Day: October 2, 2021

Open Letter To Presidential Governor Bello; We Pay You Huge Salary To Manage Kogi, Not To Roam Around Abuja

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Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello The Presidential Governor from Kogi State, Abuja. Dear Sir, Demand to Justify Your Huge Salary and Allowances in Discharge of Functions as Governor of Kogi State Your Excellency, I write to remind you of the onerous task of being the Governor of a state. Also, I wish to bring to your attention that the highest office in a state or country still remains the Office of the Citizens. We employ Governors, Senators, Lawmakers and even Presidents to help drive our society with our commonwealth. This is…

Nollywood: 19 Movie Practitioners Who Married Colleagues

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While many corporate organisations will frown at colleagues getting married and remaining in the same workplace, the opposite applies in the entertainment industry. It is widely celebrated and a thing of absolute joy when celebrities marry their colleagues. Here are 19 Nigerian celebrities who married their colleagues: Olu Jacobs and Joke Silvia These two Nollywood veterans have been married for 36 years and are blessed with two male children. The power couple who have become enigmas in the movie industry met in 1981. Olu Jacob noted he met Joke during…

Abuja Journalist moves to stop NUJ President’s re-election bid

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The Editor of Abuja-based New National Star newspaper, Akin Orimolade, has taken the outgoing President of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chris Isiguzo, to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NIC) over the latter’s second term bid. In a statement, yesterday, Orimolade described Isiguzo as an impostor and unfit to serve as the union’s president. The editor is asking the court to mandate Isiguzo to vacate the office of the National President of NUJ at the National Headquarters, Mabushi, Abuja. In suit no. NIC/ABJ/257/2021 served on the defendants on September 27,…

Editors and the long struggle against Media Chain By Chido Nwakanma

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IN Uneven Steps, Lanre Idowu brings the skills of a historian and a raconteur to offer two books in one. While the overt purpose is to recount the journey of the Nigerian Guild of Editors from inception to date, the author includes a significant aside on Nigerian Media Law being the media’s fight against the suffocating chains of repression and censorship.The double offer makes this book a significant and irresistible contribution to Nigerian media literature. Uneven Steps adds to the growing literature in two areas: Nigerian media history generally and…

The Return of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’

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After a four-year break, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (WWTBAM)‘, the highly acclaimed TV game, is set to return to Nigerian screens in its usual but educative way. Before the hiatus, the show which uninterruptedly aired for 13-years (between October 8, 2004, and June 25, 2017), thrilled its audience with exciting and didactic weekly editions that were dominated by a deep wealth of knowledge. The millionaire game show, which involved so many intricacies and twists, had a grand prize of N10 million which was only won by Aroma Ufodike…

Nigeria @ 61 No Be Moi-moi’ By Olusegun Adeniyi

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‘Tomorrow marks Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary. While we lament about what might have been and politicians play their usual games that contribute nothing to the welfare of people, let me confess straightaway that the copyright for the title of this piece is not mine. But there is an interesting backstory to it. Late in July this year, I received a call from the Director, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage, Dr. Baba Gana Adam. He informed me that I had been nominated to chair a panel…

You’re safe, if you relate well with bandits–Sheik Gumi

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The controversial cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said that, people can live peacefully when they develop mutual relationship with the bandits. Mr Gumi, a self-appointed mediator for the marauders that have been wreaking havoc in many northern states, says his interaction with the bandits have been easy because he always “go(es) through the door.” “I go through the door, not the window. If you go through the door, you will go in and come back safely,” Mr Gumi said while fielding questions from students at a lecture in Ahmadu Bello…

EFCC Changes Tactics To Graft Prevention

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Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa on Wednesday unveiled a five-year Strategic Plan (2021-2025) for the agency with priority on the prevention of corruption. He said the anti-graft agency will focus on prevention “as a cheaper and more efficient tool against economic and financial crimes than enforcement.” Bawa said the plan also places a significant premium on intelligence-driven investigation, prosecution, and asset recovery. Speaking at the inauguration of the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, Bawa said economic and financial crimes have remained major impediments to the sustainable growth…

Power Rotation: Who The Cap Fits Between The North And The South? By Dr Uche Diala

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Following the Press Release by the Northern Governors Forum after its recent meeting, I have read some opinion of some Southerners and Politicians. I dare say that some of the bickerings are borne out of a victim mentality but the South is surely not a victim in this particular instance and cannot claim to be. If truth be told and if recent history is anything to go by. Let me remind us that the same North ‘conceded’ the Presidency to the South in 1999 after the return to civilian rule…

Unity And Peaceful Co-existence In A Milti-religious Society: Islamic Perspective By Prof. Taofiq AbdulAzeez

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*Introduction : Unity and disunity are human and therefore global(3:103). What drive the natural Unity of mankind to disunity are Faith and Leadership and what bring it back are also Faith and Leadership. Al-Baqarah 2:213 كَانَ ٱلنَّاسُ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلنَّبِيِّۦنَ مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ وَأَنزَلَ مَعَهُمُ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ بِٱلْحَقِّ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ فِيمَا ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟ فِيهِۚ وَمَا ٱخْتَلَفَ فِيهِ إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوهُ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَا جَآءَتْهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَٰتُ بَغْيًۢا بَيْنَهُمْۖ فَهَدَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لِمَا ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟ فِيهِ مِنَ ٱلْحَقِّ بِإِذْنِهِۦۗ وَٱللَّهُ يَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ إِلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ Mankind was [of] one nation [before…