Day: October 16, 2024

NYSC to partner NCCALW on sensitization against proliferation of illegal arms

Lukman Laleye Babalola

National Youth Service Corps NYSC,is set to partner National Centre for the Control of Arms and Light Weapons (NCCALW) to sanitize Nigerians against proliferation of illegal arms.   NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed said the Scheme is strategically placed to collaborate with NCCALW towards the effective sensitization against the rising tide in the transnational movement of illegal arms and weapons within the Nigerian geographical space. General Ahmed said with an annual average mobilization of over 380,000 Nigerian graduate youths and deployment of same to every nook and crannies…

DSP Barau mourns Liberty TV’s Senate Correspondent, Mohammed Adamu

Lukman Laleye Babalola

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin, has mourned the passing of Senate Correspondent of the Liberty TV & Radio, Malam Mohammed Adamu, who died in the early hours of today (Wednesday) in Abuja. Late Adamu, who hailed from Kaduna State, served as the State House Correspondent of Liberty TV & Radio before his deployment to the National Assembly. In a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, Senator Barau said the deceased was a hardworking and committed journalist. Senator Barau extended his condolences…

TRIBUTE: How Justice Emmanuel Ayoola Changed My World. A Father and Confidant. By Sir Folu Olamiti, FNGE

Emporium Reporters

It was happenstance I least expected that Monday morning of 1999. I had dressed up to go to work as Editor of Nigerian Tribune from my new home at the outskirts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Moments later, Justice Ayoola drove in in his yellow 19th century Mercedes Benz car. He alerted to discuss heartily with one of my neighbors. He was obviously in an expansive mood that morning. I greeted him with reverence he deserved as a man of his stature and standing in legal jurisprudence and society…