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  • Ekere promises to domesticate FG’s social intervention programmes

    The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, Obong Nsima Ekere, has promised to copy and domesticate in the state all federal government’s social intervention programmes, if elected governor next year.

    He made the promise during the flag off of the vocational skill training and empowerment programme for women and youths organized by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in collaboration with the Future Assured Programme, the pet project of the wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, and the office of the representative of Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio, at his campaign grounds in Uyo at the weekend.

    Ekere decried the lacklustre attitude to the social intervention programmes by the state government led by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    He lamented that the state government had failed to tackle the twin problems of poverty and unemployment ravaging the state and to maintain the state assets it inherited from the past government in 2015.

    He commended Mrs. Buhari, who was present at the occasion, on the achievements of her pet project, pointing out that “you have showed by your project that you care for the people of Nigeria.”

    Ekere, who is the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), also lauded Akpabio, the immediate past governor, for facilitating the NDE empowerment programme.

     

  • ‘Kano to domesticate criminal justice law’

    The Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 will soon be domesticated in Kano State, the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Mr. Ibrahim Mukhtar has said.

    He spoke during the a Legislative Advocacy and Sensitisation Workshop on the Domestication and implementation of the ACJA, organised by the Nigerian Bar Association ( NBA) in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation.

    NBA First Vice-President and Chairman of the association’s Human Rights Institute, Mr. Caleb Dajan, who represented NBA President Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), said he was pleased that Kano was about to domesticate the law.

    He urged stakeholders to cooperate towards achieving its speedy passage and domestication.

    The project coordinator, Muritala Abdul-Rasheed, noted that before the enactment ACJA, states operated either the Criminal Penal Code (CPC) or the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA).

    He said the old laws were unable to deal with the challenges of long adjournments, congestion, over reliance on technicalities, corruption, collapsing infrastructure, among others.

    “ACJA is aimed at promoting the efficient management of the criminal justice system in Nigeria, speedy dispensation of justice and protection of the interests of both the suspect and victim of crime.

    “For these to be achieved, the law needs to be adopted by all states in the federation to ensure uniformity, clarity and better justice administration,” he said.

    Mukhtar said the draft bill includes provisions to ensure that torture is eliminated in the process of investigation.

    “We didn’t have any criminal justice law in the state but when I came in, with the approval of my Governor, I set up a 16 member committee which I chair because of its importance.

    “The purpose was to look at the existing Criminal Procedure Code and the new ACJA provisions with the hope that we will have a better criminal procedure law combining both the old and new innovations to have the best law in the country,” Mukhtar told our reporter.

    Kano’s 10-man Monitoring and Implementation Committee was inaugurated by Dajan.

    They are Mohammed Inuwa Musa (Chairman), Sagir Sulaiman (Secretary), Mustapha Imam, Salisu Marmara, Sanusi  Maáji, Ekwe Osogu (A deputy superintendent of police), Hussaina Ibrahim, Hauwa Jauro, Basiru Yunusa and M.M Gambo.

    Prof. A.B Ahmed, who represented Prof. Muhammed Tabiu (SAN), described the ACJA as a wonderful legislation and a great reform in the development of the criminal justice system in Nigeria.

    “The ACJA is the result of various consultations on the failure of the CPC and CPA and proceeded to combine both,” he said.

  • Edo to domesticate National Health Act

    Edo to domesticate National Health Act

    Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo says his administration will domesticate the National Health Act in order to boost health care delivery in the state.

    Obaseki spoke on Monday night in Benin, after a two-day workshop organised by the state government with the theme: `Remodeling Health Care Delivery in Edo State: New Vision, New Horizon.’

    Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of State for Health, chaired the workshop.

    The governor said that the state house of assembly should be able to examine the provisions of the Act and got it domesticated within 90 days.

    The governor also disclosed that a health master plan would be finalised for the state based on the recommendations of the workshop.

    He said a team would be drawn from the participants at the workshop to help formulate the health master for the state.

    Obaseki stressed the commitment of his administration to remodel the state’s health sector.

    ’’We must begin to see our health system as an ecosystem where resources can easily flow between the public and private health sectors.

    ‘’We are ready to have consultations on how to collaborate private providers into our state’s health plan.

    “I am prepared to open up the reconstructed Central Hospital and give it to whoever will be able to manage the facility”, he said

    The governor also called on health practitioners to explore the potentials of traditional medicine as a way of complementing conventional medicine.

    In his remarks, Ehanire said providing affordable basic primary health care was necessary in order to reduce preventable deaths in the state.

    He also stressed the need to make health care services more affordable, especially at the rural communities, and appealed to the state to implement a health insurance scheme.

  • Nigeria to domesticate IMO laws

    Nigeria to domesticate IMO laws

    The Nigerian Maritime Administrator and Safety Agency (NIMASA)  has said the country has taken steps in the direction of domesticating five International Maritime Organisation (IMO) regulatory instruments, with the submission of the instruments of their assent to IMO’s London headquarters.

    NIMASA said it was able to achieve this feat as a result of its collaborative efforts with the Federal Ministry of Transport.

    Nigerian High Commissioner and Permanent Representative to the IMO, Dr Dalhatu Sarki Tafida,  who presented the instruments to the IMO Secretary-General, Koji Sekimizu on behalf of the Federal Government, listed the instruments to include  the Safety of Lives at Sea Protocol 1988 (as amended) and the Marine Pollution MARPOL Protocol of 1997.

    Others are the Protocol of 2005 on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts (SUA) Convention 1988, Protocol of 1988 on the SUA Convention Against Fixed Platforms on the Continental Shelf, and the Protocol of 1988 on the International Convention on Load Lines.

    “This submission is borne out of the desire of the Nigerian Government to curb the menace of piracy and promote shipping activities in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea in line with international best practices,’’ he said.

    Sekimizu expressed IMO’s pleasure on the submission of these core instruments, particularly three of which border on Ships Standard, SUA Convention and SUA Protocol, which are significant in tackling the menace of piracy.

    Sekimizu urged the government to continue the war against piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

    Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi who was represented by the Executive Director, Maritime Safety and Shipping Development Capt. Bala Agaba, said with the deposition of the instruments of assent, the agency was obliged to enforce the provisions of the conventions to the letter, not only on Flag Ships but also Port State Administration.