A new political movement, We2gedaNG, has emerged and organized a three-day symposium on good governance, exemplary leadership and youths inclusion in Minna, Niger state. A statement by the convener, Ibrahim Abdulkarim on Wednesday, said the programme, organized by Niger state chapter, is aimed at changing the course of bad leadership and champion leadership paradigm shift in Nigeria, is titled “Retrieving the Right.” “The programme is part of multiple iterations featuring symposium on the need for the public to understand the motives behind we2geda, its visions, missions and some of its interventions on the polity,” he said. The 3-day engagements is…
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The Dangote Group, in collaboration with Folio Media and Creative Academy on Wednesday, commenced a three-day critical workshop for 60 journalists pooled across Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto and Zamfara states. The training, being held in Kano as part of Dangote’s corporate social responsibility, is themed “The Convergence Journalism” and targeted at building the journalists capacity multi-media skills. Opening the training in Kano on Wednesday, the company’s Group Chief, Branding and Communication, Anthony Chiejina said the training was planned to upgrade the capacity of practicing journalists on multimedia skills, while describing the company’s relationship with media as cordial. The…
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar has said that the rising waves of anti-technologists in the country against the introduction of agricultural technologies can be effectively eliminated with the continuous presentation of factual and reliable information to demystify the subject matter. The Minister said while receiving the visiting Executive Director of African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr Canisius Kanangire that genetic modification technology is not harmful but some of the fears expressed maybe be genuine. “We need to work more to provide people with correct information that will help them make informed decisions about the technology.”…
The Niger state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called for partnership with the state pilgrims welfare board for effective media coverage during pilgrimages. A statement by the assistant secretary of the council, Abubakar Kuta made available to ASHENEWS on Wednesday, quoted its Chairman, Abu Nmodu as making the call during a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of the board, Umar Lapai. He stressed the need for the board to consider the partnership towards adequate coverage of Hajj operations, stressing that other states across the country were already benefiting from similar collaboration. The chairman said the…
Following Tuesday’s victory of the House of Representatives member, Ibrahim Sharada and others at the Federal High Court, Abuja, which annulled the ward congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state, governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Wednesday, sealed a six-storey building housing offices, including that of Barrister Nuraini Jimoh SAN, counsel to Sharada. A team from the Kano Internal Revenue Service, who reportedly acted on the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Lands Zainab Buraji’s orders, were reported to have presented a bill of over N3 billion unpaid ground rents. However, when newsmen visited the scene, Buraji had dispatched a team…
President Muhammadu Buhari has received his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa at the State House in Abuja. The South African President who is accompanied by a delegation of ministers and business leaders is on a state visit expected to reinforce South Africa’s bilateral relations with Nigeria as well as strengthen partnerships directed at African development and cooperation in multilateral forums. Ramaphosa’s four-nation visit to the West Africa region, which also looks to advance trade and investment between the two countries, coincides with the 10th Session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission. The South African President arrived in the country last…
A boat capsize on Tuesday evening, claimed 20 lives of schoolchildren and other people, with seven others rescued in Bagwai River in Bagwai local government area of Kano state, ChannelsTV has reported. The spokesperson of the Kano State Police Command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna who confirmed the incident on Wednesday, said a rescue mission was underway, adding that the number of people involved in the accident cannot be ascertained yet. “20 bodies have been recovered, and we were able to rescue seven. The boat was overloaded with passengers numbering 40 to 50 passengers. “We are doing our best to rescue other…
The ECOWAS Parliament has solicited President Buhari’s support towards the realisation of its Direct Universal Suffrage which will enable the parliament to function more effectively and independently. Hon. Sidie Tunis, Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament called for support on Tuesday at the ongoing ECOWAS Parliament’s 2021 Ordinary Session in Abuja. “We brainstormed on the possibility of attaining this democratic reform and setting the parliament up as a truly democratic body. “We also used the visit to sensitise the Nigerien authorities on the mode of election and facilitated deliberations on the strategy to have it…
As Omicron variant of COVID-19 surges across the globe, Nigeria has confirmed three cases of the variant. The Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Ifedayo Adetifa explained in a statement on Wednesday that the agency had conducted case and genomic surveillance for inbound international travellers arriving in the country at its National Reference Laboratory (NRL) in Abuja, and a network of other testing laboratories. According to him, sequencing of samples from COVID-19 positive inbound travellers was conducted in laboratories with sequencing capacity in the country while all the sequencing data were shared in publicly accessible databases.…
Idea, conception, or opinion is like an object in a space, which can be watched in thousands of different directions. Imagine a 1-point object that has 360 directional views, a 2-dimension (X-Y) object has 360X360 directional views; 3-dimension (X-Y-Z) object has 360 multiples compared to the 2-dimension object. However, in all these thousands of directional views, there is one, which is better, focus and shortest in distance and effort to reach the target and there are many other directional views in the opposing direction of the target. This is the guiding principle on how opinion should be treated irrespective of…