The Nigeria Ambassador to Jordan, Faruk Yabo has charged Nigerians to be more tolerant with each other and shun partisanship. He also appeals to Nigerians to continue to be patriotic, foster unity and peaceful co-existence in the country. The Envoy, who gave the charge during an interview in Jordan on Saturday, blamed the current challenges in Nigeria on partisanship. He noted that with tolerance and patriotism, Nigeria will certainly come out of the current security, economic and political challenges facing the country. “With tolerance, you can achieve a lot. Tolerance among the people of Jordan is a model to emulate,…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, on Saturday announced cash rewards for Nigerian athletes who won medals at the ongoing World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. Toyin Ibitoye, Special Assistant (Multimedia) to the minister, disclosed this in a statement saying the cash rewards would see the athletes receiving $5,000 for a gold medal. ”The sum of $3,000 is for a silver medal and $2,000 for a bronze medal.” He recalled that the minister had pledged to handsomely reward athletes who did well at the championships even before the start of the competition. At the end of…
Retired Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu of Methodist Church Nigeria, says being a devout Christian cannot separate him from his culture and tradition. Ladigbolu made the assertions while speaking on his involvement in the promotion of Yoruba culture in Oyo on Saturday. According to him, my involvement in cultural issues is because I am a product of culture. Ladigbolu, also a Prince of Oyo Kingdom, said: “As products of our culture, we are who we are, what we are, what we eat, what we speak, where we go and where we live. “All these are because of our culture. Our culture determines…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the new Emir of Bichi in Kano state, to exhibit good leadership qualities of the late Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, in promoting peace and stability in Nigeria. The new Emir, Nasiru Ado-Bayero, received his Staff of Office, from Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje on Saturday. The President made the call in his congratulatory message to the Emir, on his coronation, on Saturday in Bichi. Buhari was represented by his Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, also uncle to the emir. “Your father, my late friend, the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero may his soul rest in…
Nigeria’s Imaobong Uko on Saturday won Nigeria’s second gold medal in the 400 metres women final with a time of 51.55 sec at the ongoing World U20 Athletics Championship in Nairobi, Kenya. Uko running in lane six came from behind to beat Poland’s Kornelia Lesiewicz to second position (51.97), while Sylvia Chelangat of Kenya finished 3rd in a time of 52.23. Uko’s win is also her new personal career best. An elated Uko after the race said the feat will definitely signal the beginning of greater heights in her career. “It was very tough because of the weather.This is just…
The federal government of Nigeria on Friday, said it would not bow to pressure by a section of Nigerians to prosecute repentant Boko Haram terrorists, instead of granting them amnesty. Recall that hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families, in the southern Borno towns of Konduga, Bama, and Mafa, in the past weeks, surrendered to the Nigeria Army. However, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said in Washington, U.S.A., during his engagement with global media outlets that the call for the insurgents’ prosecution and subsequent killing, was against global best practices. “I personally spoke to the military…
Two global antivirus software giants, Norton and Avast have agreed on a merger (via Sweclockers) that will see the CEO and the current Director of Avast take up positions on the board of NortonLifeLock. Norton, which is officially known as NortonLifeLock after an acquisition in 2019, is based in the US, while Avast operates out of the Czech Republic. The plan is to keep those two bases of operations going. One of the main reasons for this is thanks to the Virus & threat protection that has been part and parcel of Windows for the last few iterations. Some of…
… FAAC silent on PIA, VAT The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, shared a total of N760.717 billion for July 2021 to the federal, states and local governments on Friday. A communiqué issued at the end of the August virtual meeting of the committee said the N760.717 billion total distributable revenue, is made up of distributable statutory revenue of N617.705 billion; distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N140.555 billion and Exchange Gain of N2.457 billion. In July 2021, the sum of N63.501 billion was the total deductions for cost of collection, statutory transfers and refunds. The balance in the…
The Chairman of Alkaleri local government area of Bauchi state, Yusuf Garba has confirmed the incidence of heavy flooding that claimed the lives of two persons, with one other missing and 100 hectares of farmlands destroyed in Duguri district of the local government. Garba disclosed this on Friday when the state’s 2021 Committee on Flood relief and Rehabilitation, led by the Chairman, Baba Tela visited the affected area in Duguri for assessment. He said the flood, triggered by three days torrential rain in the district, from Tuesday to Thursday, resulted in the overflow of water unto the affected farms. “Two…
The Plateau state government has returned undisclosed number of the surviving victims of the Jos attack to Ondo state on Friday. About 28 people were reportedly killed in the attack. The Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Mr Sonni Tiyoden, disclosed this when he accompanied the survivors to the Ondo state government house in Akure. He said that 25 suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident, while normalcy has been restored in the area as investigations are ongoing to bring the perpetrators to book. The victims returned to Ondo are Fulanis, born and brought up in Ondo state, who…