By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI – Viewed subjectively, experience is the best teacher. But in an applied sense, experience is not the best teacher. Rather, it is what you do with what happens that teaches.The usefulness of experience essentially manifests in the development of the capacity to escape the guilt of the past...
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From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The N-power Youths Congress (NYC), has made a passionate appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfil his earlier electioneering campaign promises made to the 500,000 N-Power batch “A” and batch “B” beneficiaries who have recently been laid off by the federal government across the country...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP),has asked the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to probe ‘alleged hoarding of COVID-19 palliatives in several states’. SERAP, in a petition sent to Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of ICPC, asked the anti-graft agency to...
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, agencies under the Ministry and industry stakeholders have re-emphasized their unflinching commitment to support the drive by the Federal Government to leverage Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to transform Nigeria into a fully digital economy. The renewed commitment...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 48 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC, in its verified wedsite on Saturday, noted that COVID-19 related mortalities stands at 1,129 as no new death was recorded in the last 24 hours. The public health agency said that...
By LEONARD KARSHIMA SHILGBA –The recent wave of civic consciousness which is blowing across Nigeria, in spite of the gust of sabotage and betrayals that it has chalked up, fits into a harbinger of nationhood for the Nigerian State. If the #ENDSARS triggers succeed in birthing the beautiful ones...
From KEHINDE AKINPELU, Ilorin – National President of Oodua Peoples Cares Initiative (OPCI), Dr Maruff Olarewaju, has joined other prominent Nigerians in calling for urgent restructuring of the country as an antidote to the current unrest in the nation. Olarewaju, who made the call in a statement issued in...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno state on Saturday disbursed N65 million cash for critical humanitarian needs, to 8000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) households in Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge, a remote remotest local government area in Nigeria. Kala – Balge, which is located...
The world may have long believed that Nigerian senators are the highest paid but there had been no internal confirmation until now. A Nigerian senator just bust the lid open on the amount he and his colleagues receive monthly in an effort to bring more transparency and accountability to...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Following the lingering issues surrounding the payment of salaries and allowances as well as pensions, gratuities and leave grants to state civil servants, the Borno State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC), has asked Governor Babagama Umara Zulum remove the Head of the State...
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has solemnly paid his last respect to his mother, the late Madam Victoria Agbotui. The funeral service which was held at the Forecourt of the State House in Accra was well-attended by NDC members, government officials including President Nana Akufo-Addo and wife Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Vice president...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has captured the reduction in the policy rate of Ghana’s central bank by 150 basis points as one of the measures sub-Sahara Africa countries are introducing to deal with the ravages of the coronavirus on the economy. The IMF noted in its Regional Economic...
Nigeria’s president announced 51 civilians were killed in unrest following days of peaceful protests over police abuses and blamed “hooliganism” for the violence while asserting security forces used “extreme restraint”. President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments in a statement released late Friday are expected to further inflame tensions after Amnesty International...
Some suspected hoodlums on Saturday invaded the residence of Senator Teslim Folarin (APC-Oyo Central) in Ibadan and carted away empowerment materials worth N200 million.The ugly incident was confirmed by Folarin during a radio programme, monitored on Saturday in Ibadan.The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the items carted away...
FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has assured residents of the territory that palliative items in various warehouses across the territory are safe and secured, as security agents have been deployed to man strategic areas. Aliyu stated this in a statement issued by her Special Assistant on Media,...
There is an agenda to violence — the state’s agenda. The biggest beneficiary of violence in most cases is the government which controls every apparatus of terror. Nothing happens in isolation of executive conspiracy. The infamous connoisseur of terror, Sani Abacha was once quoted as saying: “If insurgency lasts...
Danbatta Visits Emir of Kano, Sues for Peace The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, Saturday paid a courtesy visit to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, where he urged the people of the state to continue to support the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, said hinted that the plan of both the Federal and State Governments to investigate police brutality and prosecute erring police officers would be a game-changer in ensuring an end to impunity in the country. According to the Vice...
Staff at the Nigerian Embassy in Paris, France had an unwanted and very unlikely surprise at the entrance of their office. Someone had left them what looked like a ritual sacrifice at their front door. It is however unknown who might have been behind the act. The staff at...