Month: January 2023

2023 Campaigns: Time to Shelve Dangerous Rhetoric, by Hassan Gimba

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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up – Mahatma Gandhi I wrote this on 22/10/2018. The only change is in the headline where I changed 2019 to 2023. Now that the primaries are over with about 99% of the registered political parties having concluded their primary elections and names of candidates that emerged finding their way to the Independent National Electoral Commission, all eyes are on the…

New Year Day killing: Egba Indigenes call for thorough investigation over escape of only suspect from Police custody

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The indigene of Egba land in Ogun state have expressed total dissatisfaction with the handling of the case of the new year day killing of a Central Bank of Nigeria staff, Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife and son. They were particularly angered with the reported escape of one Mr Lakan Adekanbi, the only suspect, connected to the killing from the Ibara Police division where he was been held in custody. Recall that the Police had told the general public that they have arrested Adekanbi as the prime suspect after the killing.…

PDP G-5 Govs: How Not To Monkey Around With Nigerians’ Future By Tiwalade Awikoko

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On Thursday, January 5, 2022, two unexpected things happened in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital as the G-5 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their allies under the aegis of the Integrity Group converged on the ancient city for the flag-off of Governor Seyi Makinde’s re-election bid.   One was the failure of the G-5 to unveil its preferred presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election in line with the open declaration of its leader and the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, following the group’s rejection of…

HAJJ EXPO 2023: NAHCON Boss, others arrive Saudi Arabia

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Alhaji Zikrullah Kunle Hassan, Chairman/CEO, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), has arrived Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alongside other stakeholders for the 2023 International Hajj exhibition holding in Jeddah. The four- day event, tagged Hajj Expo 2023, kicks off on Monday January 9 to Thursday January 12 under the patronage of Makkah Governor, Prince Khaled Al-Faisal. During the exhibition, Hassan as the Chairman/CEO of the apex regulatory body for Hajj affairs in Nigeria, will sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with relevant agencies and service providers on behalf of Nigeria on…

NIS receives N500m Security Sector Support Grant from ASR Africa

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The Nigeria Immigration Service has been awarded a N500,000,000 (Five Hundred Million Naira), from Abdul Samad Rabiu Initiative for Africa (ASR Africa) Security Sector Support Grant, in recognition of the many successes recorded by the Service both nationally and internationally. In a brief event at the NIS Headquarters in Abuja, Friday, 6th January, 2023, the Comptroller General of Immigration, Isah Jere Idris, MFR, while receiving the award letter, commended the Chairman, BUA Group, Alh. Abdul Samad Rabiu, for the initiative and for recognizing the strides of the Service. He restated…

JUST IN: Nigerian government shuts Edo rail station indefinitely after gunmen abduct several passengers

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The Nigerian government has shut down the Ekehen rail Station in Edo State till further notice.   According to Punch, this was made known in a public announcement by the NRC which was posted on the passengers’ WhatsApp Group, stating that the closure is till further notice.   The action might not be unconnected with the recent attack and kidnap of scores of passengers at the Igueben train station by some suspected herdsmen as the corporation said the decision became necessary following rising security challenges.   The notice from NRC…

Tinubu extols virtues of Ondo people as champions of progressive government

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All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, has hailed the people of Ondo State, saying they have always been a champion of people-oriented and progressive government.   Addressing the state rally on Saturday at Democracy Park, Akure, the state capital, he urged the people of the state to live up to that billing by voting APC all the way in the upcoming election. He also lambasted Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart Peter Obi, calling the former Mr. Privatize and the latter Mr.…

BESDA; UBEC Giant Strides Towards Refocusing Education Sector In Nigeria, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

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The Universal Basic Education Commission UBEC in its bid to ensure all variables militating against the success of Nigeria’s education sector particularly at the elementary and intermediate levels is not resting on its oars, towards exploiting all avenues to provide standard programs in line with the local and the international best practices.   Aside, driving the programs at the National level, the agency also carried out concerted and collective efforts towards replicating it at the sub national levels and by extension the local government areas across the country.   This…

CAC; Three Years Revolution Under Garba Abubakar, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

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There is no gain saying that successes and strides recorded by leaders are only felt when the leaders are no longer at the helms of affairs, that position may only be applicable to other areas, but definitely not in the current leadership of Corporate Affairs Commission CAC, under the management of Alhaji Garba Abubakar appointed on 7th, January in 2020.   For the Corporate Affairs Commission CAC, three years down the line, it was no longer business as usual, as all facets of it’s activities had embarked on reforms, innovations…

Kyari; Bequeathing A Legacy of Infrastructural Rejuvenation In Nigeria, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

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The Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited NNPCL under the leadership of Engr Mele Kolo Kyari has broken records on many fronts in the oil industry along with infrastructural development in the country. This was away from the statutory functions of the NNPCL, transformed under the current leadership of the corporation that had divested into infrastructural breakthroughs in Nigeria. Since the popular saying of ‘charity begins at home’, the massive reconstruction of the headquarters of the corporation popularly refered to as NNPC Towers was a pointer to other interventions…