Month: April 2023

GADS: Stakeholders issue 31-point communique ……. call for effective engagement between Africa and its Diaspora

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Stakeholders at the just concluded two-day Global African Diaspora Symposium (GADS) Abuja 2023 has released a 31-Point Communiqué ,calling for practical steps in having a unified and effective engagement between Africa and its Diaspora. The communiqué presented by the Chairman, Local Organising committee, Mrs. Ibukun Odusote, expressed that the African Diaspora alliance experts were encouraged to partner with Ministries of Health in all African countries to deepen cost-effective healthcare, employ digital technology and invest in capacity building in the healthcare sector. It was agreed that full, legal backing and strong…

Nigeria’s Sudan question By Festus Adedayo

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Africa is on its familiar route again. She has become the proverbial serial widow whose mourning and weeping the Yoruba express as “Iwo l’eni, iwo lana bi ekun ap’okoje“. In serial widowhood, the widow is seen as involved in matricide, until she proves otherwise. Each death of the husband courses tears down her cheeks and cries seem the only alibi of her innocence. Sudan is Africa’s most recent ground for exhibiting serial widowhood cries. Africa, like that widow, appears to have a prowess that killing her prime children and husband…

President Buhari To Commission FHA Zuba Housing Project May 2

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By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.     President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the multi billion federal housing authority FHA housing project located in Zuba, the heart of the nation.   An invitation letter sent out by the Head, Public Affairs of the authority, Mr Kenneth Chigelu stated that the commissioning will hold on Tuesday, 2nd May , 2023 at the premises of the estate at 10am.   The chief host of the occasion is the Minister of Works and Housing, Raji Babatunde Fashola, at the auspicious occasion.   The multi billion estate…

Unemployment: Youths advised to Be Focused, Diligent And Genuine …..As Adejoh Empowers Five with over 1m at URCC Youth Seminar

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As unemployment continues to rise in Nigeria despite government claims of job creation, Youths have been advised to be focused, diligent, genuine and believe in what they do. This advice was given at a two day Youth Empowerment Seminar 2023, with the theme, “The Power to make Wealth”, Organized by the Universal Reformed Christian Church NKST (URCC), Abuja, Weekend. One of the guest speakers, a serial entrepreneur, Dr. Peter Adejoh also used the occasion to empower five of the participants with over 1 million naira as seed capital through his…

Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter, by Hassan Gimba

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In a move normally seen in Hollywood spy thrillers, Tukur Mamu, publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and an aide to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a popular Islamic cleric, was arrested in September last year at the Cairo International Airport on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj, and detained for 24 hours before he was repatriated back to Nigeria. Perhaps Mamu’s arrest was not because of negotiations for the release of the passengers abducted during the attack on a Kaduna-bound train in March 2022. Perhaps. The Department of State Services (DSS)…

Danbatta condoles with families of Ex Minister,Musa Gwadabe, BUK Registrar

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The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, on Thursday, led a delegation of top officials of the Commission on condolence visits to the families of two prominent Nigerians who recently passed away.   The visits were to the families of the late Alhaji Musa Gwadabe, former Minister of Labour, and the Registrar of Bayero University, Jamil Ahmed Salim, who both died recently in Kano. During the visits, Danbatta commiserated with the families of the deceased and prayed for the repose of the souls…

GADS: Diaspora Communities are our greatest off-shore assets,says Pinto Chikoti

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The Secretary General, Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States,(OACPS), Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti says the Diaspora Communities are the greatest off-shore assets and critical force in achieving sustainable development in their countries of origin. Mr Pinto Chikoti stated this at the second edition of the Global African Diaspora Symposium (GADS), in Abuja. He explained that the organization is geared towards working together to create the right framework to facilitate the positive contributions of the Diaspora in the areas of Climate Change and Science and Technology among others. The OACPS…

BREAKING: Ladoke Akintola building donated to LAUTECH

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The massive house belonging to the late premier of defunct Western Region Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola has been donated to the Oyo state university named after him – Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso. This is an highlight of the 15th convocation ceremonies of the institution which is being rounded off today with awards of degrees to postgraduate students and award of honorary doctorate degrees. Disclosing the development Pro-Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council of the university Professor Ayodeji Oludare Omole in his speech at the programme being held at…

BREAKING: Buhari postpones 2023 census

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census.   The exercise was earlier scheduled for May 3 – 7 2023, but now has been shifted to a date to be determined by the incoming administration. President Buhari gave the approval at the aftermath of a meeting with members of the Federal Executive Council and the Chairman of the National Population Commission, together with his team at the Presidential Villa on Friday, April 28, 2023. The postponement of the 2023 census was contained in a press…

An Open Letter To Professor DANTENI Wushishi For The Inclusion Of Our Major Languages Of Niger State Thus; Nupe, Gbagyi & Kambari to NECO. Today is here, tomorrow is far, let the history starts now.

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Dear Professor Danteni Wushishi,   It is necessary to write you this letter as every access to see you since 2022 went abortive. First, complement of the Eid-El Fitr. It is our hope that you are fine and doing well over there Professor Danteni Wushishi, I want to believe that you are the first child of the soil (Nigerlite) to enjoy this juicy position despite a lot of senior Professors in Niger State but God Almighty Chooses you to lead as the Registrar of NECO. Glory be to God Almighty!…