Month: April 2022

Buhari transmits, seeks passage of Money Laundering, Terrorism Prevention Bills

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The Senate has received the Money Laundering Bill and Terrorism Prevention Bill transmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari for expeditious consideration and passage.   The bills were accompanied with a letter read at the start of plenary on Thursday by the Senate President, Ahamad Lawan.   President Buhari, in a letter dated 12th April, 2022, said the request for the passage of both bills was pursuant to the provisions of Section 58(2) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.   He explained that the deficiencies in the country’s Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing…

EASTER CELEBRATIONS: IGP felicitates with Nigerian Christians ….. Orders Round-the-Clock Security of Public Space

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba in his resolve to ensure crime-free Easter celebrations, has ordered intensive security patrols of all public spaces and critical national assets. Specifically, all State Commissioners of Police (CPs) and their supervising Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) have been ordered to ensure adequate deployment of police personnel, and operational assets to areas of security interest within their respective areas of responsibility (AoRs).   The IGP equally ordered that supervising officers should ensure confidence-boosting, proactive, and high visibility patrols are carried out along the…

Friday Sermon : Alleviating The Poverty And Hunger Through Zakat And Helping The Poor By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In The Name of Allah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy   All praise is for Allah, we praise Him, we seek His help, we ask for His forgiveness, and we seek refuge with Allah from the evils of our own souls and the wickedness of our actions, whoever Allah guides, there is none that can lead him astray, and whoever Allah allows to go astray, there is none that can lead him to the right path.   I testify and bare witness that there is no deity worthy…

NCC, Google partner to drive Nigeria’s Digital Transformation

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Google Global Services Nigeria have expressed determination to work together toward advancing the actualisation of auspicious national targets for ubiquitous broadband access in furtherance of Nigeria’s digital transformation policy. This aligns with and gives unambiguous expression to NCC’s strategic vision plan centering on strategic partnership and collaboration with necessary stakeholders in order to achieve regulatory objectives.   The two organisations made the commitment when a delegation from Google Global Services Nigeria paid a courtesy visit to the Commission’s Head Office in Abuja recently to…

2023: Merit And Peter Obi’s Electoral Value By Law Mefor

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There has been a misguided counter-narrative against the campaign for Nigerian President of South-East extraction. The opponents of this just and noble campaign say that zoning is against merit and as such, the nation is robbed of the chance of being led by a capable hand that will be cut off by zoning and rotation. This argument is warped, baseless and incurably defective for there is no zone in Nigeria that cannot survive and grow as an independent, industrialised nation. Each of the 6 geopolitical zones averages a population of…

Education ignored as politicians focus on 2023 — Peter Obi

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential hopeful, Mr Peter Obi, has expressed worry over the apparent neglect of Nigerian students languishing away for months now, by the leaders of this country, from the continued strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Speaking recently on Politics Today on Channels TV, Obi said that it was unfair to the students and to the nation at large that most people were fixated on 2023 elections while the most critical assets of the nation, students, are neglected. “Our universities are closed for months…

Abuja Muslim Forum holds 100 Million Naira Fund Raising Iftar Dinner 16th April

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The Abuja Muslim Forum will on Saturday Ramadan 15th 1443AH which is equivalent to 16th April, 2022 hold 100million Naira fund raising Iftar Dinner in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.   The Iftar Dinner event is targeted at raising funds to execute projects of the Forum which include Building of Forum’s Mosque and Secretariat, Medical Bills and Scholarship for the indigent, Empowerment, Da’wah Van and General Da’wah activities.   The Iftar Dinner ticket are categorized as follows:   *POPULAR TICKETS 1 Person – 5000 2 Person. – 9000 3 Person…

Assault on Journalists: IPI Nigeria opens ‘Black Book’ for perpetrators

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The International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria has said that it will open a book of infamy to document every individual whose action or inaction encourages or allows the harassment of journalists and the media in Nigeria.   President of IPI Nigeria, Musikilu Mojeed, stated this on Tuesday during a courtesy visit by the body to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Abuja.   According to a press statement issued yesterday by the IPI Nigeria’s Secretary, Ahmed I. Shekarau, Mojeed said the move became necessary in view…

Osinbajo’s Road To Abuja: The Untold Story By Olawale Olaleye

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Since his emergence as Nigeria’s number-two citizen, different accounts had been flying around on how Professor Yemi Osinbajo, actually secured the coveted vice-presidential slot, a majority of which revolved around the person of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, his former boss. Indeed, the recent revelation by Chief Bisi Akande in his book, “My Participations” was equally slanted to further pin down the narrative.   You may recall that in 2016, Professor John Paden, authored a biography, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of leadership in Nigeria’, where he dismissed speculations that Tinubu, influenced the…

NYSC DG tasks Store Officers on deployment of ICT solutions

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The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim has charged Store Officers in the Scheme to embrace the deployment of ICT tools in this discharge of their official duties.   He said this will keep them abreast with methods of stock inventory and analysis in accordance with global best practices.   He stated this while declaring open the 2022 NYSC Store Officers Workshop, with the theme; “Employing The Use of ICT For Effective Store Management”, held in Abuja.   General Ibrahim, whose address was read at the…