ICIR Reports They prepared with borrowed money and materials to invest in efforts at getting a bountiful harvest in the year 2020. Many of them, apparently encouraged by the experience of the past few years, did not want to waste the opportunity offered by the times. But before the end of the first quarter of…
Buhari, Read Riot Act to Herdsmen Now!
BEING A SPEECH BY LT. GENERAL ALANI AKINRINADE ON THE VISIT OF GENERAL TY BURATAI, COAS TO OSUN STATE TO COMMISSION PROJECTS AT KUTA AND ASAMU ON MONDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2020 Please allow me to join my Governor and the good people of Osun State to welcome you to our State, the State of ‘Omoluabi’.…
How LASUSOC Cultivated National Leadership for LASU
On Tuesday September 1, 2020, two days before the announcement of LASU as the nation’s second foremost university according to Times Higher Education Tertiary Education Ranking, the tone was set for another trans-generational landmark at the Lagos State University School of Communication, LASUSOC. That day, without any tone of compulsion, nearly all of us as…
CNPP Rallies Civil Society Groups Behind Organised Labour to Reject Increase in Fuel Price and Electricity Tariff
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) is mobilising a coalition of civil society groups to join Nigeria’s labour movements to protest against the recent hike in the pump price of petrol and electricity tariff. The CNPP, which is the umbrella body of all registered political parties and political associations in the country said this…
Governments Reopen Varsities, But Striking ASUU remain Adamant
The tango between the government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU started with a life drama Monday morning at the Lagos State University, Ojo. The local branch of ASUU in collaboration with the Nonacademic Staff Union, NASU had barricaded the entrance of the university preventing Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun, the vice chancellor and students…
Cover Story: TAMING COVID-19…Can Nigeria Rise up to the Challenge?
The world is still in the shadow of COVID-19. But there is a shift from what obtained at the beginning of the outbreak. The difference now is the general belief that those who have not fallen to the virus must work to find a way out of the health crisis. So, scientists are locked up…
Dr. Indimi’s Quiet 73 Birthday
from Liman Sandabe There are very few influential and rich businessman like Alhaji Dr. Muhammadu Indimi who will decide to mark his birthday as quietly as he did recently. The day was observed with prayers and reflections as well as thanks to Almighty Allah. Despite his prominent position in the society the elderly business icon’s…
Kudos for FCT Land Administration
from Ibrahim Biu. Recently, the world observed a day as World City Day. It was a day meant for people to do whatever they could to maintain a good and clean city. The event was also observed in the FCT. In an attempt to achieve its mandate in giving a good city to the people…
Governor Matawalle Presents Gold Bars To President Buhari (Photo Slide)
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State on Monday, August 24, presented gold bars and precious stones mined from his state to President Buhari. Zamfara State has the highest gold deposits in the country. In addition, the state is also blessed with other minerals like asbestos, columbite, chronite, iron ore, manganese, marble, lithium, and tantalite, which…
TELL Ambushed Me – Borno Governor
Babagana Zulum, a professor and the governor of Borno State said on Monday that the management of TELL Communications Ltd “ambushed” him with a special award recognising his services to the people of the state as well as his outstanding quality as a governor within a period of about one year in office. He made…