Charles E. Archibong (2021), A Stranger in Their Midst: a memoir. Lagos: Narrative Landscape Press. 228 pages. ISBN: 978-978-58419-7-2 Reviewed by Chido B. Nwakanma, School of Media and Communication, Pan Atlantic University A good publisher and his editor should invite Charles Archibong to serve on their editorial board as...
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The Police and DSS on Thursday held an emergency meeting with the Branch Controller CBN and all Commercial Bank Managers in Kebbi over shortage of the redesigned naira notes in the state. The meeting was to find ways to address the problem to avoid breakdown of law and order....
2023 census will hold in Sambisa forest, says NPC chairman
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will not accept the nomination of university lecturers who are card carrying members or had participated in partisan politics or convicted of electoral malpractice as Returning and State Collation Officers in the forthcoming polls. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has called on on security agents to appreciate and prioritise the safety and protection of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in order to give them confidence and encouragement to come out en mass to exercise...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said that the commission’s worst challenge remained the desperation and do-or-die attitude of politicians. Mr Olusegun Agbaje, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State stated this at the enlarged Stakeholders’ Forum of the commission at its headquarters in Lagos. Agbaje urged...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said it has seek the permission of chancellors of Nigerian universities for the deployment of a specified number and category of academic staff for the 2023 general election. Speaking on Thursday in Abuja at a meeting with the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has resolved to improve its collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) in areas of capacity building and advocacy to check tax fraud. EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement quoted the Commission’s Chairman,...
…As former Senate President Lauds Ortom for Och’Idoma’s Palace. By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and his wife, Mrs. Eunice Ortom, Governor Nyesom Wike have been conferred with honorific chieftaincy titles by the Idoma Area Traditional Council. The Och’Idoma, His Royal Majesty, John Elaigwu Odogbo...
The Federal Government says the country has only vaccinated 68 per cent of it’s COVID-19 eligible population. The government in 2021, said it had invested much and was ready to vaccinate 70 per cent of its population before the end of 2022. But as of Feb. 7, the country...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Dr Emeka Offor as he marks his 64th birthday, describing him as a dynamic personality and a global figure in humanitarian affairs. In a congratulatory message issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Thursday in Abuja, Buhari commended...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday in Abuja frowned at the appointment of former Inspectors-General of Police as chairmen of the Police Service Commission (PSC). President Muhammadu Buhari appointed former Inspector-General of Police, Mr Musiliu Smith as chairman of the PSC in 2018. He resigned in 2022 and retired...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council, for facilitating and managing the 2023 transition programme. the President also signed the Executive Order No. 14 of 2023 on the Facilitation and Management of the Presidential Transitions. This is contained in...
The Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr Garba Abari has expressed confidence that the 2023 general elections will hold as scheduled, in spite of the prevailing socio-economic challenges in the nation. Abari made this known in a statement issued by NOA Assistant Director of Press, Paul Odenyi in Abuja...
By OGONNAYA UMEHAM, Abuja – As part of activities to ensure huge participation of women in the 2023 Women’s World Day of prayer, the President, North-Central Zone, Pastor Deborah Adaji lead her team of Ambassadors to pay a courtesy visit to Heads of Churches recently in Abuja. The visit...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A constitutional lawyer, Mr. Fidelis Onyebueke, has charged Nigerians to vote the country back to themselves by choosing a right candidate during the forthcoming elections. Reacting to the current crisis in the banking and petroleum industries in the country, Onyebueke noted that if a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is almost 90 per cent ready for the conduct of the 2023 general election. Mr Auwal Mashi, the Kaduna INEC Administrative Secretary said this on Thursday at a stakeholders meeting in Mellinium Hope, Kaduna. Mashi said that the commission held a...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the closure of universities across the country to enable students to participate in the February 25 and March 11 general elections. The NUC, in a letter addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities and directors of inter-university centres,...
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara said he and his colleagues took the Federal Government to the Supreme Court over the new naira swap policy to save the country. The three state governors of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara dragged the Federal Government to the Supreme Court seeking a restraining order...
Destitute in Kaduna who rely on begging for survival say they have been turned to ‘PoS Operators’ as a result of the prevailing cash-squeeze. Explaining their ‘newly- found’ status to a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the beggars said most people now gave them old Naira...