Month: May 2023

Use your medium to educate Nigerians on ills of Irregular Migration – CG NIS urges Media ….. As JIFORM holds 2-Day workshop for Journalists in Abuja

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Media Practitioners have been charged to use their journalism skills to inform the public on the ills of Irregular Migration and also investigate where reports are made on Irregular Migration, in other to proffer workable solutions to the scourge and other problems which can facilitate regular Migration. The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service,CG Isah Jere Idris made this appeal today in his goodwill message delivered at a workshop for Journalists on sensitization Strategy and reportage on irregular migration and trafficking in persons in Abuja. CG Jere who was represented…

CGI , Banbadede applaud NGC,JIFORM task Journalists on Irregular Migration

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The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (CGI), Isah Jere Idris, MFR and his predecessor Mohammed Banbadede have commended the Nigerian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (NGC) and the Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM). The commendations were made at the opening ceremony of the 2-day JIFORM’s workshop on sensitization strategies and reportage on Irregular Migration and human trafficking held in Abuja on Monday. Represented by Assistant Controller General (ACG) Ngozi Odikpo, the acting Deputy Comptroller General Migration, the CGI Isah Jere, thanked the NGC for identifying journalists…

IGALA LAND AT A CROSS ROAD: Youth Factor In Kogi Politics Prof. Aduku Armstrong Idachaba, Unity House May 20th, 2023

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“Youths 0f a nation are the trustees of prosperity. “Benjamin Disraeli First of all it is indeed a great honor and privilege for me to present this paper today, this paper coming at an auspicious and historic cross road in our Kingdom’s history. As we are all aware that the 2023 Governorship elections is here and as a matter of fact no election has held the future and the existential prospect on the Igala by the Jugular like this election. Our people are exasperated and everywhere what you hear is…

Buhari inaugurates Dangote refinery today,6 presidents, Tinubu to grace event

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President Muhammadu Buhari will today commission the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, the world’s largest single-train refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. Daily Trust had exclusively reported Sunday that five other presidents would be joining President Buhari in the epoch-making event that is expected to positively transform Nigeria’s oil and gas sectoral landscape. Expected at the historic event, apart from international dignitaries, are the Presidents of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma; Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo; President of Senegal, Macky Sall; President of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum; President of Chad, Mahamat Déby; and a host of ambassadors…

Resident Doctors call off Nationwide Strike

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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its five-day warning strike. President of the association, Dr Orji Emeka Innocent, said. that the doctors would resume by 8am on Monday.   The NARD president said, “progress made will be reviewed on 2nd June 2023 during the association’s general meeting where next line of action will be decided.”   The association had embarked on the strike on Wednesday following the failure of the federal government to meet its demands.   Before the strike, NARD had given the government a two-week…

Cleric seeks support, prays for NYSC At 50 …… as Week-long Anniversary Celebration ends

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The Chaplain in Charge of Sunday Service at the National Christian Centre, Abuja, Rev. Mike Agbon has urged well-meaning Nigerians to rally round the NYSC to consolidate on its numerous achievements of almost fifty years.   He said history would always be kind to all the Corps Members from inception till date, including past and present managers of the Scheme for their selfless services to the country. The Cleric disclosed this today in his sermon at the non-denominational thanksgiving service marking the end of the week-long 50th Anniversary Celebration of…

Lamidi Apapa’s missing cap By Festus Adedayo

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Turbulent anger of Obidients landed on Lamidi Apapa last week. By the time their anger petered out, Apapa had lost his cap to a God-knows-who. Esu Elegbara, the trickster deity of the Yoruba people, it will seem, lives in caps. Though most of the exploits of Esu exist in myths, Yoruba constructed a pantheon of beliefs that implicate the Esu as divisive and full of tricks. One of such, sauced in mythology, was translated into a very sobering track by ace Yoruba Awurebe musician, Alhaji Dauda Akanmu Adeeyo, popularly known…

Hilda, the chef who believes in Nigeria, not japa, by Hassan Gimba

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Amidst the daily recurring stories of sadness and sorrow, political shenanigans, judicial rascality, youth crimes, and desperation of Nigerians to japa came a sliver of hope when 26-year-old Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, pushed Nigeria positively onto the world stage. Hilda is a Nigerian chef, restaurateur and actress who believes in Nigeria.   She hung on despite the many obstacles around breaking the four-year record of marathon cooking held by Lata Tondon, an Indian chef who set the record of 87 hours and 45 minutes of uninterrupted…

Soji Adesida takes a rude bow By Festus Adedayo

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April 28 was a particularly bad day for the Adesida royal dynasty of Akure. That day, their son, Anthony Adesoji Adesida, a.k.a. Stag, was killed during a brawl in the state capital. A prince and pastor, he had sought armistice between two feuding personalities at the venue of a party. One of them, consumed by deadly anger, had shoved him off violently. Stag hit his avuncular head on the naked, coarse floor. As his head made a jangling crack on the irreverent concrete cement floor, little did aghast onlookers know…

10th NASS leadership and the burden of morality, by Hassan Gimba

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In the system of governance we practise, there are three arms – the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The Legislature is said to be the first among the three. The arms are characterised by the principle of separation of powers as each is supposed to be independent of the other. The doctrine of separation of powers was first formulated by one of the most important 18th Century political scientists, the French political philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu, in his work De l’esprit des lois, or ‘The Spirit of the Laws’ (1748), which…