NCC reiterates commitment to Digital Job Creation for Youths

In line with one of the pillars of the National Digital Economic Policy and Strategy, (NDEPS 2020-2030), which is to further accelerate economic growth in digital literacy and skills, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it remained fully committed to the effective and efficient implementation of the Federal Government’s policy direction in repositioning the youth for the digital era job opportunities through a programme tagged, Digital Job Creation for Youths (DJCY).   Over 2,000 Nigerian youths have, so far, benefited from this programme from the Six (6) Geopolitical Zones…

Tinubu, judicial corruption and Madman of Gadarene By Festus Adedayo

In Port-Harcourt, Rivers State last week as guest of Governor Nyesom Wike, President-elect, Bola Tinubu, promised to fight corruption. To delink judicial officers’ minds from corruption, Tinubu’s blueprint of fighting this goblin, he said, would be to incentivize judicial officers.   “You don’t expect your judges to live in squalor, to operate in squalor and dispense justice in squalor. This is part of the changes that are necessary. We must fight corruption but we must definitely look at the other side of the coin. If you don’t want your judges…

My phone conversation with Dangiwa Umar over Tukur Mamu, by Hassan Gimba

My column of last week with the title “Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter” drew the attention of Colonel Dangiwa Umar (retd). The respected senior citizen was more particular about the first part because I mentioned him.       In the piece, I pointed out that 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 and taken to court on a 10-count charge bordering on terrorism financing.       He…

IMPROPER DRESSING: DG reads Riot Act to Corps Members

The Director General ,National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed has warned Corps Members against defacing their NYSC uniforms and improper dressings.   He said anyone caught violating the Scheme’s dress code or breaking the NYSC rules would be sanctioned.   The DG gave the warning while addressing Corps Members and camp officials at NYSC Imo and Enugu State Orientation Camps. Ahmed advised the Corps Members to be disciplined in their conduct, embrace dignity of labour, adhere strictly to instructions and avoid all forms of negative youthful exhuberances.…

The other abusive men By Funke Egbemode ([email protected])

When we hear wife or spousal abuse, our minds prop up the image of a woman with eyes swollen shut, broken nose or arm in a sling. However, not all abuse is physical; there is also mental, emotional and financial abuse and the victims suffer as much as the ones whose husbands pound and pummel. Emotionally abusive and controlling men usually are extremely affectionate in the beginning. They pamper and spoil the woman right from the first date and then rush her to get into a committed relationship very quickly.…