02/06/18

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Usman Yusuf

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday reinstated the suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf.

Mr Yusuf was suspended by the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, in June 2017, for alleged gross misconduct.


The Minister had set up a panel after Yusuf’s suspension and the panel found him culpable of alleged nepotism and theft of public funds.

Adewole approved the NHIS boss suspension alongside eight other top officials of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The suspension, according to a statement by the ministry on July 17, 2017 is in furtherance to the activities of the investigative panel of inquiry as well as the desire to have an uninterrupted and robust investigation of all petitions against some officials of the NHIS.

The petitions against the NHIS Boss and the suspended officials include security reports on maladministration and mismanagement.

The House of Representatives had on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 summoned the Minister of Health over the suspension of the executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).


The lawmakers alleged that the suspension was an attempt to intimidate and punish Professor Usman Yusuf for testifying on issues of corruption in the sector.
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Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Jimoh Moshood

The friction between the Benue State Government and the Nigeria Police Force took a dramatic twist on Tuesday when the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Jimoh Moshood described Governor Samuel Ortom as a drowning man.

Moshood had engaged the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Terver Akase, in a heated argument over the series of violence that have left many to their early graves since the beginning of the year.

Both officials had featured as guests on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

“And that is why we felt you don’t join issues with a drowning man,” he said in an apparent reference to the governor calling for the immediate resignation or sack of the IGP.

Things, however, did not seem to go down well with the CPS who interrupted him with a strong rebuttal, demanding a retraction of the statement.

At this point Mr Akase interrupts him, making it clear that he took exception to the statement, insisting that “the governor of Benue State is not a drowning man.”

“He has to withdraw that statement. The governor of Benue was popularly elected and he is not a drowning man,” the CPS added.

The State Government and the police authorities seem not to be on the same page on the recent killings that have also displaced many of its indigenes.

While the police seem to have credited itself to having restored peace in the troubled state, the state, on the contrary, is calling for the immediate sack or resignation of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris.

To the police spokesman, the call made by the state government seems not to have gone down well as he considered it an affront to the police boss and the entire police officers.

He added, “It is a great disservice to the Inspector General of Police and the entire Nigeria Police Force for the governor to call for his resignation, the governor should resign first.


“What he has said, the document presented to the Senate is for action by the Senate. And nobody can make any part or complete document public until the Senate makes a decision on it and passes a resolution.”

But defending his principal, Akase wondered why the IGP should not resign when the police under his leadership had failed to secure lives and properties as enshrined in the Police Act.

Section 4 of the Police Act, he explained, is the duty of the police to protect lives and maintain law and order.

The governor’s spokesman, however, regretted a situation whereby the police would seek clearance from the authorities in Abuja before taken any decisive action.

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The speaker of South Africa’s parliament, Baleka Mbete, said on Tuesday that the president’s state of the nation address, which had been scheduled for Thursday, would be postponed.
Zuma has faced growing pressure to step down as head of state since he was replaced as leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in December.
Every year since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa’s annual state of the nation address has been given by South Africa’s president in South Africa’s Parliament.
But two days before this year’s address, parliamentary leaders announced that it would be postponed.
It was not clear when the address would take place. Or whether the embattled president, Jacob Zuma, would deliver it. Or who might do so if he were to resign unexpectedly.
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Pope Francis

(dpa/LR News) Pope Francis has warned Catholics to be wary of easy sex, drugs and money offered by “false prophets”.

The Catholic pontiff said this in Vatican on Tuesday, in a message for Lent.

Lent is a period of penance observed in the six weeks leading up to Easter, the most important feast in the Christian calendar, which celebrates the resurrection of Christ.

This year, Lent starts on Feb. 14, while Easter falls on April 1.

“How many of God’s children are mesmerized by momentary pleasures, mistaking them for true happiness!

“How many men and women live entranced by the dream of wealth, which only makes them slaves to profit and petty interests,” Francis deplored.

“False prophets can also be ‘charlatans,’ who offer easy and immediate solutions to suffering that soon prove utterly useless.

“How many young people are taken in by the panacea of drugs, of disposable relationships, of easy but dishonest gains,” he added.

Hailing the virtue of charity, the pope said: “More than anything else, what destroys charity is greed for money.”

He urged believers to turn to “the soothing remedy of prayer, alms-giving and fasting” during Lent.

Francis, the first pope to adopt the name of a Medieval saint who gave up all his riches to live as a monk, has made a point of rejecting symbols of papal grandeur.

For example, he uses an ordinary hatchback as an official car, and days after his election in 2013, he said he wanted to lead “a poor church, for the poor.”
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President Muhammadu Buhari & Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

President Muhammadu Buhari has designated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead the consultation, reconciliation and confidence building efforts of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC).
Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state is the leader of the party.
Buhari took the decision as part of on-going efforts to improve cohesion within the party.
The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, announced in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to the presidential aide, the assignment will involve resolving disagreements among party members, party leadership and political office holders in some states of the Federation.
Kano APC crisis involving supporters of the former governor of the state, Alhaji Rabiu Kwakwanso and the serving governor, Abdullahi Ganduje is one of the task of the Tinubu reconciliation committee would handle.
The Presidency on Jan. 29 summoned Gov. Ganduje and the Kwakwanso over the aborted Jan. 30 visit of the former governor to Kano to avert breakdown of law and order in the State.
Kano Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje and his predecessor Rabiu Kwankwaso, are leaders of the groups

The governor, accompanied by two serving senators and two members of the House of Representatives from the state, met with the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari at the Presidential Villa.
Ganduje, however, declined to speak to State House correspondents after the closed door meeting.
The Tinubu committee is also expected to reconcile other APC crises in Zamfara, Oyo, Kogi and other states of the federation. LR News
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The United States (U.S.) has condemned the attitude of Nigerian and Cameroonian authorities towards the 47 Anglophone detainees who were repatriated to Cameroon from Nigeria.
A statement by the U.S. Department of State, signed by Ms Heather Nauert, the Department Spokesperson noted that Nigeria and Cameroon have violated the rights of the detainees by forcibly repatriating them back to their countries of origin.
It however, urged both countries to respect the human rights of the detainees and follow due process in handling their matter, while urging them to refrain from embarking on forceful repatriation of asylum-seekers.
“We also call on the Government of Cameroon to respect the human rights, including due process, of the 47 Cameroonians forcibly returned from Nigerian custody to the Cameroonian authorities on Jan. 26.
“This is in addition to many of whom had reportedly submitted asylum claims in Nigeria.
“We urge the Governments of Cameroon and Nigeria to adhere to their obligations under international law to refrain from forcible returns to asylum-seekers back to their countries of origin.
“The 47 Cameroonians are now held in detention in Cameroon allegedly in connection with tension and violence in North West and South West Regions.
“We expect the government of Cameroon to afford these and other individuals previously detained all the rights and protections enshrined in Cameroon’s constitution, consistent with the nation’s international obligations and commitments.”
The U.S. condemned the ongoing violence in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, including the murder of two Cameroonian gendarmes in the North West Region village of Mbingo.
It also condemned the murder of a Cameroonian soldier outside of Bamenda on Feb. 1, and an electoral official of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) in Bangem.
The U.S. further condemned the reported deaths of four civilians in Bemenda and Belo on Feb. 2 and 3.
“We offer our deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and to the people of Cameroon,” it said. 
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