Month: July 2023

Medical Tourism: Otu rates Obudu-German Hospital best in Nigeria

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Cross River State Governor, Bassey Edet Otu has described the 140-bed Obudu-German Specialist Hospital as a wonder piece which services will promote medical tourism in Nigeria.   Otu disclosed this as part of his tour of the northern senatorial district of the state, weekend.   The Governor, who led a delegation of consultants and notable Cross Riverians to the facility in Obudu Local Governor Area, described the strategically built and well-furnished hospital as one of the best legacies his predecessor, Prof Ben Ayade, left behind, and which Cross Riverians will…

Accidental second wives By Funke Egbemode (egbemode3@gmail.com)

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Are there really women whose main and original ambition was to become second wives? I mean, are there women who never once had a goal of meeting a fine young man whose first wife they want to be? Do some women consciously set out to be second or third wives? Take a look at your young daughter, your sister, look back at your teenage years, your female teenage friends, your classmates in the university, did you actually hear any of them talking about playing second fiddles in marriage? Yet, I’m…

Tinubu And The Gruelling Waves Of Discord In Kogi State By Abdullahi O Haruna Haruspice

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It’s been a smelly downpour of needless torrential rain of strife, discordance, and political tension in the confluence state of Kogi, the state that sits as the epicentre of Nigeria- bordering about nine other states in Nigeria. You can’t get to the north or south of Nigeria without passing through this state- it should ideally be codenamed ”The Gateway” state. In the past, it was characterized by a grim reflection of negative energies, plagued by thuggery, violent crimes, and intertribal animosity. However, in recent years, this bleak trend was reversed,…

N8000 for Bourdillon street sweepers too? By Festus Adedayo

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In the last few days since Nigeria’s new government announced an N8,000 palliative for 12 million poor Nigerian families, you would think that, all of a sudden, Nigerians had gone back in time to the Ayi Kwei Armah’s Ghanaian years. Or that the scales had just suddenly fallen off the people’s eyes. Criticisms, snide commentaries and comparative placements of this government, side by side the Muhammadu Buhari government’s similar policy failure, are pelted on Aso Rock Villa. Has the matrimony of barely eight weeks begun to manifest traces of rupture?…

The First Time I Fell in Love… By Haruspice

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I was three years old when I fell in love for the first time. We had just returned to the village from Zaria. I saw her for the first time and my eyes went straight to her neck, sitting like a nipple of the breast was her Adam’s apple. While she breathes, the air that passes through her throat shoots out the Adam’s apple. It was a fascinating sight to behold. I was burning inside me, as if she was inside me, she looked in my direction and stretched her…

DG charges Corps Members to embrace vocational skills

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The Director General, National Youth Service Corps has advised Corps Members to acquire vocational skills through the Scheme’s Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) Programme. He said the in-camp training for all Corps Members was designed to expose them to entrepreneurship during their three weeks Orientation period, while the post-camp training period would help them to fully perfect their skills towards self employment. NYSC Director General, Brigadier General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed stated this on Monday 15th,2023 in his address to Corps Members at Katsina State Orientation Camp, likewise their counterpart…

The 10th Senate And Akpabio’s Uncommon Leadership By FEMI ODERE

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When the then-candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was asked what he would do if he secured victory as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria during the presidential campaign, he said he would “hit the ground running” immediately after his swearing-in. The phrase was not made in a vacuum, neither was it surprising to those who knew the now president’s antecedents when he ruled the roost in Lagos state as a two-term governor that he meant what he said.   And “hit the ground running” President Tinubu has, from…

Inside President Tinubu’s Nigeria By abiodun KOMOLAFE

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On May 29, 2023, Bola Tinubu assumed office as Nigeria’s president, 16th leader. Nigerians wish him success in the onerous tasks ahead. All the same, it is important to note that President Tinubu’s Nigeria is home to an array of folks: the diligent and the intelligent, the determined and the focused, plus the great boasters and the little doers; and they cut across her socio-political geography. Tinubu’s country harbours the progressives and the conservatives, the strong and the weak, the praise-singers and the faultfinders, the slippery and the flippant, the…

Economy: NPC assures Nigerians of more Quality Training ,Orientation

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By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.     The Director General, National Productivity Centre NPC, Dr Nasir Olaitan Raji-Mustapha said the centre will deploy all it’s training skills and apparatus to diversify the nation’s economy. Dr Raji dropped this hint during a one day workshop/event marking the 20th National Productivity Centre day (NPD) for public servants held in Uyo, Akwa ibom state on Thursday. The theme of the event titled “Diversification of the Nigerian economy, the productivity imperative” , was declared open by Akwa ibom Governor, Pastor Bassey Umo Eno represented by the…

11 DisCo write NERC, seek upward review of tariff

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The federal government has disclosed that the eleven successor electricity companies have applied for a review of their respective electricity tariffs.   Disclosing this through a notice published by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday, the Federal Government said the request for rate review is premised on the need to incorporate changes in macroeconomic parameters and other factors affecting the quality of service, operations and sustainability of the companies.   In the notice obtained by Channels Television, NERC stated that Discos request for rate review is in pursuant…