Month: August 2021

I’ll support a new constitution, if pragmatic incidence permits it – Yahaya Bello

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Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello has alluded that Nigeria as an independent country was capable of underground the process of recasting its constitution in her image through laid down processes He also promised to support a new Constitution under the permission pragmatic incidents of national life but a total abrogation of the existing Constitution and promulgation of a new one which kept the nation squabbling over parochial advantages while making no progress cannot have my blessing. The Governor made this known on Monday while delivering a lecture at the TOS…

JUST IN: Ex Deputy Senate President, Nasiru Mantu, is dead

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Former Plateau Central Senator and deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu, is dead. A Nigerian daily, Leadership reported that Mantu died in the wee hours of Tuesday. No further details about the cause of his death has been revealed byhis immediate family, as of the time this story was published. Mantu was bom on Februay 16, 1947 in the present PlateauState. He was one of the few Nigerians who took politics seriously and had from the onset decided to make it a full time vocation. He was…

2023: Nigeria next President must be Business-Inclined Southerner – OPAN President

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Nigeria need a President who understands the needs of the Nigerian people, a Southerner (preferably Igbo or Yoruba) who is not a regular politician but an aggressive and successful businessman, Austyn Ogannah, Publisher of THEWILL Newspaper, has said. Ogannah spoke on Sunday while appearing as the guest on “The Discourse,” a Classic FM 97.3 radio programme. Speaking on the topic, “Finding Nigeria’s Next President,” Ogannah said the perfect driver to take the country through total reconstruction in 2023 must be authoritative enough to reinvent the ship that will sail the…

Gov Sani Bello eulogizes IBB@80

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Niger State Governor,Abubakar Sani Bello has described Nigeria’s former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida as a father, an icon and a role model worthy of emulation. The Governor made the assertion at the first Annual IBB Leadership Lecture and presentation/launch of a book entitled “Pyrography of a General” in Commemoration of his 80th Birthday, held at the Justice Idris Legbo International Conference Center, Minna, the state capital. Governor Sani Bello, who was represented by his Deputy, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Kesto said the General has been a father and a…

PLATEAU ATTACKS: IGP deploys surveillance helicopter,says police committed to restoring order ….. as 13 more suspects arrested

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The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the deployment of additional operational asset including a Police Surveillance Helicopter, two (2) Units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) and two (2) Cells of Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) to Plateau State. The surveillance helicopter, manned by operatives of Nigeria Police Airwing, is expected to carry out aerial surveillance and confidence-boosting patrols within the hotspots, in coordinated operations with the ground troops. This followed the unfortunate incident of Saturday 14th, August, 2021,where some Muslim travellers retuning to Ondo state from…

Yahaya Bello congratulates FCT High Court Ag.Judge,Justice Baba-Yusuf

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Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello has congratulated the newly appointed acting Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf whose appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari was based on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council. The governor in a congratulatory message, contained in a Press Statement signed on Monday by his Chief Press Secretary, Muhammed Onogwu described Justice Buba-Yusuf’s appointment as a perfect fit Governor Bello hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointment of Kogi born Jurist into such a highly prestigious position noting…

Approach military barracks, NYSC formations for journeys extending beyond 6pm – DG tells corps members

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Corps Members have been advised to approach military barracks, Corps Lodges, NYSC State Secretariats and palaces to pass the night whenever their journey is going beyond six in the evening. NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu lbrahim stated this today in a virtual address to Corps Members marking the end of the 2021 Batch ‘B’ Stream One Orientation Course. He said the Scheme had partnered the Federal Road Safety Corps, both at its National Headquarters in Abuja and at the state level, including the transport unions on the need to provide…

Danbatta applauds President Buhari, Pantami on Digital Literacy Initiative …… Tasks trained youths on skills application

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The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Garba Danbatta has charged the Nigerian youths, who participated in the nationwide digital literacy training conducted by the Commission, to put the skills acquired as well as the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools received during the exercise to appropriate and legitimate use.   Addressing the participants at the closing ceremony of the NCC’s Digital Literacy Training for the North-West held at the Kano Campus of the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) on Friday, August 13, 2021, Danbatta particularly…

2023: APC Govs, Ex- Speaker visit Ladoja

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Three serving governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday afternoon visited the Ibadan residence of former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja. The governors are Abubakar Badaru, Atiku Bagudu and Mai Buni of Jigawa, Kebbi and Yobe states respectively. They were ushered into the Ondo street residence of the Ibadan high chief by APC Senator, AbdulFatai Buhari, Oloye Sharafadeen Alli, Hon. Bimbo Adepoju and others. Though details of what they discussed were still sketchy as at press time but it was gathered that the…

NDD condemns of Muslim travellers in Plateau state

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The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) condemned the massacre of more than twenty Muslim faithful by a local militia in Jos, Plateau State on Saturday, August 14, 2021. According to the police, the criminal gang along Rukuba Road of Jos North LGA attacked a convoy of five buses with Muslim faithful who were coming back from the Annual Zikr prayer in Bauchi State were heading to Ikare in Ondo State. Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) in a release jointly signed by its National Coordinator,Tajudeen Alabede and Director of…