SubNews Magazine unveils foundation …urges Buhari to declare emergency in critical job creation agencies

SubNews Magazine today officially announced the unveiling of the SubNews Empowerment Foundation (SEF); a novelty that would bring about positive impact on the lives of the unemployed Nigerians and less privilege of the society.

Speaking at the unveiling event in Abuja, the Editor-in-Chief, SubNews Magazine, Mr. Tony Christian, said that SEF is an organ of SubNews Magazine essentially floated to complement various empowerment policies and programs of government in rural communities.

Tony Christian said the Foundation would regularly conduct research on the needs in communities and publish information that might be useful for government planning and empowerment strategies.

While expressing confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari’s job and wealth creation agenda, he called on the President to declare a state of emergency in critical job and wealth creation agencies of federal government across the country. 

“With the unveiling of SEF, SubNews Magazine has opened a new chapter in the history of Nigeria media practice where media organizations do not only tell stories but cooperate with government, corporate bodies and relevant stakeholders to empower the downtrodden in our communities.

“Concerned over the growing unemployment rate in Nigeria, SEF is calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in critical job and wealth creation agency of federal government, namely: the Bank of Industries Ltd (BoI), Bank of Agriculture (BoA), Industrial Training Funds (ITF), Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) as well as the National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND).

“SEF is particularly worried that while Nigerians are not in doubt about President Buhari strong and robust determination to reposition and restructure BoI to effectively serve as number one delivery vehicle to tackle unemployment and wealth creation challenges of the country, it would be counterproductive if the president fails to overhaul the existing management teams as presently constituted and replace them with individual who truly shares the vision and aspiration of the president alongside his change agenda.

“SEF is confident that with patient and support of all, the present administration will not only fulfill the promises made to Nigerians, but would lay a solid foundation upon which will lead to Nigeria’s greatness”, he stated.

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EXPOSED! Positions and job titles of 91 beneficiaries of the CBN Secret recruitment.

News website, Sahara Reporters, has published the positions and job titles of 91 children and relatives of politically exposed person secretly recruited by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Top government officials and party members whose children or relatives were hired in secretly hired by the bank include President Muhammadu Buhari, whose niece was employed; former Vice President Abubakar Atiku; Mamman Daura, a close ally of the president; Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, whose sons were hired, and the Minister of Interior, Abdurahman Danbazzau.
The recruitments have drawn widespread condemnations from Nigerians.
The CBN told PREMIUM TIMES it conducted a “targeted recruitment” to pick “specialists”, although it refused to directly confirm the names first published by Sahara Reporters over a week ago.
The presidency has not commented on the report, neither has any of the named ministers.
Quoting a top official of the CBN, Sahara Reporters said the governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, had arranged the hiring as way of endearing himself to the presidency and in return for saving his job.
According to the website, the CBN, in order to hide the scandal, often adjusted names of some of the beneficiaries. A common method used by the bank was using candidates’ first names and their fathers’ middle name instead of surnames.
For instance, the daughter of Mr Abubakar, Maryam, was listed as Maryam Atiku, instead of “Maryam Abubakar,” while the son of Mr. Dambazau became “Nagodi Abdulrahman, instead of Nagodi Dambazau.
The website on Wednesday published the positions and job titles of 91 beneficiaries of the clandestine recruitment.
1. Fatima Baba Shehu – Assistant Manager Step 01
2. Carpenter Barka Muhammad – Assistant Manager Step 02
3. Abiola Ologburo Adeniran – Assistant Manager Step 01
4. Akinwunmi Ayodeji Akintola – Assistant Manager Step 01
5. Abubakar Mohammed Yahaya – Assistant Manager Step 01
6. Usman Buba Jalo – Assistant Manager Step 01
7. Aduwak Laraba – Deputy Manager Step 01
8. Aina Michael O – Deputy Manager Step 01
9. Taslim Ganiyu Olalekan – Deputy Manager Step 01
10. Ethel Isioma Ojije – Deputy Manager Step 01
11. Abdulnasir Haruna – Deputy Manager Step 02
12. Iheomamere Chikezie Chikwendu – Deputy Manager Step 02
13. Solomon Ezra Monde – Deputy Manager Step 02
14. Aminu Ahmadu Dauda- Manager Step 01
15. Sunday John Momoh – Manager Step 02
16. Mustapha Mariam Bukola – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
17. Ayoola Oluwabukola – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
18. Adefela H. Adejuwon – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02
19. Owoade Adedamola Kazeem – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
20. Omitokun Omolola Temitope – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
21. Ibrahim Ahmed Lawan – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
22. Maryam Adamu Bahamas – Senior Supervisor 1 step 0
23. Olajide Tolani Kudirat – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
24. Temitope Adeola Odunowo – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
25. Mohammed Ameer Ibrahim Bunu – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
26. Hajara Sani – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
27. Abdulmalik Atta – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
28. Nagode Abdulrahman – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
29. Ahmed Aminu-Kano – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
30. John Irimiya Balewa – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
31. Na’abba Fatima Ghali -Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
32. Abdullahi Mohammed Nuradeen – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
33. Sadiq Inuwa Baba – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
34. Sadik Uba Sule – Senior supervisor i step 01
35. Olawunmi Adedoyin Kayode – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
36. Ibironke Ifeoluwa Adetunbi – Senior supervisor 1 Step 01
37. Ikyembe Terseel Ikyembe – Senior supervisor 1 Step 01
38. Princewill Eva – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
39. Abdul-hakeem Mohammed Ali – Senior Supervisor 1 step 01
40. Mbwiduffu Ibrahim Auta – Senior supervisor 1 step 01
41. Essien Innocent Joshua – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
42. Titilayo Tola Olowoniyi – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
43. Aminu Halimat Sadia Abdullahi – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02
44. Abba Mustapha Shettima – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02
45. Farida Zuhair – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02
46. Ekayi Nyofo Shitta – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
47. Omoile Kingsley Ucheka – Senior supervisor 2 Step 01
48. Muhammed Hassan – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
49. Ukute Patrick Ewere – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
50. Ibrahim Kabir Tijjani – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
51. Maryam Abubakar – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
52. Odelola Oyekunle Isimenme – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
53. Yinusa Bilikis Orekuleyin – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
54. Muhammad Muhammad Magasa – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
55. Ayoola B Oyebanjo – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
56. Mohammad Ahmad Adamu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
57. Alexandar Chukwuka Okakwu – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01
58. Okocha Uzoma Meshwork – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
59. Hassan Usman – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
60. Dahiru Isa Abba – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
61. Joel Ugochukwu Jones – Senior Supervisor 2 step 01
62. Ibrahim usman – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
63. Fatima Imam – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
64. Yisa Daniel Nma – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
65. Yamani Sanusi – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
66. Ejike Emmanuel Ibe – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
67. Jibril Abdullahi Ibrahim – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
68. Shima Kuma – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
69. Loretta Laye – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
70. Hanafi Abubakar Mujeli – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
71. Ahmed Zainab Shehu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
72. Musa Ibrahim – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
73. Oruche Chukwudubem Godwin – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
74. Yakub Umar Yakub – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
75. Idigo Ifeanyi Charles – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
76. Asuzu Obioma C – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
77. James Elizabeth Edidiong – Senior supervisor 2 Step 01
78. Salami Bashirat Omolola – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
79. Ibrahim Muhammed Kabir – Senior supervisor ii step 01
80. Kamaludden Tukur Tafida – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
81. Ibeh Nnadozie Nathaniel – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
82. Samaila Shehu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
83. Mohammed Ali – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
84. Rabiu Musa Mbulo – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
85. Aliyu Aisha Yakubu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
86. Yahaya Sani – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
87. Muhammad Isah Rumu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
88. Onoja Uwane Jessica – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
89. Ahmad Aminu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
90. Nasreen Mamman-Daura – Senior Supervisor 2 step 02
91. Babayo Abdulhakeem Abdullahi – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01
 Source: PREMIUM TIME

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President Buhari Returns From Saudi Arabia

President Muhammadu Buhari is back in Nigeria after a week-long official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The presidential jet arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, in the nation’s capital, Abuja, at about 5:30pm local time, where the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory received him.

The presidential guard was also on hand for a brief airport ceremony to welcome him.

The President was in Riyadyh for talks with King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and senior officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Talks focused on how to achieve greater stability in the price of crude oil exports.

In Qatar, President Buhari held talks with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hammad Al-Thani, which culminated in the signing of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) to pave way for direct flights between major cities of both countries.

Both countries also signed an agreement to avoid double taxation and tax evasion on the sideline of President Muhammadu Buhari’s state visit to Qatar.

At a meeting with the business community in Qatar, President Buhari also assured them that his government would remove any impediment that could hinder investment in Nigeria.

The Nigerian leader also met with Nigerian community in Qatar where he urged them to urged them to rekindle the spirit of patriotism and selfless service to encourage more foreign investments.

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Forced Marriage: Abducted 14 Year-old Girl Released To Police

A 14-year old girl, Ese Oruru, allegedly abducted in Bayelsa State and taken to Kano for marriage under Islamic rites has been released to the Nigeria Police Force.


It was gathered that the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has instructed that Ese be reunited with her family on Tuesday.

The ordeal of Ese started on August 12, 2015 in Yenagoa of Bayelsa State, when Yinusa a known customer of Ese’s mother, Mrs Rose Oruru, took her away from Bayelsa to Kano on the purported excuse that she had converted to Islam.

Yinusa was a Keke [tricycle] rider in Yenogoa, who sold all his belongings before he eloped with the girl.

Ese’s parents have traveled to Kano State on several occasions in the past six months with officers of the Nigeria Police Force to secure her release without positive result.

Her alleged kidnap has caused quite an outrage, as earlier on Monday the President of the Ijaw Youth Council, Comrade Udengs Eradiri, in Yenagoa issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Arewa Community in Bayelsa State to ensure that she is released and safely returned to the state.

A human rights activist, Ankio Briggs, had also called for her release.

In a tweet, a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, quoted the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, as saying that Ese would be taken to Abuja on Tuesday and handed over to the Commissioner of Police in charge of Bayelsa to reunite her with her parents.

“She is crying and refusing to go home. She does not want to go back but I have insisted she must go,” she quoted the Emir as saying.

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Nine Dead In Renewed Agatu Community Attack

Benue State Governor, Mr Samuel Ortom, has confirmed the killing of nine indigenous farmers in a renewed attack on several Agatu communities by armed herdsmen dislodged by security forces on Sunday evening.
The attack lasted for over three hours, according to the Governor, who spoke to journalist shortly after inaugurating a committee on renewable energy.

He added that apart from the lives lost, a number of Agatu villages were burnt to the ground.

Governor Ortom assured the people of Agatu that he is working with the Nasarawa State government to ensure that the security threats is nipped in the bud.

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Labour To Mobilise Nigerians Against New Electricity Tariff

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said it will be embarking on a nationwide street protest along with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and civil society allies against the 45 percent increase in electricity tariff on Monday.

The NLC declared the new electricity tariff announced by the Federal Government of Nigeria unacceptable.

In a statement signed by its president, Ayuba Wabba, NLC said the planned protest will hold Monday, February 8, in Abuja and the 36 states of the federation.

“Our members have been sufficiently mobilized and are ready to go. If you are an electricity consumer and you are not happy with the bills electricity companies serve you every month, you are invited to join this protest rally.”, the NLC said.

According to the statement, the protest are scheduled to start in Abuja from the Labour House, Central Business District at 8.00am before moving to the NERC head office at Adamawa Plaza, Plot 1099, First Avenue, Off Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District. From the NERC office, they will proceed to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company at Zone 4 and thereafter to the National Assembly.

Wabba explained that the protest have become inevitable following the inability of the labour unions to get the Federal Government to rescind its decision to hike electricity tariff.

NLC noted that due process in the extant laws for such increment was not followed in consonance with section 76 of the Power Sector Reform Act, 2005;

“There has been no significant improvement in service delivery. Moreover, the fact is that most consumers are not metered in accordance with the signed privatization Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of November 1, 2013, which stipulates that within 18 months gestation period, all consumers are to be metered;

“There is a subsisting Court Order dated 28th May, 2015 by Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, in the case of Toluwani Yemi-Adebiyi versus NERC & Orders, that there shall be no further increment until the determination of the substantive suit.

“• The increment at this time negates the present biting and prevailing economic recession vis-a-vis an attempt to further impoverish the poor masses.” NLC stated.

The labour union explained that, “We stakeholders, on Increment in Electricity Tariff (a broad coalition) met in Lagos on January 28, 2016 and issued a communiqué demanding an “immediate halt of this morbid and exploitative intention” failure of which would lead to:• Mobilization of all Nigerians to resist the new tariff; Mass protests/picketing of all DISCOs’ offices across the country; Directing all consumers to reject any bill with the new tariff and other actions necessary.”

It said, “Earlier, Nigerians had spontaneously moved to the streets in Lagos, Benin, Kano and other cities when NERC announced this increase in the last quarter of 2015.

“At the level of the Congress, we had issued a communiqué on December 22, 2015 rejecting this tariff hike and demanding that pre-paid metres be made available free to all consumers.

“We noted that Distribution Companies “have continued to exploit Nigerians by estimated billing system for the majority of consumers, while deliberately refusing to make available prepaid metres.

“We reached out to core government constituencies including the Minister of Power, the leadership of the National Assembly and NERC, all in an effort to find an amicable resolution through the quality of the logic of argument and practical realities on ground which include the incontrovertible fact that even before this increment, Nigeria paid the highest tariff per kilo-watt in Africa and contiguous regions. We pay much higher than Egypt and countries with stronger economies.

“With the increment, this disparity will not only be substantial, it will kill Nigerians and businesses. The saddest part of it all is that there is no co-relation between the quality of service delivery and this tariff.

“The implementation of this tariff is an act of lawlessness because there is a subsisting restraining court order on further increases. And yet we are in a democracy.

“The point must also be made that the immediate past government in its twilight approved a whoppingN18.26 billion for these companies in order to boost electricity supply. Yet there is nothing to show for it. A privatised sector that continues to parasite on government with insignificant benefit to Nigerians is at best a leech on our economy and should be interrogated.

“We would want to make the point that this tariff increase is only intended to protect the investment of a select few and not to serve the interest of other Nigerians. In light of all of the above, this increase is illegal, unfair, unjustifiable and a further exploitation of the already exploited Nigerians.

“We also said the challenges in the economy which have adversely reduced the purchasing power of ordinary Nigerians and slowed down businesses including manufacturing have made this increase unsustainable and unjustifiable.”

Recall that, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC; had in December last year announced a new electricity tariff regime that has various rates of increase in energy charges for consumers across the country.

The commission also announced the discontinuation of fixed power charges for all classes of electricity consumers. However, electricity consumers are to pay for what they consume.

With this development, power distribution companies would no longer charge their customers monthly fixed charges that require electricity consumers to pay an approved amount of money not minding whether electricity was consumed during the billing period.

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