Year: 2023

NASENI, Agric Ministry partner on Agro-Industrialization, Climate Change Mitigation, Others

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The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security have commenced discussions on how to deploy existing technical competencies and other resources by the two institutions to improve agro allied-industries development targets, climate change mitigations and smart solar irrigation aimed at dry-season farming. The trio of the Minister of Agriculture & Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, the Minister of State, Sen. Sabi Aliyu Abdullahi and the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NASENI, Mr. Khalil Suleiman Halilu who held…

Aminu Maida highlights roles of ICT in curbing Financial Crimes

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Dr. Aminu Maida, Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC,has highlighted the pivotal roles of Information and Communication Technology in curbing financial crimes in the society. The NCC EVC who was represented at the event by NCC Director of Public Affairs Dr Reuben Muoka, gave the insights in his presentation at the 11th Anniversary Lecture Series of RealNews Magazine in Lagos. Dr. Aminu Maida highlighted significance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the fight against financial crimes. He said financial crimes encompassed a range of…

Gov Zulum donates100 bags of rice, 100 bags of beans, 10 cows to Corps Members …..NYSC DG restates ban on night journeys

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Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has donated 100 bags of rice, 100 bags of beans, 50 kegs of 50 litres of Vegetable Oil and 10 Cows to the 2023 Batch ‘C’ Stream One Corps Members deployed to the State. The Governor made the donation today in his address at the Swearing-in Ceremony of the Corps Members held at the Temporary Orientation Camp in Government Secondary School, Maiduguri. He said his administration placed high priority on the security and welfare of the Corps Members, therefore, he would continue to…

Six players of Barau Jibrin Football Academy set to play in UK, Holland

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Efforts of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin to promote sports have started to yield results as six players of his football academy have been selected to play in clubs in Holland and the United Kingdom. Senator Barau established the Barau Jibrin Football Academy in 2021 to promote football. The players of the academy are selected from across the country. The management and players of the academy on Monday paid a courtesy call to the founder of the club, Deputy President of the Senate at the…

Investigative Media Conference and Awards holds December in Abuja

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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) with seventeen other media partners is set to host the 2023 edition of the Amplify In-depth Media Conference and Awards in Abuja on December 8 and 9, 2023.   A statement released by the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the WSCIJ, Mrs Motunrayo Alaka, at the weekend said the theme of the conference is “Independent Media Equation: Policies, Ownership, Technology, and Sustainability.”   According to the statement, the discussions at the conference would revolve around how policies, ownership structure, technology and sustainability…

The DNA Debacle By Olaleye Olawale

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One awful thing that could happen to any family is to glibly jump on the DNA adventure. That’s not a child’s play and not a matter to joke with. The eventual demonisation of women and the ultimate disruption of homes, therefore, prescribe circumspection.   The rates at which DNA results had disrupted many hitherto beautiful families is a cause for concern for any probing mind. This also explains why traveling that route is not a decision any family should come by so easily on account of cheap disagreements.   The…

Two Nigerians dead ,others severely injured as fire guts Canadian Embassy in Abuja

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The fire incident which occurred on Monday morning, November 6, 2023, was triggered by a diesel tank explosion in the generator house at the Canadian Embassy.   FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said the incident happened at about 10:45am.   Reports say the two MIKANO engines were being serviced by a five-man team from JMD company when it exploded.   One of the power-generating sets was said to be working, while the other one was being serviced.   The fire occurred when the tank of diesel in the generator house,…

Abobaku, japa and Tinubu ‘haters’ By Lasisi Olagunju

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“We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it.” I do not know under what condition Bob Dylan wrote that song line. All I know is that it serves my purpose as I sit here at the bank of Nigeria searching for the right metaphor for what the country has become. For those not privileged to have a seat in Abuja, this is the ultimate end-time. Japa used to be an option for the stranded, but that option is dead now; they’ve killed it. Yet, speaking…

NNPCL,Stakeholders partner to reconcile NEITI 2021 report

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited, has said it is collaborating with the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, and the committee set up by President Bola Tinubu to investigate, review and reconcile the financial records on alleged indebtedness to the federation by the company and the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC. NNPCL in a statement by its Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Mr. Olufemi Soneye, on Monday, said its clarification was coming on the heels of calls by a non-governmental organisation for a probe of several monies allegedly owed…

The rumblings in Rivers, by Kazeem Akintunde

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The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, for now, cannot afford to sleep with his two eyes closed. Although President Bola Tinubu, Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and the court have given him a temporary reprieve, he cannot be complacent or he would kiss his job goodbye.   He has stepped on the tail of a cobra and it is either he fights and kill the snake or he will himself become food.     Fubara, an indigene of Opobo Town in Opobo Local Government…