Provide evidence on your claims against Southern Kaduna leaders or keep quiet, Apostle Suleiman tells El-Rufai and other news
Provide evidence on your claims against Southern Kaduna leaders or keep quiet, Apostle Suleiman tells El-Rufai
The governor had on Sunday described the Southern Kaduna leaders as “criminals” who wanted to be “appeased”
El-Rufai, who stated this when he appeared on a Channels Television programme, Sunday Politics, however, said his administration would not grease the palms of those who “organised the killings”.
He added that the crisis rocking Southern Kaduna had a 40-year history and past and present governments had tried to stabilise the area.
The governor said: “I have no time for nonsense. I will not appease criminals. I will not appease idle people who have nothing to do but to raise a spectre of genocide. They do that to get money into their bank accounts and get donations from abroad instead of standing up.
9. $500 Billion Chinese Loans: Reps forced into 30 minutes break over heated argument with Ameachi
Questions put to him by the Chairman of the committee on the local content components of the loan agreements were returned in monosyllabic answers without the required details.
Ameachi said that the activities of the Lawmakers will hinder the acquisition of the loans to finance the south south rail projects.
He also stated that the only loan secured by the present government was the NI.6 billion Lagos -Ibadan rail.
. Reps uncover $33bn commercial contracts without clear cut financing arrangements
Nigeria’s House of Representatives has uncovered over $33 billion commercial contracts signed by successive governments through the Federal Ministry of Transportation.
Ossai who frowned at the misconceptions and misgivings on the ongoing Legislative scrutiny of various agreements, alleged that public officials response for the facility are only desperate to obtain the loan without proper scrutiny of the agreements.
Ossai stressed that commercial contracts process signed by the Federal Ministry of Transport alone is over 33 billion dollars without any clear cut financing arrangements.
11. Number of new daily Covid-19 cases in Nigeria rises to over 400
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has reported 417 new Covid-19 cases in 17 states. This is higher than the number of daily new infections recorded in recent days with the total number of confirmed cases now 49,485.
The new Covid-19 cases have been recorded in Lagos-207; Kaduna-44; Ondo-38; Abia-28; Anambra-21; Plateau-20 and Bauchi-13.
Others are Oyo and Ebonyi-9 each; Delta and Edo-7 each; Enugu-6; Niger-3; Gombe-2; Ogun, FCT and Kano-1 each
There are 337 Covid-19 patients discharged across Nigeria in the last 24 hours with the total number of successfully treated cases rising to 36,834.
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