Effiong Akwa and the NDDC, By Reuben Abati 9 min read
Within three weeks of assuming office, Effiong Akwa has engaged with the National Assembly to get approval, finally, for NDDC Budget 2020, which will run till June. But he must remain focused and refuse to be dragged into the politics of the job. His assignment is simple: facilitate the completion of the forensic audit. By now, he should know that all eyes are on him.
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was in the news for all the wrong reasons in 2020. The agency that was established 20 years ago to bring development to the nine oil-bearing States of the Niger Delta became an embarrassment to the Nigerian government. In 2019, President Buhari had ordered a forensic audit of the agency’s accounts, a move that was hailed as long overdue by many Nigerians. This was also said to be consistent with the administration’s anti-corruption campaign. What should have been a smooth administrative process how
The year 2020 did not end without some trending photos that set the Internet on fire and got many Nigerians talking about them.
Frontline activist and co-convener of #BringBackOurGirls movement, Aisha Yesufu’s power salute photo during the #EndSARS protests in October tore the Internet and at the last count, had garnered over five million retweets on Twitter.
Coming in close at second was the photograph of President Muhammadu Buhari visiting his farm in Daura, Katsina State, where he inspected how his cows were doing in the wake of the abduction of 344 schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara local government area of the state.
2020 Events That Once Overshadowed Coronavirus Pandemic In Nigeria
No fewer than 23 persons were killed in a gas explosion at Abule-Ado area of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos on March 15.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 29, 2020
As coronavirus has killed over a million and sickened tens of millions of people worldwide, some events snapped up the spotlight in Nigeria as the pandemic upended lives.
Here are the highlights of landmark events in 2020 in Nigeria:
Dethronement of Emir Kano
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II was dethroned as the Emir of Kano on March 10 by the Kano State Government.
Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano State, said Sanusi was removed from office for insubordination.
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2020 was very much that kind of year for Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation.
Amid a coronavirus pandemic that crippled the world’s economies and protests against police brutality that engulfed an entire nation and took on new and threatening dimensions, there was quite a lot to say by the political leadership and the people.
In no particular order, here are the top 10 quotes in Nigerian politics in 2020:
1..A Nigerian lawmaker boasts of his 4 wives and 27 children Alhassan Ado Doguwa (Premium Times)
In January, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives,
Alhassan Ado Doguwa, (APC, Doguwa/Tudun Wada constituency of Kano State), took his four wives to the floor of the federal parliament and boasted that they had borne him 27 children.