Day: February 11, 2024

Speaker Abbas hails Eagles after AFCON final loss

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Speaker, House of Representatives has hailed the Super Eagles despite losing to Cote d’Ivoire in the final of the 2023 African Cup of Nations.   Nigeria, on Sunday night, lost to the host nation, Cote d’Ivoire, by two goals to one in the final of continental male football competition.   Speaker Abbas commended the Nigerian male national team for uniting Nigerians across religious, ethnic and political lines, noting that the country has been more united by their sterling performance at the tournament.   He noted that the Super Eagles gave…

Speaker Abbas expresses sadness over death of Access Holdings CEO, Herbert Wigwe, wife, son, Ogunbanjo

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The Speaker ,House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen has expressed shock and deep pain over the death of the Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc and founder of HOW Foundation, Dr Herbert Wigwe, and others in a helicopter crash in the United States.   Wigwe reportedly died in the chopper alongside his wife, Doreen and son Chizi, as well as a former Group Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc, Mr. Abimbola Ogunbanjo.   The Speaker, after receiving an official confirmation of the incident and deaths by…

Wigwe, others’ deaths shocking, devastating – Deputy Speaker, Kalu mourns

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Deputy Speaker ,House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has expressed shock and sadness over the death of the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Bank, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Doreen and son, Chizi in a helicopter crash in the United States of America over the weekend. Kalu also mourned the demise of the former Group Chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group), Abimbola Ogunbanjo among others who also lost their lives in the crash. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Levinus Nwabughiogu…

Bukar Abba Ibrahim: The man who touched my life (1), by Hassan Gimba

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“He had a good heart, see where he died.”   “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell     “Daga Allah sai talaka,” (meaning service to the poor after that to God) was his campaign slogan. Bukar Abba Ibrahim was a man whose life was spent in service to the people. This was reflected more in his method of governance that was skewed towards empowering the people.     When Yobe State was created in 1991, the state itself was rural and Damaturu,…

Women who wanted to beat up our president By Festus Adedayo

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This is what Kurumi’s Ijaye looked like after it was attacked and defeated by Ibadan forces in 1860/61: “Old people, men and women and young children were being carried to the river Ose to die,” wrote John Iliffe in his Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Yorubaland. He continued: “Whilst many others were left to perish in the streets. There being no food for them, that many, in order to obtain the means for subsistence, put themselves and children in pawn and others even sold their relatives to procure food to eat.” A…

Abuja Muslim Forum mourns death of Ex PRO,Aboky Sulaiman

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The Abuja Muslim Forum(AMF) commiserated with the family of Aboky Sulaiman a Veteran Journalist and former Public Relations Officer of the forum, whose death occured Saturday 10th February,2024.   AMF in a condolence message signed by Alhaji AbdulRazaq AjaniAmeer,and Ustaz Yunus Salahudeen PRO I,read;   “Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Rajiun The Executive and entire Members of Abuja Muslim Forum(AMF ) condole with the family of Editor NewsForum/Ex- Public Relations Officer (PRO) AMF ,Mallam Aboky Sulaiman family and the entire Keffi Muslim Community and also the Ummah at large on…