Day: February 18, 2024

Edo APC Primary: Sen Osunbor urges Tinubu to save APC from impending loss … .. demands cancellation of the flawed primar

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One of the top contenders of the Edo APC 2024 guber primary, Senator Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor has called on President Bola Tinubu to wade into the looming crisis of the party after a flawed primary conducted last Saturday. Senator Osunbor also called for the cancellation of the primaries which has so far produced three APC guber flag bearers. Osunbor made this disclosure in a press conference on Sunday evening in Iruekpen his hometown where he chronicled what transpired last Saturday declaring that: “On Saturday, 27th, February 2024 all registered members…

FCT Police arrests Chef for masterminding kidnap of 12-year old Boss’ son …. CP Igwe tasks residents on profiling of domestic workers

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The operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested one Ulagu Philemon Chukwuma’m’ 29years for masterminding the kidnap of his boss’ son, Justin Nwakwo ‘m’ 12, on February 10, 2024, in Jabi, Abuja. Philemon, a domestic worker, who served as a Chef to the Nwakwo family, was arrested by officers of the Utako Police Divisional Headquarters that were following up on investigations to rescue the abducted boy and also to arrest the perpetrators. Investigations by the Police revealed that the principal suspect, who has since confessed to…

Reps applaud TETFUND for promoting research, innovations amongst Nigerian students, youth …as Deputy Speaker calls for more innovative hubs in S/East

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The Federal House of Representatives has applaudedTertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund)for championing creative researches and establishing innovative hubs for the promotion of science and technology education amongst Nigerian students and youth. Speaking at the closing ceremony of a two-week cohort learning for some select Nigerian students, researchers and academia at the Abuja Innov8 Hub over the weekend, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu said the Parliament would continue to support creative activities that tended to develop the minds of Nigerian youth with innovations,…

PAN rejects Reps’ Parliamentary system proposal

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The Parliamentary Advocacy Network (PAN), has rejected the recent proposal by 60 federal lawmakers in Nigeria’s House of Representatives seeking a return to the parliamentary system of government that the country practiced at independence. The lawmakers, who belong to a House of Representatives pressure group known as the Parliamentary Group, introduced a Constitution Alteration Bill on the floor of the House of Representatives proposing the abolishment of the Presidential system in Nigeria. In a statement signed by the National Coordinator of PAN, Sunny Anderson Osiebe and the General- Secretary, Fred…

Hunger: Northern Nigeria takes its mother to the sky, by Festus Adedayo

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Late Afrobeat superstar, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in his early musical ensemble days as Africa ‘70, recalibrated a folklore that told the story of food shortage and hunger. The folklore, which Fela entitled Alujanjankijan brims with the motif of greed and its implications. The hunger folktale goes thus: Long time ago, a very severe famine hit the animal kingdom, leading to intense food crisis. As against the predictions of diviners called to seek the face of divinities for solution, hunger continued to ravage the land, so much that the kingdom’s silos were…

Bukar Abba Ibrahim: The Man Who Touched My Life (2) by Hassan Gimba

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Adamu Maina Waziri is one politician most people misunderstand. He is one man who does not suffer fools and, unlike the typical politician, he shoots from the hip, the reason some saw him as “crude”. His word is his bond; and if you asked him for a favour that he can grant, he would tell you, and if he promised, he would deliver. But if he wouldn’t, he would not bat an eyelid in telling you no. This is not the kind of leader Nigerians want. Nigerians prefer the man…