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NEPAD; Combining Proficiency of Service , To Additional Year Anniversary, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

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The New Partnership for Africa’s Development NEPAD under the leadership of Mrs Gloria Akobundu has redirected the 2063 agenda for Africa on a high pedestal. In line with Lusaka Zambia’s declaration of July 2001, NEPAD was convened as an economic development program at the 37th session of the African Union Development Agency AUDA , the program was domesticated in Nigeria under a robust leadership to drive the vision , policy framework to accelerate economic development, integration and cooperation among African nations. With renewed vigour under the current leadership, no doubt…

Mohammed Isa : This sun sets too early By Ismail Omipidan

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We are not God. As such, the title of my piece may be inappropriate since it is not within our powers to appropriate for whom of the Sun should set early or much later. But as a communicator, I must of necessity convey my messages in a way that would make sense and convey some deeper meanings about our existence. Hence, the choice of my title.   As a young man, who has had several near-death experiences -sleeping while on the wheels for over 15 minutes on Kaduna-Abuja Expressway in…

The Dino Malady and the fantasy of 2023.

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The fact that the Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Candidate, Senator Dino Melaye could in his inordinate attitude provoke the highly peaceful and hard to annoy Labour Party Presidential flag bearer, Mr. Peter Obi shows clearly the level of his imprudence.   At the Arise Television TownHall Meeting for Presidential Candidates on Sunday at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, Senator Melaye was so unruly and disproportionately large that a hardly provoked LP standard bearer had to call him out publicly to the shame of the bully spokesman.   Notwithstanding…

PANTAMI: A TECHVOLUTIONARY ICON By Uwa Suleiman

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When in September of 2016, the then Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) heeded the clarion call, packed his bags and bade a very lucrative academic career in one of the most illustrious institutions goodbye, not a few wondered in disbelief. His first appointment in public service as Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), plunged him right into the middle of a complex, disorganised, monolithic and corrupt sector, grappling with the lacuna of professionalism and leadership. Again, not many gave him a chance. Unprofessionalism and a total…

Commentary On International Day To End Impunity For Crimes Against Journalists, 2022 Theme:- Keep Truth Alive: “Protect Journalists, Protect the Truth”

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The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) is a UN recognized international day observed annually on 2nd November. The day was declared to be marked on November 2 in the United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/68/163. The resolution calls on all members states to take concrete steps to combat the culture of impunity in their countries.   The day was chosen in commemoration of the assassination of Claude Verlon and Ghislaire Dupont, two French journalists from RFI radio station, who were kidnapped from the town of…

INTRODUCTION TO NUPE BIOLOGY

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The Contributors of the First Nupe Stylistic Biology are as Follows:   Read The Introduction of this Book and tell me something afterwards…   We thank god for given us children who see us as their model. I am in keffi and illec classroom resumes on friday. (Please read the Nupe translation below)   This book consists of all the partitions of the study of life. The book is titled; “Kpeyizhe Nupe” meaning “Nupe Biology.” The word Biology is tri-syllabic. The first syllable “Bio” which is “Kpe” refers to study.…

Adigun Agbaje: A Value so Rare By Omoniyi Ibietan, PhD,fnipr

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Professor Adigun Agbaje, an uncommon political scientist occupies a great place in the pantheon of Nigeria’s political scientists. As a scholar whose works brilliantly and lucidly storied the intersection of media and politics, Agbaje is one of Nigeria’s finest dons leaving their marks in interdisciplinary studies. For those who are familiar with his writings and publications, many of them would agree that the rarity of the likes of Agbaje is better illustrated by the fact that if we have a museum of political scholarship (not necessarily as large as Smithsonian),…

Media and information literacy (MIL) as a veritable tool for fighting information disorder, By Chiamaka Okafor

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This idea behind MIL is to help citizens, particularly young people, to develop the ability to critically analyse news and media messages in the light of the overwhelming growth in information and communication technology. This has, of course, thrown up the question of control and regulation. There are those who argue that the way to go is to regulate the Internet and social media…   In this era of digital technology, there is an overabundance of information from various sources and people empowered to consume from whichever source pleases them.…

GITEX 2022: An Encounter with Digital Economy Maestro By Yushau A. Shuaib

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I arrived at GITEX 2022 in Dubai with the hope of waylaying Professor Ali Ibrahim Pantami for an exclusive interview on politics, alongside the challenges, excitements, disappointments, and accomplishments of his ever-inspiring exploits in public office, particularly since his appointment as the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy.   Pantami remains one of the few cabinet members in President Buhari’s administration who are highly pragmatic, charismatic, and results-oriented. He boldly builds partners with sincere allies, surmounts hurdles and never shies away from the good fight towards accomplishing what has been…

HARVEST OF GARLANDS AS ABIKE DABIRI-EREWA CLOCKS 60 By Abdur-Rahman Balogun

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Just like yesterday, the young baby birthed in far away Jos, Plateau State, on October 11, 1962 is 60 years on the planet. Sixty years of eventful and impactful life, with its fair of ups and downs. Sixty years full of praises to Almighty Allah who has been benevolent to Hon. (Dr.) Kafayat Oloruntoyin Abike Dabiri-Erewa. An indigene of Ikorodu from the famous Erogbogbo family in Lagos State, she has, right from her childhood till date, been a front-liner, a go-getter, an ice breaker, a workaholic, an amazon, a humanist…