Day: July 8, 2023

17TH NBA-SBL INT’L CONFERENCE: NBA lauds CAC exceptional performance

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The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has commended the active and impactful participation of the Corporate Affairs Commission in its just concluded 17th Annual International Business Law Conference held in Lagos. The conference with the theme “The Nigerian Business Landscape: Priorities for Law, Policy, and Regulation” took place from Wednesday, July 5th, to Friday, July 7th, 2023. The NBA-SBL Chairman of the Governing Board, Dr. Adeoye Adefulu, stated this while speaking to reporters in Lagos shortly after visiting the Regulatory clinic set up by the association. Adeoye…

4 dead, many others injured as trailer collides with Nigerian police van in Abuja

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No fewer than four people have lost their lives and many others were injured as a trailer collided with a Nigerian police van at Dutse-Baupma along the Dutse-Bwari expressway in the Bwari area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).   The accident which occurred on Saturday, July 8, 2023, was said to have been due to a failed brake from a trailer carrying sharp sand that also affected a black Toyota Highlander Jeep, a black Hilux pickup van belonging to the Nigeria Police Force, and a commercial tricycle.  …

CRIME FIGHTING: IGP directs Officers to embrace Smart Policing,urges Nigerians to use ‘NPF Rescue Me APP’, other innovations

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The Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun recently concluded a comprehensive tour of the state-of-the-art National Command and Control Centre (C4i) facility and the Nigeria Police Crime and Incidence Database Centre (NPCIDC) at the Louis Edet House, Force Headquarters, Abuja.   The purpose of the tour according to NPF was to emphasize the IGP’s commitment to integrating smart policing strategies into the Nigerian Police Force. During the tour, the IGP reiterated the efforts of the Police Force in adopting cutting-edge technologies and urged officers to fully leverage these…

FULL TEXT: Anambra State Government Committee report on Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma’s JAMB score controversy

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) revealed the different times that Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma made several requests to JAMB portal asking for her results at different hours, and each of these times (four in number), she received in her phone, same results from JAMB indicating candidate’s University Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations (UTME) results to wit: English: 64, Physics: 54, Biology: 74, Chemistry: 57 with a total aggregate score of 249. JAMB disclosed that the candidate was well informed of her correct score from JAMB. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had sent…

JAMB vindicated, as Anambra schoolgirl Mmesoma Ejikeme confesses she forged her UTME result to Soludo’s panel

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been vindicated as a panel of inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government confirmed that Mmesoma Ejikeme manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, where she actually scored 249 as against 362.   The eight-member panel had been set up by the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on Wednesday to investigate the ongoing controversy between the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and Mmesoma, whose UTME result has come under controversy, with the mandate of making its findings public.   Mmesoma, a…

WFD honours NILDS DG,Prof Suleiman with Impact and Innovation Award

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The Director General of NILDS,Prof. Abubakar O Sulaiman has been honored with the impact and innovation award by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), the UK public body dedicated to strengthening democracy around the world.   This prestigious recognition, in a letter signed by the WFD Regional Director, Africa, Michael Nevin, acknowledged his exceptional development-driven initiatives at the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS.   It is truly an honor to receive such commendation and be acknowledged for the remarkable efforts and dedication demonstrated by the DG, management,…

Gov Otu calls for dredging of Calabar Port

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Cross River State Governor, Senator Prince Bassey Otu, has appealed to the Federal Government for the speedy dredging of the Calabar Port.   Speaking in Government House, Calabar, when he received the Calabar Port Manager, Mr. Festus Ikechi Olumati, and his team, the governor explained that transforming it to an active port will attract investors as well as tourists and boost revenue generation.   “It is important that the encumbrances hindering the dredging work be settled out of court for us to have a more active port.   “If it…

Order and stability: a case for Nigeria’s youth By abiodun KOMOLAFE

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Change is inevitable! The trouble however is that, most times, one doesn’t see it coming; not even the military; otherwise, all coups would have been preempted and suppressed before they’re eventually executed. So also, it is reasonable to say in public administration that, in the few weeks of Bola Tinubu’s administration, there have been many upheavals and things that quite a few Nigerians never believed were possible that have been announced and addressed; and the nation has remained the same, even stronger. Going forward, President Tinubu wants to fly in…