Buba Galadima Released | Nairalaw

SPOKESMAN of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential
Campaign Council, Buba Galadima, has regained his freedom.

The former close associate to President Muhammadu Buhari was
abducted a few days ago by unknown men believed to be from the
Department of State Service (DSS) in Wuse 2, Abuja.

Before his abduction, the spokesman of the President Muhammadu
Buhari Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, had called for
his arrest for allegedly preparing a video to announce unauthorised
election result.

It was not known whether his arrest had any connection with
Keyamo’s call.

However, Galadima appeared on Wednesday at the Yar’Adua Centre,
Abuja, venue of a world press conference addressed by the PDP.

Dressed in a light brown dashiki and a red peak cap, he was
created warmly by the guests already seated for the event in the
hall before taking his seat at the front row.

Alhamdulillah, zan fayyace abinda ya faru
nan ba da jimawa ba insha Allahu. pic.twitter.com/AFFr8my2uj^[1]

— Buba Galadima (@buba_galadima) February
27, 2019^[2]

Galadima has been a fierce critic of the President since he led
a group to break out from the ruling All Progressive (APC).

Niger to Provide Fire Station in 25 LGCs

In a proactive bid to stem down the devastating effect of fire
outbreak, Niger State Government is to provide functional fire
fighting station in each of the 25 local govern.ent areas of the
state.

The State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello disclosed this on
Tuesday when he made on the spot assessment of the burnt section of
the Monday Market in New Bussa in Borgu Local Government Area of
the state.

Fifty four permanent locked-up shops, 15 attached shops and
merchanrdise worth over N100 million were raised down to the
rubbles by the inferno that gutted market on Sunday night.

The Governor who noted that fire outbreak in markets across the
state has become a reoccurring incident said there is need to build
fire stations in markets and Local Goverment headquarters.

“This is not the first time we are experiencing fire outbreak in
markets across the state. Now it has happened in New Bussa but the
most important thing is that no life was lost.

“What we can do is to ensure that we have fire service stations
in all the Local Government headquarters and we have built seven
stations already. So we also have to ensure we set up one here as
soon as possible so that when there is fire outbreak we can contain
it before it cause more damages.”

Expressing concern about the attendant effect of fire incidence
on victims, Governor Sani Bello said “government will ensure it
provide support to the victims to reduce their hardship”.

The Governor who assured the victims of financial support said
the State Emergency Management Agency would do a proper assessment
to identify victims and look into how they would be compensated
.

He however called on the market committee to redesign the market
system and ensure that highly inflamable products are are kept in a
specific area in the market, ensure they monitor market activities
and ensure that each shop had a fire extinguisher so as to enable
them address such occurances.

Governor Sani-Bello further stated that the state government
would liaise with the local government council to see to how they
can support and rebuild the market.

The Director General, Niger State Emergency Management Agency,
(NSEMA) Alh. Ahmed Ibrahim Inga disclosed that 54 permanent shops
and 15 attached shops were affected. Adding that property worth
over N100 million were lost

Jibrin Baba Ndace
Chief Press Secretary
27 February 2019