Security

Reps Reiterate Call for Sack of Service Chiefs

By Web News 779

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has expressed alarm by the attack on the convoy of the Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum by suspected insurgents, insisting that the sad incident has again reinforced the urgent need to review the nations security architecture.

Minority Leader of the House, Mr. Ndudi Elumelu, in a statement urged the presidency to implement the recent resolution of both chambers of the National Assembly asking President Muhammadu Buhari to sack his Service Chiefs.

Mr Elumelu also noted that the attack on the state governor and other dastardly activities of the insurgents in various parts of the nation have further reinforced the urgent need to inject new hands with fresh ideas to handle the nation’s security architecture.

According to him, the worsening security situation in the country under the current Service Chiefs has reached an unbearable state to the extent that insurgents have the temerity to attack an armed convoy of a state governor.

Ibrahim Shehu

Foreign

Mali Crisis: President Buhari to Consult Key ECOWAS Leaders

By Web News 633

President Muhammadu Buhari will consult with key leaders of ECOWAS countries in order to find a solution to the crisis rocking Republic of Mali.

The President made the pledge while receiving reports from ECOWAS Special Envoy to Mali, former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The former President was at State House, Abuja, in company of President of ECOWAS Commission, Mr Jean-Claude Kassi Brou.

President Buhari said they ask the President of Niger, who is the Chairman of ECOWAS to brief them as a group, and they will then know the way forward.

He thanked Dr Jonathan for his comprehensive brief on the situation in Mali

 Former president Jonathan had filled in President Buhari on his activities as Special Envoy to restore amity to Mali, rocked by protests against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who has spent two out of the five years second term in office.

A resistance group, M5, is insisting that the Constitutional Court must be dissolved, and the President resign, before peace can return to the country.

Crisis had erupted after the court nullified results of 31 parliamentary seats in the polls held recently, awarding victory to some other contenders, which the resistance group said was at the instigation of President Keita.

Riots on July 10 had led to the killing of some protesters by security agents, causing the crisis to spiral out of control, hence the intervention by ECOWAS.

The former President thanked President Buhari for providing a Presidential jet for the mission, “thus making their trips convenient and comfortable,” and he equally expressed appreciation for the Itakpe-Warri railway complex named after him last weekend.

Bello Wakili

Lifestyle

Gbajabiamila Expresses Sadness over Isa Funtua’s Death

By Web News 581

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has expressed sadness over the death of the former President of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Malam Ismaila Isa Funtua.

Mr Gbajabiamila said Funtua, who was a lifetime patron of NPAN and the International Press Institute, lived a life full of service to humanity.

The Speaker also condoled with President Muhammadu Buhari over the loss, Funtua being a longtime friend of the president.

While praying Almighty Allah to give his family, the people and Government of Katsina State the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss, the Speaker prayed for Jannatul Firdaus to be his final abode.

Pr/Ibrahim Shehu

Energy

FG Set to Provide Alternative Power Supply to Rural Dwellers

By Web News 724

The Federal Government says efforts are almost concluded for the
provision of an alternative source of power supply to the people at the
grassroots for socio-economic development.

The Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Public
Affairs, Mr Ajuri Ngelale said this while speaking on Radio
Nigeria Gold FM Ilesa, Osun State, on the presidential economic
sustainability plan against COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr Ngelale said the government would also employ about two hundred
thousand qualified Nigerian youths to produce, maintain and distribute
5 million solar power home system for 24 hours of regular power supply to
the people.


 On agriculture, Mr Ngelale explained that the Federal Government would
soon construct more access roads, acquire two hundred hectares in each
state for mechanized farming to boost food production and attract
youths to agriculture.

The senior special adviser to President Buhari also announced that
local manufacturers and developers would be engaged to provide affordable houses for those who could not afford accommodation in rural
communities.

Gold FM