Month: September 2020

Gov Sani-Bello greets SGF Boss Mustapha @ 64

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Niger State Governor and Chairman North Central Governors Forum Abubakar Sani Bello has described the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha as visionary, passionate and selfless personality. This is contained in a congratulatory message signed by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary Mary Noel-Berje to mark the 64th birthday of the SGF. Sani-Bello said the level of dedication and commitment to duties shown by the legal luminary can not be over looked but to be reckoned with adding that he has written his name in gold by…

Stakeholders support move to ban heavy duty vehicles on state-owned roads in Niger state

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Niger State Government and critical stakeholders in the state have agreed to the closure of all state-owned roads to heavy trucks to preserve the roads; allow for the speedy completion of those under repairs, like the Minna-Bida Road; and reduce carnage on the road. The position emerged after a meeting of critical stakeholders and the Niger State government presided over by the Chairman, Infrastructure Project Monitoring Committee and the Chief of Staff to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, Ibrahim Balarabe held at the Government House Minna. Restriction of movement of articulated…

RAPE: Benue beauty Queen, Ene Daniels to train 100 girls for week

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Miss Idoma Ambassador, Queen Esther Ene Daniels, said she has perfected arrangements to empower 100 young ladies drawn from the 9 local government areas of Benue South. Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Friday, Miss Daniels said the move was a follow up to her campaign against rape. The beauty Queen had, in April this year, launched an online campaign tagged ‘Give Her Pen, Not Penis’, apparently suggesting that the male folks should rather invest in the education of the girl child and not to rape her. Since the federal government…

Kwara govt receives N148m looted funds from EFCC

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Kwara State Government has received a bank draft for another N148,049,580:81 looted funds which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently recovered from some officials of the past administration. The money was received on Thursday on behalf of the state government by Commissioner for Finance and Planning Olasumbo Florence Oyeyemi, according to a statement from the ministry’s spokesperson Saad Hamdalat. She commended the EFCC for its patriotic efforts to stamp out corruption and abuse of public office, said the recovered funds would be duly appropriated and deployed to serve…

Retired Police Officers to benefit from National Health Insurance scheme …… as IGP directs nationwide capturing of Police retirees

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Sequel to the approval of the Federal Government of Nigeria for the enrolment of retired police officers on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), the Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has directed the nationwide registration and capturing of all retired police officers with effect from 7th September to 23rd September, 2020. With this development, all retired police officers, irrespective of their rank on retirement, along with a spouse, will have full access to all NHIS services and benefits covered by the Police Health Maintenance Organization (Police-HMO) Code-073.   The exercise, which…

Trade Dispute : Ghana ‘ll consider Resolutions from Legislative Diplomacy – President Akufo-Addo assures Gbajabiamila

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The President of Ghana, Prof. Nana Akufo Ado has assured the Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila of the readiness of the Ghanaian government to consider the resolutions reached at the ‘Legislative Diplomacy Bilateral Meeting’ between Nigeria and Ghana’s senior legislators on 2nd September 2020, at the Ghanaian Parliament House. The Ghanian President gave the assurance when the Speaker of Ghana’s parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, upon completion of the 2-day extensive dialogue, led his Nigerian counterpart on a courtesy visit to the President at the Jubilee House, Accra,…

Breaking: Buhari approves reopening of all schools

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The Federal Government has okayed the reopening of all schools as the nation goes into the next phase of the Coronavirus Disease. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, disclosed this on Thursday during the body’s briefing. The briefing came after the PTF submitted its Seventh Report to President Muhammadu Buhari, with the Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, saying all the proposals by the team were approved by the President. Aliyu, who spoke during a briefing at the Nnamdi…

Building Infrastructure for National Integration and Peace in Nigeria By Tajudeen Alabede

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“People may not appreciate the value of peace until they count the cost of crisis” – Tajudeen Alabede   In March 2010, against the background of the rancorous build-up to the 2011 general elections, I wrote a short piece titled Nigeria needs a National Integration Minister. More than ten years after, not much has changed with regard to the socio-political realities which necessitated that call. If anything, the call has now become a national imperative.   At an Inter-Faith Peace Forum which I had the privilege of convening with the support…

Friday Sermon: Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him): Man They Ignorantly Misunderstood! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful ِAll praises are due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, companions and those who follow him well until Judgement Day. Dear brothers and sisters, today, one in every five persons on this earth firmly believes that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is the last Messenger of Allah. He was a Muslim and there are more than 2 billion such Muslims around the world today. As the second largest religious…

21,623 Kwarans to get Owo Isowo as disbursement begins

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Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the disbursement of funds to 21,623 beneficiaries of the state’s interest-free micro-finance loans for petty traders, a component of the Kwara State Social Investment Programme (KWASSIP), a statement said on Thursday. The operations of the first phase of disbursement will last for five weeks. The disbursement came after months of careful enumeration of the potential beneficiaries of the scheme, according to the statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Rafiu Ajakaye. The statement quoted the anchor of the programme Mohammed…