Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has said he is considering the possibility of heeding calls on him to contest the 2023 presidential election. He stated this during a chat with State House Correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in his office in the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He also said competence and capacity should […]
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Corps members are part of the national defence policy and can be conscripted for war should the need arise, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brig. Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim has stated. He spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme while reacting to moves to scrap the NYSC scheme, which is compulsory for all […]
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Atan Offot, Uyo home confers on him chieftaincy title June 5 Natural Resources Institute 2021 Distinguished Pillar of Integrity Award/ Professional Fellow By Banji Ayoola Poet and author, Mr Victor Emmanuel Uwah, has bagged double honours simultaneously from his Atan Offot, Uyo, country-home in Akwa Ibom State and the prestigious Institute of Human and Natural […]
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Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto diocese, Rt Reverend Matthew Kukah, has faulted the administration of the President Muhammadu Buhari for its refusal to declare bandits as a terrorist group. Kukah, in his homily at the burial of Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Bello, which held at Our Lady of Apostle Catholic Church Independence Way, Kaduna, on Wednesday, […]
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By Abimbola Adelakun The so-called investigation by the Nigeria Police Force of the assassination of former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, is highly unsatisfying. Their synopsis of what transpired is riddled with so many holes and hardly sensible. The NPF’s reports are customarily frustrating to read. They are habitually riddled with typos and flawed logic. Read […]
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A respite may have come for Higher National Diploma (HND) holders, as the Senate, yesterday, passed a bill prohibiting employers from discriminating between first degree and HND certificate holders in Nigeria. The passage followed the consideration of a report by the Joint Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters, Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND. The chairman, […]
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Extensive and intensive pressures are being mounted on the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary planning Committee (CECPC), just as some stakeholders are mobilising to ensure there is no imposition of candidates during the forthcoming national convention of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (APCLAC), led by Mr. Ismail Ahmed, recently […]
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Widespread banditry and other criminalities terrorising our corporate existence, right in the face of a helpless central police system would, again, validate our resolve that true federalism is the answer to questions of insecurity among other related challenges at the moment. Before our very eyes, criminal gangs have gone brazen across states, eroding all public […]
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Agitations for a new Nigeria constitution to pave way for total reform of the country’s ailing and comatose systems have hit the rocks. At the public hearing on the review of the constitution in Abuja on Thursday, the Senate declared that although a completely new constitution to replace the current one was desirable, the extant […]
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Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has described Nigerian leaders as heartless for allegedly watching bandits and terrorists turn the country into a killing field. In his homily during the burial of Fr. Alphosus Bello at Our Lady of Apostles Catholic Church, Kaduna, yesterday, he slammed President Muhammadu Buhari administration for failing to address […]
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