Month: February 2024

Africa Diaspora, catalyst for continental development – Dabiri-Erewa

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For Africa to experience socio-economic resurgence, prosperity and development, the onus lies with Africans at home and more importantly its Diaspora. Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, (NIDCOM), Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, stated this when she received a delegation from Zimbabwe led by its High Commissioner to Nigeria Amb. Maxwell Ranga, on a study tour of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, in Abuja.   Dabiri-Erewa expressed joy that more African States were beginning to recognise the worth of their Diasporas, as she noted that these Diasporas are the catalysts for a progressive continent…

Akpabio: A Man for Every New Season, By Olusegun Adeniyi

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Godswill Akpabio (then Akwa Ibom State Governor) once stated that only the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan could guarantee peace in Nigeria. At an interdenominational church service beamed live on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) network on 2 January 2015, he declared: “As a PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) chieftain, I have found the solution to the peace we are seeking in Nigeria. That solution is the election of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for a second term in office. When you do that, you would show that you are not a…

A new sherif is in town,Hon Oyetunde Ojo, MD/CEO,Federal Housing Authority

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The Managing Director and Chief Executive, Federal Housing Authority, Hon Oyetunde Ojo, has reiterated the readiness of the Authority’s new Executive Management Team to turn around the agency’s fortune in line with the Renewed Hope agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu .   Hon Ojo revealed this at the inaugural meeting on Thursday, 22nd February 2024, between the Hon. Minister of Housing and Urban Development Arc Ahmed Musa Dangiwa with the agencies under his ministry.   The MD, who said he has noted the lapses on the side of the…

NOA ,DHQ to partner on values reorientation

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National Orientation Agency (NOA) and the Defence Headquarters have agreed to work together towards imparting proper values to citizens including the military. This was the outcome of a meeting between the Director General of NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa held at the DHQ yesterday. During the visit, the Director General explained NOA’s mandates and highlighted its programmes aimed at modernizing its structures by establishing twenty-first-century platforms accessible to all arms of government and agencies. Recognizing the pivotal role of the military in…

Friday Sermon: Cost Of Living Crisis, Share Your Food With People In Ramadan By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful   All Praise is due to Allah, We praise Him and we seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness from Him. We repent to Him; and we seek refuge in Him from our own evils and our own bad deeds. Anyone who is guided by Allah is indeed guided; and anyone who has been left astray, will find no one to guide him. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the Only One without any partner;…

OPERATION VELVET: FCT Police Raids black spot, arrests 307 suspects

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Following the coordinated raid operation by the tactical teams of the FCT Police Command, led by the Commissioner of Police CP Bennett Igweh on 11th February,2024 at Gidan-Dambe, Dei-dei – Zuba, Abuja, where 307 suspects were arrested, the suspects were screened and a hundred and seventy (170) of them were found wanting. According to a statement signed by SP Josephine Adeh,FCT Police Command PRO,a hundred and sixty-five (165) of the one hundred and seventy (170) suspects found wanting, were promptly profiled by the police operatives and arraigned in the Abuja…

BREAKING: Yoruba nation agitator Sunday Igboho returns to Nigeria after 3 years

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Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has returned to Nigeria after 3 years.   A statement by Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, on X page on Thursday, February 22, confirmed that the activist returned to the country for his late mother’s burial.   He wrote: “I can confirm that Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho is currently on his way to Igboho Town for the final burial of his mother MRS S.A.ADEYEMO.   “The body of MRS S.A ADEYEMO was picked up from the mortuary in SAKI TOWN…

Deputy Speaker, Kalu hails Senate over passage of South East Development Commission Bill

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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has expressed gratitude to the Senate for passing the Bill seeking the establishment of South East Development Commission (SEDC).   The proposed legislation sponsored by Kalu was passed by the Senate on Thursday, after considering and adopting its clauses at the Committee of the Whole, chaired by the Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio.   Recall that the House of Representatives on December 21, 2023 at its Committee of the Whole chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Kalu, unanimously…

400,000 policemen not enough to secure Nigeria’s -Kalu …… Says State Police necessary for effective policing

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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas has said that the number of policemen which is placed at about 400,000 is not sufficient to provide security to over 200 million Nigerians.   Speaking during a courtesy call on him by the association of Clerks of State Houses of Assembly on Thursday, Abbas who was represented by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu, said that it became necessary to establish state police.   He said state policing will increase internal security because the…

Senate passes South East Development Commission Bill

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The Senate, on Thursday, passed the Bill seeking the establishment of South East Development Commission (SEDC), to be charged with the responsibility to receive and manage funds from allocation of the Federation Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads, houses and other infrastructural damages suffered by the region as a result of the effect of the civil war.   The Red Chamber took the decision while considering the bill’s clauses at its Committee of the Whole, chaired by the Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio.   Recall that the House…