon Lafiya ta Farko (NSPHCDA), Dokta Ibrahim Dangana, a bikin kaddamar da sabon ofishin ofishin NSPHCDA a Sojojin na Nijeriya, Manjo Janar aiki bai kamata ya zama hujja Minna a ranar Talata, 13 ga Afrilu.. HOTO: AMINU GARKO/BJO/NAN Osasogie Uzamere, ya ce sojoji ga sava qa’idoji da hanyoyin na ta yin gagarumin sauyi, don aiki ba. Ya ce an tanadi matakan amsar duk wata barazanar tsaro ladabtarwa da suka dace ga yadda ya kamata ta qasa. waxanda suka sabawa dokokin Majalisar Wakilai Za Ta Yi Aiki Da Gwamnoni Uzamere ya ce abin da taron da ke kula da dukkan vangarorin tattaunawar ya qunsa ya nuna ma’aikatun gwamnati. Kan Vangaren Shari’a Na Cin Gashin Kanta yadda sauye-sauye ke gudana Sale ya ce shirin horaswar zai Kwamitin Majalisar Wakilai umarnin bayan Buhari ya gana da kyautata walwalar ma’aikata da bai a cikin rundunar sojan tare da ci gaba har sai dukkan ma’aikata kan harkokin shari’a za su shiga gwamnoni, waxanda daga baya wa jami’an shari’a damar gudanar sake sanya jami’an tsaro mayar sun amfana. Buhari Abubakar tattaunawar Taron Gwamnonin suka nuna damuwarsu kan tsarin da ayyukansu ba tare da tsoro ko da martani yadda ya kamata ga na ‘FODEE Consult da Media Nijeriya da masu ruwa da tsaki da mulkinta. fargaba ba. qalubalen tsaro. Services,’ ya ce za a sanya nufin tabbatar wa vangaren shari’a Onofiok ya yi kira ga gwamnonin “Har zuwa wannan, muna tare da Ya bayyana fatan cewa, taron mahalarta su yi godiya ga dokokin na cin gashin kanta a harkokin kuxi. jihohi da su aiwatar da sashin kundin ku a kan abubuwan da kuke yi don tattaunawar za ta haifar da sabbin da ke akwai na ayyukan gwamnati, Shugaban kwamitin, xan majalisar tsarin mulki wanda ke buqatar cin tabbatar da cewa kuna da ikon cin dabaru waxanda za su taimaka matakan ladabtarwa da sauran (PDP-Akwa-Ibom) Luke Onofiok gashin kai ga vangaren vangaren gashin kanku a bangaren shari’a. wajen sake sanya vangaren tsaro ayyuka. ne ya bayyana haka yayin ganawa shari’a. A cewarsa, idan har muna “ Daga abubuwan da muke da don bunqasa tasirin aiki. da qungiyar ma’aikatan shari’a ta da dukkanin vangarorin gwamnati fuskanta game da rarrabuwar kai shi Ya yaba wa kwalejin kan yadda Ramadan: APC Nijeriya (JUSUN) a Abuja. da ke aiki daidai, to za mu samu ne jimillar ayyukan masana’antu har ta kasance a sahun gaba wajen AljazirahNigeria ta ba da rahoton ingantacciyar al’umma. ma a kotun tarayya; idan Gwamnatin bayar da gudummawa wajen Ta Raba Kayan cewa JUSUN ta fara yajin aikin sai Shugaban ya bayyana buqatun Tarayya ta yi biyayya ga tanade- magance matsalolin tsaro na Abinci Tirela 130 A baba ta gani a ranar Litinin, 6 ga JUSUN a matsayin na gaske don tanaden Kundin Tsarin Mulki wajen zamani, da kuma shirya hazikan Afrilu kan rashin aiwatar da ikon cin tabbatar da ‘yancin vangaren tabbatar da cewa an tura kuxaxen da jami’ai kan ayyukan da ke Zamfara gashin kai na shari’a kamar yadda shari’a. Sai dai ya yi kira ga qungiyar aka tanada don vangaren shari’a na gabansu a fagen. yake a cikin Kundin Tsarin Mulki. qwadagon da ta ci gaba da aiki a tarayya kai tsaye ga Majalisar Kula da Uzamere ya umarci xaliban Jam’iyyar (APC) reshen Jihar da su shirya tunaninsu kan Zamfara ta ce tana shirin rarraba Shugaban qasa Muhammadu kotunan tarayya saboda Gwamnatin Harkokin Shari’a ta Qasa, ba daidai Buhari ya rattaba hannu kan Tarayya ta biya musu buqatunsu. A ba ne ga ma’aikatan vangaren shari’a qalubalen da za su fuskanta a manyan motoci 130 na kayan fannin bayan kwas xin. abinci daban-daban ga marasa wata dokar zartarwa wacce ta bai cewarsa, ba kyau a hukunta wasu na tarayya su ci gaba da yajin aiki. wa vangaren shari’a da majalisar saboda zunuban da wasu mutane “Na sani kuma na tabbata haxin Tun da farko, Kwamandan Qarfi a jihar, gabanin azumin kwalejin, AVM Ebenezer Alade ya Ramadan. Tsohon Gwamna dokokin jihar cin gashin kansu a suka aikata. kai ne har abada, amma bari mu watan Mayu na shekarar 2020, bayan “Hakan zai samar da kyakkyawan taqaita yajin aikin ga waxanda ba su bayyana cewa taron tattaunawar Abdul’aziz Yari kuma shugaban an shirya shi ne domin samar jam’iyyar APC na jihar ne ya an yi ta qorafi da dama. yanayin aiki ga jami’an shari’a bi wannan batun na ikon cin gashin Duk da haka, an dakatar da da ma’aikatan sashen shari’a, da kai ba,” in ji shi. da ra’ayoyi daga xaliban da faxi haka a wajen bikin fara kuma waxanda za su taimaka raba kayayyakin a Gusau ranar wa ayyukan wajen tunkarar Lahadi. qalubalen tsaro da ke faruwa. Yari, wanda Sanata Kabiru Kano NAPTIP Ta Kuvutar Da Mutum 54 Alade wanda ya sami wakilcin Marafa (APC-Zamfara) ya mataimakinsa, Rear Admiral wakilta ya ce kayayyakin sun Patrick Nwatu, ya lura cewa haxa da manyan motoci 54 na Gami Da Kame 53 A Kano qalubalen tsaro da ke ci gaba buhunan shinkafa kilogiram 50, Hukumar Hana Hataucin Mutane cikin wannan lokacin. “Shari’ar ta don neman mavoya. da kasancewa a cikin ayyukan manyan motoci 32 na buhunan ta Qasa (NAPTIP) ta ce ta kuvutar shafi fataucin mutane na waje da na “Bayan samun bayanai, hukumar ‘yan ta’adda, tayar da qayar sukari kilogiram 50, motocin da mutane 54 da aka sace a Jihar ciki da cin zarafin yara takwas. ta gudanar da ayyuka wanda ya kai baya da ta’addanci, na buqatar masara 22 da na gero 22. Kano a cikin watan Janairu zuwa “Sauran su ne qararrakin bautar ga cafke waxanda ake zargin tare da qarin nazarin halin da ake ciki, Ya ce za a rarraba kayayyakin a yau. Abdullahi Babale, kwamandan da yara biyar, cin zarafin mata guda kuvutar da waxanda lamarin ya rutsa musamman a fannin daidaita faxin qananan hukumomi 13 na da ke kula da NAPTIP a shiyyar shida, cin zarafin jinsi huxu da sauran da su. kayan aiki a tsakanin ayyukan. jihar. “Kowace qaramar hukumar Arewa maso Yamma, shi ya bayyana qararraki shida masu nasaba da su,” Babale ya ce, ya zuwa yanzu Kwamandan ya ce tsofaffin daga cikin 13 za ta karvi manyan hakan ne a wata tattaunawa da in ji shi. rundunar ta yanke hukunci a kan hafsoshin da aka bayyana kuma motoci guda biyar waxanda AljazirahNigeria a Kano ranar Ya ce, rundunar haxin gwiwa ta mutum bakwai, yayin da har yanzu suna da qwarewa sosai, za su yi suka haxa da manyan motocin Litinin. hukumar tattara bayanan sirri kan shari’u 16 ke gaban kotu. aiki a matsayin masu tattaunawa shinkafa biyu, da na sukari xaya, Babale ya ce waxanda lamarin ya motsin waxanda abin ya shafa da Ya ci gaba da cewa, sashen wayar da masu ba da shawara. Alade ya da na gero da na masara xaya. rutsa da su sun haxa da maza 11 da waxanda ake zargi. da kan jama’a na rundunar ya nuna cewa ana sa ran xaliban za Ya ce “Yayin da Qaramar mata 43 ‘yan shekaru shida zuwa 25. Shugaban NAPTIP xin ya ce an gudanar da shirye-shiryen wayar da su ci gaba da gudanar da bincike Hukumar Gusau za ta karvi Ya ci gaba da cewa hukumar ta kuvutar da wasu daga cikin waxanda kai kan fataucin yara da kuma lalata kan jigo tare da gabatar da rahoto manyan motoci 10 wanda hakan karvi qararraki 48 kuma ta kama lamarin ya rutsa da su a kan iyakokin da su. “Za mu ci gaba da tabbatar ga Shugaban hafsoshin tsaro da y aba da adadin tirela 75,” in ji mutane 53 da ake zargi da safarar qasa, yayin da masu xaukar nauyinsu da mabuxan umarni don yaqi da shugabannin hafsoshin a watan shi. mutane gami da lalata da mata a suka yi qoqarin gudu da su daga qasar matsalar fataucin mutane,” in ji shi. 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ة Like our facebook page www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng news in arabic e-mail: [email protected] ﺳﯿﻘﻮم ﻣﺠﻠﺲ اﻟﻨﻮاب رﻣﻀﺎن: إي ﺑﻲ ﺳﻲ ﯾﻮزع ١٣٠ ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﻮاد ﺑﺈﺷﺮاك اﻟﺤﻜﺎم ﻓﻲ اﻟﻐﺬاﺋﯿﺔ ﻓﻲ زﻣﻔﺎرا اﺳﺘﻘﻼﻟﯿﺔ اﻟﻘﻀﺎء ﻗﺎل ﻓﺮع زاﻣﻔﺎرا ﻓﻲ ﻣﺆﺗﻤﺮ ﺟﻤﯿﻊ ﺗﻘﻮم ﻟﺠﻨﺔ ﻣﺠﻠﺲ اﻟﻨﻮاب اﻟﻤﻌﻨﯿﺔ اﻟﺘﻘﺪﻣﯿﯿﻦ (إي ﺑﻲ ﺳﻲ) إﻧﮫ ﯾﺨﻄﻂ ﺑﺎﻟﻘﻀﺎء ﺑﺈﺷﺮاك ﻣﻨﺘﺪى اﻟﺤﺎﻛﻢ ﻟﺘﻮزﯾﻊ ١٣٠ ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﻮاد اﻟﻨﯿﺠﯿﺮي وﺟﻤﯿﻊ أﺻﺤﺎب اﻟﻤﺼﻠﺤﺔ ً اﻟﻤﻌﻨﯿﯿﻦ ﺑﮭﺪف ﺿﻤﺎن اﻻﺳﺘﻘﻼل اﻟﻐﺬاﺋﯿﺔ اﻟﻤﺘﻨﻮﻋﺔ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻷﻗﻞ ﺣﻈﺎ ﻓﻲ اﻟﻤﺎﻟﻲ اﻟﻘﻀﺎﺋﻲ. اﻟﻮﻻﯾﺔ ، ﻗﺒﻞ ﺣﻠﻮل ﺷﮭﺮ رﻣﻀﺎن. أﻋﻠﻦ رﺋﯿﺲ اﻟﻠﺠﻨﺔ ، اﻟﻨﺎﺋﺐ ﻟﻮك ﻗﺎل ﻋﺰﯾﺰ ﯾﺎري وﻗﺎﺋﺪ اﻟﺠﯿﺶ اﻟﺸﻌﺒﻲ أوﻧﻮﻓﯿﻮك (اﻟﺤﺰب اﻟﺪﯾﻤﻘﺮاطﻲ ﻟﻠﻮﻻﯾﺔ ھﺬا ﻓﻲ ﺣﻔﻞ ﻟﺒﺪء ﺗﻮزﯾﻊ اﻟﻤﻮاد اﻟﺸﻌﺒﻲ ﻓﻲ أﻛﻮا إﯾﺒﻮم) ، ﻋﻦ ذﻟﻚ ﻓﻲ ﻏﻮﺳﺎو ﯾﻮم اﻷﺣﺪ ، وﻗﺎل ﯾﺎري ، ﺧﻼل اﺟﺘﻤﺎع ﻣﻊ اﺗﺤﺎد اﻟﻤﻮظﻔﯿﻦ ﻣﻤﺜﻼً ﺑﺎﻟﺴﻨﺎﺗﻮر ﻛﺎﺑﯿﺮو ﻣﺎراﻓﺎ (إي ﺑﻲ اﻟﻘﻀﺎﺋﯿﯿﻦ اﻟﻨﯿﺠﯿﺮي (ﺟﻮﺳﻮن) ﻓﻲ أﺑﻮﺟﺎ. ﺳﻲ-زﻣﻔﺎرا) ، إن اﻟﻌﻨﺎﺻﺮ ﺗﺸﻤﻞ ٥٤ ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ ﺗﺰن ٥٠ ﻛﺠﻢ ﻣﻦ أﻛﯿﺎس اﻷرز ذﻛﺮت ﻗﻨﺎة اﻟﺠﺰﯾﺮة اﻟﻨﯿﺠﯿﺮﯾﺔ أن ﺟﻮﺳﻮن ﺑﺪأت ًإﺿﺮاﺑﺎ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﺴﺘﻮى ، ٣٢ ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺎت ﻣﻦ ٥٠ ﻛﺠﻢ ﻣﻦ أﻛﯿﺎس اﻟﺒﻼد إﻟﻰ أﺟﻞ ﻏﯿﺮ ﻣﺴﻤﻰ ﯾﻮم اﻟﺴﻜﺮ ، و ٢٢ ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ ﻣﻦ اﻟﺬرة و ٢٢ اﻻﺛﻨﯿﻦ ٦ أﺑﺮﯾﻞ ﺑﺴﺒﺐ ﻋﺪم ﺗﻨﻔﯿﺬ ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ ﻣﻦ اﻟﺪﺧﻦ ، وﻗﺎل إن اﻟﻤﻮاد اﻻﺳﺘﻘﻼل اﻟﻤﺎﻟﻲ اﻟﻘﻀﺎﺋﻲ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﻨﺤﻮ وزﯾﺮ اﻟﺪﻓﺎع اﻟﻠﻮاء اﻟﻤﺘﻘﺎﻋﺪ ﺑﺸﯿﺮ ﻣﺎﻏﺎﺷﻲ (٣ ﯾﺴﺎر). ﻗﺎﺋﺪ ﻛﻠﯿﺔ ﻗﯿﺎدة اﻟﻘﻮات اﻟﻤﺴﻠﺤﺔ واﻷرﻛﺎن ﺟﺎﺟﻲ ، (2nd, L) ﺳﯿﺘﻢ ﺗﻮزﯾﻌﮭﺎ ﻋﺒﺮ ١٣ ﻣﻨﻄﻘﺔ ﺣﻜﻮﻣﯿﺔ اﻟﻤﻨﺼﻮص ﻋﻠﯿﮫ ﻓﻲ اﻟﺪﺳﺘﻮر. AVM Ebenezer Alade وﺑﻌﺾ ﻓﺮﯾﻖ إدارة اﻟﻜﻠﯿﺔ ﺧﻼل زﯾﺎرﺗﮭﻢ ﻟﻠﻮزﯾﺮ ﻓﻲShip House ﻓﻲ أﺑﻮﺟﺎ ﯾﻮم اﻷرﺑﻌﺎء ١٤ أﺑﺮﯾﻞ. ، ﻣﺤﻠﯿﺔ (ﻣﻨﻄﻘﺔ اﻟﺤﻜﻮﻣﺔ اﻟﻤﺤﻠﯿﺔ) ﻓﻲ وﻗﻊ اﻟﺮﺋﯿﺲ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺑﺨﺎري ﻋﻠﻰ أﻣﺮ ﺗﻨﻔﯿﺬي ﯾﻤﻨﺢ اﻻﺳﺘﻘﻼل اﻟﻤﺎﻟﻲ ﻟﻠﺴﻠﻄﺔ اﻟﻮﻻﯾﺔ. اﻟﻘﻀﺎﺋﯿﺔ وﻣﺠﻠﺲ اﻟﻨﻮاب ﻓﻲ ﻣﺎﯾﻮ ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺘﺎن ﻣﻦ اﻷرز وﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ واﺣﺪة ﻣﻦ ٢٠٢٠ ، ﺑﻌﺪ ﻋﺪة اﺿﻄﺮاﺑﺎت. ﻛﻠﯿﺔ اﻟﻘﻮات اﻟﻤﺴﻠﺤﺔ ﺗﻘﯿﻢ ﻧﺪوة اﻟﺪﻓﺎع واﻷﻣﻦ اﻟﺴﻜﺮ وﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ دﺧﻦ وﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ واﺣﺪة وﻣﻊ ذﻟﻚ ، ﺗﻢ ﺗﻌﻠﯿﻖ اﻟﻨﺸﺮ ﻓﻲ ﻟﻠﺬرة. وﻗﺎل ﯾﺎري: "ﺑﯿﻨﻤﺎ ﺳﺘﺘﻠﻘﻰ اﻟﺠﺮﯾﺪة اﻟﺮﺳﻤﯿﺔ ﺑﻌﺪ أن اﻟﺘﻘﻰ ﺑﺨﺎري ﺑﺪأت ﻛﻠﯿﺔ اﻟﻘﯿﺎدة واﻷرﻛﺎن ﻟﻠﻘﻮات واﻷﻣﻦ ﻟﻼﺳﺘﺠﺎﺑﺔ ﺑﺸﻜﻞ أﻛﺜﺮ ﻓﻌﺎﻟﯿﺔ ﺗﺴﺎﻋﺪ اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺎت ﻓﻲ ﻣﻮاﺟﮭﺔ اﻟﺘﺤﺪﯾﺎت ﻏﻮﺳﻮ ﻣﻨﻄﻘﺔ اﻟﺤﻜﻮﻣﺔ اﻟﻤﺤﻠﯿﺔ ١٠ ﻣﻊ اﻟﻤﺤﺎﻓﻈﯿﻦ ، اﻟﺬﯾﻦ أﻋﺮﺑﻮا ًﻻﺣﻘﺎ اﻟﻤﺴﻠﺤﺔ ﻧﺪوة دﻓﺎع وأﻣﻦ ﻟﻤﺪة ﺛﻼﺛﺔ ﻟﻠﺘﺤﺪﯾﺎت اﻷﻣﻨﯿﺔ. ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺎت ﻣﻦ إﺟﻤﺎﻟﻲ ٧٥ ﻣﻘﻄﻮرة". ﻋﻦ ﻗﻠﻘﮭﻢ ﺑﺸﺄن دﺳﺘﻮرﯾﺘﮫ. اﻷﻣﻨﯿﺔ اﻟﻘﺎﺋﻤﺔ واﻟﻨﺎﺷﺌﺔ. أﯾﺎم ﺗﮭﺪف إﻟﻰ ﺗﺤﺪﯾﺪ ﺳﺒﻞ ﺟﺪﯾﺪة وأﻋﺮب ﻋﻦ أﻣﻠﮫ ﻓﻲ أن ﺗﺤﻔﺰ وﻗﺎل ﯾﺎري إﻧﮫ ﺳﯿﺘﻢ ﺗﻮزﯾﻊ ٥٥ ﻧﺎﺷﺪ أوﻧﻮﻓﯿﻚ ﺣﻜﺎم اﻟﻮﻻﯾﺎت ﺗﻨﻔﯿﺬ وأﺷﺎر ﻋﻼء اﻟﺬي ﻣﺜﻠﮫ ﻧﺎﺋﺒﮫ ، ﺷﺎﺣﻨﺔ اﻟﻤﺘﺒﻘﯿﺔ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻷﯾﺘﺎم. اﻟﺠﺰء ﻣﻦ اﻟﺪﺳﺘﻮر اﻟﺬي ﯾﻄﺎﻟﺐ ﻟﻤﻜﺎﻓﺤﺔ اﻟﺘﮭﺪﯾﺪات اﻟﻨﺎﺷﺌﺔ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻷﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﻨﺎﻗﺸﺎت ﻓﻲ اﻟﻨﺪوة ﻋﻠﻰ أﻓﻜﺎر ﺟﺪﯾﺪة اﻷدﻣﯿﺮال ﺑﺎﺗﺮﯾﻚ ﻧﻮاﺗﻮ ، إﻟﻰ أن ﺑﺎﻻﺳﺘﻘﻼﻟﯿﺔ اﻟﻤﺎﻟﯿﺔ ﻟﻠﺴﻠﻄﺔ اﻟﻘﻀﺎﺋﯿﺔ. اﻟﻘﻮﻣﻲ. ذوي اﻻﺣﺘﯿﺎﺟﺎت اﻟﺨﺎﺻﺔ، وﻛﺎﻻت ووﻓﻘﺎ ﻟﮫ ، إذا ﻛﺎﻧﺖ ﻟﺪﯾﻨﺎ ﻛﻞ أذرع ﻣﻦ ﺷﺄﻧﮭﺎ أن ﺗﺴﺎﻋﺪ ﻓﻲ إﻋﺎدة ﺗﻨﻈﯿﻢ اﻟﺘﺤﺪﯾﺎت اﻷﻣﻨﯿﺔ اﻟﻤﺴﺘﻤﺮة ﻓﻲ ﻗﺎﻟﺐ اﻷﻣﻦ، ﻣﻮﺳﯿﻘﻲ واﻟﺼﺤﻔﯿﻮن وﺣﺪود اﻟﺤﻜﻮﻣﺔ ﺗﻌﻤﻞ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻗﺪم اﻟﻤﺴﺎواة ، أﻓﺎدت اﻟﺠﺰﯾﺮة اﻟﻨﯿﺠﯿﺮﯾﺔ أن ﻣﻮﺿﻮع ﺧﺪﻣﺎت اﻟﺪﻓﺎع واﻷﻣﻦ ﻣﻦ أﺟﻞ ﺗﻌﺰﯾﺰ ﻣﻮاﻗﻊ اﻟﻤﺪﯾﺮاﻟﺘﻮاﺻﻞ اﻟﻄﺒﻲاﻻﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﻲ ، ﯾﺤﺚوﺑﺤﺴﺐ ﻓﺴﻮف ﯾﻜﻮن ﻟﺪﯾﻨﺎ ﻣﺠﺘﻤﻊ أﻓﻀﻞ. اﻟﻠﺼﻮﺻﯿﺔ واﻟﺘﻤﺮد واﻹرھﺎب ، اﻟﻨﺪوة ھﻮ "ﺗﻮﺣﯿﺪ اﻟﻤﻌﺪات وﻗﺎﺑﻠﯿﺔ اﻟﻔﻌﺎﻟﯿﺔ اﻟﺘﺸﻐﯿﻠﯿﺔ. ﻗﻮﻟﮫ ، ﻓﺈن اﻟﻌﻤﺎل اﻟﻤﺴﺘﻔﯿﺪﯾﻦ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻵﺧﺮﯾﻦ ھﻢ اﻻﻣﺘﺜﺎل ووﺻﻒ رﺋﯿﺲ ﻣﺠﻠﺲ اﻹدارة ﻣﻄﺎﻟﺐ اﻟﺘﺸﻐﯿﻞ اﻟﺒﯿﻨﻲ ﻓﻲ اﻟﻘﻮات اﻟﻤﺴﻠﺤﺔ ﺗﺘﻄﻠﺐ ﻣﺰﯾﺪًا ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﺮاﺟﻌﺔ ﻟﻠﻮﺿﻊ ﻣﺪﯾﺮو اﻟﺤﺰب وﻛﺒﺎر اﻟﺴﻦ. ﺟﻮﺳﻮن ﺑﺄﻧﮭﺎ ﺣﻘﯿﻘﯿﺔ ﻟﻀﻤﺎن اﺳﺘﻘﻼل وأﺛﻨﻰ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﻜﻠﯿﺔ ﻟﻜﻮﻧﮭﺎ ﻓﻲ طﻠﯿﻌﺔ ﻟﻘﻮاﻋﺪ اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺔ اﻟﻘﻀﺎء. ﻏﯿﺮ أﻧﮫ ﻧﺎﺷﺪ اﻟﻨﻘﺎﺑﺔ اﻟﻨﯿﺠﯿﺮﯾﺔ" ، وﻗﺪ ﺗﻢ ﺗﻨﻈﯿﻤﮭﺎ ﻟﻄﻼب اﻟﺮاھﻦ ، ﻻ ﺳﯿﻤﺎ ﻓﻲ ﻣﺠﺎل ﺗﻮﺣﯿﺪ اﻟﻤﺴﺎھﻤﺔ ﻓﻲ ﺣﻞ اﻟﺘﺤﺪﯾﺎت اﻷﻣﻨﯿﺔ وﻗﺪ دﻋﺎ اﻟﺪﻛﺘﻮر ﺷﯿﮭﻮ ﺳﯿﻞ ، اﻟﻤﺪﯾﺮ ﻻﺳﺘﺌﻨﺎف اﻟﻌﻤﻞ ﻓﻲ اﻟﻤﺤﺎﻛﻢ اﻟﺪورة اﻟﻌﻠﯿﺎ ٤٣. اﻟﻤﻌﺪات ﺑﯿﻦ اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺎت. اﻟﻔﯿﺪراﻟﯿﺔ ﺣﯿﺚ اﻣﺘﺜﻠﺖ اﻟﺤﻜﻮﻣﺔ اﻟﻤﻌﺎﺻﺮة ، وإﻋﺪاد ﺿﺒﺎط ﻧﺸﯿﻄﯿﻦ اﻟﻄﺒﻲ ﻟﻤﺴﺘﺸﻔﻰ اﻷﻣﺮاض اﻟﻨﻔﺴﯿﺔ اﻟﻔﯿﺪراﻟﯿﺔ ﻟﻤﻄﺎﻟﺒﮭﻢ. ﻓﻲ ﻛﻠﻤﺘﮫ اﻻﻓﺘﺘﺎﺣﯿﺔ ، أﻟﻘﻰ ﻗﺎﺋﺪ ﺳﻼح ﻗﺎل اﻟﻘﺎﺋﺪ إن ﻛﺒﺎر اﻟﻀﺒﺎط اﻟﻌﺼﺒﯿﺔ اﻟﻔﯿﺪراﻟﯿﺔ ﻛﻮوﯾﺮ ، ﺑﻮﻻﯾﺔ ﻟﻠﻤﮭﺎم اﻟﺘﻲ ﺗﻨﺘﻈﺮھﻢ ﻓﻲ اﻟﻤﯿﺪان. ﻛﻠﻒ ﺳﻮﻛﻮﺗﻮ ، اﻟﻌﺎﻣﻠﯿﻦ ﺑﺎﻟﻤﺴﺘﺸﻔﻰ إﻟﻰ ووﻓﻘﺎ ﻟﮫ ، ﻟﯿﺲ ﻣﻦ اﻟﺠﯿﺪ ﻣﻌﺎﻗﺒﺔ اﻟﻤﺸﺎة ﻓﻲ اﻟﺠﯿﺶ اﻟﻨﯿﺠﯿﺮي اﻟﺮاﺋﺪ. - اﻟﻤﺨﻀﺮﻣﯿﻦ اﻟﺬﯾﻦ ﺗﻢ اﻟﻜﺸﻒ ﻋﻨﮭﻢ ﺿﻤﺎن أﻗﺼﻰ ﻗﺪر ﻣﻦ اﻻﻣﺘﺜﺎل ﻟﻘﻮاﻋﺪ اﻵﺧﺮﯾﻦ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺧﻄﺎﯾﺎ اﻵﺧﺮﯾﻦ. أوزاﻣﯿﺮي اﻟﻄﻼب ﺑﺈﻋﺪاد ﻋﻘﻮﻟﮭﻢ وﻟﺪﯾﮭﻢ ﺧﺒﺮة واﺳﻌﺔ ، ﺳﯿﻌﻤﻠﻮن وﺳﯿﺆدي إﻟﻰ ﺑﯿﺌﺔ ﻋﻤﻞ أﻓﻀﻞ ﺟﻦ. أوﺳﺎﺳﻮﺟﻲ أوزاﻣﯿﺮ ، ﻗﺎل إن وﻟﻮاﺋﺢ اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺔ اﻟﻌﺎﻣﺔ. ﻟﻠﻤﺴﺆوﻟﯿﻦ اﻟﻘﻀﺎﺋﯿﯿﻦ وﻣﻮظﻔﻲ اﻟﺴﻠﻚ اﻟﺠﯿﺶ ﯾﻤﺮ ﺑﺘﺤﻮل ھﺎﺋﻞ ، ﻟﻼﺳﺘﺠﺎﺑﺔ ﺑﺸﺄن اﻟﺘﺤﺪﯾﺎت اﻟﺘﻲ ﺳﯿﻮاﺟﮭﻮﻧﮭﺎ ﻓﻲ ﻛﻤﻨﺴﻘﯿﻦ وﻣﻨﺎﻗﺸﯿﻦ. وأﺷﺎر اﻟﻌﺪاد إﻟﻰ ورﺷﺔ ﻋﻤﻞ ﺗﺪرﯾﺒﯿﺔ ﻣﻜﺜﻔﺔ ﺗﺤﺖ اﻟﻘﻀﺎﺋﻲ ، ورﻓﺎھﯿﺔ أﻓﻀﻞ ﻟﻠﻤﻮظﻔﯿﻦ ﺑﺸﻜﻞ ﻣﻨﺎﺳﺐ ﻟﺠﻤﯿﻊ اﻟﺘﮭﺪﯾﺪات اﻷﻣﻨﯿﺔ اﻟﻤﯿﺪان ﺑﻌﺪ اﻟﺪورة. ﻋﻨﻮان: (أﻓﻀﻞ اﻷﺳﺎﻟﯿﺐ ﻹدارة وﺗﻤﻜﯿﻨﮭﻢ ﻣﻦ أداء واﺟﺒﺎﺗﮭﻢ دون أﻧﮫ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﺘﻮﻗﻊ أن ﯾﻘﻮم اﻟﻄﻼب اﻟﻤﻮظﻔﯿﻦ واﻹﺟﺮاءات اﻟﺘﺄدﯾﺒﯿﺔ ﻓﻲ ﺧﻮف أو ﻣﺤﺎﺑﺎة. إﻟﻰ ھﺬا اﻟﺤﺪ ، ﻧﺤﻦ اﻟﻮطﻨﯿﺔ اﻟﻨﺎﺷﺌﺔ. ﻓﻲ وﻗﺖ ﺳﺎﺑﻖ ، أوﺿﺢ ﻗﺎﺋﺪ اﻟﻜﻠﯿﺔ ، ﺑﺈﺟﺮاء ﻣﺰﯾﺪ ﻣﻦ اﻟﺒﺤﺚ ﺣﻮل اﻟﻤﻨﻈﻤﺔ) ﻧﻈﻤﮭﺎ اﻟﻤﺴﺘﺸﻔﻰ ﯾﻮم ﻧﺘﻀﺎﻣﻦ ﻣﻌﻚ ﻓﻲ اﻟﺘﺤﺮﻛﺎت اﻟﺘﻲ وﻗﺎل أوزاﻣﯿﺮ إن ﺗﺮﻛﯿﺰ اﻟﻨﺪوة ﻛﺎن إي ﺑﻲ أم إﯾﺒﯿﻨﯿﺰا أﻻدي ، أن اﻟﻨﺪوة اﻟﺜﻼﺛﺎء. ﺗﻘﻮم ﺑﮭﺎ ﻟﻠﺘﺄﻛﺪ ﻣﻦ أن ﻟﺪﯾﻚ اﺳﺘﻘﻼﻟﯿﺔ اﻟﻤﻮﺿﻮع وﺗﻘﺪﯾﻢ ﺗﻘﺮﯾﺮ إﻟﻰ رﺋﯿﺲ وﻗﺎل إن اﻟﺘﺪرﯾﺐ ﯾﮭﺪف إﻟﻰ ﺗﺤﺴﯿﻦ ﻣﺎﻟﯿﺔ ﻓﻲ اﻟﻘﻀﺎء. ًاﻧﻌﻜﺎﺳﺎ ﻟﻠﺘﺤﻮل اﻟﻤﺴﺘﻤﺮ ﻓﻲ اﻟﻘﻮات ﻛﺎﻧﺖ ﺗﮭﺪف إﻟﻰ ﺗﻮﻟﯿﺪ أﻓﻜﺎر ﻣﻦ أرﻛﺎن اﻟﺪﻓﺎع ورؤﺳﺎء اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺎت ﻓﻲ ﻣﮭﺎرات اﻟﻌﺎﻣﻠﯿﻦ ﻟﺘﺤﺴﯿﻦ ﻛﻔﺎءﺗﮭﻢ "ﻧﻘﻄﺔ اﻻﺧﺘﻼف اﻟﻮﺣﯿﺪة ﻟﺪﯾﻨﺎ ھﻲ اﻟﻤﺴﻠﺤﺔ ﻧﺎﺑﺘﯿﺐ وإﻋﺎدة ﺗﻨﻈﯿﻢ ﺗﻨﻘﺬ أﺟﮭﺰة ٥٤ اﻟﺪﻓﺎع ﺿﺤﯿﺔاﻟﻄﻼب واﻟﻤﻨﺎﻗﺸﯿﻦ وﺗﻌﺘﻘﻞﻣﻦ ﺷﺄﻧﮭﺎ أن٥٣ ﻣﺸﺘﺒﮭﺎً ﺑﮭﻢ ﻓﻲ ﻛﺎﻧﻮ وﻣﮭﻨﯿﺘﮭﻢ. ﻻ ﯾﻨﺒﻐﻲ أن ﺗﻜﻮن ﻗﻮاﻋﺪ ﻣﺠﻤﻞ اﻹﺿﺮاب اﻟﺼﻨﺎﻋﻲ ﺣﺘﻰ ﯾﻮﻧﯿﻮ. اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺔ ﻋﺬرا ﻻﻧﺘﮭﺎك ﻟﻮاﺋﺢ وإﺟﺮاءات داﺧﻞ اﻟﻤﺤﻜﻤﺔ اﻟﻔﯿﺪراﻟﯿﺔ ؛ إذا اﻟﺘﺰﻣﺖ ﺗﻘﻮل اﻟﻮﻛﺎﻟﺔ اﻟﻮطﻨﯿﺔ ﻟﺤﻈﺮ اﻻﺗﺠﺎر ًﺧﺎرﺟﯿﺎ ًوداﺧﻠﯿﺎ ﺑﺎﻟﺒﺸﺮ وﺛﻤﺎﻧﻲ "ﻋﻨﺪ ﺗﻠﻘﻲ اﻟﻤﻌﻠﻮﻣﺎت ، أﺟﺮت اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺔ. اﻟﺤﻜﻮﻣﺔ اﻻﺗﺤﺎدﯾﺔ ﺑﺄﺣﻜﺎم اﻟﺪﺳﺘﻮر ﺑﺎﻟﺒﺸﺮ (ﻧﺎﺑﺘﯿﺐ) إﻧﮭﺎ أﻧﻘﺬت ٥٤ ﺣﺎﻻت إﺳﺎءة ﻣﻌﺎﻣﻠﺔ أطﻔﺎل". وﻗﺎل إﻧﮫ ﺗﻢ ﺗﻮﻓﯿﺮ اﻹﺟﺮاءات اﻟﺘﺄدﯾﺒﯿﺔ ﻓﻲ اﻟﺘﺄﻛﺪ ﻣﻦ إرﺳﺎل اﻷﻣﻮال اﻟﻮﻛﺎﻟﺔ ﻋﻤﻠﯿﺎت أدت إﻟﻰ اﻋﺘﻘﺎل اﻟﻤﻨﺎﺳﺒﺔ ﻟﻤﻦ ﯾﺨﺎﻟﻒ اﻟﻘﻮاﻋﺪ اﻟﺘﻲ اﻟﻤﺨﺼﺼﺔ ﻟﻠﻘﻀﺎء اﻻﺗﺤﺎدي ﻣﺒﺎﺷﺮة ﺿﺤﯿﺔ ﻓﻲ وﻻﯾﺔ ﻛﺎﻧﻮ ﻣﻨﺬ ﯾﻨﺎﯾﺮ / واﻟﺒﻌﺾ اﻵﺧﺮ ﻋﺒﺎرة ﻋﻦ ﺧﻤﺲ اﻟﻤﺸﺘﺒﮫ ﺑﮭﻢ وإﻧﻘﺎذ اﻟﻀﺤﺎﯾﺎ. وﻗﺎل ﺗﺤﻜﻢ ﺟﻤﯿﻊ ﺟﻮاﻧﺐ اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺔ اﻟﻤﺪﻧﯿﺔ ، إﻟﻰ ﻣﺠﻠﺲ اﻟﻘﻀﺎء اﻟﻮطﻨﻲ ، ﻓﻠﯿﺲ ﻛﺎﻧﻮن اﻟﺜﺎﻧﻲ ﺣﺘﻰ اﻵن. ﻗﻀﺎﯾﺎ ﻋﻤﺎﻟﺔ أطﻔﺎل ، وﺳﺖ ﺣﺎﻻت ﺑﺎﺑﺎﻟﻲ إن اﻟﻘﯿﺎدة ﻗﺪ أﻣﻨﺖ ﺣﺘﻰ اﻵن وﻗﺎل إن اﻟﺒﺮﻧﺎﻣﺞ اﻟﺘﺪرﯾﺒﻲ ﺳﯿﺴﺘﻤﺮ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻌﺪل أن ﯾﺴﺘﻤﺮ ﻣﻮظﻔﻮ اﻟﻘﻀﺎء ﺣﺘﻰ ﯾﺴﺘﻔﯿﺪ ﺟﻤﯿﻊ اﻟﻌﻤﺎل. اﻻﺗﺤﺎدي ﻓﻲ اﻹﺿﺮاب. اﻋﺘﺪاء ﺟﻨﺴﻲ ، وأرﺑﻊ ﺣﺎﻻت ﻋﻨﻒ وﻛﺸﻔﺖ اﻟﻤﻨﻄﻘﺔ اﻟﺸﻤﺎﻟﯿﺔ اﻟﻐﺮﺑﯿﺔ ﻋﻦ ﺳﺒﻊ إداﻧﺎت ، ﻣﻊ وﺟﻮد ١٦ ﻗﻀﯿﺔ ﻻ ﻗﺎل اﻟﻤﯿﺴﺮ ، اﻟﺴﯿﺪ ﺑﻮھﺎري أﺑﻮ ﺑﻜﺮ وﻗﺎل "أﻧﺎ أﻋﻠﻢ وأؤﻛﺪ أﻧﮫ ﺗﻀﺎﻣﻦ إﻟﻰ ذﻟﻚ ﻓﻲ ﻣﻘﺎﺑﻠﺔ ﻣﻊ ﻗﻨﺎة اﻟﺠﺰﯾﺮة ﻋﻠﻰ أﺳﺎس اﻟﻨﻮع اﻻﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﻲ ، وﺳﺖ ﺗﺰال ﻗﯿﺪ اﻟﻨﻈﺮ ﻓﻲ اﻟﻤﺤﻜﻤﺔ. ﻣﻦ ﻓﻮدي ﻟﻼﺳﺘﺸﺎرات واﻟﺨﺪﻣﺎت اﻷﺑﺪ ، ﻟﻜﻦ دﻋﻮﻧﺎ ﻧﺤﺼﺮ اﻹﺿﺮاب اﻟﻨﯿﺠﯿﺮﯾﺔ ﻓﻲ ﻛﺎﻧﻮ ﯾﻮم اﻻﺛﻨﯿﻦ ، وﻗﺎل ﺣﺎﻻت أﺧﺮى ذات ﺻﻠﺔ وﻗﺎل إن اﻹﻋﻼﻣﯿﺔ ، إن اﻟﻤﺸﺎرﻛﯿﻦ ﺳﯿﺘﻢ ﻓﻲ أوﻟﺌﻚ اﻟﺬﯾﻦ ﻟﻢ ﯾﻠﺘﺰﻣﻮا ﺑﻘﻀﯿﺔ ﺑﺎﺑﺎﻟﻲ إن اﻟﻀﺤﺎﯾﺎ ﻣﻦ ١١ ًذﻛﺮا و ﻓﺮﯾﻖ ﻋﻤﻞ اﻟﻤﺠﻠﺲ اﻟﻤﺸﺘﺮك ﻟﻠﻮﻛﺎﻟﺔ ﻛﻤﺎ ﻗﺎل إن إدارة اﻟﺘﻨﻮﯾﺮ اﻟﻌﺎم اﻟﺘﺎﺑﻌﺔ إﺟﺮاؤھﻢ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﺘﺸﺪﯾﺪ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻟﻮاﺋﺢ اﻻﺳﺘﻘﻼل اﻟﻤﺎﻟﻲ". ﻓﻲ وﻗﺖ ﺳﺎﺑﻖ ، اﻟﺨﺪﻣﺔ اﻟﻌﺎﻣﺔ اﻟﺤﺎﻟﯿﺔ واﻹﺟﺮاءات ﻗﺎل ﻧﺎﺋﺐ رﺋﯿﺲ ﺟﻮﺳﻮن ، اﻟﺴﯿﺪ ﻟﻠﻘﯿﺎدة ﻧﻔﺬت ﺑﺮاﻣﺞ ﺗﻮﻋﯿﺔ ﺑﺸﺄن ٤٣ أﻧﺜﻰ ﺗﺘﺮاوح أﻋﻤﺎرھﻢ ﺑﯿﻦ ٦ و ﺟﻤﻊ ﻣﻌﻠﻮﻣﺎت اﺳﺘﺨﺒﺎرﯾﺔ ﻋﻦ اﻟﺘﺄدﯾﺒﯿﺔ وﻏﯿﺮھﺎ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﻤﺎرﺳﺎت ، أﻛﺪ إﯾﻤﺎﻧﻮوال أﺑﯿﺌﻮﯾﻲ ، إﻧﮫ ﻛﺎن ﻣﻦ ٢٥ ﻋﺎﻣﺎ. اﻻﺗﺠﺎر واﻟﺘﺤﺮش ﺑﺎﻷطﻔﺎل. اﻟﻤﻤﻜﻦ ﺗﺠﻨﺐ اﻹﺿﺮاب اﻟﻤﺴﺘﻤﺮ إذا ً ﺗﺤﺮﻛﺎت اﻟﻀﺤﺎﯾﺎ واﻟﻤﺸﺘﺒﮫ ﺑﮭﻢ. اﻟﺨﺒﯿﺮ اﻟﺪﻛﺘﻮر أﺑﻮ ﺑﻜﺮ ﻋﺒﺪ ﷲ ﻣﻦ ﺗﻢ اﺣﺘﺮام ﺳﯿﺎدة اﻟﻘﺎﻧﻮن. ﻗﺎل أﺑﯿﻮي وأﺿﺎف أن اﻟﻮﻛﺎﻟﺔ اﺳﺘﻘﺒﻠﺖ ٤٨ ﺣﺎﻟﺔ "ﺳﻨﻮاﺻﻞ ﺿﻤﺎن ﻣﻔﺎﺗﯿﺢ اﻟﻘﯿﺎدة ﻗﺴﻢ اﻟﻌﻠﻮم اﻟﺴﯿﺎﺳﯿﺔ ﺑﺠﺎﻣﻌﺔ ﻋﺜﻤﺎﻧﻮ إن اﻷﻗﺴﺎم ١٢٢ (٣) و ٨٢ (٣) و وﻗﺎل رﺋﯿﺲ ﻧﺎﺑﺘﯿﺐ إن ﺑﻌﺾ اﻟﻀﺤﺎﯾﺎ داﻧﻔﻮدﯾﻮ ﻓﻲ ﺳﻮﻛﻮﺗﻮ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﺤﺎﺟﺔ إﻟﻰ ٢٦٢ (٩) ﻣﻦ دﺳﺘﻮر ١٩٩٩ ﺗﺘﺤﺪث واﻋﺘﻘﻠﺖ ٥٣ ًﻣﺸﺘﺒﮭﺎ ﻓﻲ ﻓﯿﻤﺎ ﯾﺘﻌﻠﻖ ﺗﻢ إﻧﻘﺎذھﻢ ﻋﻨﺪ اﻟﺤﺪود اﻟﺒﺮﯾﺔ ، ﺑﯿﻨﻤﺎ ﻟﻤﻜﺎﻓﺤﺔ ﺧﻄﺮ اﻻﺗﺠﺎر ﺑﺎﻟﺒﺸﺮ". ﺧﻄﺔ اﻟﻘﻮى اﻟﻌﺎﻣﻠﺔ ﻣﻦ ﻗﺒﻞ اﻟﻤﺆﺳﺴﺎت ﺑﻮﺿﻮح ﻋﻦ اﻻﺳﺘﻘﻼل اﻟﻤﺎﻟﻲ ﺑﺎﻻﺗﺠﺎر ﺑﺎﻟﺒﺸﺮ واﻻﻋﺘﺪاء اﻟﺠﻨﺴﻲ ﺣﺎول ﻛﻔﻼﺋﮭﻢ اﻟﻔﺮار ﻣﻌﮭﻢ إﻟﻰ ﺧﺎرج ﺷﺒﺎب اﻷﻣﺔ ﺿﺪ اﻟﺸﺮوع ﻓﻲ ﻟﺘﺠﻨﺐ اﻟﺘﻜﺮار واﻟﺘﻐﯿﺐ ﻋﻦ اﻟﻤﻨﺎﺻﺐ ﻟﻠﻘﻀﺎء. وﺳﻮء ﻣﻮاﺿﻌﮭﺎ. ﺧﻼل اﻟﻔﺘﺮة ﻗﯿﺪ اﻻﺳﺘﻌﺮاض. اﻟﺒﻼد ﻣﻦ أﺟﻞ اﻟﻤﺮاﻋﻲ اﻟﺨﻀﺮاء اﻟﺮﺣﻼت اﻟﺨﺎرﺟﯿﺔ دون أﺳﺒﺎب وﻗﺎل إن ھﺬه اﻟﻘﻀﯿﺔ ﻣﺎ زاﻟﺖ ﻣﺴﺘﻤﺮة وﻗﺎل إن ھﺬا ﻣﻦ ﺷﺄﻧﮫ أن ﯾﺴﺎﻋﺪ ﻓﻲ ﻣﻨﺬ ﻋﺎم ١٩٩٩ وھﻨﺎك ﺣﻜﻢ ﻗﻀﺎﺋﻲ "ﺗﻀﻤﻨﺖ اﻟﺤﺎﻻت ١٩ ًاﺗﺠﺎرا اﻟﻤﺰﻋﻮﻣﺔ. ﻣﺤﺪدة وﺣﻘﯿﻘﯿﺔ. إﺛﺮاء ﻧﻈﺎم اﻟﺤﻮﻛﻤﺔ وﯾﻀﻤﻦ اﻟﺘﺪرﯾﺐ ﻟﺼﺎﻟﺢ ﻣﻮﻗﻒ اﻟﻨﻘﺎﺑﺔ اﻟﺬي ﻟﻢ ﯾﺘﻢ اﻟﺮوﺗﯿﻨﻲ ﻟﻠﻌﻤﺎل ﻟﻤﺰﯾﺪ ﻣﻦ اﻹﻧﺘﺎﺟﯿﺔ ﺗﻨﻔﯿﺬه ﻓﻲ اﻟﺴﻨﻮات اﻟﺴﺒﻊ اﻟﻤﺎﺿﯿﺔ. وﺗﺤﻘﯿﻖ اﻷھﺪاف اﻟﺘﻨﻈﯿﻤﯿﺔ "إذا ﻛﺎن اﻟﻘﻀﺎء اﻟﺬي ھﻮ اﻷﻣﻞ وأﺿﺎف: "ﺗﻢ ﺗﻮﻓﯿﺮ اﻟﻤﻮاد ﻣﻦ ﻗﺒﻞ اﻷﺧﯿﺮ ﻟﻠﺮﺟﻞ اﻟﻌﺎدي ﻏﯿﺮ ﻣﺴﺘﻘﻞ ، اﻟﺤﺰب ﻣﻊ اﻷﺧﺬ ﻓﻲ اﻻﻋﺘﺒﺎر اﻟﺘﻀﺨﻢ ﻓﻜﯿﻒ ﺳﯿﺤﺼﻞ اﻟﻨﺎس ﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﻌﺪاﻟﺔ. اﻟﺤﺎﻟﻲ ﻓﻲ أﺳﻌﺎر اﻟﻤﻮاد اﻟﻐﺬاﺋﯿﺔ ﻓﻲ اﻟﺒﻼد. ﻧﺸﻜﺮ ﻗﯿﺎدة اﻟﺤﺰب ﻓﻲ اﻟﺪوﻟﺔ. الجزير نيجيريا

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The prosthetic limbs center is just one of the many projects of KSrelief in Yemen Ambassador To Indonesia KSrelief Opens Prosthetic Launches Iftar Programme Saudi Ambassador to Indonesia Limbs Clinic In Aden Essam bin Abed Al-Thaqafi on : The Saudi-based by KSrelief in the governorates of health sector,” said Al-Dibani. relief efforts being provided by Thursday launched a massive iftar King Salman Humanitarian Aid Aden, Taiz, Seiyun and Marib, with The center is part of the Saudi Arabia, through KSrelief, to program and started distributing and Relief Center (KSrelief) has the aim of supporting the Yemeni framework of humanitarian and the Yemeni people. King Salman’s gift of dates for the officially opened an artificial limbs year under the supervision of the clinic in the Yemeni city of Aden, Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah the state-run Saudi Press Agency and Guidance. has reported. Saudi Students Win Four Awards In The program includes the Qasim Buhaibeh, the Yemeni distribution of 3,000 food baskets minister of public health and European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad and 10,000 iftar meals to hospitals, population, thanked KSrelief for orphanages and others in Indonesia. its work to help the Yemeni people. JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia ranked 16th by four students who have all Al-Ahsa all won bronze medals. Al-Thaqafi oversees the project in He also praised the achievement of 55 countries in the European been members of programs All four students have been cooperation and coordination with of establishing the prosthetic Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad run by the King Abdul Aziz and members of Mawhiba’s Program the Indonesian Ministry of Religious limb facility, which he said “will (EGMO), which ended on Thursday, His Companions Foundation for International Olympiads and Affairs, along with other prominent contribute to providing medical rising 10 places from last year and for Giftedness and Creativity have received thousands of training Islamic societies and centers. services and alleviating the winning four medals. (Mawhiba) and have received hours and attended several training The initiative was launched at suffering of those who are injured Each country involved in the thousands of training hours and camps. the religious attache’s office for the and the victims of mines.” competition is represented by a attended several training camps. Mawhiba works in partnership Kingdom’s Embassy in Jakarta. Saleh Al-Dibani, the director team of four female mathematicians In the past, Saudi teams have won with the Ministry of Education Representatives from the Minister of KSrelief in Aden, said the of school age, This year’s EGMO 20 medals at the EGMO. This year, to qualify Saudis to compete in of Religious Affairs of Indonesia and organization has provided the was hosted by Georgia, but held Rafaa Qanash from Jeddah won a scientific Olympiads. Over 1,300 the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta also attended the launch ceremony. prosthetic limb center with the remotely due to the COVID-19 silver medal, while Lara Munqal hours of training are provided resources it needs to help 1,434 pandemic. from Jeddah, Joud Bahwini from annually to prepare students to beneficiaries, including 300 new Saudi Arabia was represented Yanbu, and Fatima Al-Ghanam from participate. prosthetic limbs. He added that KSrelief is also providing resources for maintenance of prosthetics, 62 Jeddah Outlets Shut For COVID-19 Breaches rehabilitation services, JEDDAH: Authorities in Jeddah safety measures designed to to overcrowding and the failure physiotherapy, and to hire medical have shut down 62 commercial protect public health. to effectively use the Tawakkalna staff in coordination with the outlets for breaching coronavirus The municipality of Jeddah app. Yemeni Ministry of Health. disease (COVID-19) protocols. governorate carried out 4,219 Officials urged people to “The project of equipping and Municipalities in the Kingdom inspection tours of commercial report any suspected breaches of preparing artificial limbs is one of have stepped up their efforts to centers and facilities and identified COVID-19 regulations to the 940 the most important projects funded ensure compliance with COVID-19 166 violations for issues related call-center number. Al-Thaqafi الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 21 ةالجزير نيجيريا

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Commissioner for Land, Survey and Town Planning in Plateau /Chairman of the Committee, Mr Yakubu Dati (left) with members of the committee during their inauguration ceremony to look into land dispute between Nigeria Film Corporation and Nukwis communities of Izere chiefdom in Jos North area of Plateau on Thursday, April 15. PHOTO: SUNDAY ADAH/BJO/NAN. Dangote, BUA Deliberately Causing Scarcity, Price Hike – Dealers BY CHARLES EBI dealers. According to him, Dangote, a Nigerians have blamed Dangote, leading cement producer in Nigeria, BUA, and Sokoto Cement for the sells cement only to major dealers. prevailing scarcity and constant “In the past, what you needed to hike in cement price across the do was to open an account with the country. company and deposit money for a

economy Some residents told our few trucks of cement depending on correspondent that the situation your capacity.

had affected building projects and “Before the outbreak of the left bricklayers redundant. COVID-19 pandemic, the price Kabiru Idi, a contractor, said he was stable, and the product was had delayed some of his projects available almost everywhere in the due to the high cost of building country,” said Mr Aminu. materials. He added, “As a result of that “I want to continue, but I had policy, small dealers no longer have to stop because of the high cost Dangote Rabiu access to buying cement directly & of building materials, including Mr Saleh also accused some of production. from the manufacturer. cement,” he explained. the cement companies of creating According to the retailers, the “If you want to remain in According to him, a cement bag artificial scarcity, alleging that they manufacturers included Dangote, business, you have to buy from of N2,650 (or N2,750) in 2020 now divert cement to neighbouring BUA, and Sokoto cement. Abubakar major dealers who determine the costs N3,650 and N3,750. countries. Aminu, a cement dealer in Katsina, market price. Mr Idi added that the situation In Katsina, retailers sold a claimed that the companies had cut “The major dealers sell it to small had forced many people to change cement bag at N2,600 before production during the COVID-19 dealers above the original company their construction plans or suspend the outbreak of the COVID-19 lockdown, and since then, the price, while the small dealers sell it the project. pandemic. Now, it costs between supply and price have remained to consumers at a price higher than Another contractor, Suraj N3,500 and N3,700. unstable. what was obtainable before.” Najeem, said he had to review a The retailers blamed the Mr Aminu claimed some of Mr Aminu pointed out that contract he had with a company situation on the scarcity of the the companies had adopted new unless the companies reversed the because of the high cost of product, saying major cement policies that made access to the policy, Nigerians would continue to materials, particularly cement. manufacturers reduced their product difficult for most cement buy cement at a higher price. Mr Najeem explained that some block industries had reduced their blocks’ quality because of the cement price crisis. Ado Bala, who is building his FG Not Responsible For All Published Debt Figures – DMO house in Kano’s Medile area, BY MARIAM SANNI, ABUJA the decline since 2018 had to Appropriation Act. disclosed that he took a break due increase again due to the COVID-19 “Unfortunately, the adverse to the high cost of cement and The Debt Management Office (DMO) pandemic. impact of COVID-19 on revenues other building materials. says its published debt stock for “First, it is useful to state that and increased spending, have “The government needs to find a the country is not for the Federal the Public Debt figures published resulted in higher levels of way to help us so that the poor can Government alone. by the DMO are the Debt Stock of borrowing,” she said. own their houses,” said Mr Bala. The Director-General of DMO, the Federal Government of Nigeria, She added that the DMO was Mr Bala pointed out that a six- Mrs Patience Oniha, on her twitter 36 states and the FCT. using the Debt Sustainability inch block, sold between N110 and handle on Wednesday said that the “That is, the Debt is not only that Analysis (DSA) and the Medium N120, sells at N130 and N140. A debt stock included those of the of the Federal Government, state Term Debt Management Strategy nine-inch block costs N180 and 36 states of the federation and the governments and the FCT have all (MTDS) to manage the public debt N190 (formerly sold at N160). Federal Capital Territory (FCT). been borrowing. to ensure sustainability. Musa Saleh, a cement dealer, She explained that the increased “At the Federal level, the increased She said the DMO would ensure attributed the rise in cement price level of borrowings by the Federal level of borrowing since 2015 was that Nigeria’s public debt was to its scarcity. Government since 2015 was due to the collapse in revenues from sustainable and that borrowing “Some shops were without a occasioned by the decline in revenue crude oil. was done at the lowest possible single bag of cement due to the generation. “The level of new borrowing cost. She added that growth in fluctuation in price and scarcity of She added that the level of started trending downwards revenues remained a key focus of

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ة business & economy Aviation Fuel Digital Money Price Increases Nigeria’s Inflation Worsen, Can Facilitate To N270 Per Remittances – IMF Hits 18.17% In March BY MARIAM SANNI Litre BY YAHAYA UMAR index was 10.01 per cent for Kristalina Georgieva, BY CHARLES EBI the 12 months ending March Managing Director, As President Muhammadu 2021, lower than the 10.77 The price of aviation fuel, Buhari’s insufferable regime International Monetary per cent recorded in February Fund (IMF) says the world known as Jet A1 in the continues with its lethargic 2021. industry, has continued to response to security and is witnessing a revolution in Under the state subdivision, digital money that can make increase pushing airlines economic challenges, Nigeria’s Kogi recorded the highest, on further into the precipice. inflation has worsened, hitting remittances easier, faster and all items, inflation in March cheaper. Findings showed that the 18.17% in March. with 24.51 per cent. Bauchi price of Jet fuel has risen to The country’s consumer She said this in and Sokoto came second and Washington, D.C. during between N250 and N275 price index, which measures third with 22.24 per cent and per litre which is about a inflation, increased by 18.17% her opening remarks at the 20.70 per cent, respectively. iLab Spring Meetings Virtual 200 per cent increase from (year-on-year), 0.82% points The states with the slowest 2016 when it was sold at higher than the rate recorded Workshop. rise in inflation were Imo, According to her, after a N110. It rose to N200 in in February 2021 (17.33%). Kwara and Cross River with 2018, hovering around N160 This is contained in the CPI Kale long period of development, 16.08 per cent, 15.34 per the field is on the edge of and N170 before it reached report for March released by 17.60 per cent in March by air, medical services, cent and 14.45 per cent, between N250 and N270. by the National Bureau of major changes that have 2021 from 16.77 per cent in miscellaneous services respectively. the potential to reshape Industry sources said Statistics. February 2021. relating to the dwelling, On month on month basis, the sustained increase On a month-on-month cross-border payments and The food index indicated a passenger transport by however, March saw the remittances. in the price of aviation basis, the headline index rise of 22.95 per cent in March road, hospital services, highest inflation on all items fuel was worsened by the increased by 1.56 per cent in She added that new forms 2021 compared to 21.79 per pharmaceutical products, inflation in Rivers with 2.62 of digital money could provide high exchange rate. As of March 2021. This is 0.02 per cent in February. This rise in paramedical services, vehicle per cent, Gombe following yesterday, the dollar was cent points higher than the a parallel boost to the vital the food index is attributed spare parts, dental services, with 2.14 per cent and Niger lifelines that remittances exchanged for between N490 rate recorded in February 2021 to the price hike in bread and vehicles, maintenance, and with 2.12 per cent, while and N495 in the parallel (1.54%). provided to the poor and to cereals, potatoes, yam, and repair of personal transport Zamfara, Yobe and Kebbi developing economies. market. The urban inflation rate other tubers, meat, vegetables, equipment, and hairdressing recorded the slowest rise in Some operators link the increased by 18.76% in March Also, within the right fish, oils, fats, and fruits. salons and personal grooming headline month on month framework, peer-to-peer price hike to the significant 2021 from 17.92%recorded Notably, the highest establishment. with 0.60 per cent, 0.26 rise in airfares with a one- in February 2021, while the transfers of central bank increases were recorded in The average 12-month per cent and 0.45 per cent digital currencies or privately way Lagos-Abuja ticket rural inflation rate increased prices of passenger transport annual rate of change of the respectively. reaching N120,000 last issued stablecoins could lead week. to shorter payment chains, There are even fears of faster transactions and fuel contamination in some COVID-19: Osinbajo Cautions Against Vaccine Nationalism more competition among quarters which experts say remittance providers. could threaten flight safety. BY MARIAM SANNI, ABUJA “For example, if you look our economies in terms of hospitality and creative Georgieva said remittances Engr. Femi Adeniji of at what is happening with transportation and even in sectors.” had always played a key role in Tropical Arctic Logistics, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo COVID-19 and access to terms of cooking to replace Citing examples of some improving the lives of people a helicopter operator who says the principle of fairness vaccines, what we are seeing coal and kerosene.” investments, VP Osinbajo in developing economies and confirmed the current price must be applied by leaders is export bans and a resort to The vice president also said that the Dangote Group supporting economic activity. said any jet fuel cheaper in addressing challenges in vaccine nationalism. spoke about the prospects was building a 650,000 barrel She added that the biggest than N270 could have been health, the economy, and “Christian leaders must for greater advancement in a day refinery while the BUA beneficiaries would be contaminated. other issues. lead the world towards Africa. Group had also initiated an vulnerable people sending Operators, however, said Osinbajo’s spokesman, ensuring that all countries According to him, there investment in 200,000 barrel small value remittances; those only local refining could Laolu Akande, in a statement and their peoples can access is no gainsaying that in a day refinery. most at risk from being left arrest the consistent increase in Abuja, said that the vaccines irrespective of the order for Africa to actualise He said that in the same behind by the pandemic. in the price of jet fuel. vice president spoke at a resources available to them. its potential, it must work vein, Azura, Transcorp “As we look for ways to Chairman and CEO of virtual forum organised by a “The same considerations with friends especially those and several other power address the challenges of United Nigeria Airlines leading American Christian apply to helping African of faith to identify strategic companies had made large economic divergences across Dr. Obiora Okonkwo also University, Liberty University. countries cope with the opportunities to bring about and significant investments. countries, we need to use decried the development The forum with the economic crisis caused by growth and prosperity in the “In the digital technology every tool we can to support which he said added to the theme “Equity for Africa: COVID-19.” continent. space, Paystack, a Nigerian those most affected by the cost of operation. Transforming the World He restated his earlier “Investing in Nigeria also fintech Start-up was recently pandemic. Okonkwo, whose airline through Judeo-Christian call on some multilateral offers a pathway to partaking acquired by Stripe, the U.S.- “And with the risk of a debuted about two months Values,” was hosted by agencies planning to defund in the African Continental based firm for 200 million growing digital divide between ago, said “We started the university’s School of gas projects to review their Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) dollars while similarly rich and poor countries, we operations at N160 per litre Business. position. which will create a market in impactful investment has must also ensure that all Osinbajo said that fairness Osinbajo said that it was goods and services for up to also been made by large global countries can benefit from barely two months ago and was needed in building a fairer when you move from that worrisome and should be 1.3 billion people. technology firms. the latest innovations in world that took into account dropped, adding that people “It is also a pathway to “Microsoft has set up digital money and payments, price to over N270 within the interest of the poor, the two months, you should of conscience and faith should using the provisions of its African Development particularly remittances,” she marginalised and a world that put a stop to the trend that the African Growth and Centre in Lagos, Facebook said. expect whatever we are did not impose unfair burdens experiencing now.” could undermine the sense Opportunity Act to produce has located its Africa Hub She, however, said efforts on developing countries. of collective responsibility goods that can then be in Lagos where the Google were underway to improve “As you all know, aviation He warned that current fuel alone takes between 30 towards mitigating climate exported into the U.S. under Developer Space is also cross-border payment systems trends in global vaccine change. preferential terms. located”. under the Financial Stability to 40 per cent of airlines’ distribution headed towards costs. This is cause for grave “One issue that is emerging “The opportunities are He commended the U.S. Board’s 2020 roadmap. vaccine nationalism. as a major concern in terms vast and it is not surprising Government for its stand According to her, with such concern to everyone and I “The principle of fairness don’t know why it is so high.” of equity and fairness is the that Nigerian business on the IMF Special Drawing digital disruption also comes obliges us, as people of faith, process of reaching a just leaders who know the Rights. risks which can be addressed Experts urge the to strive to build a fairer world, regulatory authority, the transition towards a low- country well and appreciate According to him, the by focusing efforts in three a world which takes account of carbon economy. its economic dynamics are increase in Special Drawing areas. Nigerian Civil Aviation the interests of the poor and Authority (NCAA) to deepen “Africa including Nigeria making big investments in Rights at the IMF will give “First, new forms of money marginalised. has abundant gas resources oil and gas, in agriculture more liquidity to developing must remain trustworthy. its oversight on aviation “It means a world that does fuel suppliers to ensure that and gas is cleaner by far than and food processing, in countries. They must protect consumers, not impose unfair burdens on crude oil and its derivatives. t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s , He expressed optimism be safe and anchored in sound the quality of fuel is not developing countries when “Gas has an important in power generation, in that the IMF Board would compromised. legal frameworks and support global cooperation is required. contribution to make in technology and in the move speedily in that regard. financial integrity. الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 23 ةالجزير نيجيريا

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From left: Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Dr Ben Nwoye; a member of the State APC Registration and Revalidation Committee, Ms Ngozichi Okorie; Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Jonathan Zwingina; and Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr Osita Ikechukwu, during a wind-down meeting of the Committee in Enugu on Friday, April 16. PHOTO: MIKE AGADA/OTU/BJO/NAN. Ayade’s Defection To APC Imminent 18 LG chairmen, 196 councillors back governor PDP assigns Tambuwal, Obaseki, Saraki to stop him BY YAHAYA UMAR According to reports, the last the state.” congress conducted by the PDP in Also, the leader of the delegation, The move by the Governor of Cross the state, Ayade lost control of the Hon. Emmanuel Bassey, who is also River State, Prof. Ben Ayade to declare structures to members of the party in the Chairman of Cross Rivers State

policy for the All Progressives Congress the National Assembly. Local Government Chairmen Forum, (APC) over alleged injustices meted to The governor’s loss of political said: “We are chairmen of the 18 local him by the Peoples Democratic Party structures at all levels to a faction government councils in Cross River

(PDP) received a boost on Wednesday, that sponsored Hon. Agoms Jarigbe State. We came to meet the national April 14 after the Local Government in the senatorial primary that pitted chairman and we have met him, Chairmen and 196 councillors him against Senator Steve Odeh, and he was ably represented by the threatened to ‘go with the governor sponsored by the faction loyal to the Deputy National Secretary in the wherever he leads them’ governor. person of Dr. Emmanuel Agbo. Sensing danger, the National Odeh, it was gathered, was We came for the purpose of our Working Committee (NWC) of sponsored by the governor to replace state; the state of affair of the party the PDP immediately mobilised the late Senator Rose Okoh who died in our state; we met him and we Governors of last year. Ayade presented to him what we came with Sokoto State and Godwin Obaseki It was alleged that Odeh reached a It was as a result of the threat by and he has honourably taken care of & of Edo State and the party’s deal with the governor to spend only the governor to defect to the APC it and has assured us that he is going reconciliation committee headed by one term as a senator to enable Ayade that the elected local government to make sure that what we presented a former President of the Senate, chairmen and councillors met with to the party and what we came with, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to persuade the to return to the Senate, where he was until 2015. Agbo yesterday to present their will be given immediate and urgent governor from dumping the party. petition for a new congress to confer attention.” According to report by , the However, the calculation failed as Jarigbe, a serving member of the respect on the governor as the leader A faction of the party loyal to 18 elected local government chairmen governor Ben Ayade had approached and 196 councillors said the only House of Representatives refused to of the party or they would defect. remain in the House. Chairman of the Calabar Municipal the Supreme Court to upturn an condition to remain in the party is a earlier decision of an Appeal court fresh conduct of its congress. At the primary, PDP returned Council, Hon. Effiong Eke, told Odeh as the senatorial candidate, but journalists after the meeting with which affirmed the present executive It was gathered that the chairmen of the party in the state as the and councillors yesterday met with Jarigbe rejected the outcome and went the party that they demanded a fresh to court and his appeals were upheld. state congress to guarantee the return authentic leadership. members of the NWC in Abuja during However, the apex court ruled which they served the defection The development led to the threat of party structures to the governor. of defection by the governor and his He said: “The governor is the leader that the leadership of the PDP acted threat. within its powers in conducting the The delegation, led by the Chairman faction, which boycotted the zonal of the party in the state. He should be congress of the party held recently given control of the party structures party primary that produced the of Akpabuyo Local Government Area, current members of the National Hon. Emmanuel Bassey, in a petition in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where and this can only be done with a fresh handed over to the party’s Deputy Chief Dan Orbih was elected as the congress. Assembly. National Secretary, Dr. Emmanuel South-south National Vice Chairman. “We are demanding a fresh The judgment was seen as a major Agbo, called for immediate conduct The governor also boycotted congress. If not, where the Governor, victory for the current members of of transparent congresses at all levels the PDP governors’ meeting at the Prof. Ben Ayade, goes, we will go with the National Assembly from the state in the state. weekend in Makurdi, Benue State. him. He is the leader of the party in including Hon Jarigbe. Ekiti PDP Crisis Escalates The faction of the Southwest chapter would challenge the congress or its the deployment of violence before of the Peoples Democratic Party outcome in court. and during the congress, advising (PDP) loyal to former Ekiti State The group, which met in Abeokuta, that use of thugs should be Governor, Ayodele Fayose, met with Ogun State, identified the ruling All discouraged in the party. the stakeholders in Ogun State on Progressives Congress (APC) as the A statement signed by the group’s Friday, April 16 and declared their common enemy as PDP members and spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, reads: acceptance of the outcome of the Nigerians, vowing to join hands and “After meeting with stakeholders zonal congress election that produced work together to wrest power from in Ogun State today, it was further Fayose Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja as APC and redeem the people from the resolved that the Fayose group has “The group thanks all delegates Chairman. shackles of mis-governance. accepted the outcome of the South- to the congress and appreciates The camp also assured of its At the Ogun State stakeholders West congress. Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo commitment to peace, unity and meeting led by Hon Ladi Adebutu “That none of our candidates will State and in particular former progress of the party in the zone, and the State Chairman, Dr Sikirulai go to court as we will stand by what Governor Ayo Fayose, for his rare saying that none of the members Ogundele, the group also condemned we said during and after the congress. politics politics demonstration of leadership.” الجزير نيجيريا

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local hunters, operating in about 52 deadly dark spots all over the South-west region. Amotekun, Ebubeagu, Others CONTROVERSY On January 13, 2020, the Nigeria Police warned that they will arrest any operative of the outfit that carries illegal arms. Replacing State Police? On January 14, 2020, the Federal Government declared Operation Amotekun STORIES BY MUSTAPHA SULEIMAN as illegal, stating that it was not backed by the Nigeria Constitution. Many Nigerians have been advocating for On January 23, 2020, the Vice-President, the introduction of state police into Nigerian Yemi Osinbajo, met with the six state policing system as the only solution to curbing governors of the South-west Nigeria and the incessant security conundrum in the they all agreed to work together towards the country. The mantra has gained popularity progress of Operation Amotekun. as a result of the surge in the rate of highly Borrowing a leaf and the success being sophisticated crimes in the country, coupled recorded by the South-west regional security with the inability of the police command to outfit-Amotekun, the five governors of contain the challenges. the South-east region recently launched Advocates of state police creation are of ‘Ebubeagu’ regional security to fight terrorism the view that the closeness of the state police in the zone. The Chairman South-east to the society of its jurisdiction places it in Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ebonyi a more proactive position for the detecting State, Dave Umahi, disclosed this to newsmen and uprooting of any emerging crime before at the Imo Government House, alongside it grows. As the calls for state police creation other South-east governors. According to gather momentum and the uncooperative him, the regional security would be the attitude of the executive arm to grant such joint vigilante from South-east with their to states, some regions have already come up headquarters in Enugu State. with their own security outfits to serve the It would be recalled that, following the wave purpose of state police. of attacks on public institutions especially The western region was the first to set up governors at the regional security summit held People’s Congress (OPC), Agbekoya, Nigeria the police stations and a correctional facility Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria in June 2019 Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and in , the five governors of the zone, codenamed Amotekun (Leopard). This security through Development Agenda for Western vigilante group. stormed Owerri on Sunday, April11, to take outfit is based in all the six states of the Nigeria Commission (DAWN). strong decisions on the issue of insecurity in South-west Nigeria, responsible for curbing In support of the outfit, all the six state OPERATION the zone. The governors in attendance were, insecurity in the region. It was founded on governors contributed 20 vehicles each, The operatives of the security outfit will assist Governor of Abia State, Okezuo Ikpeazu, January 9, 2020 in Ibadan, Oyo State. except Oyo that contributed 33 vehicles, in police, other security agencies and traditional Anambra, Willie Obiano, Enugu, Ifeanyi Operation Amotekun (Leopard) was order to assist the operatives in carrying out rulers in combating terrorism, banditry, Ugwuanyi, Ebonyi, Dave Umahi and the established by the six state governors of all their duties, making a total of 133 vehicles armed robbery, kidnapping and also help in host governor, Hope Uzodimma. Also sitting the South-west states of Nigeria, namely; for the establishment, they also procured 100 settling herdsmen and farmers contentions in alongside with the South-east governors’ Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti units of motorcycles each, making a total of the region. For the startup, Lagos, Osun and included the President General of Ohanaeze States. The establishment of the security outfit 600 motorcycles. The members of the outfit Ekiti states, recruited 1,320 operatives for the Ndigbo world-wide, Professor George Obiozor was subject to the decision by all the six state were drawn from local hunters, the Oodua operation, while they will carry Dane guns like as well as top security chiefs in the zone. Why We Launched Security Outfit– Ikpeazu to file for another name, Arewa Security that were pregnant with complications and As CNG Floats Fresh Group Marshalls, which is awaiting necessary action unforeseen consequences. The Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie all the states in the South-east already have by CAC. “Regrettably, northern governors, Ikpeazu has explained why the South East various vigilante outfits. The CNG, a major pressure group in the traditional and political institutions rejected Governors’ Forum came up with the security “We want to call for a harmonised synergised North, said when it resolved to establish the the proposal to accept, review, ratify and outfit, ‘Ebube Agu’. system of action to be able to compare notes, regional security outfit codenamed ‘Shege possibly adopt the “Shege Ka Fasa” initiative According to the governor, Ebube Agu set up digital platforms that can respond to Ka Fasa’ on January 16, 2020, the decision which would have helped in forestalling which means the presence of a Lion connotes communication challenges”, he added. was turned down by those who felt it was an the current drift towards victimisation of protection, territorial authority, strength, and Speaking on its modus operandi, Ikpeazu exercise in futility. northerners. power. said that the new outfit would be rural-based, The coalition lamented that the good “We went through several legal processes Ikpeazu said operatives of ‘Ebube Agu’ with adding “it is also going to be intelligence- intention of its leaders was frustrated as to achieve the actualisation of the outfit, headquarters in Enugu would oversee and based”. northern governors, traditional and political including seeking registration with monitor the activities of vigilante groups in The North-west region, in what seems as a institutions rejected the proposal to review, the Corporate Affairs Commission and the South-east. swift reaction to the formation of Amotekun ratify and possibly adopt the “Shege Ka Fasa’ recognition by the Nigeria Security and Civil “It means today we have come together to in the South-west region also came up with initiative which it said would have helped Defence Corps, which were all frustrated. synergise and see how best we can protect the what it codenamed “Operation Shege Ka Fasa”. in forestalling the current drift toward “We eventually got a notification from the lives and properties of citizens within this In February 2021, shortly after Amotekun victimization of northerners. CAC for the recognition of Arewa Security geopolitical zone”, he said. was formed the northern security The group, however, said it had been Marshalls which we are studying. We have “Security situation across Nigeria as it organisation, “Operation Shege Ka Fasa,” vindicated by the recent surge in security also instructed our legal team to look at other is today is dynamic. We are just trying to came into being, however, it did not enjoy challenges and victimization of northerners. options that may not preclude seeking the respond to our peculiar circumstances in the northern elders and leaders support and Abdulazeez stated: “The unfolding intervention of the courts in the matter. the South-east. We are not copying from any this led to its failure. After the botched plan scenario in the country whereby northern “Today, the CNG stands vindicated with geopolitical zone”, he added. of “Operation Shege Ka Fasa’’ leaders of the communities are constantly under threat of the manner the outlawed IPOB leader, Governor Ikpeazu, however, did not either Coalition of Northern Youths (CNG) also general and pervasive insecurity at home and Nnamdi Kanu, is deploying the East Security confirm or deny if the personnel of Ebube Agu planned to float another outfit known as profiling and harassment where they live as Network, ESN, on innocent citizens as well would bear arms and wear uniforms. “Arewa Security Marshalls”. minorities in southern part of the country is as the emerging threats of the Amotekun in According to Ikpeazu, what is of importance They said the decision to establish the a strong vindication of our January 26, 2020 the South-west. is that he and his colleagues from the other proposed outfit followed the rejection of the initiative for a northern regional security The CNG spokesman continued: “Quite four states in the region would cooperate to Northern Security Initiative code named outfit codenamed “Shege ka Fasa”. unfortunately, the northern establishment ensure that operatives of Ebube Agu would be “Shege Ka Fasa” by the Corporate Affairs “Last year, CNG called the attention of which rejected the ‘Shege ka Fasa’ initiative properly equipped. Commission (CAC’s). northern leaders to the need for a northern is yet to come up with an alternative “Ebube Agu would be a security outfit both Spokesperson of the coalition, Suleiman regional security outfit to promote security framework to compliment the current in name, purpose, and action. They will be Abdulazeez, said since it was denied in the region and to anticipate and checkmate isolated approaches to the incessant killings properly equipped. I want to assure you that registration by the CAC, the CNG decided the likely fallout of the evolvement of similar and general insecurity in the region that are outfits like the Amotekun in the South West not yielding results. الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 25 ةالجزير نيجيريا

Like our facebook page www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng ة Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng special feature e-mail: [email protected] The agricultural sector is to urgently deal with the insecurity that characterizes the farming communities. There is a far-reaching implication on Nigeria’s security architecture if food insecurity is not reversed and resolved. Under different scenarios, food insecurity can create national insecurity or be a consequence of national insecurity. In other words, national insecurity can deepen food insecurity as we are witnessing with the disruptive activities of the Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen. On the other hand, food insecurity can trigger agitations, which could create a security crisis that undermines national security. This vicious cycle may go on and on and produce complex security situations that could ultimately weaken and undermine the st Recently, the Chairman of All Farmers Association in Oyo State, Elder John Olateru, has described insecurity as a serious challenge confronting farmers in the South-West. “We have started having food shortages already. It will be worse next season. The most unfortunate thing is that there are powers somewhere supporting these Fulani people. Our governors cannot speak the truth again because of their selfish interest and fear of the Despite Interventions, Insecurity Federal Government. Recently, farmers in the Ibarapa area of the state, which is predominantly an agrarian community contributing substantially to food supply, have cried out to the government to save them from Fulani herdsmen, saying they Hinders Food Production had taken over their farms. BY MARIAM SANNI, ABUJA Finance Corporation (AFC), under the Infraco Monetary Policy Committee Meeting MPC, in Igangan town in Ibarapa is arguably the worst Structure, to develop and implement a strategic Abuja recently stated that in terms of funding, hit area in the state as cases of kidnapping, rape Food security in a broad sense has to do with repositioning plan for the Exchange which has the bank has disbursed funds under its various and killing have been high there. having at all times an adequate level of food and remained comatose for several years. agricultural interventions towards improving A resident of Igangan and farmer, Mr. food products to meet increasing consumption Nigerian governments have realized the food supply in Nigeria. Kareem Olalekan, said he had stopped going demand to mitigate fluctuation in output importance of easy flow of food supply and have He disclosed that the total disbursements as at to his farm since it was taken over by Fulani and price .According to Food and Agriculture tried to boost the agricultural sector in many end-February 2021 amounted to N1.487 trillion herdsmen. Organization, FAO , food security is a situation ways, including through various interventions under the various agricultural programmes. He said, “The Fulani herdsmen are not when all people at all time have physical and to reduce the financial burden on farmers. Emefiele noted the disbursement of N107.60 allowing us to fully concentrate on our farming economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious The Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) conscious billion to 548,109 farmers cultivating 703,619 business and they are practising farming food for a healthy and active life. of the persisting inflationary pressure fuelled hectares of land between Q4 2020 and Q1 without any hindrance. Food security entails producing food that largely by continued uptick in food prices has 2021 to boost dry season output in support of “We have reported them to law enforcement will go round every citizen both in quality and been relentless in ensuring adequate food agricultural value chain development. agents on countless occasions but instead of quantity. To achieve this, agricultural production supply. He added that N686.59 billion was disbursed them to act accordingly, they will collect money needs to be enhanced. The Bank’s has put in effort to improve under the Commercial Agricultural Credit from them and allow them to be moving freely. According to reports, Nigerian farmers food production, for easy supply through Scheme (CACS) and N601.75 billion was shared We do not want them in our town again; they produced 70% of Nigerian export and 95% interventions to boost food production under the Anchor Borrowers Programmes (ABP) should go their way and let us be. of its food needs. Agriculture has contributed particularly through its various Agricultural to 3,038,649 farmers to support food supply and “I have stopped going to farm since the immensely by helping to maintain a healthy programmes, such as Commercial Agricultural dampen inflationary pressures. herdsmen have invaded my farm. I envisage population; which has been a source of food and Credit Scheme (CACS) , Anchor Borrowers Also, under AGSMEIS, N111.62 billion has food shortage next season. We may have nutrition for households in Nigeria. Programmes (ABP), Agric Small and Medium been disbursed to 28,961 beneficiaries, 70 serious problems, not only in the South-West However, it has not done well enough, Enterprises Intervention Scheme, AGSMEIS, percent of which are in the agricultural sector. but in Nigeria as far as food is concerned”. especially from the time the country started the Dry season farming and others. However, despite the interventions, Another farmer, Mr. Okanlawon Nurudeen, production of crude oil in need and demand of Other complementary measures included, insecurity across the country has continued to said, “Fulani herdsmen would invade our farms Nigerian growing population. increase in disbursement for the dry season hinder all the efforts, Prices of food items have and rape our wives who are assisting us there. If Not long ago, the Food and Agriculture agricultural programme to increase output, consistently been on the increase, while the they destroy the farm, the police after collecting Organization (FAO) warned that the food the adoption of high yield seeds to improve importation of foods has been greatly checked bail money, would release the culprit. This is crisis was looming in Africa and particularly in productivity and the adoption of harvested with the government import substitution policy, giving them a lot of confidence to do more Nigeria due to the ravaging effect of COVID-19. produce as a means of loan repayment, which just as the land borders have been closed in the harm”. Statistics depict that the agricultural sector in has stemmed hoarding and the activities of last one year. While narrating his experience, a farmer Nigeria has not been able to fulfill its traditional middlemen and rent seekers. The challenges of food production become based in Igbo-Ora in the Ibarapa Central Local roles of feeding the population, meeting the raw Also, the establishment of the strategic more pronounced as insecurity escalates in Government Area of the state, Wasiu Salawu material needs of industries, as well as providing grain reserves for staple crops has also helped every part of the country, flooding ravages Agbaakin, shared a story of how his colleague substantial export earnings for the economy. in addressing seasonality of agricultural farms and products and as climate change- was killed by Fulani herdsmen. However, steps were taken by the government commodities. induced erratic rainfalls cause stunting of crops, He said, “A colleague of mine was severely through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in poor harvests, and scarcity of food items. killed to the extent that the injury affected his offer opportunities for rebirth. When the money a communiqué at the end of the two days Therefore, forces of demand and supply have rib cage. We took him to the Federal Medical spent on the importation of food and drinks forced up prices of food items, making such Centre, Abeokuta, where he was rejected. We went up to an embarrassing level, President unaffordable to the resource-poor Nigerians. took him to the University College Hospital, Muhammadu Buhari directed the CBN to block National insecurity has caused serious Ibadan; he received treatment there for two food importers’ requests for foreign currency to disruptions in Nigeria’s agricultural activities. weeks before we took him back to Igbo-Ora, boost local agriculture in the country. While millions of farmers have been uprooted where he was eventually treated”. The CBN is injecting N50 billion into the and displaced from their ancestral farming He also narrated how some Fulani herdsmen commodity exchange to mop up produce There is a far-reaching communities, others are perpetually afraid for attacked his farm where he cultivated rice, from farmers and aggregators has been seen their lives and as such cannot optimally engage maize and cassava, a development which made as a welcome idea both for the farmers and implication on Nigeria’s in farming activities. him lose millions of naira. “I caught two cows agricultural experts. The President approved security architecture if The direct implication is declining right on my father’s cashew farm that is about that the CBN, as a majority shareholder productivity with attendant shortfalls, both four acres. I held some of them there for two in Nigerian Commodity Exchange (NCX), food insecurity is not of which further deepen the contradictions weeks before I released them to their owners should collaborate with the Nigeria Sovereign surrounding agricultural production in Nigeria with a warning that they must not allow them reversed and resolved. to enter the farm again”, he said. Investment Authority (NSIA) and Africa “ and the prospects of food security الجزير نيجيريا

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Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng e-mail: [email protected] health STORIES BY CHICA MEFORE-OKAFOR NPHCDA Says Over 2 Million Some Proven Health Nigerians Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Benefits Of Garlic The National Primary Healthcare wisdom said states who have reached Development Agency (NPHCDA) 50 per cent should stop vaccinating has stated that over 2 million people and this is because initially, we “Let food be thy medicine, and Decent amounts of calcium, have been vaccinated against COVID had the idea that we are going to medicine be thy food.” copper, potassium, phosphorus, -19 in Nigeria. have more vaccines in-country but Those are famous words from iron and vitamin B1 The NPHCDA National considering the global shortage now, the ancient Greek physician This comes with 4.5 calories, 0.2 Supervisor for Adamawa State, Abba we are saying when the states get to Hippocrates, often called the grams of protein and 1 gram of Mohammed Bawa disclosed this at a 50 per cent coverage of whatever father of Western medicine. carbs. Three-Day Media Dialogue in Yola. they were given they should stop so He actually used to prescribe Garlic also contains trace Bawa added that although the that those who have taken the first garlic to treat a variety of medical amounts of various other nutrients. data on the official server put the dose will get their second dose of the conditions. In fact, it contains a little bit of number of vaccinated Nigerians at vaccine,” he said. Modern science has recently almost everything you need. 1.043,737 as at 14th April 2021, He further disclosed that the confirmed many of these beneficial SUMMARY: Garlic is low in the current number of eligible federal government was currently health effects. calories and rich in vitamin C, vaccinated persons at the facility giving priority to specific people like Here are 11 health benefits of vitamin B6 and manganese. It also levels was over two million. the pilgrims. garlic that are supported by human contains trace amounts of various The National Supervisor who ”We all know that if you have not research. other nutrients. stated that Nigeria is committed received the vaccines you will not to ensuring that every eligible be allowed to go for pilgrimage. And 1. GARLIC CONTAINS 3. GARLIC CAN COMBAT Nigerian get vaccinated, added that if you are given a vaccine we don’t COMPOUNDS WITH POTENT SICKNESS, INCLUDING THE 50 per cent of the vaccines given to MEDICINAL PROPERTIES COMMON COLD states have been directed to stop them. have in Nigeria it might really be a vaccination the moment they cover problem when you come to Nigeria. Garlic is a plant in the Allium Garlic supplements are known to “The federal government in its (onion) family. boost the function of the immune It is closely related to onions, system. shallots and leeks. Each segment One large, 12-week study found of a garlic bulb is called a clove. that a daily garlic supplement Prevalence Rate Of HIV/AIDS Drops There are about 10–20 cloves in a reduced the number of colds by 63% single bulb, give or take. compared to a placebo . Garlic grows in many parts of the The average length of cold In Benue State – NACA world and is a popular ingredient symptoms was also reduced by 70%, in cooking due to its strong smell from 5 days in the placebo group to The National Agency for the spread of HIV-AIDS end by and delicious taste. just 1.5 days in the garlic group. the Control of AIDS (NACA) 2030. However, throughout ancient Another study found that a high disclosed that the prevalence “There is a need for increased history, the main use of garlic dose of aged garlic extract (2.56 rate of HIV/AIDS in Benue State budgetary allocation to the was for its health and medicinal grams per day) reduced the number has dropped from 12.9 to 4.7 per state and zonal offices of NACA properties. of days sick with cold or flu by 61%. cent. to enable them to achieve set Its use was well documented by However, one review concluded This was disclosed by the goals,” he said. many major civilizations, including that the evidence is insufficient and Zonal Coordinator, North He called for the revival of the Egyptians, Babylonians, more research is needed . Central Zone of the agency, Mr the local offices of the agency Greeks, Romans and Chinese. Despite the lack of strong Lawrence Kwaghga when he paid for improved service delivery, Scientists now know that most evidence, adding garlic to your diet a courtesy visit on Governor adding that government support of its health benefits are caused by may be worth trying if you often get Samuel Ortom in Makurdi. in terms of funding was also sulfur compounds formed when a colds. Kwaghga who commended imperative. garlic clove is chopped, crushed or SUMMARY: Garlic supplements the support of the Benue State While welcoming the delegate, chewed. help prevent and reduce the severity Perhaps the most famous of of common illnesses like the flu and government to the fight against Ortom expressed delight over Aliyu the spread of the scourge the sharp drop in the prevalence those is known as allicin. However, common cold. and urged for sustained and rate of HIV/AIDS in the state agency in the state to stem the allicin is an unstable compound increased funding from the and pledged his administration’s scourge while commending the that is only briefly present in fresh 4. THE ACTIVE COMPOUNDS government. support to the agency to achieve support of donor agencies and garlic after it’s been cut or crushed. IN GARLIC CAN REDUCE He added that only through set objectives. development partners to the Other compounds that may play BLOOD PRESSURE fight against the spread of the a role in garlic’s health benefits Cardiovascular diseases like heart the collective effort of all Ortom pledged improved include diallyl disulfide and s-allyl stakeholders in the world, would and sustained funding to the virus in the state. attacks and strokes are the world’s cysteine. biggest killers. The sulfur compounds from High blood pressure, or garlic enter the body from the hypertension, is one of the most digestive tract and travel all over important drivers of these diseases. 18 Persons Die Of Tuberculosis Per Hour – WHO the body, where it exerts its potent Human studies have found garlic The World Health Organization Uko added that with early biological effects. supplements to have a significant (WHO) has revealed that no fewer diagnosis, tuberculosis could be SUMMARY: Garlic is a plant impact on reducing blood pressure than 18 persons die of tuberculosis cured within six months, adding in the onion family that’s grown in people with high blood pressure per hour in Nigeria. that treatment of tuberculosis is for its distinctive taste and .In one study, 600–1,500 mg of aged This was disclosed by the free at designated hospitals in the health benefits. It contains sulfur garlic extract was just as effective as Director, National Tuberculosis country. compounds, which are believed to the drug Atenolol at reducing blood & Leprosy Control Programme, She however urged TB patients bring some of the health benefits. pressure over a 24-week period. Mrs. Itohowo Uko during a virtual to endeavour to complete the Supplement doses must be fairly media seminar with selected treatment cycle of six months 2. GARLIC IS HIGHLY high to have the desired effects. newsmen in Abia and Enugu. to avoid its relapse as some NUTRITIOUS BUT HAS VERY The amount needed is equivalent to She attributed the increasingly patients usually discontinue with FEW CALORIES about four cloves of garlic per day. spread of tuberculosis in the medication after the initial relief Calorie for calorie, garlic is incredibly SUMMARY: High doses of garlic country to the inability of TB after two weeks of treatment. nutritious. One clove (3 grams) of raw garlic appear to improve blood pressure patients to access medication She identified symptoms of Uko explained that a TB patient for those with known high blood during the COVID-19 lockdown. tuberculosis as fever, loss of weight, is likely to develop drug resistance contains: Manganese: 2% of the Daily pressure (hypertension). In some Uko who stated that TB kills more and protracted cough adding which is more dangerous if such instances, supplements may be as people than covid-19 pandemic in that contrary to misinformation, patient fails to complete the six Value (DV) Vitamin B6: 2% of the DV effective as regular medications. Nigeria, revealed that according to tuberculosis is curable, urging months cycle of treatment. 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Like our facebook page ة www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng vox pop e-mail: [email protected] Formation Of Regional Security Outfits: Nigerians Speak Following the formation of Ebubeagu in the South-east, Amotekun in South-west regional security outfits, amid killings and security concerns in the country. Do you think the regions have successfully introduced regional or state police through the back door, and will this bring a lasting solution to the country’s security challenges? Aljazirahñlgeria’s Wisdom Onyeisi and Salome Unwuchola went round the city of Abuja to sample the citizens’ opinion.

OLAMIDE ADETUNDE of the herdsmen will completely stop. regional security personnels. They should the police and the Army could not handle To me I do not see anything wrong. It was For me, it won’t still solve the insecurity be accountable and guided by the law to bandits and herdsmen before establishing not introduced through the back door. challenges in this country, rather it’s know their jurisdiction and as well avoid a security outfit. Those people have a strong The primary duty of any government at another means of making and embezzling excesses and misconducts. back up in the government and that is what any level is to protect lives and property. money. The federal government knows is giving them the boldness to do what they Since the federal government cannot do what to do. Our problem is corruption. DANIEL ALEX want at any time. They should look into it anything about it, I appreciate the decision Corruption has so eaten deep in the minds This one is still not going to help insecurity and fish out these things. If they refuse of the southeast and southwest governors and flesh of our leaders. If they want to put issues because establishing regional and think establishing a regional security because they cannot just fold their arms an end to insecurity, they should allow the security outfits without addressing the outfit would solve their problem, then they and watch their people die in the hands police and the Army to properly do their main issue will keep things the way they should watch out for another dimension of herdsmen, kidnappers and bandits. It job without interference. are. Let them sit down to understand why this people will employ. may not bring a lasting solution but it will go a long way to adjust and calm the fear YUSUF GOWON of insecurity in the country. Kudos to the What then is the duty of police and the governors. Army? They are trying to say the police and the Army are not capable? UCHE IBE Watch it, even though they establish The regional government has taken the whatever they want to establish, they best bold step as far as I am concerned. I will still be influenced by the politicians believe it has come to the point where they behind the evil activities in the country. It cannot just watch the killing and atrocities will never put an end or bring any lasting r e a c t i o n s of herdsmen, kidnappers and bandits. solution to insecurity. It’s not about Although it would have a disadvantage, establishing a security outfit, it is about Follow us on twitter Like our facebook page I strongly believe it will help to reduce doing the job without negative influence. @aljazirahnewsng www.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng e-mail: [email protected] the rate of insecurity in various regions in Nigerian leaders should remove their the country. The federal government has hands from evil and stop sponsoring failed Nigerians, so the introduction of the boys with guns to destabilize the country. Dangote, Bua In Battle Of Attrition southeast and Southwest regional security The police and the Army are enough to outfit will be another strategy to put an handle insecurity matters in this country. end to insecurity issues. They should be They should be used for not establishing Reached: 8,122 properly trained, oriented and equipped. unnecessary security outfits that will end Engagement: 279 The system should have a very outstanding up doing nothing. Likes: 61 structure to enhance effective strategies of discharging duties. OLA EZEORA The attacks of these herdsmen and bandits Konshisha Killings: Gov Ortom Appeals For Military Cease Fire, DENNIS OVIE are getting too much. If establishing a Calls For Dialogue With the establishment of the southeast regional security outfit will help Nigerians and Southwest regional security outfit, in the southeast and Southwest have Reached: 7,119 it shows a great concern for lives and peace, I think it is acceptable. Right now, Engagement: 264 property. If they can properly manage it, people are very much afraid of traveling on without politicizing it, it will help us have Nigerian roads because of abduction and Likes: 104 fresh and a relief from insecurity matters in robbery. I do believe the police have been the country. Since the federal government overpowered. If the regional government Email Address Not Required For UTME, DE Registration – JAMB could not map out a strategy of putting an can properly train people who will assist end to insecurity issues in Nigeria, this will the police to bring peace , it is a very be a very good one to help bring calmness welcomed development because acting Reached: 6,406 on insecurity matters. The southeast like they don’t know what is happening Engagement: 231 and Southwest governors should give it will also affect them too. I have strong Likes: 54 outstanding balance and make sure those support for it, because I am impressed and they are recruiting are well informed and I believe it will bring a lasting solution to Cover Page skillfully trained to intelligently cripple the the insecurity challenges in Nigeria. activities of this herdsmen and kidnapping every. E.A EDE Reached: 5,190 I do not think they have introduced Engagement: 42 HASSAN IBRAHIM regional police through the back door. If The problem with these men is that it’s the federal government who is supposed Likes: 14 going to be another opportunity for them to handle the affairs of the people, to embezzle money. Government at all especially on security matters, has refused Website Clicks For The Past 7 Days levels in Nigeria has failed. If they introduce to do the needful, then the regional a regional security outfit, what will be the government should do whatever they Day Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri duty of the police and the Army? To me can do to help fight and secure the lives Date 10/04 11/04 12/04 13/04 14/04 15/04 16/04 there is no need to stress about insecurity and property of their people instead of when they know what is written to do. If watching their people die daily. 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Viewers were given the Nigerians have shown great in the country and has over the anticipated and has been off for Accept no limitation’’ the show opportunity to play judge during love for the show even amidst years helped gifted youths in the about six years. has maintained the age grade of this pre-show by rating their disagreement and have followed country to explore their gifts and The show which started off on 18 to 28 years of age people who performances of the contestants every bit of the show from the help them achieve their dreams, the 28th of March is the season 6 fell under this age range were all on the website of the Nigerian Idol. first day, and the contestants on but this huge talent show had of Nigerian idol and it got bigger qualified for the auditions. The organisers of the show the other hand have brought in not been on for some time now, it and better with a larger grand price This year’s show which was said the Nigerian idol platform the A game and some of the best organisers announced the return compared to when it started. The much anticipated for a long time provides a launchpad for young, have gotten the golden tickets and of the show in 2021, the music show started in 2010 with its first started with the airing of some talented Nigerians to achieve unforgettable moments that took their dreams in music on the local it has been an interesting show reality show has won the attention season which happened to be the ever since. I Just Record On Any Beat That Sounds Good – Frankie Nigerian singer and song writer “ Light Up My World”, a group to always play songs, ranging Enyinnma Franklin Chisom he started with his cousins, from Lucky Dube’s songs to Don who is know as Frankie is one of Hiziblizzy and Xilef. The singer Williams and even the legendary Nigeria’s upcoming artist, he is has recorded more songs and has Nigerian Fela Kuti and 2face multi-talented in obvious ways shown that he is very dedicated Idibia who is now known as as he does not make his music to his craft and so much believes 2baba. As a child, music felt like in a particular genre, the singer that hard work pays. something I was indoctrinated confirmed this when he said he Frankie dropped his first into because I had no choice was not limited to only one genre solo song in 2018 but after but to love music. As I grew up, of music, and has shown great developing himself in the craft, music became part of me. I chose prospect which will transcend to he officially recorded his first music as a career not just because bigger things in future . professional song HIGH LOVE I love music more than anything The 23 years old singer hails which featured a South African but also because it has given me from Imo state and spent most rapper called ReinaX. The singer a voice and I want to change the part of his life there ,a good part made it clear that this particular world through my music.” of his educational history was song set the pace for him. Franklin is no doubt a strong gotten there in Imo state, he has According to him, I have and fast rising force in the music over the years recorded a couple recorded songs on different industry with so much in built of songs .He made it known that genres, ranging from Afro Pop talent to showcase to the whole he made music through the little to Afro alternatives, Hip-Hop world. The High love singer production equipments at his . I am currently working on an is currently pursuing his first disposal and also had a couple of Ep that has a dancehall song in degree in Electrical Electronics songs that would be hitting the it. So I’m not limited by genre Engineering at The Federal people soon. , I just record on any beat that University Of Technology In 2013 his music journey sounds good and suites my voice Oweri after getting his National began when he was featured on pattern. Diploma in the same field from More Life Record Crews song “Growing up, my dad used Federal Polytechnic Nekede. Frankie الجزير نيجيريا www.aljazirahnews.com April 19 – April 25, 2021 31 ةالجزير نيجيريا

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When Traders Abandon Wares For Traditional Wrestling

JOEL AJAYI moribund, traditional wrestling games cultural and ethnic, are relegated to the outside the match arena to have a first- were introduced at NSF and this action background. hand feel of the traditional sport. Traditional wrestling occupies a pride indeed brought about a revival of AljazirahNigeria Sports in Benin The match was between Bayelsa State of place in Nigeria compared to other traditional wrestling in the country. for the event reported that traders, food and Kano State. Having the knowledge sports and cultural activities. Interest When the 20th edition of the NSF began vendors, hawkers on Saturday, April 10 about the wrestling bout, the traders in traditional wrestling is widespread in Benin City, Edo State on Easter Sunday, in Benin City decided to forsake their who were hawking wares such as clothes among Nigerians from all walks of life: uninformed residents of the city and its businesses and follow their hearts to and others abandoned their wares outside young men, adults, senior citizens, young surroundings might not have understood watch a traditional wrestling match that the gate of the arena oblivious of possible women, mature women, handicapped what lay in wait for them, perhaps. set University of Benin, UNIBEN, ablaze theft, hot weather, and other inclement persons, prisoners, peasant farmers, Nigeria is a country with its typical with the astonishing flavor of traditional conditions that could affect the wares. civil servants, artisans, housewives, configuration be it demographic or wrestling. Meanwhile at the indoor hall in the politicians, among others. economic. However, when it comes to Benin City for many days was host University of Benin was a fierce battle In short, it can be asserted that struggle for survival, all Nigerians share a to thousands of Nigerian athletes and between the Kano and Bayelsa wrestlers. traditional wrestling is firmly rooted in similar factor; hard work. officials not forgetting journalists who The crowd applauded the fighters as they Nigerian culture and generates unequaled The NSF, otherwise called “Nigerian converged in the ancient city to exchange aimed to outsmart each other. The fight enthusiasm. Olympics” has its peculiar attributes and views and share knowledge in sports. which lasted for many minutes ended In the ’80s traditional wrestling mission to unite Nigerians which also The organizers of the festival have after Kano defeated Bayelsa to take played an important role in reviving the provides opportunities to make brisk recently approved and added new sports home the gold medal. moribund cultural heritage of the country businesses. to the menu of the festival among which After the match, the traders came but the dominance of games like football, Despite the circumstances in Benin is Dambe (traditional wrestling). back to pick their wares outside the basketball, volleyball took the shine off regarding the festival not being perfect in Dambe is a martial art of the Hausa gate intact. the traditional wrestling and remains a terms of organizing, one fact that cannot people predominant in West Africa. This does not only highlight the ghost of itself. be taken for granted is that its intent and Competitors in a typical match aim to importance of sports in enthroning and The sport dates back hundreds of years purpose have not been tampered with. subdue each other into total submission sustaining national unity but also as a vehicle to a time when villages sent their best Nigerians are not only peace lovers and mostly within three rounds. for eradicating crimes and criminalities as fighters against each other, to measure law-abiding citizens, but when it comes to It often results in serious bodily well as other social vices in the country. each village’s power and to provide sports, their individual backgrounds be it injuries for the challengers such as broken AljazirahNigeria Sports, who witnessed entertainment. jaws and ribs. The tradition is dominated this great show of national solidarity, In traditional West African wrestling, by Hausa butcher caste groups, and gathered that, “Traders abandoned their two fighters wearing lambskin loincloths over the last century evolved from clans goods just to watch the Traditional Sports compete in a dirt circle 20 meters in of butchers traveling to farm villages (Dambe) actions at the National Sports diameter. The first to fall, or even touch at harvest time, integrating a fighting Festival in Benin City. a knee to the ground, loses the match. challenge by the outsiders into local In his reaction a sports journalist, Wale Most matches are about 12 minutes long, After the match, the harvest festival entertainment. Ayeni said: “Who says sports is not a but if neither man falls, both are charged traders came back Although, it is not the first time this unifying factor in Nigeria again? Honestly with a loss. In the final rounds, fighting particular sport is played in the festival, speaking proper, investment in sports will continues until there is a winner. to pick their wares however, Edo 2020 appeared to be the city end insecurity in Nigeria. And that is the But the revival of the National Sports that Dambe drew the largest spectators indisputable fact. When traders trade their Festival in 2018 six years after it went outside the gate intact. most of who abandoned their wares business for traditional wrestling.” الجزير نيجيريا

الجزير نيجيريا N200 ...first in breaking the news www.aljazirahnews.com Vol. 2 No. 179 April 19 – April 25, 2021 This space ة is for sale Guest ةColumnist Bashir Othman Tofa US Shooting: Insecurity a global phenomenon Stopping The Ethnic Conflagration Now! – Keyamo ension is beginning to brew, and if revenge attacks on Southerners begin here in the North, it will be difficult to control. Our enemies from Twithin and outside, some well known by our security agencies, are more determined than ever to set us against each other, so that we may get to a point of no return when the conflagration begins. The mayhem we see, almost every day now, of killings and maiming of people of Northern extraction, including, especially, the Fulani, in some other parts of the country, is totally unacceptable. There is clearly a nefarious plan by the enemies of this potentially great country to initiate a violent crisis that may lead to its destruction. Buhari The Minister of There is no part of this country that is at peace. Local and neighbouring, molested or even killed, then no one case, then, we have no country. That is Communications including foreign, terrorists, are busy, should be allowed to settle and prosper how serious it is. And that is what our and Digital fully armed, to cause whatever damage anywhere else. If that were to be the enemies’ desire. Economy, Dr. Isa they can inflict on our dear country. case, then, we have no country. We must not allow them by our Pantami over trending I, therefore, call on President Buhari I am sure, there is concern at the inaction. Those foolish leaders and their to take this insecurity and the ethnic Presidency and discussions are being stupid hirelings who encourage the videos and reports that lynching happening very seriously, and held. But, urgent and decisive action is expulsion of other Nigerians from their he was always happy put up urgent measures to deal with now necessary. If any Nigerian will not States, should remember that their own when infidels were them without any more delays. be allowed to live freely and conduct indigenes also live in other parts. They …urgent and decisive action is now his/her life and business in any part of must stop, or the law should stop them massacred. necessary. If any Nigerian will not be the country without being disturbed by all means necessary. Be warned! allowed to live freely and conduct his/ or molested or even killed, then no one her life and business in any part of the should be allowed to settle and prosper Bashir Othman Tofa wrote from country without being disturbed or anywhere else. If that were to be the Kano State, Nigeria.

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