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COVID-19: NYSC subjects high profile personalities, others to screening

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As part of recommended measures to contain the COVID-19, high profile personalities on visit to NYSC Orientation Camps were being subjected to secreening along with Corps Members and other visitors before entry.   This was in addition to the provision of handwash points with germ-killing liquid soaps and sanitizers at strategic points in all the Orientation Camps.   Earlier yesterday, the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano presided over the swearing-in ceremony of the 2020 Batch ‘A’ Corps members and also inaugurated the newly constructed Orientation Camp, Umuawulu/Mbaukwu in Awka…

All Hails To The New Bichi Emir by Abba Dukawa

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WEDNESDAY March 12,2020 will surely remains in the mind of kanawa as one of the memorable where history has been made in Kano Traditional instirution of over 1000 years when two of the sons of our revered late Emir Alhaji Ado Bayero, have become First Class Emirs. Born by the same mother and the same father. This is the first time such thing is happening in the history of the state As act of Allah’s will on Monday Emir of Bichi Aminu Bayero replaced Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II, …

Tribute to deposed Emir of Kano, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by Prof Isa Alabi Abubakir

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سَتَظَلُّ أَمِيرَ القُلُوبِ قصيدة تضامنية إلى أمير القلوب الحاج سنوسي لاميطو سنوسي حُزْنٌ شَدِيدٌ في الحَشَا يَتَلَهَّبُ والقَلْبُ مِنْ فَرْطِ الأسَى يَتَعَذّبُ دُنْيَا الخِيَانَةِ قد تَكَشّفَ أَمْرُها لِمُهَذَّبٍ إِغْرَائَها يَتَجَنَّبُ أَغْرَى أُنَاسًا مُلْكُها فَتَوَحَّشُوا في العالمين وفي النهايةِ تُعْطِبُ ماذا يَقُولُ الشعرُ بَعْدَ ضَلاَلِهم ويَرَى المُسَوَّدَ في البلاد يُعَذَّبُ ؟ إنَّ الدُّعَاءَ إلى الصَّوَابِ جَرِيمَةٌ عندَ الطُّغَاةِ وصالحٌ لا يُعْجِبُ جَعَلُوا النِّفاقَ فَضِيلَةً في دِينِهم فَتَرى عَظِيمًا لِلْحُطَامِ يُذَبْذِبُ قد خيَّبُوا آمَالَ شَعْبٍ مُنْهَكٍ طَلَبَ النَّجَاةَ فَخَانَهُ مُتَعَصِّبُ لا تَقْبَلُوا ما جَاءَ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِم فَوُعُودُهُم دَوْمًا سَحَابٌ يَخْلُبُ هَذِي البلادُ…

Meet the first man to import a bulletproof car into Nigeria and got assassinated

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Celebrated politician, chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, was the first man to import a bulletproof car into Nigeria in 1964. The car was a Mercedes Benz worth £8,000. Akintola has been described as a political strategist and an orator of note, who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and the Cicero of Esaoke, late Chief Bola Ige. He was the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of Yoruba, a highly revered traditional title in Yoruba land and also a great politician who was one of the founding members of…

Policeman kills wife, self; leave kids of two years and three weeks

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A policeman attached to the Ondo State Police Command has allegedly shot his wife dead and committed suicide. The incident was said to have happened at Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the police officer, simply identified as Tolulope, who was attached to the Akungba Police Division, committed the crime after he returned from work. According to sources, the deceased, who was an indigene of Supare-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of the state, had been having trust issues…

Outcry as Niger council chairmen travel to Ghana

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A one-week trip of 25 local government chairmen in Niger to Ghana for a training has generated outcry. Many residents frowned at the trip at a time many of them couldn’t pay salaries. The retreat in Ghana is coming barely two months after they attended a similar retreat in Kaduna two days after they were inaugurated into office in January 2020. Local government workers wondered why the retreat could not hold in Nigeria, describing the trip to Ghana as waste of resources. The Nation gathered that most of the local…

BREAKING : Niger Govt bans street begging ….says all almajiri schools must be licensed to operate

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Niger State Government has placed immediate ban on street begging in the state with effect from Wednesday, 4th March 2020. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Idris disclosed this on Thursday during a post-exco briefing with journalists at the government house Minna. He said the ban became necessary in view of the security challenges in the state. He explained that the State Government will work in synergy with other states in Northern Nigeria to have a workable structure that would stand the test of time, having gotten the…

SIM Card Controversy: Presidency’s directive made us detain man for weeks without trial – SSS

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The State Security Service (SSS) has told the Federal High Court in Asaba on Friday that it arrested and detained Anthony Okolie, based on a directive from the presidency to investigate him over the use of a SIM card previously used by Hanan, President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter. Mr Okolie was arrested in July 2019 and eventually detained for 10 weeks without trial despite the provision of the Nigerian law that mandates that a suspect not be detained for more than 48 hours by the police (or government agency) without bail or without charging…

Oyo Govt inaugurates Park Managers in 33LGs, quarry parks …names Chairmen for Disciplinary Committees

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The Oyo State Government has inaugurated the Park Managers in 33 local governments across the state. Also inaugurated on Monday were the two Disciplinary Committees which saddled with responsibility of intervening in whenever conflicts arise between the Oyo State Government and Park Managers on the operations of the parks. The Oyo State Commissioner for Public Works, Infrastructure and Transport, Professor Raphael Afonja, who inaugurated the Park Managers and the Disciplinary Committees at the Conference Hall of the Ministry, said that the new Park Management System, PMS, would bring sanity in…

DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY: NiDCOM, ICMPD, AFFORD at forefront . ……as Diaspora Technical Exchange Programme ends in London

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Participants and Experts at the Three-Day Diaspora Technical Exchange Programme have submitted that connecting with the Nigerian Diaspora through trust building is one sure way of creating economic prosperity and social impacts for the homeland. This submission was made at the end of the Technical exchange programme for delegates from Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) facilitated by African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) and sponsored by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). The Diaspora Technical Exchange Programme had a peep at Political Capital, Cultural Capital, Intellectual and Skill Capital, Social,Financial…