Month: March 2023

Otunba Gbeluniyi of llaro, Chief Kashim Akor congratulates Gov Dapo Abiodun on his Victory

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By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.     The Otunba Gbeluniyi of Ilaro Yewa land and Director General, National Productivity Center, Dr (Chief) Kashim Akor has Congratulated Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state on his well deserved re-election .   In his message of congratulations released on Sunday night to mark the victory of the governor at the polls, the title holder of Yewa land appreciated the Igala community in Ogun state for the massive support to the Governor in his re-election bid.   He said the overwhelming supports attracted from the people…

Open letter to incoming Governor, by Hassan Gimba

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This general advice to every elected Governor, was first published on May 27, 2019. I feel the need to republish it now that we have concluded the gubernatorial elections in concerned states of the federation.   Your Excellency, this is unsolicited advice, of course. You got elected presumably for your ability to convince the electorate that you will serve them better than those you contested against. No doubt you promised to make the lives of the people better than they are at the moment; that at the end of your…

Memo to their Excellencies, the Governors-elect, By Festus Adedayo

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In 1953, Honourable Member, Western House of Assembly, Samuel Ladoke Akintola, left a word for today. “I can understand the heaven of acceptance and the hell of rejection. I cannot conceive of a purgatory between acceptance and rejection,” he had told his fellow parliamentarians of the opposition bloc, the National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). It was in the thick of a tempestuous debate on a motion on the floor of the House. The motion was on introduction of Education and Health Levy for taxable adults in Western…

Group,NDLEA sensitise Kano Youths on Drug Abuse, Flag off Advocacy Campaign

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The Infotech Bridges Limited in collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA) and Federal Ministry of Justice have carried out a sensitization advocacy program on drug abuse among youths in Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area of Kano state. The program was aimed at promoting mental health awareness within targeted communities and educating over 150 participants about the dangers and attendant implication of using and consuming illegal drugs among young people. In his address at the event ,the Chief Executive Officer ,Infotech Bridges Limited, Mr. Ethel Odimegwu encouraged…

BREAKING: Aishat Binani wins Adamawa guber poll

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‘Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State has lost his second term bid to Senator Aishat Binani of the All Progressives Congress.   Binani was declared winner of the election after polling 409,909 votes ahead of the incumbent governor, Umaru Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party,who scored 406,617 votes.   Binani who currently representing Adamawa Central Senatorial District,made history as the first female elected governor in Nigerian politics.    

RESTRUCTURING: BUHARI WRITES HIS NAME IN GOLD By Law Mefor

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Restoration of Nigeria to federalism as agreed between Nigeria’s founding fathers (Zik, Awo, Ahmadu Bello, et al) and colonial Britain is what the deafening clamour for restructuring is all about. The 1999 Constitution is the worst in the nation’s annals for imposing a unitary system in a federal environment, with 68 items on the Federal List compared to a little over 30 flimsy and sundry items contained in the Concurrent List.   When the powers that confer economic autonomy to a federating unit are considered, virtually all of them are…

THE ‘GOOD DISAPPOINTMENT’ WE WANT

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It’s the figure of speech called oxymoron in literature, isn’t it? When you talk of a ‘good disappointment.’ When apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, it is called an oxymoron. When you have antithetical words with opposing meanings coming together. Examples: ‘A gentleman of the road.’ ‘A honest thief.’ ‘Why, then, O brawling love” (Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet). ‘Organized confusion.” ‘Deafening silence.’ These are oxymorons. I remember a teacher who had told us long ago: “You are a moron, if you don’t know an oxymoron.” Lol. But why have…

House of Assembly Polls; Former Kogi Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris Cast his Vote. ….. Insists all votes must count

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By ABUBAKAR YUSUF. The former Kogi Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris says for a virile and serene society, all votes must count in a democratic dispensation. Idris made this assertion after casting his vote in his country home Abejukolo on Saturday for the House of Assembly elections in kogi state. He said the process of electing a people’s choice Governor for Kogi state in November this year under the platform of PDP begins with the House of Assembly elections. He expressed confidence that PDP candidate from Omala and other local government…

Buhari assents to 16 Constitutional Alteration Bills

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President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to 19 Bills in furtherance of Section 58 (4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 16 these bills are Constitutional Alterations of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended)   The highlights of the assented Constitutional Alteration Bills, amongst others, are: • ensuring financial independence of State Houses of Assembly and State Judiciary; • Regulating of the first session and inauguration of members-elect of the National and State Houses of Assembly and for related matters; • ensuring that…

Defence Headquarters inaugurates Committee on 2024 Africa Military Games

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The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) today 16 March 2023 inaugurated a 15 man Organizing Committee for the conduct of second edition of Africa Military Games slated to hold in Abuja in 2024. Performing the inauguration ceremony at the DHQ Conference Hall, the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor represented by the Chief of Defence Training and Operations, Major General Solomon Udounwa remarked that the games will put the nation in spotlight and further enhance unity among participating African nations. He also noted that the games will. impact a…