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  • Recruitment: Police begins applicants’ physical, credential screening Feb. 1

    Recruitment: Police begins applicants’ physical, credential screening Feb. 1

    The Nigeria Police says it will on Feb. 1, begin physical and credential screening of applicants who completed the 2021 online registration for recruitment into the constable cadre.

    The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

    He said the screening would be conducted by the Force in conjunction with the Police Service Commission (PSC).

    Mba said the exercise, slated to commence on Feb. 1 would end on Feb. 6 at designated venues in states across the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

    According to him, all applicants are to proceed to their respective states of origin and appear at the various screening centres in their clean white T-shirts and shorts.

    He said other mandatory basic screening requirements were two white flat files with recent passport photographs attached and National Identity Number (NIN).

    Mba said other items for the screening were original and duplicate copies of credentials, Certificate of Origin and birth certificate/declaration of age.

    He said printout of application submission confirmation/profile page and duly completed guarantor’s form were also, mandatory for the exercise.

    Mba said candidates who failed to present the mandatory requirements would not be considered for the screening.

    He urged applicants to pay attention to detailed and specific guidelines on the exercise for each state, particularly, the location of screening and dates of screening per local government area.

    Mba said the guidelines would be announced by the Police Public Relations Officers in the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.

    He said the Inspector General of Police, (I-G) Mr Usman Baba, had assured that the statutory entry requirements into the Force as clearly stated in the Police Act and Regulations, would be followed.

    The I-G said the officials deployed for the screening had been directed to ensure that all applicants shortlisted were allowed to participate.

    He said the officials were expected to recommend the suitability or otherwise of applicants in the spirit of transparency, accountability and fair hearing using the already established benchmarks as contained in the Act.

    Baba said that a total of 135,027 valid applications were received in the online registration.

    He expressed satisfaction over the increase in the number and geographic spread of the applications, particularly in the South-East and South-South region of the country following the extension of the online registration.

    The I-G said the exercise was free of charge and urged applicants to be wary of criminal elements who would want to take undue advantage of the exercise to perpetrate recruitment related scams.

    Baba however, warned that anyone found wanting would be made to face the wrath of the law.

  • PDP disqualifies three aspirants ahead national convention

    PDP disqualifies three aspirants ahead national convention

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Screening Committee has disqualified three aspirants from participating in the national convention slated for October 30 and 31.

    The Chairman of the Convention Committee, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State, disclosed this during the unveiling of the party’s national convention logo and promotional materials on Thursday in Abuja.

    The committee was headed by a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke.

    Mr Fintiri said the committee set up to screen the aspirants had completed its work and submitted its report to the organising committee on Thursday afternoon.

    He noted that 31 candidates indicated interests for various national positions in the party, out of which 27 were cleared, one withdrawn and three disqualified.

    Mr Oladipo was vying for the position of deputy national chairman (south), while Messrs Muo-Aroh and Olafeso were eyeing the positions of national secretary and national publicity secretary, respectively.

    “All these aspirants have been disqualified because they took the party to court. Their intention also was to stop the national convention.

    “So, if you have taken the party to court without exhausting the internal mechanism of settling whatever grievances you have and you try to stop the convention.

    “The committee felt you cannot also enjoy the convention.

    “More so, the provision of Section 51 sub 1L in our party constitution clearly spells out that you must exhaust all the internal mechanisms in the party.

    “The same constitution of our great party has also made a provision that if you have not exhausted Section 58 (1L), you can be punished under Section 59 (1e). So, you can see that the screening committee has done what is needful of them.

    “You must be disciplined in the party for us to survive. I think we have to move away from the past as we are trying to open a new chapter for the party,” Mr Fintiri said.

    He said that if any of the disqualified aspirants had reason not to agree with their disqualification, they had the opportunity to appear before the appeal committee on Friday.

    Mr Fintiri said such a person might be considered depending on the reason they may put forward.

    He said the committee had done a great job as it paved the way for PDP to move forward.

    “I assure you that on October 30 and 31, we will have one of the best open, transparent, and democratic conventions in the recent history of this country,” he said.

    On the number of delegates, Mr Fintiri said that about 4,000 delegates were being expected. He said even though there were litigations surrounding the list, efforts were on to clear it.

    He stressed the need for the party to bring out its best at the convention to steer the affairs of PDP with their skills, experience and integrity.

    “We need to bring people of high integrity to manage the affairs of the party and to pilot us to winning the 2023 general elections, particularly the president,” he said.

    Mr Fintiri appealed to members of the committee to make the necessary sacrifice that would ensure success of the convention.

    In his remarks, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the 2021 national convention committee led by Mr Fintiri was prepared to hold a convention that would lead PDP to victory in the 2023 general elections.

    Mr Ologbondiyan, who is also the Secretary of the National Convention Publicity Sub-Committee, said the national convention of PDP presents an opportunity to Nigerians to come together and support the party in 2023.

  • Despite outrage, Senate begins screening Buhari’s aide for position of INEC Commissioner

    The Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started the screening of the nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari as national commissioners of the electoral umpire.

    One of President Buhari’s aides, Lauretta Onochie is among the nominees.

    The nomination of Lauretta Onochie who currently serves as Senior Special Assistant on New Media to President Buhari has elicited public criticism from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and civil society organizations who are against her nomination on the grounds that she is an alleged card-carrying member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and is not proper to be appointed as an election officer.

    In her introductory remarks, Onochie said she is not partisan. She admitted that she had seen the petitions against her which are not only from the opposition but also from people in the APC. She said the opposition to her candidacy is because she is known to be non-partisan and someone who insists on due process and the right thing to be done.

    However, Committee members questioned her stance on non-partisanship.

    Senator Istifanus Gyang queried that one of the petitions against her has an affidavit affirming her membership of the APC.

    Senator Ike Ekweremadu in his contribution said he is worried that her nomination is flouting the principle of Federal character.

    He explained that there is a nominee already from Delta State whose tenure will soon expire and Lauretta is being nominated for the second slot for the South-South which should go round the southern states, however, the nomination means that for a second time the position is going again to Delta State to the exclusion of the other Niger Delta states.

    Ekweremadu advised her to withdraw her nomination to preserve the integrity of President Buhari.

    However, Senator Lawal Gumau said there is nothing wrong with her nomination and maintained that all the petitions against her are sentiments.

    In her response, Onochie explained that the INEC National Commissioner who Senator Ekweremadu made reference is May Agbamuche Mgbu.

    According to Onochie, Mgbu was nominated under her husband’s state – Cross River and not Delta State. She explained that since President Buhari won his second term, she has removed herself from all things political.

    She maintained that from 2019 till date she has not had anything to do with any political organisation and did not partake in APC’s validation exercise.

  • FG orders NDLEA to suspend screening, documentation of 5,000 job applicants

    FG orders NDLEA to suspend screening, documentation of 5,000 job applicants

    The Federal Government has directed the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to stop the screening and documentation of 5,000 candidates scheduled to take place between January 10 and 23, 2021 at its academy in Jos.

    According to the government, the timing is ill-advised and inappropriate, given the current and alarming wave of COVID-19 pandemic across the country.

    Consequently, the government directed that the Solicitor-General of the Federation, Mr Dayo Apata, who is also the Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice, should seek clarification/advice from the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on the public health implications of such an exercise.

    Apata in a statement on Friday said, “It is not in doubt that the exercise is long overdue and necessary for the actualisation of the agency’s mandate, however, the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice notes that the timing is ill-advised and inappropriate given the current and alarming wave of COVID-19 pandemic across the country.

    “Considering the above, Malami directed the Chairman of the NDLEA to stay further action on this matter pending the receipt of clarification/advice from the Presidential Task Force.”

    The NDLEA chairman was also requested to notify the applicants of the development.

  • JUST IN: Obaseki arrives PDP Secretariat for screening

    JUST IN: Obaseki arrives PDP Secretariat for screening

    Sequel to officially joining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday, Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has taken another step in his bid for a second term in office.

    He arrived at the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party a few moments ago for screening.

    After Obaseki joined the PDP on Friday, the party extended the screening of aspirants for its primary election in Edo State.

    Earlier, three aspirants, Gideon Ikhine, Ogbeide Ihama, and Kenneth Imansuangbon, had been screened by the screening committee.

    The PDP primary has also been postponed from Tuesday, June 23, to June 25 in Benin, Edo State.

    Details later…

  • [Leaked Memo] Buhari’s CoS, Abba Kyari raises alarm over lawmakers refusal to be screened at airports says they constitute grave danger to Nigerians

    [Leaked Memo] Buhari’s CoS, Abba Kyari raises alarm over lawmakers refusal to be screened at airports says they constitute grave danger to Nigerians

    Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari has raised alarm over the refusal of some lawmakers who just returned from foreign trips to be screened at the nation’s airports.

    Kyari in a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila said the issue was reported to his office by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire.

    The letter dated Saturday, 21st March, 2020 tagged confidential and obtained exclusively by TheNewsGuru.com, was signed by Kyari himself.

    Kyari in clear terms told the Speaker to order all lawmakers who just returned from foreign trips to submit themselves for compulsory screening at any of the NCDC centres nearest to them.

    TNG reports that as at Sunday night, the number of coronavirus cases in the country had increased from 27 to 31 with three new cases in Lagos and Atiku’s son who tested positive.

     

     

     

  • Coronavirus: Travellers from Europe will now undergo compulsory screening, 14 days isolation – FG

    As the coronavirus spread continue to affect the aviation industry globally with governments placing travel bans on countries with high rate of the disease, the federal government on Monday said travellers coming into the country from France, Germany, and Spain would undergo a secondary screening and a self-isolation for 14 days.

    Minister of Health for State, Mr Olorunbe Mamora, speaking during a press briefing in Abuja, stated that the three countries have been added to the list of high-risk nations with widespread community transmission.

    This is coming after China, Japan, Iran, Italy, and South Korea have all been labelled high risk countries.

    Mr Mamora said the step became important for travellers from the eight countries after Nigeria carried out a review of its case definition for coronavirus.

    “Despite that we have not recorded a confirmed COVID-19 case in the last one week in Nigeria, it is important to remember that we are still at high risk like other countries.

    “We continue to monitor returning travellers that fit our case definition and improve our surveillance, detection and risk communications.

    “Following the declaration of a pandemic and increasing spread in countries, we carried out a review of our case definition. We have added three new countries to the existing list of five high-risk countries with widespread community transmission. These are France, Germany, and Spain. Therefore, eight countries are on our priority list- China, Japan, Iran, Italy, Republic of Korea, France and Germany.

    “Travellers from these eight countries will undertake secondary screening at the point of entry. They are also advised to self-isolate for 14 days on entry,” the Minister said.

    He noted that between January 7 and March 15, 2020, a total of 48 people, who met Nigeria’s case definition had been screened for coronavirus in Edo, Lagos, Ogun, Yobe, Rivers, Kano, Enugu states and the Federal Capital Territory.

    He added, “47 have tested negative and have been cleared, one was positive (contact of the index case) and one result is pending. There has been no death. The index case is clinically stable and has improved greatly. We look forward to progressing early this week, to guide the medical team in discharging him.”

    On the case of the woman that was placed in isolation in Enugu after being suspected of having symptoms synonymous with coronavirus, Mr Mamora said she had tested negative to the virus.”

    “In Enugu, a woman in her 70s returned from the United Kingdom and had symptoms of fever and mild respiratory illness. Her sample was collected for laboratory diagnosis and tested negative for COVID-19.

    “Therefore, as of March 15, 2020, Nigeria has recorded two confirmed cases of COVID-19. One case is now negative and has been discharged from the hospital,” he added.

    In the latest report about the pandemic, a total of 6,687 people have died with 174,893 cases confirmed in 162 countries so far with 77,867 people recovered.

  • JUST IN: Senate resumes screening of Buhari's ministerial nominees

    JUST IN: Senate resumes screening of Buhari's ministerial nominees

    The Senate has begun the third day of the screening exercise for the ministerial nominees, with the immediate past Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami standing at the podium ready to answer questions.
    The screening exercise started on Wednesday a day after President Muhammadu Buhari sent in his ministerial nominee list.
    Senate has so far screened 24 nominees, with 19 to go.
     
    More details later…

  • 19 ministers left to be screened, 24 through Senate grill

    Twenty four of the 43 ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari have now been screened, on the second day of the exercise.
    There has been no rejection yet.
    All the nominees that have passed through the senate grill have all had an easy touch, with only Sunday Dare, from Oyo, arguably the only one that went through screening in the proper sense of the word.
    He was bombarded with a host of questions about the telecom industry, about broadband, drop calls, and how to make the industry serve Nigerians better.
    He spoke about how registered SIMS can be used to track kidnappers and what NCC has been doing to collaborate with the security agencies.
    Dare, who is at present executive commissioner with the Nigerian Communications Commission confidently and brilliantly answered the questions and delivered a most stellar performance so far.
    On Wednesday, the senators screened 10 of the nominees. They were:
    Uchechukwu Ogah, Ogbonnaya Onu, former science and technology minister, Olamilekan Adegbite, a former works commissioner in Ogun, Adamu Adamu, former education minister, Rotimi Amaechi, a former Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, former governor and former transport minister; former senators George Akume, Godswill Akpabio, Adeleke Olorunnimbe Mamora, Emeka Nwajiuba, a member of the House of Representatives.
    Also screened was Sharon Ikeazor, a lawyer, who now heads the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate(PTAD).
    Ogah was grilled on the state of the nation’s oil sector, diversification of the economy and the nation’s fiscal policies.
    All the Nominees who have previously served in the upper and lower legislative chambers of the National Assembly as well as in a State House of Assembly were not questioned by senators.They were simply asked to ‘take a bow’ and leave after they were introduced.
    The trend continued on Thursday with Senator Tayo Alasodura, a former Senator representing Ondo Central. He was also asked to take a bow.
    Other nominees screened on Thursday apart from Sunday Dare were: Mustafa Baba Shehuri, a former minister of state from Borno, Abubakar Aliyu, an engineer and former deputy governor of Yobe state, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi, a former ECOMOG commander from Kano, Timipre Sylva, former governor of Bayelsa, Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, from Kogi, Niyi Adebayo, former governor of Ekiti state.
    Others are Zubair Dada from Niger, Chris Ngige, former governor of Anambra and former minister of Labour, Abdullahi Hassan the youngest nominee from Nasarawa State, Mohammed Bello, former FCT minister from Adamawa state, Sadiya Farouq from Zamfara State.
    Sadiya cracked the joke that her political career started in the Fourth Senate with her office ‘upstairs.’
    Senate president Ahmad Lawan said that the screening will continue on Friday, with eight more nominees.
    Lawan said those scheduled for Friday included- Goody Jeddy-Agba (Cross River), Dr Osagie Ehanire (Edo), Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa), Hadi Sirika (Kaduna), Abubakar Malami (Kebbi), Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara), Mrs Paulen Talen (Plateau) and Muhammdu Dingyadi (Sokoto).

  • Senate to commence screening of Buhari's ministerial nominees Wednesday – Lawan

    Senate to commence screening of Buhari's ministerial nominees Wednesday – Lawan

    Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that the screening and confirmation of the nominees would begin on Wednesday.
    He added that other legislative activities in the chamber would take back seat to ensure the speedy completion of the important assignment.
    Lawan said this after reeling out the list on the floor of the upper legislative chamber of the national assembly on Tuesday.
    “The screening of the ministerial nominees will commence tomorrow morning,” he said.
    “All other legislative activities will take back stage for this very important national assignment.”
    President Muhammadu Buhari sent 43 ministerial nominees for confirmation.
    Some of those who made it back are Rotimi Amaechi, ex-minister of transportation; Mohammed Bello, ex-minister of federal capital territory (FCT); and Chris Ngige; ex-minister of labour and employment; and Abubakar Malami, minister of justice among others.