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Air Force neutralizes dreaded terrorist, Yellow Jambros, in air strikes

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The Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch, has killed a dreaded terrorist identified as Yellow Jambros, and scores of other terrorists in airstrikes in Shiroro local government area of Niger.   His killing was disclosed in a statement made by the spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, on Sunday in Abuja.   Gabkwet said the terrorists met their waterloo while attempting to cross the Jikudna River in Galadima Kogo District, heading towards Wurukuvhi axis of Chikun LGA.   Speaking further in the statement, Gabkwet said Yellow…

2023 Batch ‘A’ Stream One Corps Members to Pass-out Dec 15

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The NYSC Management has approved Friday 15th December, 2023 as the Passing-Out date for the 2023 Batch ‘A’ Stream One Corps Members nationwide.   Activities lined up before the Passing-Out date include; sensitization of the Corps Members on job creation and opportunities after service by seasoned NYSC and NDE Officers.   Meanwhile, the low-key event would be climaxed by the distribution of Certificates of National Service to only the deserving Corps Members at the Local Government level.   The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed expressed his appreciation to…

Prisoners from foreign countries working at construction sites in Nigeria – Oshiomole

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The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, Adams Oshiomhole, has raised the alarm that prisoners from foreign countries are working at construction sites in Nigeria.   Oshiomhole spoke on Wednesday, when the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, appeared before the National Assembly Joint Committees on Interior for a budget defence session.   “Your ministry needs to regulate the issuance of the quotas very well as I have it on good authority that prisoners from foreign lands are working in Nigeria as construction workers”, Oshiomhole told the minister.   Oshiomhole,…

Security, Job Creation, Poverty reduction top priorities,as President Tinubu presents 2024 Budget to National Assembly

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President Bola Tinubu has said Nigeria’s national defence and internal security, local job creation, macro-economic stability, investment environment optimization, human capital development, poverty reduction, and social security were some of the top priorities of the 2024 Budget of Renewed Hope. Addressing a joint session of the National Assembly on the 2024 Federal budget proposal on Wednesday in Abuja, President Tinubu said the nation’s internal security architecture will be overhauled to enhance law enforcement capabilities with a view to safeguarding lives, property, and investments across the country. Tinubu said the proposed…

Malawi’s path to an “Award-Winning Judiciary” ~ by Chidi Odinkalu

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Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as guest of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State in south-east Nigeria, where she spoke at the 12th annual lecture in memory of the man after whom the university is named. It was also the 119th birthday of Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, Nigeria’s founding president, and the month of the 26th anniversary of the death in 1997 of Malawi’s founding president. At the lecture, Joyce Banda described Malawi’s judiciary as “award-winning” and many Nigerians in…

Wither Nigeria? CAC – Where the supreme qualities of an honest and transparent pace setter transformed a vision into reality and made him vulnerable

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When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed”. – Ayn Rand.   Of course “Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people” – K. Hubbard.   The prevailing state of affairs in our dear nation Nigeria embodies a general sense of withering and decay! I have not been in the country for several years.   Upon my return, I decided to register a business and was ready to endure the rigors, but my lawyer informed…

NSITF woos Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission over Employee Compensation

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Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF) has urged the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission to make the Employee Compensation Scheme(ECS) compliance certificate, mandatory for employers of labour in the oil and gas sector.   The NSITF made the appeal through its Warri Branch Manager, Joseph Erhire at the ongoing first edition of the monthly online Management Performance Review(MPR) for the Fund’s heads of departments, regional and branches managers. Outlining the strategies for bringing the huge benefits of the Employee Compensation to the doorstep of every Nigerian worker, Erhire regretted that many…

Maida applauds Project Train 3M on ICT skills …. Initiative to make Nigeria an Exporter of digital skills

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The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida has applauded the proposal by the Hon. Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, to enlist and train three million Nigerians over a period of four years, which will make the country an exporter of digital skills.       Maida, who spoke recently in Lagos at the City Business News Summit, said the programme, which has already attracted 1 million applicants, is capable of increasing Nigeria’s pool of technically-skilled persons in the global…

Buhari handed over a bankrupt nation to Tinubu — Ribadu

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National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, has blamed the past administration of Muhammadu Buhari for the current financial crisis in Nigeria.   According to him, Buhari handed over a bankrupt nation to his predecessor, President Bola Tinubu.     Though, he said despite the financial set back which has affected budgetary allocations, the federal government would do everything in its power to ensure that the country has a robust and functional defense management and structure.   The former anti-graft agency boss stated this in Abuja when he spoke at the Chief…

Reps PDP Caucus condemns Appeal Court verdicts in Plateau, Kaduna, says it portends danger for democracy and rule of law … insists judgements conflicting and negates proven and established legal principle of ‘staire decisis

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After a careful assessment of recent judgments of the Appeal Court which removed mainly opposition lawmakers from Plateau and Kaduna states in the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda has denounced the decisions of the justices, which he believes has eroded public interest and called to question the impartiality of the judiciary.   In a statement issued by Hon. Chinda in Abuja, he declared that: “we are shocked that the Justices of the Appeal Court delivered judgements that are not only conflicting but negates proven and established legal…