Prof. Hamman Tahir, National Vice Chairman, North East, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said the party had learnt from its mistakes in the recent Edo and other past governorship elections in 2015. Tahir said during his visit to Adamawa State APC Secretariat on Saturday in Yola saying that the party would never repeat the same mistakes in 2023 general elections.
By Gloria Partida Summers can be transformative. We have had the summer of love and the summer of hate. The most growth and change for children often happens over summer. This year we have the call to recognize systemic racism in the summer of Black Lives Matter.
Yoruba leaders across states where there are indigenous Yoruba in Nigeria are sharply divided over the appropriateness of the agitation for Oduduwa Republic. They were particularly on different pages with promoters of the self-determination agenda, insisting that what the ethnic group needs is restructuring and not an autonomous country.
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Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) in collaboration with Transparency International-Defence, Security Programme, with support from UK-AID organised a one-day legislative retreat in Lagos for chairmen, members and clerks of security committees of the House of Representatives. The aim is to achieve healthy and sustainable coordination of the various defence reform bills before the National Assembly.
Hours after Vanguard reported how Jihadist fighters linked to the Islamic State group on Friday killed 3 soldiers, 8 policemen, 4 others, in an ambush on the convoy of Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, the governor said the hour has come for Borno state to choose between doing something which gives them hope and doing nothing which will leave them more vulnerable to Boko Haram's ultimate wish to takeover Borno and bring it under its sovereign brutal administration.
Some members of the University of Ibadan academic community have expressed displeasure about the election of members of the community to join the Joint Council Senate Committee of the institution in the selection of its new vice-chancellor. There are 18 contestants for the position of vice-chancellor of the premier university.
No plan to collapse structure for any other party AHEAD of the October governorship election in Ondo State, the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, has said that its national leader and immediate past governor of the state, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has no intention of dumping the party's candidate, Hon Agboola Ajayi, for another candidate.
Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State says President Muhammadu Buhari's policies have began to yield the desired results in the country. The governor made this known during a visit to a private rice mill, owned by a business mogul, Alhaji Sahabi Lolo in Kamba, Dandi Local Government Area(LGA )of the state on Sunday.
Ekiti State chapter of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) is to commence a seven-day warning strike on Monday to press home its demand for payment of its members' outstanding benefits. The stay-at-home directive is contained in a letter the union addressed to Prof. Kayode Olabanji, Chief Medical Director, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital.
Israel Adesanya shut up Paulo Costa on Saturday night in a dominant defence of his middleweight title, winning by TKO in the second round in the main event of UFC 253. Adesanya battered Costa's front leg with kicks to quiet the Brazilian fighter's trash-talking in the early going, and by the start of Round 2, Costa had bruises up and down his lower half.
Thousands of demonstrators joined after-sunset rallies across Israel on Saturday to protest against the rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite a strict virus lockdown. Netanyahu had earlier attempted to extend the country's lockdown rules to prevent the now-weekly protests on health grounds, but was unable to push new curbs through Israel's parliament in time.
Not fewer than 83 defaulters of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise have been arrested and tried by a mobile court for violating the sanitation orders in Kano State. The defaulters were arrested while the exercise was ongoing, tried and fine the sum of over N62,000 in accordance with their offences.
Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigeria's land borders will soon be reopened. Federal had in August shut all land borders to check mate smuggling of food items and stem the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
States, cities, and other municipal borrowers aren't issuing short-term paper in large amounts, LaBas said, and instead are selling longer-term bonds. That way, he said, they can pay the current low interest rates over a longer period. But such longer-term bonds aren't suitable for money market funds.
ETF launches dominated the news this week, with big players like iShares and Vanguard expanding their ESG offerings, while other firms made moves into China. The selloff in credit made waves in the ETF world this week.
Vanguard will liquidate the $1.8bn Vanguard Pennsylvania Municipal Money Market fund and the $1.2bn Vanguard New Jersey Municipal Money Market fund. In a statement, the firm said the limited supply of specific short-term municipal securities in the two states meant the funds had trouble meeting the investment objectives.
Islam discourages secret marriage-Sheikh As news continued to spread on the purported marriage between the Nigerian Chief of the Air Staff, Sadique Baba Abubakar and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, a VOA Hausa report has quoted a close friend of the Air boss describing the report as false.
Governor Godwin Obaseki must not look back, there is so much work to be done. It should dawn on him that the world is watching. God made victory possible and ancestor, Agho Ogbedeoyo, the Obaseki of Benin will be all smiles in his grave. There is so much in a name.
(Editor's note: this is the third of six candidate surveys of the Davis City Council, Yolo Supervisor, and Woodland Council Candidates). Yolo People Power 2020 Candidate Survey Yolo People Power is a county-wide network of residents working toward criminal justice reform.