Day: August 24, 2022

BREAKING!!! Nomination for 2nd Nigeria Service Awards Opens August 27th

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COA Media has finally announced date for commencement of nominations for the much anticipated 2022 Nigeria Service Awards. The prestigious Nigerian Service Award (NSA) recognizes individuals and groups whose works have positively impacted communities across Nigeria in various fields of endeavour while inspiring empathetic leadership and greater transformations. The Award serves as a platform to recognize and celebrate talents, icons, captains of industries, technocrats and those making Nigeria proud in various endeavors. This is to awaken patriotism and spur Nigerians to do more in terms of service to humanity and…

SATANIC CHURCH RITUAL: NSCIA commends Judiciary,demands immediate action on Sheikh Aisami

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Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA has commended the judiciary for meticulously carried out the investigation and delivery of justice on the killer of a seven-year old boy by the duo of ,Erinmole Adetokunbo and Adedoyin Oyekanmi. The killers deprived him and his family of a bright destiny   The council in a statement signed by Prof. Salisu Shehu,Deputy Secretary General said; ” Though it is well known that justice delayed is justice denied and we hope that the wheel of justice shall roll much faster in future, it…

FOOD SECURITY: Gov Sani Bello advocates Commercial Mechanized Agriculture

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Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello said that employing commercial-mechanical-agriculture will lead to food security and improve local farmers.   Governor Sani Bello stated this when he received the All Farmers Association, led by its Chairman, Alh. Shehu Galadima at the Government House, Minna.   He said the country’s population was fast growing and unless mechanised agriculture is practiced, the country would not be able to feed the nation or its neighbours.   “We have vast land, good temperature for agriculture but we are not known for best practices when…

Gov Sani Bello congratulates Sultan @66

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Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has felicitated with the Sultan of Sokoto His Eminence Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar on his 66th birthday.   Governor Sani Bello in a statement described the Sultan of Sokoto as great, selfless and compassionate leader.   He said the contribution of the celebrant to the growth and development of not only Sokoto state but the entire country.   “I congratulate His Eminence on his birthday. Indeed he has remained a good leader who consider the interest of others first.   “On this auspicious day of…

Breaking: Kano, Enugu, Zamfara get New Commissioners ….. as IGP orders posting of Senior Police Officers

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the posting of CP Abubakar Lawal to the Kano State Police Command as the new Commissioner of Police in charge of the State. The IGP also ordered the posting of CP Kolo Yusuf, and CP Ahmed Ammani to head the Zamfara, and Enugu State Police Commands respectively.   CP Abubakar Lawal posted to the Kano State Police Command due to the retirement of the former Commissioner of Police, CP SS Dikko, is a native of Daura in Katsina State, holds…

Oyetola inaugurates Implementation Committee for Proposed Ilesa University … says its establishment won’t exert unnecessary pressure on State’s finances

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The Governor of Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Wednesday, inaugurated the Implementation Committee for the proposed University of Ilesa.   He said the upgrade of the existing Osun State College of Education, Ilesa, to a full-flegded University was ‘not a product of fanciful effort’ but rather a product of thorough and rigorous interrogation, characteristic of the culture of deep engagement for which his administration is noted for.   This was even as the Governor noted that the proposed University has been carefully conceived as a thoroughly entrepreneurial and innovative institution that…

Police nab Killers of Hon Musa Mante, CSP Garkuwa, 17 Others ….. Recover 27 Firearms, 633 Live Ammunition, 4 Cutlasses

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Operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) have successfully brought to a close case of murder which seemed unsolved with the arrest of some notorious suspects involved in criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, and kidnapping in June 2022. The arrest followed a charge on the tactical and operational squads by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba on the need to ensure cases are investigated to a justifiable and reasonable conclusion.   The suspects, Hashimu Galadima (aka Kan-Wuka) aged 48, Abdulwahab Alhassan (aka Emeka) aged 31, Abdulwahab…

NYSC,Stakeholders review SAED programme implementation framework for optimum benefits

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The National Youth Service Corps has interfaced with critical stakeholders to review the NYSC skill sets, Enterprenuerial training curriculum and monitoring tools with a view to identifying best practices that deliver optimum results. The Director-General of the NYSC Scheme, Brigadier General Muhammad Kaku Fadah who declared the crucial meeting opened, urged the participants to be steadfast in appraising the entire SAED Programme through open discussions that can realign objectives with skills demand and contemporary challenges of graduate youth unemployment . Represented by the Director, Planning, research and statistics Alh Dr…

DIPLOMATIC TIES : Defence Minister hosts Iranian Envoy ……. inaugurates committee to host 16th Nigeria- South Africa Defence Forum

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The Minister of Defence Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) is promoting Military Diplomatic Ties between the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Iranian Armed Forces for mutual benefits to both countries.   This came to the fore at a bilateral interface between the Nigerian Minister of Defence and the Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria Mohammed Alibak during a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Defence Headquarters, Ship House Abuja. General Magashi told the visiting envoy that it was in time like this when Nigerian Military was decimating multiple threats to national…

When Will The World End? By Ibraheem Dooba

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When we were children, religious scholars told us that the end of the world was near. Any strange thing they saw, they attributed to the imminent termination of the world.   They repeated this so often that I became convinced that I was among the last humans. We would hear the sound, I thought, and I would tell my family and neighbours “we’re being called. Say your last prayers.”   Sadly, it appears that I wouldn’t be among the last fellows.   Look at it this way, we’ve been told…