The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT Council has expressed shock over the death of ace sport writter and Chairman of Peoples Daily Chapel of NUJ FCT Council Alber Akota describing it as a great loss to the union and journalism profession. In a statement released Sunday in Abuja, jointly signed by Comrades Osaretin Osadebamwen and Ochiaka Ugwu, Chairman and Secretary of Council respectively, it noted that council received the news of the death of the ace sportswriter with rude shock. It stated that the late Akota was not only a strong member of the council, who never missed any…
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The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have held a three day workshop on property and marketing standards on the Nigerian investment certification programme in Ekiti state. The training is aimed at supporting the state’s quest to promote, attract and manage investments The programme was designed to train relevant MDAs in building their capacity as well as development of smart marketing brochure and websites that will attract massive investments into the state. Declaring the workshop open, His Excellency Biodun Oyebanji represented by the Secretary to the state government, Doctor Habibat Adubiaro said the training…
A PASSIONATE APPEAL ON THE PERSISTENT POWER FAILURE IN KAURA NAMODA LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF ZAMFARA STATE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA Your Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR I pen this letter with a heavy heart, but with an unwavering determination to shed light on a pressing issue plaguing the people of Kaura Namoda local government area of Zamfara State. As the leader of our great nation, I appeal to your sense of justice and duty to address the persistent power failure inflicted upon us by the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDCO). Sir, this prolonged blackout…
Federal Capital Territory Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, has performed the ground breaking for the construction of Zuba Relief Market In the Gwagwalada Area Council under Public-Private Partnership arrangement. Special adviser on media to the minister Austine Elemue in a statement quoted the minister at the event to indicated that the ceremony is a confirmation of the administration’s commitment to the provision of critical infrastructures to residents, in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr President. 8 She described the ground breaking was a bold step by the FCT Administration through the Gwagwalada Area Council towards reducing the…
***Small, Medium farm business enterprises to improve nutrition, food security States and Local governmets have been charged to give support to the smallholder farmers, other agric related small and medium enterprises to improve nutrition and food security. The National President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Architect Kabiru Ibrahim and the country Director of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Micheal Ojo, gave the charge recently at the 2023 Microgrant funding for nutritious Business Award Ceremony for 16 businesses in Abuja. The grants were awarded at N3m each to 16 small businesses by Global Alliance for improved Nutrition (GAIN)…
The First Lady of Kogi State, Mrs Sefinat Usman Ododo has hailed the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu over her Renewed Hope Initiative that is promoting access to education for Nigerian children Mrs Ododo who is the Coordinator of RenewedHopeInitiative in Kogi State spoke at the flag off of the distribution of exercise books to students and pupils of the Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA) International Children School in Abuja by the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu. According to her, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has demonstrated her commitment as a true mother of the nation by ensuring that students…
By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja. CENTER for Ethics and Self-Value Orientation, an anti-corruption and Good Governance inclined Non-Government Organization, has rated Kogi State Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA) as one of the topmost ethically responsible and least corrupt state agencies in the country. Executive Director of the Center, Prince Saleh Musa Yakubu disclosed this during the conferment of awards and certificates on the General Manager and Management of the Agency in Lokoja. He said that the 17-year-old Center, after a thorough scrutiny and independent investigation on its anti-corruption scale, scored the Agency, a cumulative 75 per cent in the Center’s…
Barely two weeks after residents of Okere Community in Warri South local government area of Delta state suffered sporadic gun shots from unidentified military men, tension has again gripped the community again as thugs attacked innocent indigenes who were just returning to the city after the last ugly incidents. Findings revealed that those targeted in the attacks were loyalists of the prominent Warri businessman and philanthropist, Chief Ayiri Emami. Chief Emami had recently while offering prayer at the community shrine sought divine intervention on the stool of Warri, a supplication which courted the anger of the incumbent Olu of Warri,…
Nigeria’s Faith-Based University, in Kogi State, north central Nigeria, Salem University, Lokoja, on Friday, felicitates its founding Chancellor, Archbishop Sam Amaga, on his 71st Birthday. Prof Alewo Johnson-Akubo, the University’s Vice Chancellor, in a congratulatory message issued in Lokoja, described Archbishop Amaga as a “visionary and charismatic leader.” The vice chancellor (VC) noted that the entire university community salutes the amazing and impactful years the chancellor of the institution has spent on earth. “To us in salem university, Archbishop Sam Amaga is a true patriot, mentor and father figure worthy of emulation by everyone, who desires to succeed in life…
***as reconstruction work nears completion After about 18 months of holding plenaries at temporary chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives will return to their main Hallowed Chambers next month. Indications to this effect, emerged from the near completion stages the upgraded hallowed chambers are presently, with all the State – of – art furnishings beffiting of the federal lawmakers fixed and sitting terraces extended by Visible Construction Company Nigeria Limited handling the renovation works. The Project Engineer of the Construction firm, Tajudeen Olanipekun, told journalists covering the Senate last week in telephone conversation that the finishing stages of…