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President Buhari Calls For Adoption Of Gas As Transitional Fuel

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President Muhammad Buhari

Nigeria has called for greater collaboration among Africans to effectively confront challenges such as climate change, public health, local vaccine production, among others.

Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said that President Muhammadu Buhari made the call on Wednesday in Abuja.

Buhari spoke at a meeting of the African Union (AU) on the New Partnership for African Development(NEPAD).

The meeting was under the auspices of the 39th Session of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee (HSGOC), at the margins of the 35th Ordinary Session of the African Union.

Represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the virtual event, Buhari said the continent needed to brace up for wider cooperation in public heath.

“To prepare itself more for intra African collaboration to fight public health challenges, work together to promote vaccine production in Africa, and prompt response to climate change and the zero-emissions targets.

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“The COVID-19 pandemic has severely weakened our economies but it has also left important lessons.

“One is that Africa needs to prepare itself more for intra African collaboration to fight public health challenges, especially those of pandemic scale.

“We must work together to promote vaccine production in Africa; second issue I would like to raise is Africa’s response to climate change and the zero-emissions targets set in Paris and at subsequent climate change meetings.

“We must of course contribute our quota in protecting the environment and preventing climate change; but we must also continue to build sustainable power systems to accelerate development and create economic opportunities for our people.”

 On  climate change, the president said Africa needs far more energy than the renewables sources could immediately provide.

According to him, Africa cannot but adopt gas as a transition fuel.

“We must together make clear to the developed world that the current trend of withholding funds for investment in gas development is the wrong thing to do at this time.”

On the success made by Nigeria in domesticating the NEPAD framework on sustainable development, Buhari said that growth in the Nigerian ICT sector had been phenomenal.

He said that ICT recorded the highest growth of all the sectors of the Nigerian economy in 2020.

“By intensifying Agricultural development, NEPAD inspired Home Grown School Feeding and other Social Intervention Programmes, we are feeding over nine million children in public schools daily and significantly improving the lot of our people.

“It is worthy of note that through regional partnership, Nigeria is currently implementing the innovative strengthening of smallholder farmer’s capabilities towards productive land restoration amid COVID-19 in Nigeria.”

“This is not only to cushion the effect of COVID-19 in the country but also to accelerate the implementation of Africa’s regional initiative to restore degraded lands.”

The president commended the foresight of the founding Fathers of NEPAD, AU’s development agency and the continental initiative for the effective implementation of Agenda 2063.

He re-echoed the view that NEPAD was about the development of the continent – delivering to African citizens.

Let us look forward to working together in building a strong organisation for delivery of results on the continent,”  Buhari said.

The vice president, in another development,  received a delegation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) led by its President, Mrs Comfort Eyitayo, on a courtesy visit to the Presidential Villa.

He commended the adoption of the new, innovative framework for public finance management known as the ICAN-AI (ICAN Accountability Index) and noted the proposed amendment to the Act establishing ICAN.

The vice president expressed delight with the progress of the accounting body.

“I am personally very happy to see that ICAN has grown from strength to strength, and I am particularly fascinated by some of what we are seeing especially forays into public education,” he said.

In her remarks, Eyitayo lauded the Federal Government’s consistent drive to revamp the country’s budget system, aligning with international best practice of having a January to December budget year and having Finance Acts to make the Appropriation Act more realisable.

Other ICAN officials present at the meeting included a former President of the Institute, Sen. Kolawole Bajomo; ICAN Vice President, Mr Tijjani  Isa and Registrar of the Institute, Prof. Ahmed Kumshe, among others. (NAN)

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Breaking:Court Vacates Order Suspending Ganduje As APC National Chairman

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Kano State High Court, Presided over by Justice Usman Mallam Na’Abba that earlier on slammed an order Suspending Dr Umar Abdullahi Ganduje as National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC, has reverses Self vacating same order.

One Haladu Gwanjo and Laminu Sani Barguma who claimed to be the Chairman and Secretary respectively of the APC Ganduje Ward in Dawakin Tofa Local Government area of the State, had secured an order Suspending Ganduje As the Chairman of the Party.

However in a twist of events the Presiding Judge of the High Court Justice Usman Na’Abba said while vacating his earlier order, that upon reading a Motion Ex-Parte together with 27 paragraph affidavit in support and a written address dated the 22nd day of April, 2024 sworn to by one Glory Adah a litigation secretary in the 4th respondent solicitors law firm.

“And after hearing, Mr. L. O. Oyewo Esq, with A. Falana Esq and J. Essiet Esq counsel’s of the 4th Respondent/Applicant, an order of interim injunction is hereby granted”.

The Interim Injunction order is for staying of the execution of the order of interim injunction contained in the ruling of the court delivered on the 17th April, 2024 directing parties to maintain status qou ante as at the 15th day of April, 2024 in relation to the suspension of the 4th respondent/applicant from the 1st respondent by the Ganduje Ward Executive Committee pending the hearing and determination of the 4th respondent/applicant Motion on Notice..

The Judge than adjourned to 30th day of April, 2024 for hearing on the case.

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Malam Aminu Kano Left Only 3 Naira As Cash -Sheikh Fagge

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Late Malam Aminu Kano

 

Abbas Yushau Yusuf

The late political leader of Northern Nigeria, Malam Aminu Kano, who passed away on April 17th, 1983, left only three Naira in cash when he died 41 years ago.

Renowned Islamic Scholar Sheikh Umar Sani Fagge stated this in a viral video during one of his preaching sessions.

Sheikh Fagge mentioned that at the time of Malam Aminu’s death, despite being a minister in the Gowon administration, he left only three Naira in cash.

Sheikh Fagge said one of the clerics who participated in sharing Malam’s assets told him the interesting story of Malam leaving only 3 Naira in cash.

Malam Aminu Kano was among the pre-independence Nigerian politicians who struggled with the colonial masters to secure Nigeria’s political independence on October 1st, 1960.

He was also the opposition leader in the first Republic with the main opposition party in Northern Nigeria, the Northern Elements Progressive Union, which opposed the ruling Northern People’s Congress in the old Northern region.

In the second Republic, Malam Aminu Kano was the leader of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) and contested the 1979 general elections, which were won by the NPN. However, his party, the PRP, captured the major states of old Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, and Jigawa.

He passed away on April 17th, 1983, which is now 41 years ago.

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New APC Ganduje Ward Leaders Are Impersonators…Faces Legal Actions

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The Ganduje ward executives who counter the second suspension of the APC national chairman

 

 

Mallam Basiru Isah Nuhu, whose names were used as the new Chairman of the APC Ganduje Ward in Dawakin Tofa, resurface alongside other Person’s whose names were impersonated threatening legal actions against the perpetrators who claims to be the new Executive officers.

Speaking after written a Petitions at the Ganduje Ward APC office in Ganduje Dawakin Tofa Local Government area, Sunday, Basiru Isah Nuhu and 10 others, said they would not take the insults on the National Chairman of the Party lightly and they are going to Court to seek redressed.

Basiru and other APC members that said they were impersonated wrote a comprehensive Petitions and submitted them to the State Chapter of the Party, calling for the arrest of those who Impersonates their names.

“Impact to say it all, I’m not even an Executive officer of the Party that I have even converged a meeting in Kano to further suspend the National Chairman of the Party, I’m only a card carrying member and all those you see here none of Us is an Executive officer, so we are taking legal actions to make sure that those causing confusion in our Party are punished”.

Salisu Abdullahi Ganduje who was tagged as the Secretary of the Party by those that suspended the National Chairman, also described what happened as unfortunate which should not allowed to get away.

“Let me make it abundantly clear that I’m not an executive of the APC in Ganduje and I’m never the Secretary of the Party, therefore those who Impersonates me will be traced and taking to Court, I must completely clear my reputation in this saga”, he assured.

The State PRO of the Party, Ahmad Aruwa who received the Petitions written by the aggrieve Party Members who’s names were impersonated, assured that the matter would be taking up to Abuja and those who are behind it will be soon arrested.

“We have alerted the Security on what had happened and we are going to ensure that we arrest those impersonators and they are adequately punished according to the Law of the Land”, Aruwa said.

He said they understand that the very Person who made the new announcement was a card carrying member of the NNPP and he even Contested for Councillor in Ganduje Ward, and soon Security would get at him.

 

The last Press statement by the ward executives who suspended Ganduje the APC national chairman for the second time are as follows .

 

The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano has taken a fresh twist as a new ward executives emerged from Ganduje ward and issued fresh suspension to the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.

Recall that the leadership of APC at Ganduje ward of Dawakin Tofa Local Government, Mr Ganduje’s hometown, had suspended the former governor of the state over allegations of corruption.

However, the party, at state level, voided the suspension and vowed to sanction those behind what it described as purported suspension after it also disowned them.

But, a Kano state High Court granted an exparte order to affirm the suspension of the embattled former governor of the state on Wednesday.

However, in a dramatic twist, Mr Ganduje approached a Federal High Court in Kano, which also granted him an exparte order to stop his suspension.

In another twist, a group of APC members, who claimed to be from Ganduje ward of Dawakin Tofa Local Government area and said they were validly elected on July 31, 2021, had issued a fresh suspension to the embattled Mr Ganduje.

Addressing journalists in Kano, on Sunday, secretary of APC at Ganduje ward, Ja’afar Adamu Ganduje who spoke on behalf of 11 other executive members explained that the suspension of Mr Ganduje was necessary for alleged anti-party activities which led to division and failure of the party during the last election.

Mr Adamu, who is Mr Ganduje’s nephew also accused him of igniting conflict of interest that led to two factional leadership within the party in the ward, which according to him, brought the party to disrepute in the eyes of the public.

The secretary alleged that the embattled APC national Chairman had not been paying his statutory party dues.

According to Adamu, ” We are the authentic executives of Ganduje ward and we have pass a vote of no confidence and imposed a new suspension on Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for series of reasons.

“First we have suspended Dr. Ganduje’s membership for creating internal conflict among party members at the ward level. Another major reason why the authentic executives resolved to suspend Ganduje is the issue of anti-party activities he generated during the 2023 elections, which resulted to the party’s failure in the state”.

Adamu emphasized that those two factions claiming to be executive members from the Ganduje ward are fake and impostors, alleging that it was formed by the former governor to cause division and confusion in the party.

Mr Adamu reiterated that the real leadership of the party at Ganduje ward would not hesitate to institute legal action against the two factions earlier addressed the media claiming to be the executive members.

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