A. INTRODUCTION: “Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” –MARTIN LUTHER KING, JUNIOR As a new year 2017 rolls in, it brings in new hope of reform and improvement in every facet of national life this year. The need for fundamental reform in the country based on a proper restructuring that disembowels the forces of reaction has never been more urgent. The fight against corruption, itself a symptom of the backward system operating in Nigeria, will continue to be a flailing in the air unless fundamental reform takes place. The merchants of misinformation…
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Founder-President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Toyin Saraki and CEO Stephen Sobhani congratulate the newly appointed United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and welcome the new Secretary-General António Guterres. Mrs. Toyin Saraki extended her congratulations to Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed saying: “I am so proud Amina has returned to the United Nations to take up a well merited appointment as Deputy Secretary General, after diligent public service at home, I wish her every success and an incredibly productive tenure.” “Myself and the Wellbeing Foundation Africa’s Global CEO Stephen Sobhani are exceedingly happy that once again, we have a committed home…
The rate at which child labour is increasing is one that gives me great concern. I read on the Facebook timeline of Cerebral Lawyer and Human Rights Advocate, First Baba Isa of how a young child was sent to hawk vegetables in Ogoja. Looking at the picture of this young child not only broke my heart , but it reminded me of how very young kids have been exposed to all forms of hawking along mjaor cities in Nigeria, especially in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt and other towns across the nation and Africa. It is very disturbing that young children…
Dakuku Aldolphus Peterside (DAP) Media Team said for long, they have simply refused to give credence and regard to statements emanating from Rivers State PDP chairman, Felix Obuah and his rather flippant mouthpiece, Jerry Needam since they were invited to come and eat by their paymaster, Governor Nyesom Wike. In a statement signed today by Sylvester Aaron, on behalf of DAP Media Team said in order to save discerning members of the public from cooked lies and ‘come-down-and-fight’ stories in form of press releases circulated by Jerry Needam, we have decided to respond, albeit only this once. The statement reads:…
The Egba Descendant Union (EDU) has condemned in strong terms the demolition of Ijebu Igbo Primary Health Care Centre in Ijebu North LGA, on the orders of the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. A statement issued by its Director, Media and Publicity, Rev. Simon Olaleye, described the demolition exercise as atrocious and manifestly directionless effort coming at a time when the community lack a modern primary health centre that can offer quality health services to the masses at affordable rate. “We are at a loss as to why the governor should take this swift action by ordering the demolition of…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the sack of the Executive Secretary of the Financial Regulatory Council (FRC) of Nigeria, Mr. Jim Obazee, in connection with the implementation of the controversial Corporate Governance Code 2016 as an afterthought and cover-up to stem the tide of negative public reactions to the implementation of the controversial law that stripped the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye and others of their positions. In a release issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday and signed by the governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and…
Reports reaching us indicate that the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye and the LCDA chairman, Hon. Bayo Adekoya, this morning led some thugs and mobile policemen to pull down a health care centre being renovated and re-equipped in Ijebu Igbo, Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state by the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu despite the fact that the Ogun State Ministry of Health, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye and the residential Doctor-in-Charge of the primary health care centre were duly informed before the commencement of…
A civil rights group, the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has advised the cross section of the State and Local government workers in the State to take the bull by the horn to effect the necessary change in the leadership of their unions, including Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), Nigeria Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE) and other affiliate unions, saying that their current leadership lacked sincere and moral capability to continue in office . It however alleged that the present crop of Labour Unions leaders in…
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Moshood Oshun, has explained the inclusion of a death penalty in the recently passed bill against kidnapping by the Assembly. The bill was passed into law by the lawmakers of the House after it scaled the third reading of the House. It is currently awaiting the assent of the governor of the state, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. The bill, as passed into law, stipulates that a kidnapper would face the death penalty if it is discovered that a victim ended up dying in his custody. Among others, it also stipulates a…
Watch YouTube video on how Ekiti people reacted to Governor Ayodele Fayose after the Ijigbo, Ado Ekiti fire outbreak was controlled.
One of the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State and governorship candidate in the 2015 elections, Dr Dakuku Peterside, has accused the state governor, Nyesom Wike of causing so much embarrassment to the collective interest and aspirations of Rivers people. Peterside, who spoke against the background of some policemen sacked by the police authority for being involved in electoral misconduct while in the entourage of Wike, said actions of the governor were giving the state a bad name and rubbishing the achievement of her founding fathers. According to police, the dismissed operatives were said to have disobeyed…
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose”- Lyndon Johnson The word ”défi” in French parlance means ”challenge.” The distinguished Senate President Bukola Saraki, first threw the challenge last year, by initiating the move to amend the Procurement Act, particularly Section 34 of the law which gives discretion to government agencies about patronizing locally produced goods. The 8th Senate under his tutelage taking the bull by the horn vowed that the word ‘may’ used in the Procurement Act will become ‘shall’ to compel agencies to only buy locally made goods. Traversing the social media landscape, Saraki took to…
The report by the Punch Newspaper on the decamping of APC members from Ogun West Senatorial District into the PDP on Saturday 7th January 2016 at Ijebuigbo, quite outlandish though, has afforded the traducers of Senator Buruji Kashamu, the opportunity to display their enterprise and bare our their fangs in a most sardonic manner, constant with their antecedents. At the well attended event yesterday where over 2000 APC members defected to the PDP from five local government areas alone, Senator Buruji Kashamu was among many other party chieftains who gave goodwill remarks for which journalists, present at the venue had…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose has commiserate with families of the army captain and five other soldiers reportedly killed yesterday, by Boko Haram insurgents during an attacked on the Nigeria Army Brigade in Buni Yadi, Yobe State, calling on the federal government to stop deceiving Nigerians with stories of defeat of Boko Haram insurgency and return of Chibok girls. The governor, who maintained that the ongoing war against the Boko Haram insurgents could only be won through truthful information by the federal government and cooperation of all Nigerians, asked; “If indeed Boko Haram was already defeated, where…
…As Police commences investigation A rights activist and Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman has dragged the paramount ruler of an ancient town in Osun State, the Alawo of Awo, Oba Musa Olatunbosun Adebayo, Akinsilo II before the authority of the Nigeria Police Force, Zone IX, Osogbo over an alleged trespass into their family land and threat to the lives of the family members. Meanwhile, the men of the Nigeria Police led by one “Adisa” have commenced the investigation into the issue in order to forstall any breaking down of law and…
…says Police have merged with APC. Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described the sack of six police officers attached to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as “the height of political victimisation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government just because the policemen were among the patriotic Nigerians who foiled the attempt by the party to rig the Rivers State rerun elections.” Governor Fayose, who described the six police officers as heroes of democracy, said “their names will be written in gold in the comity of defenders of the people of Rivers State and whenever normalcy…
Forty Four persons on Friday defected from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ijebu Ode Local Government Area. Receiving the defectors, a PDP Chieftain from Ijebu North LGA, Alhaji Bamidele Idris, assured them that they would never regret their action. He said that the new party members would be given all the necessary support they needed to work for PDP’s victory in the 2019 polls. Speaking, the leader of the defectors, Mrs. Abimbola Ige, said that her defection to PDP few days ago had already created some panic within APC. She stressed that…
In what is being described as long over due, the cast and crew of the award winning 76 are heading to Ghana to engage their fans and cinema goers in what will also be the country’s Presidential inauguration weekend where Mahama will be handing over to a new President – Nana Addo. While there; they will be visiting all of the cinemas in Accra, touring the media houses and interacting with the locals. Ramsey Nouah and Daniel K Daniel amongst other cast are already in Accra, to make this event a memorable one for Africa. You may recall that 76…
The attention of the MM Support Group (MMG) – the group responsible for the advocacy and socio-economic programmes of Hon. Moshood Mustapha (the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Inter-Parliamentary Special Duties and Protocols Matters) – has been drawn to the malicious publication by an online publication, nairaland.com on MM’s charity programme on new year day. The online outfit had reported falsely that the Senate President, Distinguished Senator (Dr.) Abubakar Bukola Saraki (CON) had turned his residence in Ilorin to a distribution centre for charity during festive period. As the media office of the Senate President has refuted, nothing…
Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. David Nweze Umahi, has called on the state’s Ministry of Agriculture and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), to work harder in 2017 to make the state attain greater height in rice production. He told delegations from the ministry, IFAD, Abakalili Amalgamated Market Traders Association and political stakeholders from Ivo LGA who visited him in Uburu, that the reason the state was being celebrated today was because of Agriculture. Umahi, according to a statement on Friday by his spokesman, Emma Anya, said it was necessary for the ministry and IFAD to get prepared for more…