Day: February 1, 2023

INEC, CBN And The Weekend of Extensions ,By Reuben Abati

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Over the weekend, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decided to extend the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (popularly known as PVCs) by an additional week. The PVC collection that was scheduled to end on January 29, was extended till February 5, according to a statement by the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye. INEC further extended collection hours by an additional two hours, from 9 am till 5 pm including Saturdays and Sundays. It was the second time within a…

THEY CAN NOT THINK’: TINUBU’S BELATED CRY FOR VANISHING PRESIDENTIAL BID By Law Mefor

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Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime during the late 1930s and his widely quoted 1946 poem featured on the United States Holocaust Memorial, it reads: “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because…

Gov Sani Bello inaugurates 13-man IBBUL Board of Trustee

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Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has inaugurated a 13-man member Endowment Fund Board of Trustee for Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai.   Inaugurating the board at the Council Chamber of the Government House Minna, Governor Sani Bello called on the board to explore all avenues to turn the university into an education centre of excellence in the country.   He said that the board members were carefully selected based on their track records   The Governor said that among the term of reference of the board was to…

Emilokan 2 By Sam Omatseye

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Before I put finger to keyboard, Godwin Emefiele – known to his friends as Mefi – ate his words. How it must have hurt his ego. Ouch! Or did he shout Yee!!! Some of us knew he would buckle before he would buckle up. He kept all on tenterhooks. But we knew it was coming. No one is congratulating him because he did no one any favours by that. The poet Robert Burns said, “suspense is worse than disappointment.” We are not going to thank him for the miseries.  …

The Nigerian dimension and the assassination of politics By Tatalo Alamu

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Since all politics is local, as they say, it is only appropriate to study closely the impact of the global crisis of the state we have been tracking on Africa’s most populous state. Like most African nations, Nigeria has been badly hit by the multi-dimensional effects of Covid-19 and the Ukrainian conflict. Economies already rendered parlous by the twin-combination of corruption and inefficiency have been further devastated by rising energy bills and critical shortages of wheat, rice and cooking oils. Stagflation—evaporating purchasing capacity and galloping inflation—the like of which has…

NYSC calls for more police protection at Orientation Camps, Corps lodges

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The National Youth Service Corps has appealed for more Police protection at all its Orientation Camps and Corps Lodges across the country. The Chairman, NYSC National Governing Board, Ambassador Fatima Balla Abubakar made the request today when she led other members of the board on a courtesy visit to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Alkali Baba Usman at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.   The Chairman, who commended the Nigerian Police Force for its numerous assistance for NYSC also requested for adequate security for the Corps Members that would…