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The Nigerian Senate Has Rejected The Presidency’s Proposed “Visa On Arrival” Policy
The Nigerian Senate has blatantly opposed President Muhammadu Buhari’s policy on vis-on-arrival.
Buhari had announced that with effect from January 2020, fellow African countries will be allowed into Nigeria without a visa.
The senators believe that considering the spate of insecurity going-on in the country, the action is premature and should be given sometime.
Based on this, they are rejecting the visa-on-arrival policy.
The president had made this announcement on Wednesday 11 2019 at the Aswan Forum in Egypt that with effect from January 2020, other African countries will be allowed to come into Nigeria without a visa
The Nigerian president said that Nigeria will begin to issue visas at the entry point. The red chamber, however, opposed to the idea and proceeded to invite the minister of interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola alongside Controller General of Nigeria Immigration to appear before its committee on interior, judiciary and legal matters.
Senator Adewunmi Adetunbi of the APC argued that the plan is constitutionally premature and legally impossible for the provisions of the said agreement to have any effect within Nigeria’s territory.
Supporting the motion, Eyinnaya Abaribe, Senate Minority leader affirms that several Nigerians were worried about the policy because of the insecurity in the country.
On the contrary, Senator Jibrin opposed the views of other senators who rejected the policy, saying the policy announced by the president is a global trend and should not be faulted.
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
