17102019 - FG cuts travels, estacodes for ministers, other officials

VANGUARD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 — 13
Gov Sule
recommends
NUJ
chairman, 14
others as
commissioner
nominees
By David Odama
LAbdullahi AFIA—GOVERNOR
Sule of
Nasarawa State, yesterday
submitted names of 15
commissioner nominees
including the state
Chairman of Nigeria Union
of Journalists, NUJ, Dogo
Shammah, to the state
House of Assembly for
screening and confirmation
as members of the state
executive council.
The speaker of the
House, Ibrahim Balarabe
Abdullahi, announced this
on the floor of the house
after the majority leader,
Alhaji Tanko Tunga (APC-
Awe North) submitted the
commissioner nominees on
behalf of Governor
Abdullahi Sule, to the
house in Lafia.
The nominees are,
Ahmed Baba Yahaya (Toto
Local Government Area,
LGA,) Philip Dada former
SSG (Karu LGA), Othman
Bala Adam (Keffi LGA), Dr
Abdulkarim Abubakar Kana
(Kokona LGA), Obadiah
Boyi (Akwanga LGA) Yusuf
Aliyu Turaki (Awe LGA), Dr
Salihu Ahmad Alizaga
(Nassarawa Eggon LGA),
Others are Dogo
Shammah (Wamba LGA),
Prof.Otaki Allahnanah
(Keana LGA), Haruna
Ogbole Adamu (Obi LGA),
Ibrahim Musa Ekye
(Doma LGA), Mrs Fati
Jimeta Sabo (Nasarawa
LGA), Abubakar
Muhammed Imam(Lafia
LGA), Hajiya
Also nominated are
Halima Ahmadu
Jabiru(Lafia LGA) and
Mohammed Bashir
Aliyu(Lafia LGA).”
MINIMUM WAGE: Outcome of
negotiation to enhance workers’
pay —Aremu
Krepresentative ADUNA—LABOUR
in the
National Salaries, Incomes
and Wages Commission,
and former Vice President
of Nigeria Labour
Congress, NLC, Issa
Aremu, yesterday in
Kaduna, assured of a
peaceful resolutions of
ongoing negotiation on
consequential adjustment
arising from the N30,000
new national Minimum
Wage that would improve
workers’ pay and enhance
the growth of Nigerian
economy.
Aremu who is also the
General Secretary of
National Union of Textile,
Garment and Tailoring
Workers of Nigeria,
NUTGTWN, and a member
of the National Executive
Council, NEC, of NLC, in
a statement, said the
ongoing negotiation about
minimum wage
implementation in the
public sector was
legitimate, expected and
By Boluwaji
Obahopo
LOKOJA—CHIEF of
Staff to Kogi State
Governor, Yahaya Bello,
Chief Edward David
Onoja, has resigned his
appointment.
Onoja is now the running
mate to governor Bello in
the November 16
gubernatorial election.
In his stead, the governor
has appointed Mr.
Abdulkareem Jamiu as his
new Chief of Staff.
Jamiu until his new
not in any way meant there
was a “crisis”.
According to the
statement “there is already
a subsisting new Minimum
wage of N30,000 signed
into law by President
Muhamadu Buhari. It was
an outcome of robust
negotiations between
organized labour,
organized private sector,
Federal and states
governments.
"This is also the 5th National
minimum wage Act. The first was
in 1981. What is at stake is not a
renegotiation but
implementation. But at the
saying goes, devil is in the details.
That God new wage for workers
is Godliness. The details are
what we are working towards
through dialogue with the
government.
"I have no doubt that there
would not be any crisis there
would be an agreement just the
way we negotiated the past
minimum wages. The Joint Public
Service Negotiating Council is
working with both the NLC and
TUC to achieve achieve the goal
of a just consequential
adjustment”.
Onoja, Kogi Chief of Staff Resigns
appointment was the
Director General, Protocol.
The governor in a letter
by the Secretary to the State
Government, Dr (Mrs)
Folashade Ayoade, also
approved the appointment
of Dr Gabriel Attah as
Director General, Protocol.
Dr. Attah until his new
appointment was the Head
of Mass Communication
Department, Kogi State
University, Anyigba.
The statement said,
“These appointments take
effect from 14 October
2019.”
Proprietor of illegal rehab center, 2 others
remanded in prison custody
By Bashir Bello
K magistrate ATSINA—A
court in
Katsina State has
remanded the proprietor of
illegal rehabilitation center
in Daura, Kastina State,
Malam Bello Abdullahi,
and two of his accomplices
in prison custody .
Abdullahi alongside
Habibu Bello (28) and a 16
By Peter Duru
M F AKURDI—
O R M E R
Minister of State for
Education, Prof. Jerry
Agada has warned those
canvassing that the North
will produce the next
president of Nigeria in
2023, are working against
the unity of the country.
He also advised those
leading the campaign to
desist from claiming that
they are speaking for the
people of the north since
IDAN to hold 5th edition of Guide for Business confab
LAGOS—THE Interior
Designers Association of
Nigeria, IDAN, plans to
hold a two-day conference
and networking event in
Lagos.
The event, which holds
between today and
tomorrow, is now in its 5th
year. Tagged: Guide forn
Business, has brosdened
the spectrum of its
audience. This edition,
year alleged accomplices,
residents of Daura Local
Government Area, Katsina
State, were remanded by
the Presiding Magistrate of
Court One, Nuradeen
Abdullahi, till October 22nd
when the court would rule
on their bail applications.
The police arraigned the
suspects before the court for
criminal conspiracy,
wrongful confinement and
cruelty to children.
According to the charges
against them, “On the
October 13, 2019,
information was received at
the Divisional Police
headquarters in Sabon
Garin Daura that one
Mallam Bello Abdullahi
conspired and open an
illegal rehabilitation center
in Daura and continue to
deceive people from across
the country and
neighbouring countries to
bring their children
between age 12 - 16 and
adults under disguise of
rehabilitating them. They
confine the children, chain,
torture and maltreat them.
The maltreatment made the
inmates to revolt.”
However, the offences are
contrary to Section 97, 257
sub section B and 238 of the
penal code laws.
SUMMIT: From left—Callistus Obatta, Group Executive, Technology & Services; Gbenga Shobo,
Deputy Managing Director; Victor Asemota, Founder, Swifta Systems & Services; Adesola Adeduntan,
Chief Excutive Officer, and Abdullahi Ibrahim, Executive Director, Public Sector Group, all of First
Bank, during the First Bank Fintech Summit, held in Lagos, yesterday. PHOTO: Kehinde Shonola.
2023 PRESIDENCY: Don’t joke with Nigeria’s unity,
ex-minister warns
themed: ‘Freedom to
Design’, is set to provide
creative professionals and
entrepreneurs with
business and career
development tools from a
range of industry leaders,
delivering information in
areas such as finance,
taxation, human resources,
business development,
project management,
insurance, health and
wellness to name a few.
The president of IDAN,
Omon Anenih - Mordi
revealed that this year’s
edition will afford those in
attendance the opportunity
to learn from a broad
spectrum of speakers in the
Nigerian
landscape.
business
they are only airing their
personal views and not
those of the people of the
north.
Prof Agada who is also a
former National President
of Association of Nigerian
Authors, ANA, spoke
yesterday in Makurdi,
saying , “In fact if you talk
of competence, there is no
zone in Nigeria that you
cannot get people who are
competent to be president
of Nigeria because they are
all over the place. If the
North has it this time it
should move to the south
the next time. Or do you
want to say that there are
no competent people in the
south who are qualified to
be president? If you say
south west, are you telling
me there are no people
there that are qualified to
be president or even in the
South East or South- South.
“That is my own
philosophy of politics
especially in terms of what
is trending these days.
People are saying it must
go this way or it must not
go that way. I recently read
somewhere where
somebody said the north
would hold on to the
presidency for the next 100
years and I asked, is that
what we are looking for? I
just watched on the
television the pictures of
malnourished children
who are from the northern
part of the country? So what
does the presidency give us
in terms of the wellbeing of
the people that you are
saying let everybody die but
you must hold on to the
presidency.
“The best thing is to
ensure that it goes round
anything outside that is
anti-unity or against the
unity of the country. I also
wrote a book on that matter,
it is entitled The Successors,
what I have done in the
book is to highlight the
need for rotation.
“A person from the
minority group can be
assisted by the people of the
majority group to attain
leadership or emerge the
Governor. I wrote this book
as far back as 2007, so I’m
not just holding this position
as regards rotation of office,
this is what I preach and I
still stand by it. Therefore
when people are saying it
must be the north, I cannot
be part and parcel of that.”
VerifyMe backs NIMC on
compulsory NIN for SIM
registration
By Prince
Osuagwu
IDENTITY management
and work history
reporting platform,
VerifyMe Nigeria, has
backed the recent directive
by the National
Communication
Commission (NCC) that
registration for new
Subscriber Identity Module
(SIM) cards will now
require the presentation of
the National Identity
Number (NIN).
The NCC explained that
the directive was part of
efforts “towards
engendering the security of
lives and properties for the
economic development of
the country.”
CEO, VerifyMe Nigeria,
Esigie Aguele, said: “The
NCC directive
demonstrates that identity
management is the
foundation of sustainable
security that will promote
growth in all industries. In
anticipation of this we at
VerifyMe had developed a
platform where all Telcos
can plug their customer
acquisition processes.”
“With a population of about 190
million, the number of active
telephone lines in the country is
currently at 175 million
representing a teledensity of
91.65 percent. Internet users
stand at 122.6 million while
broadband penetration is 35 per
cent.
“Overall investment in the
Nigerian telecoms sector is over
$70 billion with 11.39 per cent of
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
coming from the sector alone. So,
against the background of such
significant investment and the
pervasive impact of the sector on
both the national economy and
everyday life of citizens, it is only
reasonable to put in place
regulatory interventions that will
ensure we have credible
subscriber data.”