Year: 2018

SOLIDARITY RALLY: GOV SANI-BELLO COMMENDS STAKEHOLDERS …. Apologies to Road Users

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Niger State Governor and leader of the All Progressive Congress in the state, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has expressed profound appreciation and gratitude to party Stalwarts, loyalists and supporters who thronged out to welcome him on his return from ECOWAS summit with President Muhammadu Buhari.   He said the massive crowd that greeted him to a tumultuous welcome on arrival clearly demonstrates the party’s political clout, acceptance, dominance and superiority in the political landscape of the state.   In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Malam Jibrin Baba Ndace,…

Saraki, Dogara Address World Press Conference Over NASS Blockade … Call for Thorough Investigations .

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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara jointly addressed a World Press Conference on the recent invasion of the National Assembly complex by men of the Department of State Services (DSS). Saraki and Dogara condemned the act and called for thorough investigation into the blockade.   Both leaders of the national assembly reiterated their commitment to fight for the advancement of democracy in the country.   Read full text of their joint statement below:   1. It is a matter of record that yesterday,…

Buhari Deserves no Credit for Osinbajo’s Swift Action By Farooq Kperogi

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Anyone who gives credit to Buhari for the firing of Lawal Daura is being disingenuous. This is entirely Osinbajo’s initiative, which may (or may not) put him at odds with Buhari. Buhari is an absent president—in both symbolic and physical terms. That’s a nice way to say he is a lazy, incompetent, detached president who watches blithely as everything around him crumbles, as the nation groans and burns under the weight of his unprecedented ineptitude. And that’s why it takes his physical absence for the country to have a chance…

RURAL DEVT: Gov Sani-Bello Flags -off Rehabilitation,Construction Of 135KM NG- RAMP Roads in Niger South Senatorial District

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Rural development got a boost in Niger State on Tuesday as Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello performed Ground – Breaking Ceremony for the Construction and Rehabilitation of 55.33 kilometre rural road project in Kutigi, Lavun Local Government area of the state.   The project was part of the 135 kilometer road construction and rehabilitation in Niger South Senatorial district under the second phase of the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP II).   Over 400 kilometers rural road were captured for construction under second phase of the World Bank assisted rural development…

BREAKING: Osinbajo sacks DSS boss, Lawal Daura

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In what appears to be a twist to the siege on the National Assembly by security operatives on Tuesday, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has sacked the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Lawal Daura. The DSS and the Police had locked down the National Assembly on Tuesday, even as the Senate leadership had scheduled a meeting to hold in the chambers in the afternoon. Lawmakers who came with the hope of attending the meeting were denied entry into the Assembly by the security operatives. Lawmakers elected on the…

NYSC Mourns Drowned Corps Members … Declares 3-day Mourning

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The management of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has expressed shock and sadness over the cruel twist of fate that befell serving Corps Members who drowned as a result of the sudden increase in water volume and surge of the River Mayo-Selbe, near the Gashaka falls in Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba State.   The serving Corps Members had on Saturday, 4th August, 2018 left their Places of Primary Assignment and embarked on a picnic at the site before the unfortunate incident.   Seven bodies have so far been…

2019: APC Stakeholders Reaffirm Support For President Buhari , Governor Sani-Bello

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Stakeholders and supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State on Sunday reaffirmed their support for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Abubakar Sani -Bello in the forth coming 2019 general election. Thousands of All Progressives Congress (APC) faithful and members of the public took to the major highways in Minna, the Niger Stare capital to welcome the Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger State in a show of solidarity for him. The Governor who had attended the 60th Passing Out Parade of the Nigerian…

GOV SANI-BELLO URGES STATES, EX-BOYS TO SUPPORT NIGERIAN MILITARY SCHOOL …Pledges To Build 20 Room Hostel for Boys , Doles Out N500,000 for Best Graduating Boy

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has called on state governments,EX-Boys and other well- meaning Nigerians to contribute to the development of the Nigerian Military School,NMS, in Zaria, Kaduna State The Governor made the call at the school’s 60th Passing Out Parade,POP, and the foundation laying ceremony of 20 room hostel by the Governor. Governor Sani-Bello who is an Ex-Boy attended Nigerian Military School, NMS, 1979-1984,, noted that the institution played a very important role in the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Military and Nigeria, said there was need for ex-boys and state government…

Libya: 9,438 Nigerians so far repatriated to Nigeria by the FG, IOM – Dabiri-Erewa

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Sequel to the pleas by some trapped Nigerians in Libya via a viral video on July 8, the Federal Government of Nigeria, working with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has identified their detention camps, and offered to bring all the willing Nigerians back home.   This was contained in a statement by Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa in a statement signed by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun.   It will be recalled that a video went viral on July 8, 2018…

Lai Mohammed to Declare Open 4th Asa Day festival in Abuja Tomorrow .. As Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Princess Ebunoluwa Oladunni, 13 others make Awardee list

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The 4th edition of Asa Day festival will be declared opened by the honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Abuja on Saturday at the Cyprian Ekwensi center for Arts and Culture formerly FCT Center for Arts and Culture in the morning   ASA DAY festival which was recently endorsed by Federal Ministry of Culture , Tourism and National Orientation with the support of National Council of Arts and Culture NCAC, is annual event organised by a Nigeria based company Royalprince Media Services under the leadership of…