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Fearing Outbreak Of Protests, Violence Over Paucity.Of New Naira Notes, Kano Govt. postpones Buhari’s Visit
Fearing Outbreak Of Protests, Violence Over Paucity.Of New Naira Notes, Kano Govt. postpones Buhari’s Visit
In obvious fear of outbreak of protests over the hardship being faced by the people over the redesigned naira note, Kano Government on has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to postpone his scheduled visit to the state.
Buhari was expected to be in Kano next Monday and Tuesday to commission some projects of the Ganduje administration.
The letter which was written by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has already been acknowledged by the presidency.
Citing the hardship and complaints being faced by Kano residents in getting the new naira notes, the governor said lawmakers, political leaders, and the business community are in support of the decision to ask the President to postpone his visit.
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The Government of Kano State noted that the introduction of new naira has thrown the people into unimaginable suffering.
“There are no banks in most of our rural communities. How these people get new Naira notes is of great concern. Just look at what is happening in our urban areas, people go and spend hours upon hours in banks. And without any assurances of getting the new notes,” the governor noted.
“Even at Point of Sales (POS), one cannot transact with ease, hinting that, many of them closed shops due to uncertainty,” the governor added while calling on the President to extend the 31 January deadline to phase out the use of the old naira notes.
“Deeply concerned with the hardship caused by the limited time given for halting the use of old Naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and for security reasons, Kano State governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje reveals that the state resolved and wrote to Presidency that, the visit of the President to commission some projects to be postponed,” the governor’s aide said in a statement.
“As we are waiting for this important visit, we found ourselves in this situation, which puts citizens into untold hardship. For security purposes, we wrote to Presidency that President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Kano is postponed.
“We got an acknowledgement copy of the letter. People are suffering because of this policy.”
“During the meeting with sections of citizens in the state, they accepted that the decision was a unanimous one. As they all spoke in support of the letter sent to the Presidency.
“Two serving senators from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya and Barau Jibrin, twenty members of the House of Representatives and thirty legislators from the State House of Assembly were amongst the groups that put their weight behind the governor.
Fearing Outbreak Of Protests, Violence Over Paucity.Of New Naira Notes, Kano Govt. postpones Buhari’s Visit
Iran’s cabinet holds new emergency session after President’s death – State media
The Iranian cabinet has convened a second emergency meeting in less than 24 hours following the confirmation of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.
Local media reported on Monday that the Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber had already chaired a meeting on Sunday evening after the helicopter went missing with nine people on board over Iran’s north-west.
The report stated that Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian also died in the helicopter crash.
Raisi and Amirabdollahian were travelling back from a meeting with the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, when their aircraft disappeared from radar on Sunday afternoon.
According to protocol, with Raisi’s death, Mokhber should assume power, pending approval from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
New elections will then have to hold within 50 days.
Iran’s cabinet holds new emergency session after President’s death – State media
Helicopter crash claims Iran’s president, foreign minister, 7 others
The President Iran, Ebrahim Raisi has died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country due to poor weather on Sunday, May 19.
The helicopter, transporting Iran’s President along with the country’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, and seven other senior officials, met with disaster in the mountainous northwest region of Iran.
Iran was thrown into uncertainty on Sunday as search and rescue teams scoured a fog-shrouded mountain area after the helicopter went missing.
Fears grew for the 63-year-old ultraconservative after contact was lost with the aircraft. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had urged Iranians to “not worry” about the leadership of the Islamic republic, saying “there will be no disruption in the country’s work”.
“We hope that Almighty God will bring our dear president and his companions back in full health into the arms of the nation,” he said in a nationally televised address as Muslim faithful prayed for Raisi’s safe return.
More than 60 rescue teams using search dogs and drones were sent to the mountainous protected forest area of Dizmar near the town of Varzaghan. The crash site was later discovered and no survivor was found there.
The helicopter crashed weeks after Iran launched a drone-and-missile attack on Israel in response to a deadly strike on its diplomatic compound in Damascus.
Hardliner Raisi became president in a historically uncompetitive election in 2021. Previously as the chief justice, he oversaw a period of intensified repression of dissent in a nation convulsed by youth-led protests against clerical rule.
Raisi was the second-most powerful person in the Islamic Republic’s political structure after its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. The Iranian Constitution mandates that, in the case of the president’s death, the first vice president assumes office with the approval of the Supreme Leader.
Helicopter crash claims Iran’s president, foreign minister, 7 others
We’ve reduced banditry by 70% – Radda
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State, said his administration has reduced banditry to about 70 per cent in the last one year.
According to the Governor, this was sequel to the robust synergy between the local security outfits and the conventional security agencies across the state.
Radda, who was on a working visit to Yola, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Saturday.
He said, ”It is high time to have state Police included in the fight against insecurity in the country.
“We have reduced the rate of banditry to about 60 to 70 per cent. What we are witnessing now is the crazy approach by the bandits going to hard-to-reach villages close to forests, burning houses and killing people.
“We have developed strategies to fight it”, he said.
Radda further explained that most of the developing countries have state Police that secure lives and properties.
He urged governments at all levels to prioritise education for the development of the sector in Nigeria.
Radda said, ”This will give opportunity to the less privileged, to access quality education at all levels.”
We’ve reduced banditry by 70% – Radda
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