Businessmen for Osinbajo (BFO) on Wednesday gathered in Abuja to officially launch the platform as a first major step to changing the Nigerian narrative. BFO is an independent group of volunteers from every sector and size of business, across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Their mandate is to deliver Professor Oluyemi Osinbajo as President come 2023 as the right leader for the business community.The convener of BFO Dr. Tayo Fashogbon said,”I stand here to welcome you on this journey towards an elevated Nigeria. “This elevation will be brought about by a more intentional participation of the business community in the…
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***Lament non inclusion of workers for design of protective measures Bosses and superiors in the public and private sector, have been indicted in a new survey that exposed them as major perpetrators of sexually based violence in the work place, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Female workers in the Territory, maintained that their bosses and superiors indulge in sexual harassment in the workplace.This they said has constituted some kind of barrier to their career development.In a survey, funded by the Ford Foundation, in its drive to promote a healthy workplace experience for the womenfolk in Abuja, 91.5% of…
By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse The Jigawa state government has declared that it has recovered over 86 percent agricultural loans from 150,000 farmers that benefited from the facility in the state This was disclosed by the Managing Director Jigawa state Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (JARDA), Mr Imam Muhammed while speaking to news men in his office.He said the state government through the authority in various programmes had offered soft loan facilities to farmers across the 27 local government areas. The managing director explained that, the “present administration under the leadership of Governor Muhammad Abubakar Badaru disbursed soft agricultural loans to…
(a lecture delivered by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, President, African Development Bank, on the occasion of the 80th Birthday Celebration of Pastor E.A. Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (23 February, 2023) It is such a great honour to be asked to deliver the 80th birthday lecture for Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.I wish to start by congratulating you Daddy G.O on your 80th birthday today. The joy of today is shared by millions all around the world, starting with your sweetheart, Mummy G.O. Congratulations Ma. Daddy…
A group under the aiges of South-south Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to consider equity and justice in the zoning of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party meant for the South-south region. The group said Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa-Ibom states should be given utmost priority in the sharing formula, bearing in mind that Rivers, Edo and Cross Rivers have all produced members of the APC NWC in the past. In a statement released Thursday in Abuja and signed by its national coordinator Barrister Preye Wilson, he said allowing…
Presidential aspirant and Media Entrepreneur, Dumebi Kachikwu, on Thursday, took a swipe at the Federal Government over its lackadaisical attitude towards the dwindling fortunes in university education in the country. Kachikwu who is the Chairman of Roots Television Nigeria, in a statement by his media office in Abuja, said it is high time President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration wakes up to its responsibilities and obligations to the youths by doing the needful to reinvigorate education in Nigeria. According to him, such a move, which demands urgent deployment of massive resources coupled with innovative and progressive policies, would save millions of Nigerian…
The Igalamela Community Development Association, (ICDA) has taken its destiny in it’s hands by activating one of the most unique value addition programme in the community to bring to the fore abundant deposits of crude oil that are yet to be tapped. Not withstanding that Kogi State has already been named an oil producing State on account of the crude oil discovered in Ibaji Local Government the Association is poised to championing a move to discover more oil wells in Kogi State starting with Igalamela.To this end the ICDA organized a one-day seminar/town hall meeting on the topic: oil mining…
Apparently piqued by the abysmal performance of Nigerian politicians that has kept the country underdeveloped, the Presidential aspirant under Coalition of Opposition Parties, (COP) Prince Adewole Adebayo, has taunted failed leaders by asking Professor Maurice Iwu that of all his reforms at INEC he forgot to formulate herbal therapy for politicians. Professor Maurice Iwu is a Nigerian Professor of Pharmacognosy who was appointed Chairman of the 2r (INEC) in June 2005, and completed his tenure in April 2010. Prince Adebayo, who chaired the occasion of the public presentation of a book, ‘Healing Plants of Nigeria, ethnomedicine and therapeutic applications, written by Rev. Fr.…
The Executive Secretary, National Commission for Persons With Disabilities, Mr. James David Lalu has distributed Assistive Devices to Persons with varing physical Disabilities at the official launch of the distribution of ADs in Abuja. The head media and publicity of the commission Mbanefo JohnMichael in a statement said the gesture is in line With section 38(r) of the Discrimination against Persons With Disability (prohibition) Act 2018The ES who was represented by the Acting Director, Social Integration, Mr. Lawrence ldemudia the statement quoted him to have reiterated that the Commission is a Federal Government entity created to give relief to PWDs…
***Senate asks FG to declare all known leaders of terrorists wanted The senator representing Ogun West Tolu Odebiyi has warned that unless under aged marriage that gives room for children that are already in poverty to procreate is outlawed in the North, insecurity will continue to linger The senator spoke while contributing to a motion entitled “Urgent need to surmount all kinds of kidnappings, banditry and related security challenges in Wasagu-Danko, Sakaba and Yauri Local Government Areas of Kebbi”. Continuing Odebiyi said,”We seem to be very reactive and very adhoc on how we solve problems such as security in this…