A report by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, (ICPC), portraying the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, (NSITF) as one of agencies of government with high-risk corruption has been countered by the agency. The agency in reaction on Monday described the report as unfounded and an attempt by the anti-graft agency to distract the NISTF management at all costs insisting that the report was taken out of context. The General Manager and Head of Corporate Affairs, Ijeoma Oji-Okoronkwo, in a statement said the agency had in the past dealt with corruption and has moved forward, noting that…
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By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja. Managing Director of the Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa, has called on staff from the six HYPPADEC states in the country to comply with the Federal Government’s rule and regulation on assets declaration. Yelwa (Katukan Yauri) made the while declaring open, a two-day workshop on “Strict Compliance With Asset Declaration and Code of Conduct for staff of the Commission organised in collaboration with Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) on Monday in Lokoja. Yelwa stated that, the Commission was committed to Assets Declaration with a view to aiding the Federal Government…
***Meets Olu of Warri, Ologbotsere The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has expressed his commitment to continue to push for warm relationship between the Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse II and the Ologbotsere, Chief Ayiri Emami.Oba Ogunwusi gave the indication when he visited Chief Emami at the latter’s residence in Warri, Delta State shortly after a meeting with Ogiame Atuwatse II.The Ooni of Ife who said the Olu of Warri deserved the cooperation of all within his kingdom equally described Chief Emami as a lover of peace who crave at all times for the…
By Tunde Olusunle My brother, namesake and senior colleague, Tunde Ipinmisho it was who called me to convey the distressing information about Ayo Olukotun’s medical situation in the last week of December 2022. Olukotun, a professor of international relations at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, had suffered a massive stroke. He had been taken in at the intensive care unit Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ago-Iwoye. Segun Ayobolu, also my “sibling” and fellow professional, corroborated the information the following day. He bemoaned the levity with which matters of healthcare, wellbeing, human life are treated in our country. For all…
By Ehichioya Ezomon Politics is a game of intrigues in which politicians attempt to outwit each other by any means possible – including underhand tactics – to gain advantage.Like in war, all is fair in politics. Politicians can insitigate crises in the opponent’s camp, especially during elections, such as the 2023 General Election in Nigeria.The Peoples Democratic Party – battling to retake power it’d lost in 2015 – is even conjuring issues in the All Progressives Congress for the February 25 presidential poll.As an opposition, the PDP desires discord in the APC, to prompt the defeat of the APC ticket…
Following complaints recieved by the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth Development about the Medal table at the recently concluded 21st National Sports Festival the Ministry has taken further step by setting up an independent Committee to immediately do a further review after an initial review was done. A statement that was Signed by the Permanent Secretary Alhaji Ismaila Abubakar indicated that theprocess is normal in such situations in order to ascertain whatever the challenges were with the Festival Medal table computation.”It is also normal to have them resolved even after the Festival. According to him, towards the resolution of…
A group of medical practitioners under the aegis of Biafra Medical Practitioners, BMP, has called for immediate release of detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra,(POB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, over his alleged worsening health condition. The group made the call in a statement issued over the weekend and made available to journalists in Abuja. The statement was jointly signed by Dr. Sam Agubosim, M.D. Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Dr. Nariel Offomah, M.D. Internal Medicine, Dr. Chinonso Agubosim, M.D., M.B.A. — Emergency Medicine, Dr. Cletus lwuagwu, M.D. Internal and Geriatric Medicine, Dr. Nanna Comelius M.D. General Practice, Professor Joy lrobi Pharm…
***Says patriotic leadership will knockoff every agitations 53 years after Nigeria’s Civil War , the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has urged Nigerians to accept the reality that the war has truly ended.Obi who is seeking the mandate of Nigerians in the February 2023 Presidential election was speaking against the backdrop that some parts of Nigeria have continued to treat southeasterners with suspicion based on the civil war even after the truce well over five decades.Only late Dr. Alex Ekwueme, had succeeded in becoming the Number two Man to humble servant-leader, late Alhaji Shehu Shangri, who…
Make resuscitation of Ajaokuta Steel company your priority project to be when you emerge as the next President of Nigeria, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi Central, Barr. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has appealed to the party’s presidential flag bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, The PDP senatorial candidate made the appeal on Saturday during the PDP presidential rally in Lokoja, Kogi State. According to her a working Ajaokuta steel company will reposition the economy of Nigeria and help the people of the State and Nigerians to break the chains of administrative slavery and create job opportunities for the teeming…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, on Saturday, comiserated with the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kogi State chapter, Comrade Adeiza Momohjimoh, whose wife, Zainab, passed on last Friday during a condolence visit The governor, was accompanied on the visit by his Chief of Staff, Abdulkareem Jamiu Asuku, and the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Abdullahi Bello, among others.He urged the NUJ chairman to be strong for the sake of the children his late wife left behind and the entire family. Bello also said his visit was also to pay his last respect…