Professor Aliyu Jauro has just been appointed the Director
General/Chief Executive of the National Environmental Standards and
Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, by the Federal Government.
This was contained in a press statement signed by the Deputy
Director (Information), Oyofo Sule, and sighted by TNL.
Professor Jauro who was Deputy Director at the National Centre
for Petroleum Research and Development at the Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa University, Bauchi, took over from Dr. Lawrence Chidi Anukam
whose tenure expired on the 17th of February 2019.
Speaking to the Management and Staff, Professor Jauro said that
he is set to move the agency to the next level, adding that he
expects good qualities of professionalism, integrity and dedication
to duty. He also promised to operate an open-door policy, and that
he will bring his wealth of experience to bear in ensuring that
NESREA lives up to its mandate.
Enlightening the new DG over the activities of the Agency, Mrs.
Miranda Amachree, Acting DG of the Agency noted that the NESREA Act
which was amended last year to address some lapses impeding the
activities of the Agency had been gazetted, adding that efforts to
address staff welfare was yielding the desired results as
expected.
Professor Aliyu Jauro also received in audience members of the
Reps Committee on Environment and Habitat who were on oversight
function visit. The Chairman, Honorable Obinna Chidoka seized the
opportunity to congratulate the new DG on his appointment and
prayed for his success.
The New DG of NESREA holds a Bachelor of Tech. Degree in
Industrial Chemistry from A.T.B.U Bauchi and a Master of Science
Degree in Chemistry from the same University. He joined the
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University as a Graduate Assistant in 1997
and has held various positions in the school. He won the German
Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD) and the European Association
of Organic Geochemists (EAOG) Travel Grant in 2005. He is also a
member of the Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN), as well as
Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria, (MICCON).
Daughter of NGE’s Deputy President Escapes from
kidnappers’ Den
Mrs. Habiba Abdulsalam, the daughter of the Deputy President of
Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Mallam Uba Gaya, who was abducted
recently in Kano, has regained her freedom and reunited with her
family members.
Speaking on the terrifying incident, Uba-Gaya told PRNigeria
that his daughter miraculously escaped from her kidnappers’ den on
Saturday night.
Gaya, who disclosed that the abduction of his daughter happened
between 5 and 6 pm on Friday evening, described the incident as
most ‘horrific and traumatic’ for him and the extended family.
He said they could not sleep properly, just as many of them were
tramatized and lost appetite for foods.
He added that they got to know of Habiba’s kidnap when his
younger brother called some few minutes past 5pm to inform him that
his daughter’s phone number was not reachable, after she had spoken
to a close family member at about 4:49 pm.
“On the fateful Friday, Habiba went to plait her hair in the
house of one of her friends. And after making her hair, she then
proceeded to my late father’s house in Kano metropolis. But the
ugly fate that would later befall my daughter started when she
boarded a tricycle, and the Keke rider thereafter took two other
women at various locations in Kano town, immediately he carried
her.
“According to my daughter, the Keke rider then took a road
leading to the popular Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. Immediately, a
bus came and overtook them. It quickly stopped, and three hefty men
emerge and whisked them into the vehicle and zoomed towards
Zaria.
“When the kidnappers arrived at an area in Kaduna that Friday
evening, they took my daughter and the two other women to an
unknown house. They were blindfolded and taken to a thick forest in
Niger State,” Mal. Gaya narrated.
However, Mal. Gaya explained that his daughter’s escape was
miraculous in nature, owing to the intensive supplications offered
by family members and teeming well-wishers since the news of her
abduction broke on Friday.
Uba-Gaya further told PRNigeria that Habiba’s freedom was
secured without paying any ransom to the kidnappers even when some
members of the family had started negotiating the sale of assets in
case.
Narrating he escape, Uba-Gaya said: “What happened was that on
Saturday night, my daughter told her abductors that she wanted to
relieve herself. So, one of them followed her to an isolated area,
some metres from the place they were held hostage. But
unexpectedly, the man who accompanied her to urinate told Habiba
that she had been disturbing them and told her to leave them
alone.
“So, my daughter took the opportunity and took her heels that
night. By Sunday morning she arrived at a certain settlement In
Niger State, where she met some people and narrated with tears her
ordeal. They took her to Dikko Junction, along Kaduna-Abuja highway
and gave her a phone to call her family about her escape.
“We are glad that Habiba was not hurt by her kidnappers. Right
now, she is back in Kano after boarding an Air flight from Abuja
yesterday. Her abduction and subsequent reunion with us was without
paying a dime as ransom.”
The Deputy President of NGE expressed gratitude to the Police,
and other security agencies, especially the Army for its robust
intelligence gathering on the circumstances surrounding his
daughter’s abduction and timely release by the kidnappers.
By PRNigeria