Day: August 2, 2021

Niger Govt. reaffirms commitment to enforce ban on commercial motorcycles

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Niger State Government has reiterated its commitment to enforce the ban on commercial motorcycles popularly known as okada in Minna metropolis. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ahmed Ibrahim Matane disclosed this at a Prestige FM radio phone-in programme tagged “Nigeria Today”. Ahmed Matane further revealed Government was unyielding on the ban on use of commercial motorcycles in Minna in order to improve the security situation in State and to curtail criminal activities often perpetrated using motorcycles. The SSG lamented that many okada operators have continued to flagrantly disobey…

DG sensitizes corps members on criteria for President’s NYSC Honours Award

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The NYSC Director – General ,Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has advised Corps Members to acquaint themselves with the requirements for the conferment of the President’s NYSC Honours Award. He gave the advise today while addressing the 2021 Batch ‘B’ Stream One Corps Members at the NYSC Orientation Camp, Amada, Gombe. Ibrahim who said grading for the honours award starts from the Orientation Camp added that potential award winners must excel in all the four cardinal programmes of the Scheme, namely, Orientation Course, Primary Assignment, Community Development Service and Winding-up/Passing-Out programme.…

ISHAQ OLANREWAJU OLOYEDE, QUINTESSENTIAL, STEREOTYPICAL PATRIOT, ICON AND ENIGMA BOWS OUT? By Ishaq Kunle Sanni

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Willam Shakespeare the greatest literary legend of all times said on marble in his play ‘The Twelve Night ‘   SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN GREAT, SOME ACHIEVE GREATNESS, WHILE OTHERS HAVE GREATNESS THRUST UPON THEM I am sufficiently close to one of the most incorruptible public servants of our time Professor Oloyede to know that he was not born great. His late father was not a rich man by any yardstick of measurement. He was a pious Imam who enjoyed relative comfort before his death through the instrumentality of having…