Month: November 2023

Nigerian Boxing Referees/Judges Association reject Minimah move to withdraw Nigeria from IBA …..support Omo-Agege’s emergence as NBF interim President

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The Nigeria Boxing referees/ Judges association has declared unequivocally that they do not go with the planned move by the former President of the Nigeria Boxing Federation, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah (rtd.), to withdraw Nigeria from the International Boxing Association. This was contained in a communique signed the President,Etim Edem Okon and made available to the media after their joint meeting recently. They also declared that their full support for the emergence of Azania Omo-Agege, as the interim President of the Nigeria Boxing Federation. The full text of the communique…

Hussaini Mohammed Gana emerges Best World Nupe Writer

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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…

Philip Shaibu joins Edo Guber race

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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

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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

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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.

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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…

Dangote, BUA’s destructive trade war By Festus Adedayo

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  Yes, it is a season of claims and counter-claims. Yet, cost of living is hitting the roof. Hunger is pelting the bellies of both the righteous and the infidel. Living life is almost becoming a rocket science. Charles Soludo, luxuriating in public acclamation of “one of the most cerebral Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governors,” is in his season of pontificating. Last week, he offered an escapist defence of the Nigerian establishment which citizens’ hunger could not penetrate. Soludo’s latest proffer for the people’s hunger is that the current…

A requiem for my mother By Festus Adedayo

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Last Friday, November 24, around 1pm, I was getting pleased with myself for having scaled the hurdle of yet another chapter in a school dissertation I was writing when my phone rang. Before then, I sat cross-legged like someone who had just won tombola, thinking of further routes to take to arrive at the final destination of this academic obsession I wangled myself into. These days, when my younger brother called, I was always seized with trepidation. Thirteen years ago, September, 2010, to be precise, he had similarly called me.…

Tinubu, Please Listen To Akpabio On This! By Mon-Charles Egbo

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Nigerians are desperately yearning for a legislature that embodies the wishes and aspirations of the people as well as the ideals of democracy. The majority have even concluded that an effective legislature remains a mirage in Nigeria, lamenting that all the investments in institutionalizing democracy since independence have amounted to a wasted venture. And then interestingly, this view found an apt expression in the recent observation by former president Olusegun Obasanjo to the effect that democracy cannot work in Nigeria because it is alien to the African culture and tradition.…

Aisha Ibrahim Kwaya Bura defeats incumbent to emerge NAWOJ National Chairperson

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Aisha Ibrahim Kwaya Bura from Borno State has emerged the new President of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ.Aisha Ibrahim Kwaya Bura defeated the incumbent Ladi Bala to become Winner. Bura lost against Ladi in 2020 at Minna, Niger State but re-strategized and returned this year to achieve her dream. Wasilan Ladan, emerged National Secretary of NAWOJ, Lillian Okonkwo emerged National Deputy President while other candidates on the Bura team won their elections.