The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has emerged as the best Leadership Government Agency of the year 2022. The Corps on Tuesday received the award during the 14th Edition of the Leadership Annual Conference and Awards, themed “Credible Elections and An Economy in Transition” in Abuja. The NSCDC Commandant General (CG), Dr. Ahmed Audi, after receiving the award, said that the recognition will further encourage personnel to work effectively in ensuring adequate security during the forthcoming elections. Audi said that the Corps had embarked on training and retraining of personnel to ensure proper electoral conduct during the elections.…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
The British Council has indicated its willingness to continue to support Nigeria’s creative industry, insisting that with the right investment and support it has the potential to be the highest employer of labour and contributor to the nation’s wealth. Speaking at the Creative Enterprise Showcase Programme (CESP) in Abuja, Project Manager Arts and Creative Industry, British Council SSA, Uju Dubas-Agbasi noted that the creative industries in Nigeria are rapidly growing economic powerhouses that are increasingly being recognised as pathways for sustainable livelihoods for young people across art forms. Dubas-Agbasi while noting that: “However, most (creative artists) are faced with obstacles…
The French government has been accused of moving against the adoption of a single currency for the entire West Africa region. The adoption of the single currency, ECO would have wiped out CFA franc which is currently used by the Francophone countries that are more than have of the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional bloc The CFA franc was created in the 1930s on the eve of the Second World War, and many critics see it as a neo-colonial device and a form of French monetary imperialism in Africa that continues to destroy…
As part of its commitment to supporting peaceful, credible, free and fair general elections in Nigeria, the United Nations convened a meeting to listen to and discuss civil society perspectives on the ongoing general election process. The meeting, attended by representatives of some twenty civil society organisations, discussed both positive developments and potential threats to peaceful and credible elections such as vote buying, insecurity across the country, mobile phone usage in polling booths, slow PVC collection and election materials distribution in some parts of the country, Naira redesign and swap, as well as violent attacks on women engaging in politics.…
The Think Tank on Nigeria (TTON) organisation, a policy advocacy platform has called on Nigerian Government to get more serious about recovery of gold assets in the mining sector through transparent national and international bidding. This was contained in a-19 point resolution reached after a deliberation which focused on the theme, ’The mining sector and national development’, adding that the recovered gold can be put in a secured vault The organisation in the communique endorsed by 79 members pointed out that a national mining company should be created to own the assets and be listed on the gold stock exchange…
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has selected 19 youths, who are mostly orphans and vulnerable indigenes of the state to study Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (MBBS) on full government scholarship, for a duration of five years. According to a press statement on Wednesday, 1 February, 2023, by the Governor’s spokesman, Mallam Isa Gusau, the students will soon be departing for Suez City in Egypt, to study and obtain the degree. He disclosed that the scholarship to Suez University for which Zulum released N250m was one of the outcomes of a visit to some Egyptian Universities by Governor Zulum…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has launched a Nigerian Internal Security and Public Safety Alert System (N-Alerts) to aid report of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) before, during and after the general election. The alert system was launched by the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen on Wednesday, 1 February, 2023, at the NSCDC National Headquarters in Abuja. The event, which marked the 3rd Annual Forum of Women, Peace and Security Sector Reference Group, was themed, “the Role of Female Security Personnel in 2023 General Elections”. NSCDC Commandant General, Dr. Ahmed Audi, said that the…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested five kingpins of trans-border drug cartel. The spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday, 29 January, 2023, said the men of the agency have successfully dismantled a trans-border drug cartel and arrested five leaders of the syndicates operating in parts of the world in a special operation that lasted weeks during which different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine as well as air compressors used to conceal and distribute them globally were recovered. He disclosed that the special operation came on the heels of…
We find it important to correct the misrepresentation of the statement of our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the campaign rally in Calabar yesterday by a section of the media especially Thisday Newspaper and its broadcast arm, Arise News. While addressing the mammoth crowd of party supporters and people of Cross Rivers State that came to listen to his message of Renewed Hope at U.J Esuene Stadium, Asiwaju Tinubu urged the people not to vote for Peoples Democratic Party and its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar because of their litany of failures while in power for 16 years. The reference…
The Coalition of Pastoralists Associations of Nigeria (CPAN) has called the attention of the Nigerian government and the international community to the plight of the average cattle herder in Nigeria whose business is going down and who can lose his life anytime without consequences. Addressing a world press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, 31 January, 2023, the coalition said the Nigerian state and other tribes are working hard to destroy the business of cattle rearing and chase the Fulani away from sight. Speaking on behalf of CPAN, the President of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Baba Othman…