IF a sick man is elected as president, the natural thing for him to do is to first mind his health. Health, it is said, is wealth. A healthy mind in a healthy body is what the office demands. One must be alive first in other to lead. There are psychological effects of terminal sicknesses, like persistent sadness, anger, irritability, constant mood change, concern about self-esteem, fear of physical appearance and behaviour change, all these will lead to psychological imbalance. A sick person is not okay, physically, emotionally, socially, mentally and psychologically and will never be in right frame of…
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NIGERIA carried out a comprehensive pension reform in 2004 with the enactment of the Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2004, which was later repealed and replaced with Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2014. The rationales for the reforms were that the defined benefits scheme in the public service was unfunded with unacceptable outstanding pension liabilities in the public service; administration of pension in the public service was weak, inefficient and lacked regulatory control. All of these gave room for corruption; demographic shifts and aging made the defined benefit scheme being operated especially in the public service unsustainable. In addition, most workers in the…
IT was like a seamless gathering. Diplomats and academics. Practitioners of two assertive professions: lawyers and journalists. Cultural ambassadors and traditional chiefs. It was evening in Abuja on Monday August 22, 2022. We were gathered for the pre-independence 60th anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago, T&T which comes up on August 31. The representative of the Nigerian government, the youthful-looking Ambassador Mustapha Tunde Mukaila who is in charge of the world’s Regions in the Foreign Ministry described T&T as a small but mighty country. It was quite an apt description. T&T has a ‘very large’ population of 1.4 million which is…
IT was a celebration galore in Abuja yesterday as a bachelor who is preparing for his wedding won a Star Prize of a N5 million at the ongoing Dangote Cement Promotion. The Group Managing Director, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Olakunle Alake presented the star prize award to the winner Mr. Mamza Joshua Ayuba, amidst pomp and pageantry. The 35-year-old overjoyed bachelor described the award as a dream comes true. “I was told that I was a lucky winner of Five Million Naira. I thought it was a joke. I did not believe that the Dangote Spell and Win Promo…
AMNESTY International Nigeria (AI-Nigeria) has called on Nigerian authorities to immediately release jailed human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, and drop all charges against him. Amnesty described Effiong’s committal to prison on alleged contempt of court as a travesty of justice by the Akwa Ibom State Chief Judge, Justice Ekaette Obot, sentenced the lawyer to on 27th July 2022 to 30 days imprisonment over what she held as “unruly behaviour,” Effiong’s objection to the presence of armed police operatives in court. In a message posted on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday, Amnesty, said the committal process was bereft of due…
THE House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, on Tuesday began investigation into the attack at the Kuje Correctional Centre that led to the escape of 64 inmates. The committee’s chairman, Mr Sha’aban Saraba, on Tuesday, in Abuja, said the House resolution to investigate the attack was sequel to a motion moved at plenary. He said that the House had on July inaugurated a joint committee on national security in the wake of the attack to investigate and come up with possible recommendation that would forestall a re-occurrence. Saraba said that the committee would ascertain the roles played…
THE Benue State Working Committee (SWC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC), on Tuesday presented the ‘Letter of Recognition’ by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to its governorship flagbearer, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia at the party’s state secretariat in Makurdi. Speaking shortly after he received the INEC letter of recognition presented to him by Comrade Austin Agada, the APC state chairman, Fr. Alia thanked the leadership of the party in the state for the mandate given to him and called on all those who contested with him to join forces with him so as to move the state to…
NO fewer than 1,700 civil servants in Cross River on Tuesday took to the street to protest non-payment of five years salaries. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesters, who converged at the State’s secretariat as early as 7:30am, blocked the entrance to the secretariat. Displaying placards with various inscriptions, the protesters chanted solidarity songs and appealed to the government to pay their salaries. Some of the inscriptions reads: “where is the fold on the table you promised? Hunger is everywhere we are humans and not animals.” “Governor Ayade pay us our salaries. We were duly employed.…
THE Socialist Workers League (SWL) has called on Nigerian masses to rally round the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the ongoing struggle over the implementation of its agreement with the federal government. In a statement on Tuesday, signed by Frances Akinjole, National Chairperson, and Kevinci Ayemhenre, National Secretary, SWL said Nigerians “must rally round ASUU at this time in our current political epoch.” SWL equally called on the federal government to “take education as the cornerstone for societal development which is a fundamental right largely enshrined in our constitution.” The statement, entitled: “SWL Supports ASUU Against the Federal…
THE Industrial Training Fund (ITF), on Monday commenced a three-month skills acquisition training for 255 youths and women in Bauchi State. The Head, Training, ITF, Bauchi, Mr Abdulrahaman Atta, said the programme was carried out under its 2022 National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP) and ‘Agripreneurship’ Skills Empowerment Programme (Ag SEP). Atta said the trade areas selected under the NISDP were tiling and interlocking, solar installation as well as hairdressing. He also highlighted the trade areas to be covered under the Ag SEP as crop production, poultry and fish farming. He said that the trainees were selected from the 20…