Month: March 2023

Pickpockets steal Orji Kalu’s phone during Certificate of Return presentation

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Some yet-to-be-identified suspected pickpockets have stolen a phone which belongs to the Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu stolen when he went to collect his Certificate of Return at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. This was disclosed by the senator in a post made via his verified Facebook page on Thursday, March 9, 2023. The former Abia State Governor revealed that the cell phone stolen by a yet-to-be-identified person contained both his MTN and Glo lines. He also warned the general public to beware of any illicit…

NYSC DG inaugurates 13-Man Think Tank Committee on Policy Thrust

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The Director General ,National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General YD Ahmed has promised his readiness to take the Scheme to enviable heights with innovations.   He reiterated this today while inaugurating a 13-man think tank committee that would drive the actualisation of his 5-point policy thrust. Ahmed charged Members of the committee to work in conjunction with all the departments at the National Directorate Headquarters, Abuja, the NYSC Area Offices and other structures of the Scheme and also liaise with various NYSC stakeholders towards actualization of the policy thrust mandate.…

2023 International Women’s Day : NCC felicitates with Nigerian Women

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The Executive Vice Chairman, Nigeria Communication Commission NCC,Prof Umar Danbatta has congratulated Nigerian Women especially those who are working in the commission on the occasion of the commemoration of International Women’s Day, today 8th March, 2023.     NCC EVC in a congratulatory message personally signed by him said; “This occasion presents another opportunity for me to reiterate the Commission’s irrevocable commitment to promoting gender equality and inclusive participation in line with the theme of the celebration: ‘DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality’’.   “Today, gender inclusiveness in the…

BEFORE THE FINAL FALL OF LAGOS By Dapo Thomas

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The fall of Lagos into the hands of the invaders during the presidential elections rattled me for some days. The possibility that I can wake up one morning to discover that my Governor is one Chinedu frightens me to the marrow. I don’t even know whether to begin this piece with an apology to those who may prefer a discourse on nationality to ethnicity. However, in a situation where there is an existential threat to what defines my identity and humanity, subscription to sophomoric courtesies becomes a matter of tendentious…

Bola Tinubu, oun t’o lóó dà lo dà yìí o By Lasisi Olagunju

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The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where, in 1927, the then President Charles D.B. King scored 234,000 votes out of a total of 15,000 registered voters. The victor was also kind enough to give his opponent 9,000 votes as a mark of fairness and justice. That uncommon feat is naturally in the Guinness Book of World Records. We in Nigeria have not reached that enviable height. We will get there one day, soon. But we had a…

BREAKING: INEC postpones Governorship and State Assembly elections to March 18

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections till March 18, 2023.     According to reports, the exercise which was previously scheduled to hold on March 11 was shifted due to a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration, and transportation.   The decision was made on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, following a meeting of the commission’s executives.   “We should be able to get everything in order before March 18,” a source familiar with the development said.   The meeting was still underway…

Governor Adeleke’s 100 Days In Office: Beyond Dancing… By Oluwaseyi Adeniyi

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During the electioneering period, Osun APC portrayed Senator Ademola Adeleke as an ordinary dancer who knows nothing about governance.   Senator Adeleke told the people of Osun that if they can vote for him as their Governor, he would do that which seems impossible for the APC in the State. He said he is going to use his ingenuity to bring back the lost glory of the state. Osun people believed him, without minding the campaign of calumny employed by APC, they voted for him overwhelmingly.   On the day…

2023 IWD: NHRC harps on imperatives of gender equality

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As the global community celebrates the 2023 International Women’s Day (IWD), the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Chief Tony Ojukwu OFR,SAN has again harped on the imperatives of gender equality, saying that it hold the key to all-round development in every facet of the society. Ojukwu who stated this on the eve of the 2023 IWD celebration, pointed out that it is high time the issue of gender equality and gender inclusiveness defined the way our society is governed because it is obvious that gender discrimination…

100 DAYS: IMOLE IS RADIATING OSUN By Sarafa Ibrahim

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On November 27, 2022, Senator Ademola Adeleke was inaugurated as the sixth Executive Governor of Osun state. Right there, Governor Adeleke made it abundantly clear that Osun state is set for a new and refreshing experience.   “Under my watch as Governor of Osun State, I will boldly correct all past injustice, corrupt acts or policies by any previous administration which are against the collective interest of our people,” Governor Adeleke noted in his inaugural speech. “Let me state here that from the education, health, mining sector, agriculture, road infrastructure,…

PDP PROTEST TO INEC: A DISSECTION By Law Mefor

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The world over, politicians try to win elections by fair and foul means. That tendency is the reason institutions and laws exist and are operated by men of honour and integrity, who are sticklers to rules and unyielding to pressures from partisan interests.   The February 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria is a watershed and a new low in the kind of life Nigerians live as human beings who deliberately refuse to grow up and join civilized societies. Our leaders lack honour and integrity, and have now added impunity by…