Hussaini Mohammed is one of the oldest Nupe Language students of ILLEC whom became an Instructor and a Nupe Language teacher with Police Secondary School Minna. Hussaini has been actively participating every year until this victory that made him the WINNER of Nupe Literature Prize NLP 2023 with a book titled; “NANPAPAGI.” Fatima Suleiman Musa Bida is clitched the Second Position with a book titled “Foci o?” while Alhassan Adam Alhaji who came all the way from Kwara State came third in the contest with a book titled; “Gani yi…
Day: November 27, 2023
Philip Shaibu joins Edo Guber race
Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has officially declared his ambition for the 2024 governorship election in the state. The declaration followed weeks of speculation regarding his intentions. Mr Shaibu, who made the declaration in a pre-recorded speech aired on Monday by Arise Television said he will be contesting under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the upcoming 2024 election and I am confident that with your support, we can take Edo State to even greater heights. “My fellow…
Maida charges Nokia to support ICT development in Nigeria
The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),Dr. Aminu Maida, has requested Nokia Networks to increase its investments in Research and Development (R&D) to support the growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Nigeria. Maida spoke when a delegation from Nokia Networks of Finland led by the Deputy Minister, Under-Secretary of State for International Trade from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Jarno Syrjala, visited the Commission recently to explore further opportunities for mutually-beneficial relationships. He told the delegation…
Malawi’s path to an “Award-Winning Judiciary” ~ by Chidi Odinkalu
Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as guest of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State in south-east Nigeria, where she spoke at the 12th annual lecture in memory of the man after whom the university is named. It was also the 119th birthday of Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, Nigeria’s founding president, and the month of the 26th anniversary of the death in 1997 of Malawi’s founding president. At the lecture, Joyce Banda described Malawi’s judiciary as “award-winning” and many Nigerians in…
National Assembly Leadership Retreat; An X-ray of NILDS Strides ,by Abubakar Yusuf.
For the leadership of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies NILDS, the primary mandate of positioning robust legislative arm to contend with the present realities cannot be overlooked, as the new development coincided with the zeal , ability and experience of the top echelon under the leadership of Professor Abubakar Olarenwaju Sulaiman, as a former National Planning Minister in the previous administration. The proactive tendencies been enjoyed under the foresighted leadership particularly at the Legislative arm spread to the Executive arm or government had placed the agency at…