Month: February 2023

IGP decorates newly promoted DIGs • charges Officers on Entrenching Police Reforms

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba on Monday 20th February, 2023, decorated three newly promoted Deputy Inspectors-General of Police in his office at the Louis Edet House, Force Headquarters, Abuja. This was coming on the heels of the recently released promotions by the Police Service Commission, in which the three officers’ recommendation by the IGP was approved by the Commission. The DIGs are DIG Ali Aji Janga in charge of the Department of Research and Planning, DIG Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa, in charge of the Department of Training and…

Naira Redesign: Gov Adeleke meets CBN Officials, calls for sanctions against Banks hoarding New Naira Notes

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Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has warned against hoarding of new naira notes by commercial banks, called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sanction financial institutions involved in such anti-people activities. Addressing CBN officials in his office, Governor Adeleke decried the increasing shortage of the new notes, explained that he has been deploying state network to douse tension and ensure safety of banks and the CBN state office.   According to the Governor, his intervention in the last few weeks had ensured that Osun state is…

2023: Muslim Scholars pray for Nigeria, endorses Tinubu for President

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The Concerned Yoruba Muslim Scholars in Nigeria (CYMSN), in collaboration with other stakeholders prayed for the peaceful conduct of the 2023 general elections in Abuja. The group which claimed it has also endorsed the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the February 25 presidential election, offered prayers for the peaceful transition from civilian to another civilian. In his welcome speech, the Secretary General of the group, Professor Abideen Olaiya, said during the prayer session for the success and victory of Tinubu at the…

IS 25 FEBRUARY A GO/NO-GO?

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On 8 February 2015, exactly 6 days to 2015 general presidential elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced a postponement. Attahiru Jega said postponement was necessary due to security reasons. On 16 February 2019, barely 24 hours to general presidential elections, there was a repeat of 2015 when Professor Mahmood Yakubu announced postponement due to logistics. In a few days, the 2023 general presidential elections is expected to hold and I ask if 25 February is a “GO/NO-GO” due to the shortage of Nigerian naira. I feel a Déjà…

Kogi 2023; Between JAF and EMILOKAN, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

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Time is of essence, they said.since it is a question of time for a replay of an event wrongly consumated in Kogi at about eight years ago. There is no denying that Rt Honorable James Abiodun Faleke JAF was the former deputy governorship candidate of APC in the 2016 election in Kogi, before the demise of Prince Abubakar Audu. But by providence, share denial he was defrauded of becoming Kogi Governor out of sheer manipulation and high level political manouvre, a decision he challenged up to the highest court of…

Shake- up in NCC,as Haru,Idehen,others redeployed

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Two Directors of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Alhassan Haru and Mr. Efosa Idehen have been respectively redeployed to man the Technical Standards and Network Integrity (TSNI), and the Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement (CME) departments of the Commission in a move to further enhance operational efficiency and sustain regulatory excellence.   In an exercise approved by the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, other senior staff of NCC were moved to head critical departments, following the recent retirement of some directors, who reached the 60…

Opposition’s rogue website, social media handles spreading fake news on Tinubu – APC-PCC

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The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council said it has stumbled on a rogue website, www.Igbotimesmagazine.online, out to disseminate false and malicious information about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.   APC PCC in a release signed by its Spokesperson,Bayo Onanuga read; In its latest false news, the site claimed that some EFCC operatives, on the order of President Muhammadu Buhari raided the “underground home” of Tinubu. It claimed that N400 billion of the new notes was recovered from there. The story, which notably…

Summit University collaborates with Landmark University on Grant Writing Skills and Research

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On Friday, February 17th, 2023, the Innovation and Advanced Science Research Group (IASRG) of Summit University, Offa, Kwara State (SUN, Offa) played host to three representatives from Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State.     After a brief introduction of the teams, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abiodun Musa Aibinu, expressed his delight that Nigerian institutions are now embracing research and grant writing. He reiterated that the collaboration is part of the KU8 initiative among universities in Kwara State.     Prof. Musa Aibinu also expressed his appreciation to his counterpart, the…

It’s easy defending criminality when you’re not the victim. By Owei Lakemfa

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I EXPECTED a backlash when on February 3, 2023, I published a piece: “Recreating the Holocaust in their own image.” It came as expected. The various reactions reinforce my position that our world can be a far better place if only otherwise decent humans would not rationalise evil. But it is quite easy to rationalise criminality, if you are not the victim. To such decent people, I usually say, please put yourself in the position of the victim and see whether you will still hold the same position. But such…

Of coup, interim government and allied nonsense By Festus Adedayo

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At times like this, two works of literature are my abiding refuge. One, written over a century ago, speaks to the melee both in the APC and Nigeria as a whole. It is a poem entitled ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats. It was written at a time similar to that of present Nigeria. It was a time when it looked like the world was coming to an end. The casualties of the First World War were benumbing and overwhelmingly high. The deaths of millions from the pangs of…