Month: January 2023

NYSC gets 8 new Directors …… Promotes another 1,123

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The Governing Board of the National Youth Service Corps has promoted eight members among the Management Staff of NYSC to the position of Directors on salary grade level seventeen (17). They are; Aremu Kehinde, Abdullahi Yusuf Baba, Amusan Oluwole Julius, Chukwu Chiwendu, Fasakin Bona Adibeli, Isa Abdulazeez Onimisi, Ibrahim Abdul Muhammed and Ahijo Yahaya. This was part of the outcome of the 2023 nationwide NYSC Senior Staff Promotion Examination that was recently held in Abuja. Similarly, a total of One Thousand, One Hundred and Twenty-Three (1,123) staff from different cadres,…

Osun Economy: Gov Adeleke woos Investors ,Partners

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The Osun state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has intensified his drive for enhanced partnership with local and multinational companies for direct investment in the state economy. Governor Adeleke was on a working visit to Lagos state since Monday. For the past two working days, the Governor has laid out the vision of his government for a public-private partnership relationship with a view to address the huge Infrastructure deficit in his state and jump start the state economy that is weighed down by heavy debt. In several meetings with captains of…

Governance by ambush. By Owei Lakemfa

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The mass media reported that as Nigerians slept on January 19, 2023, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, again, increased the price of petrol. This time from N170 per litre to N185. Twenty four hours later, the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, denied that government gave the order for the price hike. Despite this, the new price is in place and government has not taken any known step to reverse the increase.   The Minister added: “Government will not approve any increase of PMS secretly without due…

IGP commissions new Mabushi Divisional Police Headquarters

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba on Tuesday 24th January 2023 ably represented by the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 7, AIG Kayode Egbetokun commissioned the newly built Division donated by Stallion Property and Development Company Limited as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility to the community.   The AIG in his opening remarks thanked the SPDC and described their benevolent gesture as commendable and highly worthy of emulation by all and sundry. Meanwhile, The FCT commissioner of Police, CP Sadiq Idris Abubakar in his vote of…

Gov Sani Bello charges residents to vote for all APC candidates ….. flags off campaign in Niger East

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As the All Progressives Congress (APC) flags off its campaign for Niger East Senatorial District (Zone B), Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has called on the people to vote for the party’s candidates at all levels to consolidate the achievements of the present administration. Governor Sani Bello said this during the flag-off campaign in Suleja. While commending the success of the rally, he said the party has credible candidates that would form a formidable team to improve on the successes recorded by the present administration. Speaking on insecurity, the Governor reiterated…

Global Data Privacy Day 2023: Nigeria Data Protection Bureau hosts National Privacy week

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Nigeria will on Saturday 28th of January 2023 join the international community to observe Global Data Privacy Day 2023.It is a day that had been set aside to create awareness of fundamental rights and freedoms relating to the privacy of citizens. in the data processing ecosystem. In line with the overarching global objective of awareness on data privacy, the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), will be organizing a National Privacy Week, which is a week of intensive focus on awareness creation in the area of data subjects’ rights, capacity building…

Buhari, Tinubu electrify mammoth crowd at Bauchi APC rally

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KoA mammoth crowd of party supporters and other residents on Monday thronged the streets of Bauchi to receive President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a campaign tour of the state. Tinubu, who had spent the night at the capital of the north-eastern state, joined the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Governors and other party chieftains to receive President Buhari at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport Monday morning. On ground to receive the President were Senate President Ahmad Ibrahim…

Nigeria hosts Regional Digital Economy Conference

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Policy makers and stakeholders in the digital economy ecosystem in the West African sub-region will converge in Abuja from January 31 to 1st February for the Digital Economy Regional Conference to discuss the future of digital economy and intensify regional public private partnerships for the region.   The event is being hosted by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, in collaboration with the World Bank.   The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, who will deliver…

Anini, Prince of Thieves By Lasisi Olagunju

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General Ibrahim Babangida’s Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) had just finished its weekly meeting. What ministers do with the present occupant of Aso Rock, Abuja –praise and worship – was the lot of IBB then at the Dodan Barracks, Lagos. Today appointees in abject servitude fawned over the president; everybody must congratulate the leader on how well he was doing – even while failing. Babangida was used to such menial, exaggerated loyalty; he had been around power since July 1966, and deep in its depths from July 1976. That stuffy…

E-NAIRA : CBN seeks partnership with NYSC

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The Central Bank of Nigeria has requested for partnership with the National Youth Service Corps on the use of internet money for Corps Members. CBN also said the electronic platform would offer its users the ease of payments at no risk. The Deputy Director, Information Technology Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Habib Yusuf, stated this today when he led some staff of the apex bank on a courtesy visit to the NYSC National Directorate Headquarters in Maitama, Abuja. He added that the e-naira, which is the first…