February 2021

Workers in the various state Houses Assembly under the aegis of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) have given a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government effective from January 27, 2021, to work towards full implementation of financial autonomy for the legislature or face a total shutdown.

This warning was contained in a notice addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari dated January 27, 2021, the group said its members have been patient for two years without implementation.

PASAN also expressed dismay over the action of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) aimed at frustrating the implementation of financial autonomy for the …

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, has called on the Federal Government to give states air and ground forces to fight against banditry, kidnapping and other criminal menaces.

El-Rufai made the call while declaring that his administration would not support or recognise any reconciliatory moves with bandits in the state.

The governor’s comment comes a few days after popular Kaduna-based cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, had made a move with bandits and kidnappers in the state.

Gumi had urged the federal government to grant amnesty to bandits.

However, El-Rufai while speaking on

South Africa on Sunday stated that it would suspend the start of its Covid-19 vaccinations after a study showed the AstraZeneca jab failed to prevent mild and moderate cases of the virus variant that has appeared in the country.

Africa’s hardest-hit nation was due to start its campaign in the coming days with a million doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford.

‘It’s a temporary issue that we have to hold on AstraZeneca until we figure out these issues,’ Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told reporters during a virtual press conference.

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The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led by the secretary to the government of the federation – Boss Mustapha on Saturday dismissed, as false, reports that Nigeria was disqualified from receiving the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) COVID-19 vaccine.

The agency itself rubbished the disqualification reports on Saturday, saying Nigeria was well on track to receive its own share of the vaccine, while the Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said Nigeria has ultra-cold chain equipment to store the Pfizer vaccine whenever it lands here.

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