Day: May 20, 2024

Akpabio receives Afrobeat Star Davido on Courtesy visit …. Tasks Nigerian Music artists on high ethics

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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio on Monday received in audience Afrobeat Star, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido who was on a courtesy visit to the Senate President.   Receiving his guest, Akpabio expressed his delight at the visit and poured encomium on the Afrobeat Star for making Nigeria proud by his outstanding performance.   “You have made us very proud within the International Community,” Akpabio told Davido who came in company of two of his cousins, Hon. Tunji Adeleke, son of his late brother Isiaka Adeleke…

FCT Police foils Kidnapping, rescues victims

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In an immediate and strategic response to a distress call on the attack by unknown gunmen in Dawaki on May 19, 2024, at about 11:30 PM, the operatives of the FCT police command led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Benneth C. Igweh himself, swiftly mobilised to the scene. Displaying remarkable bravery and coordination, the police, in synergy with local hunters, advanced on the assailants, tactically ambushed them at Ushafa Hill via Bwari and Shishipe Hills via Mpape. This led to a fierce gun duel as the hoodlums were overwhelmed…

Rivers crisis: Coalition of 92 CSOs send SOS to FG to save democracy in Nigeria … Urges NJC to beam searchlight on Justice Wali’s activities

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A coalition of 92 Civil Society Organisations, CSOs under the platform of Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, CCLCA, have sent an SOS to the Federal Government to save democracy in Nigeria.   They also called on the National Judicial Commission, NJC to immediately beam its searchlight Justice Charles Wali of Rivers State High Court for issuing a controversial expate motion despite a subsisting order of a federal High Court.   Director General of CCLCA, Dr Gabriel Nwambu made this disclosure at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday.…

NASS committed to multi-dimensional reforms to reposition Judiciary – Sen Monguno

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The Chairman of Senate committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal matters, Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno (APC, Borno North) on Monday said the National Assembly is committed to embarking on multi-dimensional reforms that would strengthen and reposition the nation’s judiciary.   He said the reforms will be in tandem with global best practices and contemporary realities of time.   Monguno, spoke at a one-day public hearing to look into a bill for an act to prescribe the salaries, allowances and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in Nigeria and other…

MUSWEN charges FG to tackle incessant insecurity in Nigeria

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The Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN), the umbrella body for the Muslims in South West, has called on the Federal Government to urgently address the root causes of insecurity in Nigeria.   The President of MUSWEN, Alhaji Rasaki Oladejo made the call during a Public Health lecture series organised by MUSWEN Health Committee in Ibadan.   The theme of the lecture was “National Insecurity and Its Psychological Effects on the Citizens:the Islamic and Health Perspectives”.   ”Nigeria today is fraught with challenges where the very fabric of society…

Deputy Speaker Kalu seeks lasting solutions to ethnic tensions, religious divides in Nigeria

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Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has said that Nigeria’s diversity is not a call for division but a beautiful coloration that signified strength and unity of a people in a journey towards nationhood.   He said that though the country is made up of different ethnic groups and religions, the goal is one national objective.   Kalu made the assertion, Monday, while delivering his Keynote Address at the commencement of a 2-Day National Engagement on Addressing Identity-Based Conflict with the theme “Mapping Actors…

Kneeling for Imams of northern Nigeria By Lasisi Olagunju

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A minister suffered severe abuse and reprimand from the elites of the North last week because she asked the North to choose mass education first before mass marriage. Sixty-four years after independence, we are still struggling to understand Nigeria’s Muslim North and its ways. A 1950 letter to the editor of Gaskiya, northern Nigeria’s preeminent Hausa newspaper, should tell us something about the mystery of the region.   The letter appeared in the newspaper’s number 391 of 8 March, 1950 on page 2.   It reads:   “To the Editor…

Media posseses information that can help Legislative duties if harnessed ,says Hon Ehindero

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Member representing Akoko North-west/Akoko Morth-East Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. Ife Ehindero, has described the role of the media on national development as immeasurable and a sector any success-driven lawmakers must harness in their legislative duties for national development.   Ehindero made the declaration during a courtesy call on him in his office at the National Assembly, by members of Ondo State journalists under the aegis of the Ondo State Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OSMEPAN), on Friday.   Addressing the visiting journalists in his office, Hon…