The chairman chosen cargo services LTD, Chief Patrick Agbator, has congratulate the governor elect of Kano state, Abba Kabir Yusuf on his victory in the concluded governoship election.
Speaking with news men in his office chief Patrick said, the emergence of Abba Yusuf shows an existence of democracy in the state.
He also commend the electoral commission for making the general elections itch free, stating that without their support the story wouldn’t have been like this.
Chief Patrick also use the medium to call on members of the public and of the rest political parties to respect the law and embrace peace with one another in the interest of kano state.
The Oba Yoruba in Kano, Murtala Alimi Otisese, has appointed a new caretaker committee to manage the affairs of the executive council of the Yoruba Community in the state.
This followed Kano High Court Number 5 presided over by Justice Usman Na’abba order restraining the leadership of the community from parading themselves as executives of the community pending hearing and determination of a suit.
The court ordered the Oba Yoruba Kano to appoint a caretaker committee to manage and exercise all powers within the ambit of the constitution of the community for a period not more than six months.
Addressing journalists at the Yoruba Community House on Sanusi Road in Sabon Gari, within Kano Metropolis, the new Chairman of the committee, Abduljaleel Shoga, said the committee was inaugurated in compliance with the court order in Suit Number: K/S94/2022: Hon Seyi Samuel Olorunshola versus Abdullateef Faisu and 12 Others.
He said, “The head of the Yoruba Community in Kano, Alhaji Murtala Alimi, mandated the new caretaker committee to embark on holistic reconciliation of pockets of all misunderstandings among the Yoruba families in Kano, review of the community constitution, set in a very robust and well-articulated means of building a befitting Yoruba edifice housing the Palace of the Oba Yoruba Kano, offices of council members and a cultural heritage learning centre and conduct an all-inclusive election of Yoruba community executive council members.”
He urged all relevant institutions to give the new committee maximum cooperation that will ease their task.
A lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has claimed that politicians have already started “buying” political positions ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly.
Ndume made this claim while speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
Ndume said, “There should be Unexplained Wealth Act so that if you display wealth that is not in tandem with your income, you should be investigated and (the wealth) confiscated and if it is extensive, you should be prosecuted.
“Now, you can see what is happening, they are trying to buy the position. The position in the leadership of this country is becoming those that belong to kleptocrats and plutocrats. Democracy is no longer there.”
The lawmaker also said he would have won the Senate President seat in 2019 if he had money.
He said, “They are buying it already. Didn’t you the accusation that they are sharing money? And I was even thinking in the last election, if I had more money, I would have won. I don’t have money.”
The All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker who has been in the National Assembly for 20 years pushed for an “Unexplained Wealth Act” to deal with corrupt politicians with suspicious wealth.
Recall that the ruling APC won majority of the legislative seats during the elections with over 55 Senate seats out of 109 and over 160 out of 360 House of Representatives seats.
After the February 25th Presidential and National Assembly elections, many APC legislative member-elect have been jostling for the highly coveted positions in the red and green chambers.
Following the commencement of issuing old naira notes by commercial banks in Kano State, businesses at Dawanau International Grain Market, Kura rice market, Bunkure ATAPS market, among other agro-commodity markets, are gradually bouncing back.
Grain business in Kano State had faced a serious setback due to cash scarcity, especially for small scale operators, and as such, the business took a new dimension under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) naira redesign and swap policy.
It was reported that many small scale grain business operators lamented that business activities had become very difficult as most of their customers did not own bank accounts and businesses were usually being conducted with physical cash.
Reports have also shown that in most of the major grain markets in the state, cash crisis had forced down prices of food commodities.
Dawanau International Grain Market, which serves as a major supplier of various food and cash crops for export, as well as local consumption, was reported to have adopted a new commodity price strategy of doing business to escape the grip of the cash crunch by bargaining different prices to a commodity based on mode of payment. For example, a customer would pay less if he had cash but paid more using other means.
However, with the CBN directive to commercial banks to issue more notes, old and new, businesses in grain markets have begun to bounce back gradually.
Malam Mustapha Isah, a small holder grain businessman at Dawanau, said business activities gradually changed as cash flow in the market increased remarkably.
“People can now buy from us using cash; we can also buy from others, so cash flow has remarkably increased. However, it is a gradual process,” he said.
Similarly, for Aminu Buba Kubarachi, a rice dealer at Kura mill, the injection of more notes has cushioned the hardship caused by cash crunch. He added that his business and that of others was regaining vigour.
“As time goes on, we will all return to normal business activities. With the CBN’s order, grain business and many other businesses are regaining their vigour,” he said.
The Nigerian media will on Monday inaugurate a nine-member board of the National Media Complaints Commission, NMCC, otherwise known as the National Ombudsman.
This is contained in a statement by Kabiru Yusuf, president of Newspapers Proprietor Association of Nigeria, NPAN and president, Nigeria Press Organisation, NPO.
Mr Yusuf said in the statement, issued on Friday in Lagos, that members of the commission were drawn from the media, the bar, the academia and civil society.
He said that step had become imperative in the bid to strengthen public confidence in the media as a credible barometer of public opinion.
Mr Yusuf listed membership of the NMCC to include Emeka Izeze, former managing director, Guardian Newspapers (Chairman); A. B Mahmoud (SAN), former President of the Nigerian Bar Association and Prof. Chinyere Okunna, deputy vice chancellor, (Academics) Paul University, Awka, Anambra State.
Others are, Dr Hussain Abdu, a Development Specialist and country director, Care International (Nigeria); Lanre Idowu, editor-in-chief, Diamond Publications Ltd. and founder, Diamond Awards For Media Excellence, DAME and; Edetaen Ojo, executive director, Media Rights Agenda (MRA).
The rest are Dupe Ajayi-Gbadebo, a journalist, lawyer and arbitrator; Eugenia Abu, a broadcaster, author, and columnist, and the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Information.
Mr Yusuf said: “The inauguration is a major step by the industry to strengthen public confidence in the media through prompt resolution of issues bordering on ethical breaches in media content.
“The process is being driven by the Nigeria Press Organisation (NPO,) comprising the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
“It also comprises the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), and the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), along with other strategic media players and the civil society, in particular the MacArthur Foundation.
“The commission will serve as an independent forum for resolving complaints about the press quickly, fairly, and free of charge; maintain high standards of Nigerian Journalism and journalistic ethics; and defend the freedom of the press and the rights of the people to know.”
According to him, prior to the February 22, announcement of the composition of the commission, each media house has been directed to institute at the newspaper level, the local Ombudsman.
“The National Ombudsman will serve as an appellate body for the local Ombudsman as well as a court of first instance,” he said.
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