Day: December 2, 2023

36th World Military Wrestling Championship: Nigeria Military Wrestlers cliches Gold, Silver.

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The Nigerian Military Wrestlers at the on-going 36th World Military Wrestling Championship at Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday, 1st December, 2023, has clinched Gold and silver medals respectively. The feet was achieved by female wrestler, Corporal Hannah Reuben who beat her Italian contender in the 68 weight category of women’s freestyle wrestling to lift the gold medal. The Armed Forces of Nigeria wrestling team made an indelible mark on the global stage, setting a record and garnering widespread acclaim. The medal was presented to Cpl Reuben by the Vice President of…

How to Stop Judicial Coups Against Democracy in Nigeria By Farooq Kperogi

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The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), one of Nigeria’s most prominent pro-democracy NGOs, invited me to make a virtual presentation from my base in Atlanta to a national seminar it organized last Thursday on “targeted judicial reforms and enhanced judicial integrity in post-election litigation.” Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it, but here are the thoughts I would have shared on the topic.   It’s oddly ironic that the judiciary, which should be the bulwark of democracy, has become such a dreadful terror to democracy that people are seeking to protect…

Intimate Affairs: Married not for love, by Funke Egbemode

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It is not every marriage that is founded on love, not every married person who married for love. Don’t tell me you don’t know a few people who took their vows based on what they could see rather than what they felt. They stood, all dressed up in front of their Pastor, Bishop or Reverend Father and repeated the right lines rightly after the clergy, in front of men, not because they were ecstatically, deliriously in love but because they had chosen who they chose at that particular point in…

DG warns Corps Members against unethical conduct

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Corps Members have been warned to shun every form of misconduct throughout their service year in order to avoid being sanctioned by the NYSC Byelaws.   The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Yushau Dogara Ahmed gave the warning while addressing Corps Members in Edo State Orientation Camp, Okada, likewise Ondo State Orientation Camp in Ikare-Akoko.   He said there are laid down rules and regulations guiding every Corps Member while in camp, adding that the Scheme is not a safe abode for lawbreakers. “You are expected…

DSS refutes Jackson Ude’s allegations against DG,Yusuf Magaji Bichi …. says it’s false accusations

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The Department of State Services (DSS) has reacted to some publications by one Jackson Ude on his twitter handle @jacksonpbn, against the person and office of the DGSS, Alhaji Yusuf Magaji Bichi.   The Service in a release signed by Peter Afunanya,Director, PR & Strategic Communications ,described the said allegations as false. It stated that neither the DG nor anyone acting on his directive has looted staff subsidy grant.   “No such grant has been made available to the Service and once that is allocated, staff will, as usual, receive…