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Last year's decision by Nigeria's government to introduce new banknotes has triggered a cash crunch, with citizens rushing to ditch the old notes. Some analysts say the move could help reduce election-related corruption.
Musa Bagos (PDP, Plateau) sponsored a bill in the House of Representatives that seeks to amend Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution to transfer the conduct of local government elections to INEC.
EXPLAINER: Why Nigeria s schools are abduction targets
by Sam Olukoya, The Associated Press
Posted Jun 3, 2021 12:14 pm EDT
Last Updated Jun 3, 2021 at 12:28 pm EDT
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Gunmen have attacked another school in northern Nigeria, this time grabbing children as young as 3 before abandoning the youngest ones in the forest when they could not keep up with the group on foot.
The kidnappings at the Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Niger state on Sunday mark the latest student abductions carried out for ransom this year in the north. Some victims have been university students but others like the children this week are elementary school aged.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osage Ehanire and other stakeholders rejected a provision made in the Bill co-sponsored by the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases and Health Institutions, in Abuja.
According to the minister and others, the piece of legislation duplicates key functions of the National Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, and this to them, is a waste of efforts. The Minister in his submission at a public hearing on the Bill, picked holes in part 6 and other sections of the Bill.
The Ministry also picked loopholes in several other sections duplicating the already statutory functions of the NCDC.