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The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on Monday, 21 November, 2022, described Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State as a dogged crime fighter who had made the state unsafe for criminals to thrive. He said the Kogi Governor was one governor that would never raise the alarm of not being in control of security in his state, adding that from what he had observed, the governor “leads from the front”. The IGP, who spoke during his visit to Kogi State, added that he was happy that Governor Bello was playing the role of the “real Chief Executive Officer” in…

Saudi Arabia stunned Argentina in one of the World Cup’s greatest-ever upsets as tournament came to life. The South Americans are ranked as one of the favourites to go all the way in Qatar but they were left floored here. Argentina took the lead through Lionel Messi’s early penalty, which was awarded following a VAR decision. But two goals in eight minutes just after half-time flipped the contest and Argentina couldn’t come back. Saleh Al-Shehri nipped in to slide home the equaliser before Salem Al-Dawsari picked out the top corner. It then took an heroic defensive performance to see…

Strong indications have shown that, the Tinubu-Shettima Grassroot Support Organization (TS-GSO), is set to fully domesticate the Tinubu-Shettima candidature across the nooks and crannies of the entire northern Nigeria. The group, which is a duly documented independent campaign group for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Flag-bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, is a vanguard put together by conscious and concerned, northern Nigeria youths of diverse callings, who are desirous of securing landslide northern votes and victory of the APC Presidential Flag-bearers in the 2023 general elections. Responding to a group of media practitioners on…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission is set to make input in the forthcoming Nigeria’s election by holding a series of training and interactive workshops on dialogue and mediation as tools for preventing and mitigating election-related disputes and violence for political actors and stakeholders in the country. The workshop, the Commission said is part of its strategic and operational support for the country’s peaceful 2023 General Election. The workshop series, according to the statement made available to the media at the weekend by the Programme Officer, Mediation Directorate of Political Affairs, ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Brown Odigie, is…

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO),  Axios Senior Citizens Foundation has called for a change in perception on old people, urging the society to create an avenue to tap into resources of the senior citizens. Speaking at a medical outreach for senior citizens in Kubwa, Federal Capital Teritory (FCT), at the weekend, the founder of the NGO, Mrs. Murjanatu Habibu said: “Globally, people wrongly link old age to retirement, pensions collection and withdrawal from the society. This perception needs to be reviewed because the aged can still be very active in nation building.” Habibu, who disclosed that the foundation aims to reintegrate/re-engage…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Mrs. Ajisegiri Sidika at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos over attempt to traffic 400 grammes of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The suspect, who claimed to be a businesswoman trading in adults and childrens wears on Lagos Island, was intercepted on Sunday 13th November while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight going to Saudi Arabia via Doha, and upon a critical examination of the pair of sandals she was wearing, two parcels of cocaine weighing 400…

The General Manager of (LASTMA), Mr. Bolaji Oreagba disclosed over the weekend that the Agency had summoned all officials involved in a matter reported and published by Punch newspaper on Friday, 18 November, 2022. In the report published on pages 28 and 29, it was alleged that three LASTMA arrested three commerical bus drivers on trump-up charges and allegedly collected N13,000, N15,000 and N20,000 from the commercial bus drivers. Oreagba ordered that all officials mentioned in the publication to appear before a 7-man investigation panel set up to thoroughly look into the allegations as published. He disclosed further that all…

Prof. Mustapha Akanbi, Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), is dead. The KWASU Registrar, Mrs Kikelomo Salle, confirmed this in a statement issued in Ilorin on Sunday, 20 November, 2022. She said Akanbi died on Sunday, 20 November, 2022, after a protracted illness. “We urge everyone to remember his immediate and extended family, and the University in prayers in this very trying time. “Burial arrangement will be announced soon,” Salle said. Prof. Akanbi was born to the family of late Hon. Justice Muhammed Mustapha Adebayo Ajao Akanbi and late Hajia Munfaatu Aduke Akanbi. He hails from the Ile magaji…

The Editor-in-Chief of PREMIUM TIMES, Musikilu Mojeed, will, on Thursday, 1 December, 2022, release his debut book to the Nigerian public. The book, The Letterman: Inside the ‘Secret’ Letters of former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, published by PREMIUM TIMES Books, will be unveiled at a ceremony in Abuja, after which it will be available in bookshops. The Letterman, a 25-chapter narrative non-fiction, curates some of the most significant and historical letters written and received by former President Obasanjo, which compellingly tell the story of his life, as defined by and is defining of the story of his country, Nigeria and…

Enner Valencia scored a first-half double as Ecuador overwhelmed hosts Qatar on their way to a routine 2-0 win in the opening game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Valencia had an early header ruled out for a marginal offside call against teammate Michael Estrada, via a questionable VAR review, but he did not have to wait long to celebrate after winning and coolly converting a 16th-minute penalty. It meant Ecuador’s captain became the first player in his country’s history to score four goals in World Cup finals, and he made it five after the half-hour mark, heading home Angelo…

ThisDay newspaper carried its campaign of calumny against our Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, too far on Friday, with a fake report about the death of a respected medical doctor, Kolapo Akande, who was the husband of Lola Akande, a commissioner in Lagos. The report denigrated Kolapo Akande and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, accusing the duo of being involved in drug trade. Not caring a hoot about the need to respect the dead, the paper painted Akande as a drug lord, who had ‘lived under the radar’ and had stayed aloof from people”. Unknown to ThisDay, their imagined ‘hibernating’…

By Femi Fani-Kayode My dear friend and brother Dr. Reuben Abati, I watched you and a colleague of yours by the name of Mr. Rufai Oseni interview a young man by the name of David Hundeyin, who apparantly lives abroad and who describes himself as an “investigative journalist”, on your morning show last Tuesday. The topic was on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his so-called links with the drug business. Whilst insisting that Tinubu was a drug lord, your guest did not answer the question that was put to him by Oseni. He asked: “On Channels Television last night Femi…

By Ayo Akinola You might have heard the popular saying, “you shouldn’t wait around to get what you want, instead go out and get it”, or something along these lines. Whether or not the quote sounds familiar, stepping out of your comfort zone to build on your dreams or attain goals is a necessary step everyone would take at some point. However, without the right networking skills, reaching one’s goals might be arduous. Networking is a process of interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts. There are different places where contacts can be…

By Abiodun Komolafe By nature, development _‘belongs to those who know it, not those who have it or can buy it.’_ It is like a picture, which one keeps working on. Parochialism, on the other hand, is a cultural entrapment. It is evil! With it at work, extant philosophies are laced with the cultural sentiment that a people cannot develop beyond their social thoughts. Once the ruling paradigm in the public administration is _‘awa-n-tiwa’,_ the society is doomed, with the social thoughts and concomitant expectations most certainly not extending the frontiers of knowledge or the ideas of development. Embracing parochialism…

By Abiodun Komolafe One of the greatest shortcomings of Nigeria’s existence is that she has never evolved into a nation. The amalgamation of territories, imposition of the colonial masters, the unfortunate intervention of the military and its attendant maladministration of the civil-society, and the corruption-infested politicians have not actually given the country that opportunity to realize her potentials. To be honest, it is because Nigeria’s handlers have different motives and a diametrically opposed understanding of the concept of development that her journey to nationhood has remained an illusion. As we know, there is no generally acceptable interpretive understanding of the…

The Director General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign and Other Elections Council, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, has promised that the party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will ensure great synergy with European Football clubs and Nigeria youths if he is elected President of Nigeria in 2023, reports thegazellenews.com. Commending the organisation of the recently-concluded 2022 Jagaban Cup Tournament held in Lagos, the former Senate Minority Whip, popular called GOS by admirers, associates and friends, thanked the 36 Lion Investment, Diamond Sports Management, Lagos Enigma, Slavia Praha, the participating teams and of course the fans who came out…

The Lagos State University Faculty of Science International Conference (FOSIC2022) is here again and the event which has become an important annual event in international science scholars’ calendar will take place in December. The theme for this year’s event is: Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Science and Technology. The event, the 8th in the series, is slated to hold between Monday, 5 and Thursday, 8 December, 2022. A press statement signed by the trio of: Professor SL Akintola, Dean of Faculty of Science; Professor RB Adegbola, Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the event; Dr Abdul Azeez Anjorin,…

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan was in Warri, Delta State on Saturday, 19 November, 2022, where he drumed up support for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) and the APC Governorship candidate in the state. Besides Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu who is vying to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege has officially declared his aspiration to be the next Governor of Delta State in 2023. Lawan was at the campaign rally that held at Warri Township Stadium in company of many Federal lawmakers particularly to solidarise with their Distinguished colleague Omo-Agege. The…

Globally, the Digital Economy is expanding at a breakneck pace. This platform has transitioned from a luxury to an absolute necessity in just a few years. At Oriental Hotel, Lagos, Power Learn Project (PLP), in partnership with Adanian Labs Nigeria and Job Red, is launching the #1MillionDevs4Africa Program in Nigeria to train 1 Million software developers across the continent by 2027. Nigeria is the fifth country in Africa, after Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, and Tanzania, to introduce the #1MillionDevs4Africa programme. Digital Skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and their Impact on National Development, have been highlighted as pillars in Nigeria’s…

Marriage in this Bayankole tribe is of great importance as parents derive joy and pride from their children’s marriage. According to this Ugandan tradition, when a girl gets to the age of eight or nine, it is the duty of her aunt to groom her for family life. Virginity in this culture is held in high esteem so the girls must abstain from premarital s€x. The Ankole tribe considers the slim physique unattractive. To them, fat is simply sexy. So when girls get to the ages eight and nine, they are required to go through a fattening process. This is…