Day: February 5, 2023

NYSC DG tasks Corps Members on benefits of Vocational skills

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The Director General, National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed has advised Corps Members to acquire vocational skills through the NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme.   He said many of their predecessors that embraced the programme some years ago, are now business owners creating jobs for others.   General Ahmed added that Management introduced the programme in order to empower Corps Members become wealth creators instead of searching for the unavailable paid jobs.   He disclosed this today in his address to Corps Members at the…

Niger Police arrest suspected bandits’ informant,food supplier

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Following the arrest of two suspected kidnappers with the recovery of N2.1million at Lambata, Gurara LGA on 27th January,2023 and further investigation into the matter, through the confessional statement of the suspected kidnappers and technical intelligence received led to another achievement as thus;   Police operatives attached to Gawu-Babangida Division On 1st February,2023 at about 0530hrs, arrested one Ibrahim Ali, a.k.a Bajala aged 25yrs of Gwalo village via Paikoro LGA.   The suspect was arrested in his hideout at Gwalo village for being a suspected informant and food supplier to…

Police nabs Beninese with human skull in Niger state

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Operatives of Nigeria Police Force,Niger state command attached to New-Bussa Division on 24th January,2023 at about 1400hrs based on a tip-off arrested one Abdulrahman Woru, aged 38yrs of Gbesewona village of Benin Republic, but residing in Babana area of Borgu LGA. Beninoise The suspect was arrested at Babana for being suspected to be in possession of a human skull, and when a search was conducted in his house following items were recovered; -A human skull, -Three pieces of suspected human ribs -Two idols and -Cash sum of 5000 CFA of…

Irregular Migration: Sanwo-Olu, Dabiri-Erewa, NiDEO Chair to attend JIFORM Summit

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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) and other dignitaries are to grace the maiden edition of the national migration summit of the Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) taken place on February 9 at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja.   A statement made available to the media by the President of the JIFORM, Dr Ajibola Abayomi, confirmed that the Governor has been invited to unveil the summit while Dabiri-Erewa, would deliver a keynote address on the Diaspora benefits…

Nigeria at Point Zero By Festus Adedayo

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I am peering at the viral video of the naked young man inside the banking hall as I write this. His manhood dangles like the pendulum of the Grandfather Clock of colonial Nigeria. He is totally naked, even as he shouts that he needs to withdraw cash from the bank. I am aghast and disillusioned at the same time. I do not know what to think. My mouth is wide open, saliva gliding majestically as it drooled off my lower lip. Before now, I saw a similar video. It was…

The miracle of yesterday in Lokoja, By Haruspice

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Yesterday, during a drive from Abuja to Lokoja, a lady killed my nerves with her heart peircing story. She had finished her law degree and set for the mandatory law school. But something was amiss; she had no money to pay for her registration. She had combed everywhere and no one was able to bail her out.Then despondency set in as she resigned to helplessness. So depressed was she close to that she contemplated the unimaginable… Yes, life can actually wreck you to such lanes especially when all hope is…

The god of Wike! Buhari is alone! And other illusions (2), by Hassan Gimba

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s followers, therefore, created in him an image of an ascetic, beyond reproach, and so canonised him as a saint. And he also did his best to fit into that picture. Ramrod, shed of any fat and wearing the cheapest materials around, the story was that he had seen it all yet refused to be tempted into taking anything from anywhere he worked.   He was a military governor with executive powers over what are now six states and then a federal commissioner of petroleum and later a…

Ademola Adeleke and the Osun mandate thieves By Abiodun Awolaja.

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WERE Nigeria a nation of truth, the Osun State governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, would be in his second term of office by now. Having won the 2018 governorship election in the state, Adeleke was defeated by INEC, which conducted a rerun election in the state while it had previously declared the APC candidate winner in a Kogi State by-election with the same facts as the Osun election; political thugs who harassed voters during the rerun election, and the Supreme Court which relied on a mere technicality to deny Osun people…

Hijab is a symbol of women’s emancipation–Imam Fuad Adeyemi

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The National Imam of Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society Fuad Adeyemi has described the theme of the World Hijab Day as appropriate and a reflection of the truth about hijab.   He said “Hijab is not a sign that the woman is being oppressed, it is actually a symbol of her emancipation because she chose the hijab as her identity”.   Imam Fuad made the remarks at the commemoration of the World Hijab Day by the Women Forum of Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society. “Hijab dignifies a woman so any woman who wears it,…

Cattle Rustling : Niger Govt compensates pastoralist … says gesture ‘ll foster harmonious coexistence

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Niger State Government has stated that it will compensate Pastoralists who have lost their livestock to cattle rustlers. This was disclosed by the State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello at the Fulani Cultural Festival organized by the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-Cultural Association of Nigeria held at the Aliyu Ndayoko Memorial Stadium, Bida . The Governor who was represented by Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ahmed Ibrahim Matane explained that six Pastoralists, two each from the three Senatorial Zones of the State who were victims of cattle rustling…