Month: February 2023

Dare receives new NYSC Director General

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The Honourable Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mr. Sunday Dare has received the newly appointed Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed. While receiving the DG today in his office in Abuja, Dare called on him to ensure the maintenance of culture, discipline and training among the Corp members. He observed that NYSC which is the largest concentration of the nation’s Youth served as a beacon for them and thus needed concerted efforts by its management for the psychological, social and mental…

Alleged fraud: Kogi First Lady on the run – EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said Kogi First Lady Rashida Bello is still at large over alleged fra   Also, the anti-graft agency on Wednesday arraigned Ali Bello, identified as a nephew to the Kogi governor before a federal high court in Abuj   In a statement by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesperson, the agency said the duo were docked alongside three other persons on an 18-count charge “bordering on criminal misappropriation and money laundering to the tune of N3,081,804,654     “That you, Ali Bello, Abba Adaudu,…

Nigeria, India on better Diaspora Engagement – Indian Envoy …. lauds Dabiri-Erewa strides at NiDCOM

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The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Shri Gangandharan Balasubramanian has commended Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), on her strides at engaging with the Nigerians in the Diaspora globally.   The Indian envoy stated this in Abuja when he received in audience, the NiDCOM Boss and some management staff to the Indian Embassy in Abuja,who were specially invited to participate in the recently held India Diaspora Day 2023, in India. Balasubramanian recalled that Nigeria and India have enjoyed an age-long, cordial and robust bilateral relationship in Education,…

Investing in Bago-Yakubu will not be in vain – Gov Sani Bello

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Niger state Governor ,Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has stated that investing in the gubernatorial flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Umar Mohammed Bago, worth it.   Governor Sani Bello stated this at the fundraising dinner and book launch for Bago and his running mate, Comrade Yakubu Garba in Abuja.   He described Bago as an honest, straight forward and dependable person who cannot abandon a trustworthy ally. The Governor assured Nigerlites that Bago/Garba candidature is a formidable one and voting for the ticket, will not be…

2023 ELECTIONS: IGP sets up election planning, monitoring, evaluation team …… reassures more secured, smooth Electoral Process …. confirms viability of existing electoral offences desks

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has approved the setting up of an Election Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Team for deployment across the states of the federation, to identify, analyze and mitigate threats, as well as carry out on-the-spot assessment and appraisal of the security emplacements ahead of the 2023 general elections. The IGP had similarly appointed the Vice President (INTERPOL) and Head, National Crime Bureau (NCB), AIG Garba Baba Umar as the National Coordinator of the team of experienced and seasoned Police Officers with vast knowledge in…

Understanding Nigeria’s Domestic Card ‘Afrigo’ By Adefolarin A Olamilekan

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Global financial and business environment continues to unfold. Even in the face of uncertainties that envelope current economic reality. We continue to witness arrays of meaningful and life changing packages cutting across the way things are done. In recent times, the means of exchanging and trading as well as transaction payment for goods and services have all been impacted. This is courtesy of developed and developing empirical innovation in telecommunication. Although as it stands, developed nations in their quest for better society re- engineer and re-tool the usage of telecommunication…

Supreme Court orders Buhari’s government not to ban use of old Naira notes

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By Ehinomen Azeigbe The Supreme Court has temporarily halted the move by the federal government to ban the use of the old naira notes from February 10, 2023. A seven-member panel led by Justice John Okoro, halted the move of the federal government in a ruling on Wednesday, February 8, 2023. The ruling was in favour of a request by Kaduna, Kogi, and Zamfara States to restrain the Federal Government from going ahead with its February 10 deadline for the phasing out of the old naira notes. The three states…

NHRC Boss inaugurates investigative panel to probe alleged rights violations by military

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The Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Chief Tony Ojukwu SAN has inaugurated the Special Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations in the Counter Insurgency Operators in the North East (SIIP-NORTH) to unearth the truth in the allegations of rights violations against the Nigeria military. It would be recalled that a foreign media organisation, Reuters had reported that Nigerian military was involved in abortion of many pregnancies in the North East in the last 10 years, added that the military was also involved in infanticide as well as…

Echocho; When they go low, we go high

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Miffed by the accelerating profile of Senator Jibrin Isah Echocho, some people with the penchant for mischief sponsored a piece aimed at rubbing mud on the stoic character of Echocho- fortunately, the article ended up burnishing his image the more. When you fight a good man, you end up as his cheerleader. The article which was buried in sponsored pages of some obscure and relatively unknown blogs contained nothing but a tissue of lies loosely packaged by a coterie of those who feel defeated even before the first ballot is…

Gwarimpa Building Collapse: FG set up Technical Committee, As FCTA/FHA moves to avoid reoccurrence.

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By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.   The Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA and Federal Housing Authority FHA has set up a technical team to look into the report prepared by the Authority on the event that led to the collapse of a three story building on its estate at 6th Avenue at Gwarimpa, that left three fatalities on Friday, 3rd February, 2023.   The decision was reached in a joint press release issued and signed by Anthony Ogunleye, Director of Press office of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Musa Bello…