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FG inaugurates committee to sell off recovered looted assets
The Federal Government has inaugurated a committee to sell off both movable and immovable looted assets recovered so far through the anti-corruption efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, while inaugurating the 22-member committee in Abuja on Monday, urged its members not to betray the trust placed on them by the government.
Malami said members of the committee, tagged: “The inter-ministerial committee on the disposal of Federal Government of Nigeria’s forfeited assets,” are drawn from relevant agencies that deal with the recovery and disposal of Federal Government of Nigeria’s assets.”
The AGF urged the committee to deploy “the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019, the Standard Operating Procedures and Terms of Reference” as its working tools and guide on how best to actualise the quick disposal of the recovered assets in line with the directive of the President.
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Malami added: “Your mandate is to ensure the expedient disposal of all FGN Forfeited Assets and generate revenue for the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“I wish to implore the inter-ministerial committee to work as a formidable team with the relevant agencies in accordance with extant laws and regulations.
“It is also my hope that the proceeds from this exercise will be a source of additional revenue for the country.
“I must, however, warn that the task before the Inter-Ministerial Committee is an enormous one and must be conducted with utmost dignity having the interest of Nigeria at heart. Thus, much is expected from the committee.”
The committee’s Chairman and Solicitor General of the Federation, Dayo Apata assured that the committee would execute its mandate with utmost commitment.
“I assure you that our committee will be guided by the twin principles of transparency and accountability,” Apata said.
He asked all assets recovery agencies of the Federal Government to urgently send records of recovered assets to the committee’s secretariat, which is the Assets Tracing Recovery and Management Unit in the office of the AGF.
Members of the committee are drawn from office of the Chief of Staff to the President; Federal Ministry of Justice; Federal Ministry of Finance; Federal Ministry of Works and Housing; Auditor-General of the Federation; the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices (and other related offences) Commission.
Other are: the Nigerian Army; Nigerian Navy; Nigeria Police; Nigeria Security Civil Defence Corps; Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency; Department of State Security; National Drug Law Enforcement Agency; Department of Petroleum Resources; National Oil Spillage, Detection and Response Agency; and the Bureau of Public Procurement
November 9, 2020
US election: China Refuses To Acknowledge Joe Biden’s Victory
China declined Monday to congratulate Joe Biden as the winner of the US presidential election, saying the outcome of the vote was still to be determined.
While incumbent Donald Trump has yet to concede and has launched several legal challenges, many world leaders congratulated Biden and running mate Kamala Harris after the Democrats were declared winners at the weekend and spontaneous celebrations erupted across American cities.
Trump’s four years in the White House have been marked by a costly trade war and increasingly icy relations with China, with the two powers sparring over areas from blame for the Covid-19 pandemic to Beijing’s human rights record in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
China — among a handful of major countries including Russia and Mexico that has not congratulated the President-Elect — said Monday it had “noticed that Mr. Biden declared he is the winner of the election.”
“Our understanding is that the outcome of the election will be determined in accordance with US laws and procedures,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told press at a regular briefing.
After declining to acknowledge Biden’s victory despite repeated questions from reporters, Wang said: “We hope the new US government can meet China halfway.”
Trump has refused to concede defeat, complaining in a tweet on Sunday, “Since when does the Lamestream Media call who our next president will be?”
November 9, 2020
HURIWA Condemns Governor Ganduje over Destruction of N200 Million Beer Products
The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has lambasted the Kano state Governor Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje for permitting the destruction of Beer products worth N200 million in Kano in the guise of implementation of Shariah law in Kano State.
The Rights group said the consistent flouting of section 10 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 as amended which prohibits absolutely the recognition of a particular religion as State Religion and Section 42 of the same Constitution which absolutely prohibits discrimination on the basis of Religion and Ethnicity in the implementation of public policies by elected government as clearly manifest in the UNREPENTANT application of religious laws that offends the Grund Norm of Nigeria will spell doom for a United Nigeria.
Asking that the Nigerian National Assembly and rational minded and right thinking Citizens to intervene and arrest the continuous drift of Kano state government towards establishment of an Islamic State within Nigeria, the Rights group said the President Muhammadu Buhari has also manifested his partiality for his Religion and Ethnicity in such massive dimensions that he has rubbished Section 14(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 as amended on the imperative essence of enforcement of the Principle of Federal Character in appointments because the President has the proclivity of appointing only Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri Northern Moslems in strategic military and internal security Architectures of Nigeria. HURIWA said the total disregard of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by Governor Abdullahi GANDUJE, the ‘Man Friday’ of President Muhammadu Buhari shows that their is indeed a grand conspiracy to Islamise Nigeria.
“We absolutely condemn as despicable, provocative, vexatious and primitive, the destruction of the alcoholic beverages by the Kano state governor in the name of his personal Religion even against the clear provisions of Sections 10 and 42 of the Nigerian Constitution just as the rapid ISLAMISATOON of Kano state is totally unacceptable going by the fact that within Kano state there are indigenous non Moslems living and doing their legitimate businesses in that part of Nigeria reputed to be one of the biggest commercial centres of Nigeria. Besides, Kano state government shares from the internally generated revenues harnessed by the Federal Inland revenue services which goes into the Federation Accounts and Beer manufacturing industry pay a lot of taxes into the central Treasury of government from where Kano state draws her Monthly allocations. Why destroy these economic derivatives from whose source some of the Monthly allocations Kano collects emanate? This is hypocrisy and this is offensive to all good thinking and against the Nigerian Constitution “.
HURIWA recalled that the the Kano State Hisbah Board had reportedly destroyed 1, 970, 000 bottles of beer worth N200 million confiscated within Kano metropolis.
The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) stated that during the destruction exercise at Kalebawa in Dawakin Tofa Local Government, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said that consumption of alcohol and all other intoxicants that can distort the mental capability of a person is forbidden in Islam just as he stated thus: “Even in Kano, we have banned the consumption of beer in all parts of the state,” Ganduje said.
HURIWA recalled that the governor was represented by his deputy, Dr. Nasiru Gawuna, just as he said the Hisbah Board was established with the aim of preventing evil social acts in society.He explained that as part of his administration’s effort of enhancing the welfare of the Hisbah, before this the year 2020 runs out, there would be a salary increase and new uniform for them.
HURIWA quoted the Kano state governor as stating as follows: “My administration is proud of the way you discharge your duties, therefore, I wish to urge all stakeholders to continue to give you all the support you need to succeed,” he said.
Relatedly, in his remarks, the Commander General, Kano State Hisbah Board, Sheikh Haruna Muhammad Ibn Sina, said that the beer confiscated is worth over N200 million.
HURIWA has warned that if the President Muhammadu Buhari continues to encourage the abuses of the Nigerian Constitution then before long other States dominated by Christians may promulgate Christian doctrines and Canon laws as applicable in their State which inevitably would have resulted from the tacit approval of Shariah laws that President Muhammadu Buhari has permitted in Kano State just as the Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) said if action is not adopted quickly, the illegality in Kano state would lead to the destabilization of Nigeria.
November 9, 2020
#EndSARS promoter, Modupe Odele finally picks up her passport
EndSARS promoter and one of the members of the Feminist Coalition, Modupe ‘Moe’ Odele, has finally picked up her passport.
Modele was stopped from traveling outside Nigeria on November 1. She was on her way to the Maldives for her birthday when Immigration officials stopped her at the airport and seized her passport. According to them, she was being investigated.
In a recent update shared on her Twitter handle on Monday afternoon, November 8, Modupe said she has been handed her passport and has been told she can travel now.
”Passport now picked up. No issues. I’m told I can travel at any time. Thank you so much everyone for the help and concern”she tweeted
November 9, 2020
BREAKING: Oyo residents panic as herdsmen ‘invade’ Ibadan community
Residents of the Maje, Soka area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital are in panic following the alleged invasion of the area by about 300 suspected herdsmen.
The Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress in Oyo State, Mr Rotimi Olumo, who told our correspondent that residents of the area alerted him, said he went to the area and saw the three luxury buses that brought the suspected herdsmen to the area.
Olumo said the people, who suspected that the herdsmen had a suspicious mission in the area, prevented them from disembarking from the vehicles.
He said he alerted the police and some policemen from Sanyo Police Station were deployed.
The OPC coordinator said he was surprised to see a large number of Fulani people in the area, saying the area is not Sabo – a popular settlement for northerners.
Asked if the passengers came with their cattle, he said no but stated that they were suspected to be herdsmen.
Olumo said, “I received a series of calls this morning that some luxury buses brought some Fulani and Bororo herdsmen numbering about 300 to the area. They came around 07 am today. I went to the place and discovered that all the passengers in the vehicles are Fulani and Bororo.
“There is no Igbo, no Yoruba among them. This made the people suspicious and we have to be vigilant because of the security situation all over the country. We asked them questions but they refused to disclose their destination. So, we invited the police to come and see them.
“Policemen came from Sanyo Police Station and their response was very prompt. They took the buses to their station and parked them there before I left. One of the Fulani people came down to talk with the police but I didn’t know what they discussed. But everybody must be vigilant.”
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, when contacted by our correspondent did not pick the phone and was yet to respond to the text message sent to him on this matter.
November 9, 2020
Ondo Resident doctors begin nationwide strike
The Resident Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences in Ondo State, have embarked on an indefinite strike. The strike follows the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum, given to the state Government.
The doctors had last week embarked on a three-day warning strike to draw the government’s attention to their plights.
The doctors took the decision to go an indefinite strike at the end of a meeting in Akure on Monday, November 9.
Acting president of the Association of Resident Doctors in the state, Sanni Oriyomi, said that the decision became imperative because the state government failed to address their demands.
The doctors lamented that they are being owed four months salary arrears by the state Government.
Speaking to newsmen, the Acting President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, UNIMEDTH Ondo, Dr. Sanni Oriyomi, said his members could no longer work without being paid. He claimed that the government was still owing them four and a half months salaries, COVID-19 allowance, and other entitlements.
November 9, 2020
Nasarawa MSMEs in high hope as Sule Unveils Business plan in the state
By Abel Leonard/ lafia

Governor of Nasarawa state Engr. Abdullahi Sule, has unveiled the Nasarawa business entrepreneurs plan for interested Micro Small and Medium Entrepreneur (MSMEs) in the State.
The governor who open up the plan in Lafia, the State capital at the city centre shandam Road Lafia, said it is in line with his administration policy of the Nasarawa Economic Development Strategy, adding that his administration will continue to promote these kind of programmes with the objective of increasing revenue generation of the state.
In his word,” We will continue to promote and support this kind of programme and partner with them. That was reason why we have Nasarawa Economic Development Strategy which inaugurated by Mr Vice President.
The only way to empower people is to support this kind of programme in order to reduce over depending on government for anything in the State. He stated.
Earlier in his remark, the Executive Director, Nasarawa Business Entrepreneur Mr Kefas Tigga said the programme is aimed at showcasing the various business opportunity found in the state and its benefit to the people of the state and country at large.
Tigga however, narrated that apart from showcasing and promoting Nasarawa state, it will also aid the exportation of the Nasarawa state mineral resources across the glob.
November 9, 2020
Kano State Government Called Upon To Rehabilitate Waziri Gidado Hospital
By Jabiru Hassan, Kano.

Kano state government has been called upon to rehabilitates the popular Waziri Gidado hospital to a higher standard due to the capacity of the patients that trooped into the hospital seeking various medical services especially when the place is having more recognition.

The call was made by some people that were interviewed by our correspondent when Daybreak news paid a visit to the hospital, where the interviewers disclosed that Waziri Gidado hospital is now getting more visitors seeking medication and there is the need for kano government to rehabilitate the place for conducive working atmosphere.
Malam Ya’u Bachirawa said that Waziri Gidado hospital has a qualified staff that are also professional in taking care of the patients and the place needs complete rehabilitation in order to wear new look and have a good working atmosphere as one of the best healthcare delivery services centre.

Similarly, Malama Wasila Adamu lamented that ” the hospital is good especially on maternal and neo-natal services where pregnant women are being treated with satisfaction and we hope that our dynamic governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje would answer our call by renovating the place to look more conducive”. She added.

Daybreak news gathered that the issue of water scarcity has been overcomes at the hospital, while some well meaning citizens often contributed to the provision of an additional buildings so as to enable the hospital accommodate more patients.
November 9, 2020
FG moves to draft social protection Bill
By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The Federal Government in collaboration with stakeholders like Save the Children, UNICEF, UNDP and others is set to produce a draft bill that would legalize social protection in Nigeria.
The Bill is expected would also harmonise all existing bills on social protection to produce an all-encompassing draft bill that would take care of both contributory and non-contributory social protection programmes in Nigeria.
According to a press release made available to Daybreak today the Permanent Secretary, Budget and National Planning, and Chairman, Technical Working Group (TWG) on National Social Protection Policy, Mrs Olusola Idowu, represented by the Director, Social Development, Mr Sa’adu Bello, made this known at a five-day capacity building workshop for members of the TWGs on the review of the National Social Protection Policy(NSPP), recently, in Lagos.
The statement said the workshop was aimed at deepening the understanding of members on the concept of social protection as well as the commencement of the review process.
Idowu said that the group had been divided into five different sub-committees which included: the Central Working committee, Technical Review, Legal and harmonization, Cross cutting, as well as the Stakeholders Consultation and Sensitization sub-committees, who would present their diagnostic reports to the TWG.
She appreciated the Development Partners and relevant MDAs involved in the social protection project, while hinting that the current policy on social protection, would be coming to an end at the close of the year 2020.
The Permanent Secretary reminded recalled that the Ministry had inaugurated a Technical Working Group (TWG) for the review of the National Social Protection Policy 2021-2025.
The main essence of the review was to accommodate some emerging issues on social protection programme across sectors at both the national and sub-national levels of government, the release stated.
Senior Social Protection Specialist, Save the Children, Sheila Nkunika, present at the Workshop, highlighted the importance of the principles of inclusiveness in drafting the new policy and the vulnerability of children which had become worrisome.
She advocated Social Protection as a platform to carter to the vulnerable children.
Emerging issues as highlighted at the workshop were: the need for robust a Monitoring and Evaluation framework; need for an inter-ministerial dialogue and negotiations on the roles and responsibilities of MDAs on the revised NSPP, need to strengthen the NSPP shock responsiveness; need for inclusiveness in the NSPP to take care for all vulnerable groups; and need for coasted work plan (implementation strategy and operational Manual), among others.
November 9, 2020
#ENDSARS: Account for your action – NGO tells FG
Abel Leonard/ lafia
The National Coordinator, advocacy for Quality Leadership and Health awareness Foundation, Eng. Anselm Ijebor has blamed the federal government for the loss of innocent Nigerian youth and properties at the wake of the ENDSARS protest in the country.
According to the National Coordinator of the NGO, who said the Nigerian government did not show concern or any sign of meeting the demand of the protesters at the given time .
Engr. Amsolem Ijebor while addressing Journalists in Lafia, the Nasarawa state Capital, maintaining that the #ENDSARS protest should not have escalated given that the Nigerian government had shown signs of meeting the demand of the protesters
He said the new attempts by the government to further muzzle the democratic rights of the people sparked off the youth organising themselves and demanding for their rights.
“People must have the socio-political consciousness that the youth have the right to protest and make demands to reclaim the country. What happened during the #EndSARS protest is a signal that the federal government has failled the nation and must live to meet the yearning, aspirations and desires of the people”, Eng Ijebor declared.
The National coordinator who is a member of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, Fellow of Nigeria Technologist in Engineering said nothing is wrong with ENDSARS protest, but what led to the violent protest was administrative incompetence in handling the agitation of the youths.
“Why the youths resorted to violent protest was as a result of the government inability to manage the situation. It is either we fix Nigeria or we die trying to have a better country for the generations yet unborn.
The mood should be that we want to reclaim the country, the country belongs to us. All resources in the country belong to us and not a few rich,” he said.
“An average Nigerian should be inspired by those that died during the protest, those martyrs that laid down their lives and the desire ultimately is to transform Nigeria into a socialist state,” Eng. Ijebor stated.
While accepting that diologue and nagotiation are veritable instrument of peace, Eng Ijebor said ‘aluta’ change should be redefined to reflect the emerging circumstances in the country and decry the unacceptable level of banditry, kidnapping and robbery cases in the country
November 9, 2020