Yesterday, I raised concern over the APC strategic retreat held in Abuja and organized by the Niger state APC Governorship candidate, Honorable Umar Mohammed Bago. Only for me to receive a call from the Governorship candidate this afternoon telling me he was disappointed with what I wrote and that if he wants to hold a meeting or retreat in Abuja, is it my business to tell him where to do his retreat? I told him that I am not telling him where to do his retreat but raising an opinion over holding the retreat in Abuja and it is an…
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Confidently and majestically, she strolled to the podium with calmness and unperturbed, she made one minute and fifteen seconds speech, which contained a few key messages. These are the Economic downturn affecting thousands of households in Britain, her inability to achieve her campaign promises, “I recognize though I cannot deliver the mandate”, due consultation, and then announcing her resignation as the British Prime Minister. Planning for the election of her successor. Hundred of millions of viewers watched the video clip with utter shock and disbelief. Few viewers watched her for the first time because she spent only 45 days in…
We are in a new phase of politics hitherto never witnessed in our country. Sure, politicians that lost out in their parties are known for changing platforms. That isn’t new. They call it cross-carpeting. We should, of course, know that the word “Cross-carpeting” does not exist in the English language. Politicians coined it in Nigeria to describe a common phenomenon by which politicians switch political allegiance just to achieve their personal political goals. Here, this is fueled by the politicians’ desire to attain political office or truncate someone’s march towards political victory, unlike in other parts of the world where…
Nigeria has a very young population profile so the current generation may not be aware but in April 1984, the Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, ordered that the Nigerian currency be redesigned. Everybody was directed to deposit their money in banks for safekeeping until the government begins exchanging their old bills with the country’s new currency in a move aimed at catching corrupt officials. The then four-month-old military government had seized power with the objectives of solving the nation’s economic crisis and stamping out widespread corruption. Today, almost four decades later, we have the same President and we are…
The National Association of Nigerian Students in Europe (NANAE) has lauded the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Garba Abubakar for his leadership dynamism and operational innovations at the commission. The Association president, Bashiru Sai’du Muhammad made the commendation in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday. According to him, the innovations by Abubakar at the commission have, among others, tackled delay in registration of companies as well as other areas of its operations. “The leadership dynamism of the Registrar General, Garba Abubakar at the CAC has enhanced the ease of doing business in Nigeria. The appointment…
Over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical care You know that phrase, “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for life”? Yeah, I hate that phrase; it creates a false dichotomy. Why not do both? After all, it’s easier to learn when you’re not hungry. We often construct a similar dichotomy in global health, pitting relief against development, and assuming only one should happen. For many valid reasons, that one is development. It’s a reductionistic view of global health, and…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe, reporting from Accra, Ghana The African Union Development Agency of the New Partnerships for African Development (AUDA–NEPAD) on Monday in Accra, Ghana began a two-day training workshop for African journalists and communicators. Participants are members of the African Biosafety Communication Network drawn from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, E-Swatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda and Zambia. Guided by its implementation drive of the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa 2024 (STISA 2024), AUDA-NEPAD has been “engaged in building the pre-requisites for the safe adoption and application of new and emerging technologies such as…
Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has said that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar is disrespectful to the people of his state because he did not consult him before he picked members of his campaign council from the state. The governor, who spoke at the inauguration of the Rivers State PDP Campaign Council in Port Harcourt on Monday, claimed Atiku selected “enemies” of Rivers into his campaign council for the 2023 general elections. Wike also explained that Atiku’s photos and those of PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu have been missing in PDP campaign materials in…
The messaging app, WhatsApp, is back after millions of users of the social media platform were unable to send, and receive messages. Nigerians and other users of the instant communication app, owned by Meta, had reported that they were unable to either receive or send messages. Tuesday’s outage began around 8:00 am with several of the users heading to other social media platforms like Twitter to lament the development. Both the mobile and web versions of the app experienced similar issues. But the services were restored around 10:00 am (just over two hours after the crash). A check indicated that…
Over the last two decades, advancement in science and technology has made meteorological forecast increasingly accurate. All over the world, policy makers utilise the vast meteorological knowledge, as well as precise and other dependable weather tools, to warn about impending adverse weather days, weeks and months ahead. Whether it is a heat wave, hurricane or flood, authorities avert the most catastrophic fallouts of natural and emergency disasters by promptly responding to early warning signs. However, in Nigeria, such early warnings are sometimes ignored leading to unprecedented human and material costs. A case in point is the recent flood disasters in…