President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria
Kano Airport to Reopen April 5 – FG
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, yesterday said the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport would be reopened for international flights on April 5, 2021.
He disclosed this in Abuja at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
He also said the Port Harcourt and Enugu airports would be reopened for international flights on April 15, 2021 and May 3, 2021 respectively.
FG Responds To Biafra Govt Formation
The Federal Government has described the reported formation of Biafra Customary Government by Asari Dokubo as a “theatre of the absurd by a joker seeking attention’’.
Speaking with News Agency of Nigeria on the development in Lagos on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will not be distracted by the absurdity.
CAN Sues FG.
The Christian Association of Nigeria has gone to court to challenge the legality or otherwise of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020.
The CAN says it is not comfortable with some of the provisions of the Act.
CAN General Secretary, Barrister Joseph Bade Daramola, said in Abuja yesterday that the suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/244/2021 between the Incorporated Trustees of CAN and the Corporate Affairs Commission and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment was filed before the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Kalabaris advocate rotation of power in 2023 in Rivers
Major ethnic groups in Rivers State have vowed to ensure the continuity of power rotation in the political landscape of Rivers in order to take power from the Upland section of the State.
This is as stakeholders from the Kalabari and Ogoni ethnic nationalities of the State have agreed to work together to ensure that power rotates to the Riverine section of the state in the next political dispensation.
Former Niger-Delta agitator and Leader of Sociopolitical Pressure Group, Kengema Unity Forum, Ambassador Sobomabo Jackrich, fondly known as ‘Egberipapa’ led other stakeholders of the Kalabari Kingdom at the strategic meeting between the two ethnic groups, held in Degema Local Government Area.
Popular Nigerian Calls For the Suspension of increase in petrol price
Former National President of Miners Association of Nigeria, MAN, Sani Shehu, Monday, called on the Federal Government, to suspend the increase in Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, pump price.
Shehu speaking with Vanguard expressed worry over the recent hike of the commodity to N212 per liter, and said this will make it difficult for miners to meet the cost of operation at mining sites as most machines used in mining run on petrol.
