Acting Canadian High commissioner Nicholas Simard has said his country is willing to support Nigeria with $10 million in its battle against insecurity. Simard, who said this when he visited the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, in Abuja, stressed the need to build the capacity of personnel of the Police Force, among other […]
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Schools nationwide are set to resume for educational activities today for first and second term academic calendar across the country. The Federal Government, through the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 Control, announced in December that schools should not reopen for the second term, following the second wave of Coronavirus. But, states last week forced the Federal Government to […]
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Elder statesman and All Progressive Congress, APC, chieftain, Chief Bisi Akande, on Sunday unfolded plans to meet Yoruba leaders over the 2023 presidential race. He is expected to discuss with them the entreaties by eminent Nigerians that the national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, should declare his intention to run for president. Akande’s decision to meet […]
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By Kemi Ogunsanya Not since World War II have so many countries around the world witnessed educational institutions go into a lockdown at the same time and for the same reason as we have experienced in the past few months. Never could one have imagined that disruption so intense and fierce would hit the Education sector! None could have visualised […]
Continue ReadingBy Kemi Ogunsanya Not since World War II have so many countries around the world witnessed educational institutions go into a lockdown at the same time and for the same reason as we have experienced in the past few months. Never could one have imagined that disruption so intense and fierce would hit the Education sector! […]
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By Emmanuel Ikechukwu Igbo The most important feature of a political party is the existence of an ideology that expresses its vision and mission with respect to the acquisition and utilization of political power for the purpose of governance. It also identifies the values, ethos, myths, symbols, etc, that drive the behavior of its members and mirror its institutional image. In a […]
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Troops swiftly regained a military base in Borno State from combined forces of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram at the weekend. The terrorists, wielding machine-guns mounted on trucks, seized Marte – a town 93 kilometres from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital – and the military base there on Friday night. […]
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Ogoni cleanup Clean-up a scam, says, Osarojiji Blame HYPREP for the delay – Akpobari Stakeholders in the Niger Delta region and some politicians, including Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, have differed sharply and significantly over the continuing stagnation of the Ogoni cleanup exercise. This is just as the people continue to cry out about contaminated […]
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Ogoni fields Leader and Spokesman, Conscience of Ogoni People (COOP), Chief Gani Topba, has said the Federal Government’s acceptance of the report of the United Nations (UN) team of experts and its readiness to clean up the impacted environment of the Ogoni people vindicated the alarms raised by martyrs of the Ogoni struggle that Shell […]
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The crisis rocking the transition process of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has deepened, as the Chief Uche Okwukwu faction has sued the newly elected President General, PG, Prof. George Obiozor, asking the court for an order to restrain him from parading himself as leader of the group. Obiozor, according to Okwukwu, is […]
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