THE year 2023 is another election year in Nigeria in which it would present to the Nigerian populace and the Benue citizenry in particular, political gladiators and rebranded political actors seeking to remedy their dwindling political solvency and present themselves to the electorate to surrender their mandate of representation at various tiers of governance. As a build-up to the D-day of elections, campaigns, horse-trading, consultations and political shenanigans would characterise the modus operandi of candidates and their loyalists in a desperate attempt to hoodwink and gain political patronage of the electorate, sometimes banana pills with unsavoury narratives are concocted to…
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THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has rescheduled its governorship and House of Representatives primary elections to Thursday May 26. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, announced this on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen at the end of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC governorship primaries was earlier scheduled for May 20. The APC scribe said the party’s Senate and House of Assembly primaries had also been rescheduled to hold on Friday May 27. “The NWC of the APC has made an approval for a revised timetable…
THE Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has suspended the embattled Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris over the alleged N80 billion fraud alleged to have been committed by him. The Minister stated in a letter dated May 18th 2022 that the suspension was necessary “to allow for proper and unhindered investigation into the serious allegations in line with Public Service Rules 030406.” The short letter reads: “Following your recent arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on allegations of diversion of funds and money laundering, I write to convey your suspension from…
By Denen Achussah ON Monday, 2nd May, 2022, at exactly 8:42am, a group of 17 hikers from the BHG made it to the roof of Nigeria, on the Chappal Waddai Mountain. They were accompanied by four potters and four Park Rangers, National Record learnt. The Keeper of Benue Hike Group (BHG), Tersoo Samson Akula a.k.a Kugia u Kwande, says it took the group five days from Makurdi, the Benue State capital, to get to the peak of Nigeria’s highest point: Top of Mount Chappal Waddai. The expedition, according to Akula, was in solidarity with victims of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and…
SOCIAL protection reduces family poverty and vulnerability, thereby diminishing key drivers of child labour, a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed. The report, entitled: “The role of social protection in the elimination of child labour: Evidence review and policy implications,” presents evidence from a number of studies conducted since 2010 that show how social protection – by helping families cope with economic or health shocks – reduces child labour and facilitates schooling. However, too little progress has been made in ensuring that all children enjoy social protection, says the…
NIGERIA’s meteorological agency, NiMET, has told residents of the FCT, Bauchi, Benue, Gombe, Plateau, Taraba, Cross River, Kwara, Niger, and Kogi states to brace up for moderate to heavy rainfall within the next three days. The agency also forecast similar weather conditions for Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Kogi, the FCT, Nasarawa, Edo, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Borno, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi State from Wednesday morning to Friday evening, Most parts of the North-West are expected to experience light rainfall, NiMET said in its weather advisory Tuesday. “As a result of the expected moderate to heavy…
HASSANE Diane, Trainer in human Rights, National Council of Human Rights (NCHR), Côte d’Ivoire, says ECOWAS integration will be impossible if judgment of the Regional court is not enforced by member states. Diane said this while delivering a paper at the International Conference of ECOWAS Court of Justice in Praia, Cape Verde themed “ECOWAS Integration Model: The Legal Implications of Regionalism, Sovereignty and Supra-nationalism”. He lamented the high rate of none-enforcement of the ECOWAS Court’s judgments by member states, noting that the refusal to enforce the Community Court’s judgment constitutes a violation of its treaty obligations. He, however, advocated dialogue…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has vowed not to spare any estate or structures illegally developed on waterways following the release of the 2022 Annual Flood Outlook by NiMET. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2022 Annual NiMET Flood Outlook negativity featured the FCT, placing AMAC and Gwagwalada on probable high risk. The Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Alhaji Shuaib Umar made the vow during a stakeholders meeting with both Management and Residents Associations of Trademore Estate. “By next week all these houses are going down. The solution to this is the removal of these…
An Upper Area Court in Karu, Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a carpenter, Ayomide Ogunyanwo to six months’ imprisonment for stealing iron rod pipes worth N50,000. The Judge, Hassan Mohammed, sentenced Ogunyanwo, who lives near Bristol Academy Karu site, Abuja, after he pleaded guilty to criminal trespass and theft. However, the court gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N15, 000. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Ade Adeyanju, told the court that on March 8, the convict scaled the fence if the academy and stole two iron rods valued at N50, 000. During police investigation, he said, it was…
APPLE is to introduce a new set of accessibility tools to its devices to aid those living with disabilities. The tools to include a door detection tool which uses sensors in an iPhone or iPad to help those with sight problems find their way when arriving at a new location. The suite of new software features would be introduced later this year, the technology giant confirmed. The door detection tool will be available to users with newer models of the iPhone and iPad Pro which house the firm’s Lidar scanner, which will be used alongside the device camera to spot…