Month: August 2017

  • Sokoto state EXCO approves water and road projects totaling about N80 billion

    Sokoto state EXCO approves water and road projects totaling about N80 billion

    By Najem Francis, Sokoto   Sokoto State Executive Council has approved the the rehabilitation of a two million gallons capacity water tank at the Old Market Area of Sokoto metropolis at a cost of N78.1 million, in addition to drilling  twelve solar boreholes in schools across the state.  Briefing newsmen on the outcome of the last…

  • NFIU Bill: Nigeria Asked To Comply With Egmont Group’s Directive

    NFIU Bill: Nigeria Asked To Comply With Egmont Group’s Directive

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin   The pioneer chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Justice Mustapha Akanbi, has hailed the passage of the bill on the separation of National Financial Intelligency Unit (NFIU) from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The renowned jurist said he was in total support…

  • Soyinka, Oshiomhole Others Proffer Solutions To Restructuring

    Soyinka, Oshiomhole Others Proffer Solutions To Restructuring

    By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the Chairman Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, on Friday made attempts to answer questions about the knotty issue of restructuring the nation. Speaking at the 20th Wole Soyinka Annual Lecture, held…

  • SERAP: Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan Govts Squandered N11tr On Electricity

    SERAP: Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan Govts Squandered N11tr On Electricity

    The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has released a new report which reveals how over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply was allegedly squandered under the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. The 65 pages report launched on Wednesday at the Westown Hotels, Lagos is titled:…

  • Terrorism: Trump’s Approval  And End Of The Black Days

    Terrorism: Trump’s Approval And End Of The Black Days

    The conjured and demonic opinions of skeptics on the unabated degeneration of Nigeria under a Buhari Presidency is the least of my nightmares. I am the more comfortable with myself because only falsehood struggles to be concealed, but truth breaks the most secured of jails to quench he thirst of man with its effervescent aura.…

  • Acting President Osinbajo’s Last Order On Terrorism

    Acting President Osinbajo’s Last Order On Terrorism

    If I had a chance in my youthful days, I would have enlisted into one arm of the Nigerian Armed Forces. But I was frustrated, as several attempts I made for admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna were met with a brick wall. After the third failed attempt, I resigned to fate and…

  • Banking Industry Recorded Decline In Frauds, Forgeries – NDIC

    By Joseph INOKOTONG   The banking industry recorded a decline in the rate of successful fraud incidences and extent of amount of losses in 2016, compared to 2015. The NDIC Managing Director/Chief Executive, Alh. Umaru Ibrahim, FCIB, mni, made this disclosure while delivering a lecture: “The Role of NDIC in Mitigating Corruption in the Nigerian…

  • Bauchi police smash kidnap, cattle rustling other syndicates, rescue victims

    Bauchi police smash kidnap, cattle rustling other syndicates, rescue victims

    From Sule Aliyu,   Bauchi Police in Bauchi have smashed and arrested about 20 members of various criminal syndicates in various operations in the state. The suspects belonging to kidnap, cattle rustling and other criminal groups operating in the state were paraded at the Bauchi State Police command headquarters yesterday before pressmen. Addressing journalists during the…

  • Bauchi makes HIV, genotype tests mandatory before marriage

    Bauchi makes HIV, genotype tests mandatory before marriage

    By Sule Aliyu; Bauchi Bauchi State Government has enacted a law to compel intending couples to conduct HIV and genotype tests before marriage. This was disclosed at a meeting of stakeholders yesterday at the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis /Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA). The Law to provide for compulsory HIV/AIDS and genotype test before…

  • Create Jobs To End Unemployment, VC Tells FADANA III Beneficiaries

    Create Jobs To End Unemployment, VC Tells FADANA III Beneficiaries

    BY MAIRIGA Juliana, Minna Beneficiaries of the FADAMA 111 Graduate Unemployed Youth and Women Support (GUYS) programme in Niger state have been urged to support federal government to end unemployment by creating jobs through the skills acquired during the just concluded two weeks intensive training. Vice Chancellor of the state owned, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University…