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The minister of State for Transportation, Senator Rukayyat Gbemisola Saraki has said the intent of President Muhammadu Buhari in the maritime sector is to create massive jobs for unemployed Nigerians. She said as she oversees the sector, she would deploy her knowledge of the sector to actualize the President’s vision.

Daily Trust reports that Saraki had been detailed by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to oversee the maritime sector. She pointed out that having served as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Maritime for four years when she represented Kwara Central in the Senate, she has some knowledge about the sector which she would deploy to take the all important industry to the next level. According to her, the fulcrum of activities in the sector would be targeted at job creation which is the good intention of the President as well as providing enabling environment for businesses.

“What this government is trying to achieve is to create jobs, direct and indirect jobs, create an enabling environment for businesses. Luckily, I have a bit of experience with the maritime having chaired the Committee in the Senate for four years. “That was for four years, many years ago, a lot has happened in between. We have to look at the issue of ship registry, we have to look at the issue of cabotage, at the same time the main issue right now is the Port decongestion. But there are so many other aspects of it.

“And again I am humbled and fortunate enough to be one of the people who passed the Cabotage Act and many years later to see that it has not been fully implemented is a bit disheartening. “But we will see to it. The most important thing like I said is to ensure that what the President wants which is the issue of creating jobs for the teeming number of Nigerians would be done.

We know that NIMASA has a seafarers’ project again which I was fortunate enough to be part of that at the inception. “We also have the National Transport Commission Bill which I introduced in the Senate. “There are many things to be done in the sector but I can assure you that Maritime sector alone as it is done anywhere else in the world is a sector that can create a lot of jobs and opportunities,” Senator Saraki said on the sidelines of the inspection of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buharis-vision-for-maritime-is-massive-job-creation-saraki.html

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The Nigerian Army has said it would extend its ‘Operation Positive Identification’ across the six geopolitical regions to reduce crimes in the country. The acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement made available to Daily Trust, on Thursday. Musa said the operation would check out for bandits, kidnappers, armed robbers, ethnic militia, cattle rustlers as well as other sundry crimes across the geographical regions. “The NA, once again, use this opportunity to enjoin all Nigerians not to panic on seeing an increased presence of military personnel and other security agencies as well as movement of Military vehicles /hardwares. “The NA wishes to reassure the nation of her commitment and determination to secure the country, protect lives and properties of all Nigerians (which in addition to training of her personnel) is one of the basis for the exercises” the statement read.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/nigerian-army-to-extend-operation-positive-identification-nationwide.html

The Forum of All Progressives Congress (APC) state chairmen has given a 10-day ultimatum to the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) to address their concerns. The forum’s chairman, Ali Bukar Bolari, told Daily Trust that the ultimatum started from September 23 this year.

He said members of the NWC are expected to address their concerns, including the neglect of members of the party after the 2019 general elections. “ We want the NWC to take care of our members who laboured to ensure the victory of our party in last general elections through appointments,” he said in a phone interview. The forum had in a communiqué issued and signed by Bolari and the forum’s secretary, Ben Nwoye, on Tuesday, said they were protesting against poor reward system in the party, abandonment of founding fathers, neglect of the entire party structure, and the failure to produce a substantive National Secretary after the exit of Mai Mala Buni.

They expressed concern over the lukewarm attitude of party leadership to the plight of either dead or kidnapped colleagues in various states. They complained against their neglect in respect of federal appointments and absence of national secretary who, among others, should be liaising with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) in the constitution of boards of federal agencies and parastatals.

The state chairmen said the open letter option was considered after previous entreaties to the Progressive Governors’ Forum and the leadership of the National Assembly yielded no positive results.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-we-gave-oshiomhole-10-days-to-address-our-concerns-apc-state-chairmen.html

The House of Representatives has received a letter from President Muhammadu Buhari on the 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy. It was transmitted to the House during Plenary on Wednesday.‎

The letter, signed by the President and addressed to the Speaker, Femi Gbjabiamila, was read by the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase who presided ‎over the Plenary. Reading the letter, the Deputy Speaker said the President was seeking the approval of the House to revert the country’s budget cycle from January to December.

The letter will be a precursor to the promise made by the President to submit the 2020 budget to the National Assembly on time to avoid delay in its passage as experienced in the past. The proposed expenditure by the administration in the 2020 budget is N9.79 trillion. Details later.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-sends-2020-2022-expenditure-to-reps-proposes-n9-79-trillion-for-2020.html

The National/State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, yesterday, sacked the deputy Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly, Chris Adaji, as winner of the 2019 Ohimini State Constituency election. Consequently, the tribunal has ordered a rerun in affected areas of the exercise.

Adaji of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was dragged to the tribunal by Musa Alechenu Ohimini of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on account that he did not win with the required number of votes as stated in the electoral guideline. Delivering judgment on the matter, the chairman of the tribunal, Justice R. O. Odudu, ruled that the margin with which Adaji led the APC candidate was less than the number of votes cancelled.

Earlier, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Adaji winner with 397 votes but the tribunal found that the margin was less than the 1,056 votes cancelled in the two polling units of Igbanomaje and Odega. The tribunal therefore held that, INEC ought not to have made the final declaration without ordering for a rerun in the affected polling units, adding that the electoral body should have declared the poll inconclusive.

The tribunal, therefore, issued an order for the withdrawal of certificate of return issued to Adaji and directed INEC to conduct rerun election in the two polling units where elections were cancelled within 90 days. Meanwhile, the election petitions tribunal sitting in Sokoto, yesterday, dismissed the petitions filed against the election of members representing Sabon Birni South II and Sokoto South II constituencies in the state assembly.

The candidate of the PDP for Sabon Birni South II constituency poll, Adamu Gado Gatawa, filed the petition challenging the election of Sa’idu Neno Ibrahim of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Similarly, the APC candidate for Sokoto South II Constituency election, Aminu Garba Gidadawa, filed a petition against the election Mohammed Malami Ahmed of PDP.

In his petition, Gatawa claimed that Ibrahim was not qualified to contest in the March 9, 2019, election, alleging that he did not have the requisite secondary school education. Delivering judgment, Justice Hamman Idi Polycap said the petition lacked merit. Similarly, Justice I. Iwodi, who delivered judgement on Aminu Garba Gidadawa’s petition against the election Mohammed Malami Ahmed, dismissed it for lack of merit.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/tribunal-benue-deputy-speaker-sacked-as-pdp-apc-lose-in-sokoto.html

Justice Jude Okeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court yesterday fixed October 16, 2019 for ruling on an objection, raised by the defence team of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, on the admissibility of electronic evidence. This evidence, according to a statement from EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren, comprises a compact disc, print out from the disc and the digital forensic laboratory report which connect Lawal to Josmon Technologies, a company which is standing trial with him as a defendant

Uwujaren said the items and the forensic report were presented by the second prosecution witness, Fatima Asabe Umar, a certified access data examiner with the EFCC.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/grass-cutting-scam-court-rules-on-admissibility-of-evidence-oct-16.html

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It is my pleasure to be here with you to deliver this Keynote Address at this strategic High Level Event on the margins of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Let me join others in thanking all individuals and institutions that have worked so hard to make this event a success.

Excellencies, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is exactly four years since I joined other World Leaders during the 70th Session of the UNGA to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, we set for ourselves ambitious goal of seeing an economically sustainable, socially inclusive and environmentally resilient world.

For Nigeria, and indeed Africa as a whole, the achievement of the SDGs will mean ending poverty and hunger, safeguarding our ecosystem and ensuring that our people live in peace and prosperity by the year 2030. It is for this reason that our government acted quickly in the implementation of the SDGs by establishing the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the SDGs in January 2016. The Office is charged with the responsibility for strategic planning; horizontal and vertical inter-governmental coordination; multi-stakeholders’ partnership and resource mobilization.

It is also mandated to lead robust advocacy and communications for the SDGs in Nigeria. Excellencies, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I am aware from Official Statistics that approximately 54 percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line as defined by World Bank. It is pertinent to state that reducing extreme poverty and hunger is one of the cardinal objectives of our administration. It is for this reason that in May this year, we committed ourselves to lifting approximately 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within a 10-year period.

This is a national development priority and in line with the aspirations of the SDGs. We have since established an ambitious National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) targeting the poor and vulnerable members of the Nigerian population. Through the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), we are tackling and addressing the root causes of poverty in all its manifestations. For example, the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF) component is feeding almost 10 Million school pupils daily and empowering over 90, 000 local catering staff across the country. The Conditional Cash Transfer Component, is reaching out to approximately 300, 000 poor and vulnerable households across the country.

The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme component has provided over a million loans to petty traders and small entrepreneurs across the country. Similarly, the N-Power Programme, a youth employability and enhancement programme, has empowered 500,000 youths between the ages of 18-35 with the needed skills for the job market over a 2-year period.

As a government, we have since recognized that to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, we must scientifically understand our implementation context; carefully formulate policies and programmes; and judiciously apply human and financial resources. These cannot be achieved with ad-hoc planning. Economic, social and environmental dimensions of the SDGs were integrated into our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017-2020. But this is only a Medium-term Plan designed to restore economic growth following the recession in 2016. It was our genuine desire for scientific planning and implementation of the SDGs that made Nigeria to commence the process of domestication and customization of the Integrated Sustainable Development Goals Model in 2017.

The Nigeria iSDG Model, the Report of which we will officially launch today, will serve as a framework for robust, fact-based policy analysis, planning and implementation at all levels of government. It is expected to be used as a planning tool to complement existing ones currently in use at the national, sectoral and sub-national levels.

The domestication process was led by the then Ministry of Budget and National Planning, and the Nigeria iSDG planning Model is now domiciled in the recently restructured Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning for policy coherence and sustainability. Going forward, we expect policymakers and planners to judiciously utilise this model to guide our efforts towards the achievement of the SDGs and other Internationally Agreed Development Goals.

I would like finally to commend the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the strategic collaboration in the development and successful formulation of the Nigeria iSDG Simulation Model. My appreciation also goes to all the resource persons for their invaluable contributions in the domestication of the model for Nigeria. I look forward to seeing the 36 states and the FCT customize this planning tool at the state level. I thank you for your kind attention.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/president-buharis-remarks-at-high-level-side-event-on-sdg-in-new-york.html