The Kano state Road and Traffic Agency (KAROTA) has arrested an impersonator defrauding drivers at night.
The 27-year-old young man impersonated the agency staff on duty around 12 midnight on Monday.
The suspect, identified as Lukman Abdullahi, appeared on night duty on Monday when he was apprehended.
According to the Agency Public Relations Officer, Nabulusi Kofar Na’isa, the suspect was apprehended wearing KAROTA uniform, disguising as their Staff.
Kofar Na’isa added that the agency got the report of the suspect using its name, manhandling commuters but did not get to meet him until now.
The Managing Director of the agency, Baffa Babba Danagundi, called on the general public to report officials who engage in misconduct, bribery and corruption as they will be charged accordingly to court.
He added that once investigation is completed, the suspect will be handed over to the police for onward investigation before the law.
The Governing Council of the Kaduna State University, led by Mallam Hussaini Dikko, has approved the appointment of 6 senior academics to the rank of Professors and seven others to Associate Professors, respectively.
According to a statement by the university’s public relations officer, Mr Adamu Nuhu Bargo, those promoted are; Dr Matoh D. Dogara (Professor of Geophysics), Dr Gaius Jatau (Professor of Economic and Social History), Dr Peter Ayuba (Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics), Dr Fu’ad Sirate Sheriff (Professor Arabic Language), Dr Tukur Abdulkadir (Professor of International Relations & Strategic Studies), and Dr Nasir Murtala Ibrahim (Professor of Arabic Literature)
Those promoted to the rank of Associate Professors are Dr Binta Kasim (Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication), Dr Bashir Kayode Sodipo (Associate Professor in the Department of Physics), Dr Ahmed Buba (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science), Dr Aliyu Isa Suleiman (Associate Professor in the Department of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics), Dr Patrick Noah Okolo (Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences), Dr Ahmed Bello (Associate Professor in the Department of Education) and Dr Ahmed Shehu( Associate Professor in the Department of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics).
The heavy downpour has wreaked havoc in Jigawa communities, leading to the destruction of many houses, shops and prosperities worth millions of naira in the areas.
The rain that started Monday night, 1st August 2022, lasted for hours and had claimed the lives of yet to be identified a number of people, especially small kids.
The Daily Reality gathered that the communities affected included; Hadejia, Kafin Hausa, Kiri-Kasamma and some parts of Garun-Gabas, Tandanu and Bulangu of Jigawa state, respectively.
Our reporter gathered that the flood has also washed away many farms in the communities, and the development that the residents decried has struck terror in them.
Climate change that leads to flooding is one of the serious challenges rocking many countries, which affects people’s lives and health in various ways.
Victims of flooding
In another similar situation, a morning downpour in Bajoga town of Funakaye Local Government Area of Gombe State had claimed the lives of people and destructed houses and shops in the community.
Climate change: More floods in Nigeria
Experts have foresighted that there would be more floods in Nigeria in the next two months because of climate change.
The Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Prof Mansur Bako Matazu, has warned Nigerians to brace up for more rains in the next two months.
Mu’azu disclosed this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday, August 2nd, 2022, while speaking on flooding wreaking havoc across Nigeria in recent weeks.
However, Mu’azu also lamented that Nigerians keep cutting down trees and dumping refuses in drainage channels.
He added that the NiMeT CEO organisation had issued several advisories about flooding earlier, to which Nigerians failed to adhere.
In his words, Matazu said: “There will be increased rainfall intensity in the next two months or so. This is the most active period – July, August and September. We are going to see more floods.”
NEMA: 233 LGs in 32 states prone to flooding
No fewer than 233 local government areas in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory have been predicted to experience flooding in 2022.
Flooded street
The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, raised the alarm Tuesday in Abuja.
Ahmed, who said the discovery was a result of the 2022 Seasonal Climate Prediction, stated, “Efforts must be made to mitigate and respond effectively to flooding.”
A 17-year-old girl, simply identified as Safiya from Garin Dau village in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State, has been found lifelessly hanged.
Residents of the village who spoke to BBC Hausa Service said they were shocked by the incident because the late teenage girl was a calm and responsible girl.
According to some villagers, the girl might have killed herself because of the forced marriage her parents planned to do for her.
However, the parents and other sources in the family countered the allegation, adding that she was not through with her secondary education yet not to talk of marrying her off.
Kano State Police Command confirmed that the young lady had been found dead, but an investigation has commenced to ascertain why she hanged herself.
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, added that it is the investigation that they can confirm whether she committed suicide by hanging herself or not.
Late Safiya was a class 2 junior secondary school student before her sudden death.
Dr Aminu Magashi Garba Foundation (AMG) has donated the sum of one million naira to a Youth Academy Initiative (YOSPIS) Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022.
Zainab Nasir Ahmad, the YOSPIS Executive Director, disclosed this during the first anniversary of the Youth Academy Initiative.
Speaking at the event, Ahmad unveiled some of the achievements they recorded so far to include a popular live radio program, Hasken Matasa, which targeted more than two million audience.
However, she added that it was part the achievements they so far recorded the collaborative empowerment of 150 women, celebrating World NGO Day in partnership with Kano State Special Adviser on Non-Governmental Organisations.
Other achievements include; Sensitizing 14 Communities in Kano on Menstrual Hygiene and donating sanitary pads to seven hundred adolescents girls in commemoration of World Menstrual Hygiene Day, initiating a monthly seminar series to the civil society organisations, supporting persons living with disability with sanitary pads at Tudun-Maliki Special Education School among others.
Yet, we have lot of challenges – Zainab
It is no longer bizarre that successes and challenges go hand in hand. Zainab also went on to mention some of the challenges she faced since her resuming duty as the Executive Director.
She decried inadequate source of funding, lack of permanent office space and official vehicle as part of the challenges faced by her organisation in the last year.
She added that YOSPIS is seriously engaged in writing and submitting proposals to potential donors, mobilise resources from members and other stakeholders.
Dr Aminu Magashi has also called on the stakeholders to engage and contribute more for youth development for the better Nigeria.
The Aminu Magashi Garba Foundation (AMG) in collaboration with the Department of Skills Acquisition and Training and Centre for Technology Development (CTD) have commenced the training of 10 dropout youth in Kaduna.
The program which started Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022, aimed at giving the dropout youth, within the age of 12-15, a skill on automobile repairs.
The dropout youth were sponsored by the AMG Foundation to undergo eight weeks training and four weeks internship at Panteka market.
It was gathered that the sum of N1.2million was paid by the foundation to give the training to the youth.
AMG hold on the belief that the skill will give them automatic job, improve their economic status, promote peace and help in addressing the challenge of insecurity in our society.
The Daily Reality recalls how AMG Foundation donated the sum of one million naira to the Youth Academy Initiative (YOSPIS) Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 for similar activities.
Among the people that graced the event were: Engr. Auwal S. Anwar, Director, Centre for Technology Department Kaduna Polytechnic, Mallam Bashir Lawan, Manager, Out-Of-School program of the Centre and Hon. Muhammad Usman, former Commissioner of Education.
Others were: Kaduna State and former member House of Reps, Maimuna Abdulrahman, Admin and Finance Manager, AMG Foundation, Senior Program and Partnership Officer, AMG Foundation among others.
At the end of the event, philanthropists from Northern Nigerian states were urged to emulate Dr Aminu Magashi in rescuing the future of the youths who are now the major culprits of phone-snatching – a menace that ravaged many states in Nigeria.
Kano State Police Command has intercepted five hundred packets of drugs suspected to be tramadol tablets imported into the State.
The Police Public Relations Officer SP Abdullahi Kiyawa disclosed this in a statement issued in Kano, Monday, 1st August, 2022.
He said Abba Musa, 30, and Suleiman Danwawu, 29, all of Rijiyar Zaki Quarters have been apprehended in connection with the intercepted consignment.
According to him, the police “intercepted one Abba Musa, ‘m’, 30 years old, of Rijiyar Zaki Quarters Kano, driven an unregistered white coloured Honda Accord 2016 Model Motor Vehicle containing Five Hundred Packets of suspected Tramadol Tablets, valued Twenty Five Million Naira (N25,000,000:00) packed inside the Motor Vehicle boot.
“On investigation, the suspect confessed that the Motor Vehicle belonged to his friend, Sulaiman Danwawu, ‘m’, 29 years old, of Rijiyar Zaki Quarters Kano, and that Sulaiman directed him to hand over the Motor Vehicle to someone at ‘Yan Kaba Quarters Kano.
“Sulaiman was subsequently arrested. Sulaiman confessed that, the vehicle belonged to him, and that he transported the Tramadol Tablets from Onitsha, Anambra State with the intent to sell them in Kano.”
SP Kiyawa noted that the suspects have been moved to the Police Criminal Investigation Department, Narcotics Section for discreet investigation prior to subsequent necessary action.
Terminus Modern Market Jos was closed down in 2002 after a mysterious inferno that engulfed the market in the middle of the night and destroyed more than 270 shops and warehouses with goods estimated in billions of Nairas. The market was a source of livelihoods to business operators, traders and companies within and outside the State. It was also a source of huge revenues to the Plateau State Government.
Recently, there’s memorandum of understanding between Ja’iz Bank and Plateau State Government to rebuild the market for the state at no cost to the State Government. It is very clear after exactly 20 years of closing the market, Plateau State Government either have no intention to rebuild it or have no resources to rebuild the market again. It’s unfortunate, saboteurs and haters have started appearing from obvious quarters to halt the government actions against rebuilding the market. To them, the market should not be repaired by Jaiz. This is ridiculous and amazing at the same time. But some questions which always come to my mind are, is the government really ready to strike the deal? Also, is the governor afraid of some powerful forces, to the extent that they have to agree before the work sees the light of the day?
Plateau State is one of the parasitic states in Nigeria that depends heavily on monthly federal interventions. It has no sources of revenue and no magic to earn more apart from the federal allocation. The pungent, acrid taste of any Plateau State Governor is either to pay wages at the end of the month and forgo infrastructures or engaged in infrastructures and forgo salaries. That’s why the state of development in the state in terms of infrastructures is stagnant and static for good 20 years.
I recently have one on one chat with one of the governorship flag bearer’s of a certain party of the state. I asked him his plans about building infrastructures in the state. He bared his mind and told me that unless Plateau State devices ways of generating more revenues, no magic can be done to have infrastructures in the state.
The Governorship contender said that the State is already heavily indebted to the tune of ₦100 billion Naira. The loans obtained for building Secretariat Junction flyover isn’t settled yet. When the American Junction flyover would be completed, Plateau State would be indebted to the tune of ₦170 billion Naira. Which obviously means the windows for giving loans to Plateau State would be closed. My investigation discovered that the domestic profile of Plateau State 2018 was ₦122 billion Naira.
The reality in the face of Plateau State is very glaring. Plateau has to accept the reality and bow out of the ethnic and religious sentiments that held her neck for decades or lag behind the wheels of misfortunes. It is sad to see this giant state with abundant idle resources and opportunities, such as those of tourism, mineral resources, underground water, business environments, most serene and favorable weather conditions, sufficient rainfall for agricultural and more, but these have become clogs behind its wheels.
Note: It’s my fear that Plateau State Government is fun of playing political fantasy of setting interest in the state during every election to gain more votes but it has no real intention of rebuilding the market in oder not to go out of favors for some myopic interests. But the truth is, the market is a milking cow for the revenue bloc of the state. Being pragmatic in decision making will not augur well for anyone at the helm of affairs. As they said, a stitch in time, saves nine.
Hamisu Hassan is socio political and economic analyst from Jos South, Plateau State. He can be reached via hamisuhassan@yahoo.com
Kano State Government has elevated 132 civil servants in the state’s civil service for July 2022.
Kano State Civil Service Commission Chairman Uba Idris Karaye disclosed this during a monthly commission meeting for senior staff promotion exercise held at the conference hall of the commission.
According to Karaye, 53 promoted workers are between the grade level 08-09; 75 others are from grade level 10 – 14 while others are 15 to above respectively.
Karaye, represented by the Permanent Commissioner ll, Saleh Adamu Kwaru, urged promoted employees to reciprocate the kind gesture by being committed and hard-working in discharging their duties for maximum results.
He, however, explained that the commission had approved the sack of three civil servants for gross misconduct that contravened civil service rule.
He similarly said the commission approved the transfer of service for seven staff to different MDAs.
In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary of the commission, Balarabe Hassan Karaye, commended members of the commission for their zeal and urged them to be upright and be guided by the scheme of service before taking any decision for effective and efficient service delivery in the state.
Report from Daily Nigerian has alleged that Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is planning to bring an atrocious leader of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Kolo Yusuf, as the state’s police commissioner.
He is said to be deployed to Kano to help the APC rig 2023 elections.
Barrister Audu Bulama Bukarti has affirmed this allegation in his tweet and recalling how Mr Kolo tortured and killed his client.
The Daily Nigerian newspaper went on to claiming that Dr Ganduje and Mr Kolo will meet this weekend to finalize the deal.
Recall that SARS was infamous for rights violations, torture, arbitrary murders, and suspicious incarceration up until its termination in October 2020 following widespread demonstrations, popularly known as the #EndSars protests.
Mr. Yusuf, who currently oversees Special Tactical Command, previously oversaw SARS in Kano, where he was charged with torturing individuals and perpetrating arbitrary deaths and detentions.
Similarly, another source who claimed for anonymity confirmed to journalists that the Kano governor had been assured that all would go well as all indications showed that the IGP had agreed to execute the plan.
In the 2019 election, the APC was alleged to have rigged the governorship election which saw Ganduje come back to power, after controversially defeating Abba Gida-Gida in an lection that would never be forgotten by Kwankwasiyya adherents.
