Day: October 11, 2021

2023: Southerners ,Middle Belters pushing for Core Northern Presidential Candidates are Political Slaves – SaMBA

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The Southern and Middle-Belt Alliance (SaMBA) has described any Southerner or Middle-Belt person pushing for a Northern President in the coming 2023 presidential election as a political slave who is only after their belly.   The group in a statement released on Monday insisted that it is not in the interest of Nigeria’s unity for power to remain in the North considering that a northerner is about to complete 8 years of Presidency.   The group recalled that the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates in 1914, was based…

Bayelsa Police Command gets new Commissioner Of Police ….. ​as IGP enjoins Bayelsans to accord CP Ben Nebolisa Okolo maximum cooperation

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the posting of CP Ben Nebolisa Okolo to Bayelsa State as the new Commissioner of Police (CP) in-charge of the State. CP Ben Okolo took over from CP Echeng E. Echeng earlier redeployed to the Anambra State Police Command.   CP Ben Okolo, a fellow of the National Defence College, hails from Onitsha in Anambra State. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Nigeria Nsukka. A Cop with vast experiences in policing and…

APC CONGRESS : Niger Gov directs interested Political appointees to tender resignation letter

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The Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has directed all political appointees in the State that emerged or interested in contesting as Executives at all Party levels to kindly tender their resignation letters. A statement issued by Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ahmed Ibrahim Matane disclosed that the measure was in compliance with the constitution of All Progressives Congress (APC). The statement further requested that the resignation letters should be submitted to the Office of Secretary to the State Government with immediate effect. The SSG enjoined those affected…

Gov Wike voted 2021 Best Performing Governor of the Year

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The organizers of Nigeria Service Awards, COA Media has announced Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike as winner of 2021 Best Performing Governor of the Year. Cletus Akhimien, Convener of the NSA and Executive Director, COA Media, made the disclosure in a statement on Monday in Jos. after a 14 Day Voting by Nigerians via the organization’s several social media handles and email.Governor Wike emerged the winner out of five nominees. Gov Nyesom Wike beat other nominatees as a result of his service with sterling record of leadership style in delivering…

NCC’s regulatory instruments set to facilitate 5G deployment, tackle insecurity – Danbatta

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The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has declared that three of the Commission’s regulatory instruments are set to offer enabling provisions that will help the country in tackling security and insurgency; as well as to enhance spectrum availability to facilitate the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) technology. The three instruments, which were subjected to a public inquiry on Tuesday physically and virtually, included the Spectrum Trading Guidelines (STG), Registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations, and the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Replacement Guidelines.…

A critique of Hakeem Baba-Ahmed’s ‘rejoinder’ By Lasisi Olagunju

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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week has a very interesting definition of honour. He says it means “respect yourself (so that) others will come to respect you.” That is from his ‘Paradise’ – a ‘narrative reversal’ of Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness.’ Every piece of writing – or speech – is a potential engenderer of reactions. I got calls and text messages throughout last week asking if I had seen the ‘rejoinder’ to my September 27, 2021 article from the spokesman of the…