The Federal Government’s Safe Schools Initiative is to fully take off soon as preparation for it is almost concluded. A statement on Tuesday, 24 January, 2023 by the spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Olusola Odumosu read that: “Preparatory for the full take off of the Federal Government’s Safe Schools Initiative, the Financing Safe School Secretariat/Technical Working Committee has expressed satisfaction with the level of preparedness of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to guarantee success of the programme.” He said while hosting the technical working committee on national schools security, at the Corps…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched its 2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, showing a drop in cases of trafficking as a result of outbreak of COVID-19. This s the sixth of its kind mandated by the United Nations General Assembly in its Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, and covered 141 countries and providing an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional, and national levels, based on trafficking cases detected between 2017 and 2021. According to a statement on Tuesday, the report draws upon the…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in conjunction with the Restoration of Hope Initiative (ROHI) have organized a spelling bee competition for secondary schools in Borno State to commemorate this year’s International Day of Education. Speaking on Tuesday, 24 January, 2023, during the grand finale of the competition in Maiduguri, the Program Manager, Restoration of Hope Initiative (ROHI), Mr. Benjamin John said the spelling competition has been a week long activities, which began with TARL, interaction as well as round table discussion session with the school teachers, officials of the UNICEF education program and other stakeholders. He added that teachers…
The Speaker of the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Dr Sidie Mohamed Tunis has lamented that lack of single currency in the West African sub-region has impeded viable exports in the area. Speaking at the the opening of the fifth Legislature themed “ECOWAS Common Currency and the Inter Bank Payment System as Promoters of Regional Trade,” on Tuesday, 24 January, 2023 in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, Tunis said the level of exports which currently stands at 10% margin is very low for a region of 400 million people. He said: “As you are aware, intra-regional trade is relatively…
Immediate past Osun Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on Tuesday, 24 January, 2023, condoled with his former Deputy Chief of Staff, Prince Abdullah Adeyanju Binuyo, over the death of his father, the late Sheikh Najeemdeen Adegbite Binuyo. The late Sheikh Binuyo, 96, an illustrious son of Inisa in Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun, died in the early hours of Tuesday, 24 January, 2023. Prominent among the children of the deceased is Abdullah Adeyanju Binuyo, who served as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Oyetola from 2018 to 2022. Oyetola described the death of the late Sheikh Binuyo as a great loss…
By Babatunde Raji Fashola Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank you all for the honour of inviting me to speak at this year’s Founders Day celebration of the Eko Boys High School and in particular for inaugurating this Memorial lecture in honour of the visionary Reverend William Benjamin Euba now of very blessed memory, who founded this school. I know that in 1955 when the Premier of the Western Region inaugurated the free primary education program across the western region, the prevailing condition was one of mass illiteracy. While many of our people are now literate in numeracy and…
By Abbas Lateefat Elizabeth The human body breaks down. Of course, this is no new knowledge or anything to be surprised over. We are not machines that can work all day and that need servicing sometimes, which they get and soon, they are back on track. But the human body not only breaks down, the human mind does as well. Now is one more severe than the other? That depends on what you know about the damages on both of them. For example, Medications are administered to physical or life threatening issues; things like accidents, burns, diseases, body pains and…
The Asiwaju/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council received with amusement the hasty “resignation” of Hajiya Naja’atu Mohammed from her position as Director of Civil Society Organisations just before she was sacked for incompetence, quarrelsomeness and after being uncovered to be a mole planted in our winning campaign in order to leak sensitive information to our desperate opponents. Although she deceived the gullible public by claiming that she resigned, her sack letter with ignominy from the campaign and the party had just arrived at her desk. Her desperate, fact-free, machination-filled and imaginary utterances since her sack from the campaign has proved beyond doubt…
Respected Islamic scholar and author, Sheikh Najeemdeen Adegbite Binuyo is dead. Sheikh Binuyo, a renowned author, scholar and well respected broadcast journalist, died few hours into Tuesday, 24 January, 2023. He was aged 96. Sheikh Binuyo’s death was announced by the Lagos Mainland Muslim Community with details of his burial scheduled for Tuesday, 24 January, 2023. Sheikh Binuyo is survived by his highly devoted wife, Alhaja Sidiquat Binuyo and children one whom is the former Deputy Chief of Staff to the erstwhile Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, Prince Abdullahi Adeyanju Binuyo. The mandatory Islamic funeral prayers will be performed…
One of the most popular young politicians in Agege Federal Constituency, Bukola Nurudeen Sofidiya aka Gidado has dissociated himself from the defection of ex-Member of the House of Representatives, Hon Olakunle Amunikoro to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), reports thegazellenews.com Amunikoro, who represented Agege Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives for two terms between 2003 and 2011, is an uncle of the young but popular politician. Many have been insinuating that with the defection of his uncle, Gidado has also moved with him, a rumour he denied and debunked. “I’m a full-blooded member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and…