PROGRESSIVE Lawyers for Osinbajo (PLO) has kicked against the proposed meeting of South-West Presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by some leaders of the region. The Convener of the group and a Constitutional Lawyer, Dr Kayode Ajulo, said in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, that it was a wrong motive and a wrong move. Ajulo said that the meeting, slated for Friday, May 6, 2023 (today) at the State House, Marina, Lagos, lacked some elements of credibility. He agreed that the initiative was borne out of earlier call on Yoruba leaders to hold strategic…
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says he is the most prepared of all aspirants in the 2023 presidential election. Osinbajo made the submission on Thursday in Yenagoa when he paid a courtesy visit to the Bayelsa State Council of Traditional Rulers in continuation of his consultations ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The vice-president said he had the requisite experience needed to pilot the affairs of the country. “The chief objective of my coming is to formally let you know, in a domain where I am a chief, of my intention to run for the presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.…
By Amos Aar PENSIONERS in Benue State on Thursday protested on the streets of Makurdi over the non-payment of pension and gratuity and requested the Department of State Services (DSS) not to clear the State Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, to contest the 2023 senatorial election. Chairman of Concerned/Aggrieved Pensioners, Mr Alex Akosu, told National Record’s Benue correspondent on phone after the protest that: “We started our protest today from Arabic Primary School and we visited EFCC, DSS and ICPC. We submitted a statement in all those places and in that statement, we requested DSS not to clear Governor Samuel Ortom…
A youth Group, under the aegis of Society for Youth and the Downtrodden (SOYD), has called on the federal government to place an embargo prohibiting civil servants from using court affidavit in relation to the service henceforth. In a statement on the International Workers day and signed by its President, Comrade Gabriel Ogwuche, and made available to newsmen in Abuja, the group said the call has become necessary because the legal instrument have been abused by service servants. The statement entitled: “2022 Workers Day: The Need for Surgical Reforms of the Nigeria Civil Service”, the non-governmental organisation further stated: “We…
THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday, in the spirit of internationalism, extended its hand of solidarity to former Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on his acquittal and exoneration from corruption charges by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), the highest human rights adjudicatory body in the world. National Record reported that UNHRC had asserted that Lula was victim of biased judge, and therefore did not receive a fair trial in the judgment that led to his 580-day imprisonment; a position which vindicated the popular former Brazilian leader who had consistently held that his trial and subsequent…
MEMBERS of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), including the Alumni Association of the Federal Government Girls’ College, Gboko and family members have requested the Benue State Government to appeal the decision of its High Court which last Friday, April 28, 2022 discharged and acquitted a senior lecturer with the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Mr Andrew Ogbuja, in the alleged rape and death of 13-year-old Ochanya Ogbanje in 2018. The request to challenge Mr Ogbuja’s acquittal was made on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference attended by the deceased teenager’s family, the alumni association of her alma mater, Federal Government Girls’…
I have always been fascinated by those who apprehend and interpret events and things; those who seek to “inform” and “enlighten” others. I have also always known that these “seekers of the ‘truth’” and interpreters hold a special place in time and space in all human societies; and that what they disseminate are opinions, not necessarily the truth. These opinions are quite often referred to as knowledge; our consciousness of them as the process as knowing. Being conscious of the foregoing, especially in a class society (a society divided by its economic foundations broadly into two as the exploiters and…
Guterres Calls for International Support for Borno PRESIDENT Muhamamdu Buhari on Wednesday afternoon received the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The UN Scribe, who arrived at the Presidential by 3pm, was welcomed by the President and the two leaders immediately went into a closed door session where they are expected to extensively deliberate on issues surrounding security and the humanitarian crisis troubling the North-East and some parts of Nigeria. After their meeting, Buhari and Guterres briefed journalists on the forecourt of the State House. At the briefing, President Buhari stressed the…
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed optimism that whatever the situation and condition is, all will be well with Nigeria. Obasanjo, who said this at a Global Crusade organised by the Deeper Life Bible Church, in Abeokuta on Tuesday, urged Nigerians to have faith in God. The former President said that considering the situation of things, Nigeria and the entire world required God’s visitation, urging all children of God to seek His face for visitation. “If you consider what is going on in our cities, our states, our country, our region of West Africa, our continent and indeed our globe,…
THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday said telecommunication operators are expected to begin the roll out of 5th generation technology services in August 2022, after it handed over the final letters of award of 5G spectrum licences to winners of the December 3.5GHz spectrum auctions. With the letters, the winners of the auction, MTN and Mafab Communication, are now expected to accelerate the deployment of 5G network that will usher Nigeria into a more robust Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and a more digitised Nigerian economy. “In line with the terms and conditions of the 5G license, the licensees are…