Year: 2023

FG bans Children below 11yrs from participating in Common Entrance Exams

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The Federal Government has ban children below 11 years old from participating in the National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE).   The permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, David Adejo made this known while monitoring the 2023 examination alongside the Registrar of the examination body, the National Examination Council (NECO), Ibrahim Wushishi.   He lamented the rate at which parents made their underage children sit the National Common Entrance Examination.     Adejo said: “We are killing our children by allowing underage children to participate in the Common Entrance…

Weiner leads JIFORM Summit on Migration, Investment in Toronto

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A former Minister of Immigration, Citizenship, and Secretary of State of Canada, Hon Gerry Weiner will lead arrays of speakers at the 4th Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) Global Migration summit slated for Toronto, Canada between October 2-4. The hybrid summit to accommodate both virtual and physical participation would focus on Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Sustainable Investment with participants being drawn from the media, business community, migrant, immigration and judicial workers, government workers and other professionals. Declaring support for the summit, Weiner said he looked forward to receiving…

NYSC DG visits hospitalized Corps Member shot during re-run Election in Uyo

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The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General YD Ahmed today visited Corps Member Onuoha Elvis Udodiri AK/22B/2148 who is on admission at the Ibom Hospital in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State. Elvis, who served as INEC adhoc staff during the House of Assembly rerun election in the State was shot on the leg by gunmen at the village hall, Ikot Eduek Itak in Ikono Local Government Area of the State. Brigadier General Ahmed during his visit commended the hospital management for the prompt and effective treatment being offered the…

Circumstantial evidence says it’s murder, sir! (A factionalized – fact and fiction – account of murder in a hotel) By Festus Adedayo

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Media frenzy over the death of Tim Goke, a 37-year old man whose remains were found in a hotel, had been very huge and unsettling. As Police Detective and Head of its Legal Division, Muhammadu Kura sat on the swivel chair in his office at Kam Salem Police Headquarters this Wednesday afternoon, he reflected on his encounter with the Inspector General of Police about 40 hours back. The media had literally dragged the IG off his fanny to begin to take drastic actions. The social media had already given its…

Joe Biden’s fall and a shaking Nigeria By Festus Adedayo

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America was a pitiable sight last Thursday. That great country was crouched on the bare floor. It fell like a huge hippopotamus. President Joe Biden’s legs were wrapped over each other like a malevolent viper that had just had its backbone yanked apart by an irreverent bullet. America looked helpless. The edges of Biden’s blue suit raised their hands up in surrender, leaving the world gaping through his now visible white singlet. The only thing on him that seemed unfazed by the fall was his blue fez cap. For the…

Abba’s Disappointing Start! By Olaleye Olawale

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If your mission in office as Governor of Kano State is to revenge your predecessor’s sins against your godfather and father-in-law, then you’re not only picking a wrong fight, you’ve simply chosen the path to failure.   Unfortunately, that’s the only thing you’d be remembered by. If a majority of the people largely agreed that Ganduje “fumbled” in his relationship with Kwankwaso, we expect you to prove to the world that you are a better person and not show us you’re worse.   From the first day in office, when…

Agenda for Mr President, by Hassan Gimba

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“So many people are hanging on by the thinnest of threads. Treat people with kindness, you could be that thread.” – John Pavlovitz The above proverbial expression, which alludes to an occasion between Damocles and King Dionysius, may define the situation between Nigerians and their president. Without a doubt, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took the oath of office amidst significant concerns expressed by many Nigerians. Apart from that, the courts are still hearing challenges to his emergence as president. He is also, so far, the only president with a minority…

Gov Umar Bago pledges support for Education, Youths,Tourism development

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Niger State Governor,Mohammed Umar Bago has reiterated his administration’s determination to invest in education, youths and tourism.   The Governor stated this when he visited the Fifth Chukker to see the Mararaban Jos Primary school established in conjunction with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Funds (UNICEF), creating opportunity for free education to over 12,000 pupils in Mararaban Jos and its adjoining communities. Gov. Umar Bago explained that the visit was to see the level of development in the state in terms of infrastructure, education, sports and tourism with a…

Hajj, A Great Blessing From Allah By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Verily, all praise is for Allah. We praise Him, we seek His assistance and we ask for His forgiveness. And we seek refuge in Him from the evils of ourselves. Whoever Allah guides, none can misguide. Whoever He misguides, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity other than Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and messenger. Dear brothers and sisters, Allah Almighty has honoured the Muslim Ummah (nation) with successive…

Jega, Ex-VC Nuhu Yaqub, Dambazau to address NILDS Democracy Lecture

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The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Nuhu Yaqub, and former Chief of Army Staff, Major General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), will be among the speakers at the 2023 Democracy Day lecture organized by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS). The event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, June 15, 2023, at Yanna, Plot 32 POW Mafemi Crescent Utako, Abuja. The annual lecture, organized by NILDS, aimed at fostering an in-depth discussion…