Month: January 2018
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A CALL TO SALVAGE THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, NIA. OPEN LETTER TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON SECURITY AND NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
29th January, 2018 ADVERTORIAL PREAMBLE: This letter is in demonstration of our collective patriotism emanating from our undiluted loyalty to the Nigerian nation. It emanate from our love for fairness, justice, equity and fairness in the pursuit of national goals. Given our limitations, we are signing this letter under pseudo names. 1. It is therefore…
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Establish Peace Commission, CITAD Tells FG
By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has stressed the need for the review of the national peace architecture to provide for the establishment of a National Peace Commission with the mandate to promote peace building, resolution conflicts and engendering a culture of community dialogue at all levels. Apart from…
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ATM: Bauchi Police Uncovers New Trick By Criminals
By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi IN its effort to checkmate cases of fraud at ATM points in the state, Bauchi State Police Command through its operatives from the State Intelligence Bureau (SUB) has arrested one Abdullahi Buhari, 27yrs of Zoo Road, Kano, at Union Bank ATM point while attempting to defraud one Dauda Habila 36yrs of…
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Dogara queries delayed Execution of National Electricity Gas Improvement Project
By Aaron Ossai Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has restated the commitment of the Legislature to tackling challenges bedeviling the power sector. This, he said, at an investigative hearing by the House Committee on Power on the interim management of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) for the apparent delay in the…
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PDP Will Not Participate In Edo State Local Government Council Election
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City The Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the party will not participate in the Edo State Local Government Council Election following a case instituted by the party to challenge the Edo state of Assembly(EDHA) over issues bothering on electoral laws. State Chairman of the PDP,…
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Political parties that fail to embrace internal democracy doomed- Dogara
By Aaron Ossai, Abuja The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has said that any political party that fails to embrace and implement reforms to institute internal democracy risk extinction. He said in an attempt to either capture or hold on to power, some political parties have sometimes embellished their manifestoes with unrealistic promises…
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Striking Rubber Research Institute workers Protest Government’s Silence
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City Workers of Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria, Iyanomo, Edo State, under the aegis of Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Academic Staff Union of Research Institutes (ASURI) have held a peaceful demonstration to press home their reasons for embarking on strike action. They said the demonstration which is in…
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Bauchi records only 206 leprosy cases in 2017
By Sule Aliyui, Bauchi The Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV /AIDS, tuberculosis, leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA) has disclosed that only 206 leprosy cases were recorded in 2017 in the state which represents 0.3 per 10, 000 Population. The Executive chairman of the Agency, Dr Mansur Dada gave the hint yesterday during a…
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2019: Ekweremadu Tasks Buhari on Free, Fair, and Credible Elections
By Aaron Ossai The Deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to ensure his administration not only conducts a credible, free and fair election next year, but also be prepared to accept in good faith, the outcome of the election should he and his party, the ruling All…
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Dictatorial Tendencies, Nepotism Endangering African Democracies – Ekweremadu
By Aaron Ossai The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has warned that democracy will be highly imperiled and transmute to civilian dictatorship without respect for key institutions of democracy by African leaders. He decried the widespread coercion of the press, civil society, the judiciary, and parliaments by some African leaders, whom he…