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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…

NIDCOM commends Zumunta Association USA over donation of palliatives to six Northern states

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Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has applauded the Zumunta Association USA Inc. for giving out Palliatives to six Northern states to cater to their needs.   NIDCOM Boss gave the commendation through the Secretary to the Commission, Dr. Sule Yakubu Bassi, at the Third Phase of the Zumunta Associatio USA Inc., Palliative Awards Presentation in Abuja.   The beneficiary States were Nasarawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Katsina, Yobe and Kaduna with each collecting N700,000 each, except Kaduna that got N500,000.   Dabiri-Erewa said that the beneficiaries of the…

[Friday Sermon] Returning To Allah To Lift Our Tribulations, Calamities And Trials! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful   All praise is due to Allah, and may His peace and blessings be upon Allah’s Messenger, his Companions and whosoever follows his guidance.   Dear brothers and sisters! Know that, the trials and tribulations and various calamities that befall and afflict the Muslims Ummah, are caused by the disobedience of Allah Almighty.   O Allah, Your forgiveness is broader than our sins, so forgive us. Your mercy is more hopeful to us than our deeds, so have mercy…

The rumblings in Rivers, by Kazeem Akintunde

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The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, for now, cannot afford to sleep with his two eyes closed. Although President Bola Tinubu, Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and the court have given him a temporary reprieve, he cannot be complacent or he would kiss his job goodbye.   He has stepped on the tail of a cobra and it is either he fights and kill the snake or he will himself become food.     Fubara, an indigene of Opobo Town in Opobo Local Government…