Day: November 12, 2022

Acquire relevant skills through SAED Program,DG charges Corps Members

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Corps Members have been advised to acquire vocational skills through the NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme so as to become self-employed.   The Director General of the Scheme, Brigadier General Muhammad Fadah, gave the charge today while addressing the 2022 Batch ‘C’ Corps Members deployed to Kano, Borno and Katsina States at the Orientation Camps in Kano and Katsina. He said the acquisition of vocational skills would also enable them to create jobs for others.   Fadah also advised the Corps Members to adhere to the Camp rules…

Wike Honours Former Kogi Governor, Ibrahim Idris, December 3

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By Abubakar Yusuf       Rivers State Governor, Nzenwo Nyesom Wike is to confer the state honors on former Kogi Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris. A letter of notification of conferement of the state honors sent to the former Kogi Governor says the occasion will hold on Saturday December 3, 2022, at the banquet hall of the Government House, Porthacourt. Rivers State Governor, Wike congratulated the former Kogi Governor on the honors and for been part of the success story of the state. Governor Wike has set aside specific time…

Mohammed Isa : This sun sets too early By Ismail Omipidan

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We are not God. As such, the title of my piece may be inappropriate since it is not within our powers to appropriate for whom of the Sun should set early or much later. But as a communicator, I must of necessity convey my messages in a way that would make sense and convey some deeper meanings about our existence. Hence, the choice of my title.   As a young man, who has had several near-death experiences -sleeping while on the wheels for over 15 minutes on Kaduna-Abuja Expressway in…

To migrants, watery graves, to humanity, a boiling world By Owei Lakemfa

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TRAGEDY. Unimaginable tragedy. What is most tragic to me is not the number of migrants including children from the underdeveloped countries that have gone down the sea to watery graves trying to reach Europe. Yes, this year alone, over 1,200 went on a final dip, never to resurface again, or if they did, only as corpses. Last year, 2021, 3,077 of them experienced this excruciating exit from the world, all in the desperate bid for a better or safer life. The previous year, half of that number perished in the…

The dirty side of Kashim Shettima, APC Vice Presidential candidate By Bolaji Mustapha

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Referring with disdain and contempt, to Wazirin Adamawa, Atiku Abubakar, and Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, last week at a wishy washy event in Lagos, Kassim Shettima, the notorious APC vice presidential candidate tried to sell his equally dubious presidential candidate, a man who could not build a single hospital in Lagos as a man with ‘experience and track record’.   But those who were clapping for him, did not appear to understand the desperate attempt by a terrorist sponsor and extremist of hate, violence and cruelty to distance himself,…

Senate President loses media aide, Mohammed Isa

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The office of the President of the Senate has announced with deep regret the death of the Special Assistant on Media to the Senate President, Mohammed Abdulkadir Isa. Mohammed Isa died on Friday evening while undergoing treatment for injuries he sustained in a motor accident on Sunday along the Minna-Suleja road, in Niger State. His remains will be buried this afternoon in Funtua, Katsina State in accordance with Islamic rites. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, expressed sadness over the tragic death of Isa. Lawan described Isa’s death as…