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It's corruption work play on Yol-Mubi Rd rehabilitation awarded to AG Vision, critical stakeholder raises alarm ....asks President Tinubu to revoke the contract and the construction coy be investigated by EFCC, ICPC A one hundred and ninety-four (194) kilometers road from Federal Girls Government College Yola to Mubi was awarded to AG Vision Construction Company Limited for rehabilitation,  a critical Stakeholder in Adamawa, Hamisu Idris Medugu lamented the chameleon movement for the work awarded in 2017. The road which is four feet wide was given to AG Vision to have a completion period of two years during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari awarded to the tone of twenty-one Billion Naira (N21,841,578,000.00.) According to Hamisu five years after AG Vision couldn't do up to thirty percent of the road work and in 2022 a threat of contract revocation on AG Vision compelled them to mobilize to the site but they lamented the exchange of Dollars for ...

2023 Elections: CSOs to Organize National Prayers in Honour of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu  Civil Society Organisations under aegis of Coalition for Great Nigeria (CGN)said arrangements have been concluded to organize  National Prayers  in honour of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , Professor Mahmood Yakubu.  According to the group , it will be unfair not to acknowledge the record of performance of the INEC during the 2023 general elections.  The group,which come out strongly against some persons, who claimed they want to organize prayers to Curse the INEC Chairman for allegedly selling the 2023 election to the highest bidder, President of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said the  prayers would be conducted across 6 geo-political zones .  The group in a statement signed by the Chairman, Dr. Umar Shehu said the idea of laying a curse on the INEC boss,Prof. Mahmood Yakubu is nothing, but a sponsored and deliberate attempt to ridi...

STOP FANNING EMBERS OF ETHNIC WAR OVER THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN NIGERIA! -Fadojoe (Appeals To Igbo Youths). The leader of Rescue Movement For New Nigeria aka Rescue The Vulnerable Initiative, Comrade Faduri Oluwadare Joseph popularly called Fadojoe has called on youths from South/East of Nigeria to desist from turning the present economic downturn in Nigeria to an opportunity to take on the entire Yoruba people, thereby fanning embers of ethnic war!  In a video broadcast through his official YouTube channel, the former presidential aspirant under Labour Party, Fadojoe said, that at "this jet age, it's so sad that we still have generation of some young Nigerians that will still continue to fan embers of tribal war in reaction to the devastating state of our country, turning it to Yoruba vs Igbo media battle.  "No doubt the economy is so hash, no doubt the country is crashing more and more and no doubt we are all talking about it. But the fact still remains tha...

CHIEF OF DEFENSE STAFF's  OFFICE ON PEACE INITIATIVE IN SOUTHERN KADUNA SUES FOR PEACE The office of Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa OFR has organized an interactive session for various communities in Southern Kaduna. The interactive session is aimed at ensuring peaceful co-existence among the different ethnic groups in the area. Addressing participants during the programme ,the Special Adviser to the Chief of Defense Staff, Mr Musa Likita urged the different ethnic groups in the area to co-exist peacefully with one another irrespective of religious or ethnic colouration. According to him  the  Chief of Defense Staff CDS is worried with the issue of insecurity bedeviling the country and southern Kaduna in particular, especially unexplained killings, kidnappings, armed robbery and banditry.  Mr. Likita called on all and sundry to give the CDS the necessary support in his determination to end criminality in the country, and opi...

Economic Hardship: Forum Wants NARTO to Suspend Strike Action  Worried about the economic implications of on citizens,Forum for Good Governance in Nigeria has asked the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) to shelve  planned strike action.  The Road Transport Owners had on Thursday, threatened to embark on a nationwide strike over what they described as high operational costs engineered by rising inflation rates in the country. The umbrella body of all commercial transport owners and operators in Nigeria claimed all efforts made to secure negotiations for appropriate and commensurate Freight rates for  operations  proved abortive.  The Forum for Good Governance in Nigeria which made the appeal in a press statement jointly signed by the National Coordinator and  Secretary;Comrade Abraham Douglas and Comrade Bala Galadima Ikara,said,"At this critical  period of economic hardship, strike  action will be adding  ...

Lamido's Life of Service and Passion for Education By Muhammad Abdu Mago Leadership is all about action. It is not just holding positions without impacting on people's lives. That explains how great leaders are almost always great, because they are simplifiers of difficult tasks and issues. Their actions cut through arguments, debates and doubt, as they offer solutions everybody can vividly understand and accept. They always engage in providing services to the people and devout their lives in making other people's lives better. For this reason, leaders are seen as individuals who influence and guide others.  Now, why does others engage in providing a Life of service to the people? Experts are of the view that:Those who engage in such venture do so by engaging in a life of service to the people, as a full time activity. It’s just their mindset. It isn’t about giving up on their goals, aspirations and desires. For them, it’s about looking at the world and asking t...

LABOUR PARTY THAT WANTS TO RESCUE NIGERIA, NOW NEEDS TO BE RESCUED -Fadojoe, Former Presidential Aspirant Under Labour. Comrade Faduri Oluwadare Joseph popularly called Fadojoe, a former presidential aspirant under Labour Party and the National Leader of Rescue Movement For New Nigeria aka Rescue The Vulnerable Initiative has raised alarm over the monumental corruption allegations presently bedeviling Labour Party as well as the misappropriation of the presidential campaign funds obvious from the financial statements released by Mr. Peter Obi.   In a video on his official YouTube channel, Fadojoe laments that Nigeria is at the lowest ebb so far since the history of the country. "And the Labour Party that Nigerians were looking out for to rescue the country is now languishing in monumental corruption allegations as well as financial misappropriation obvious in the record on the presidential campaign funds released by Mr. Peter Obi. Thus, Labour Party now needs to be...

Nigeria Aviation Projects: Arrest, prosecute Hadi Sirika - Group A civil society organizations, Africa-Today Transparency and Advocacy Group has called for the Anti-graft agency to Immediately arrest and prosecute the former nigeria aviation minister Senator Hadi Sirika,.whose name has been trending on media for the naked impunity of an alleged swindle over the Nigeria Aviation projects. The group in a Press Statement signed by the President Comrade Olabisi Kayode, and issued to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. The  statement said, the Nigeria Air scam was only one of the major scandals associated with Sirika’s name.  "Recall, in 2017 the Minister spent $600,000 on logo design contracted to a Bahraini company before the project, then known as Air Nigeria, was suspended. But Hadi Sirika denied the amount but failed to say how much was spent. Later the Federal Government budgeted up to N800 million between 2017 and 2018 when the blind pursuit of the project was resumed...

Overdependence of dollar cause of current hardship,  Arewa Agenda declares Prominent Northerners have declared that one the major root cause of current economic  difficulty and policy failures are attributable to overdependence on the American dollar as the medium of exchange and abandonkg the national.currency. This was the resolution of a Northern stakeholders conference organized by the Arewa New Agenda. The interactive conference, under the leadership of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Malam Mahmud Yayele Ahmed, noted that the economic hardship stemmed from too much dependence on the dollar. "We are in Nigeria, but our stomachs are in the US, China, and others", said the a media statement at the end of the event. The conference also unveiled seven strategies the Government could use in order to revive the economy and create over ten million jobs in a year with trillions of Naira income.

WOMEN AFFAIRS MINISTRY TO TIGHTEN PROCEDURES FOR CHILD ADOPTION IN THE COUNTRY In its avowed commitment to ensuring the safety and protection of the Nigerian Child, the Federal Government has said that it will tighten the laid down procedures for the adoption of children with a view to tackling issues of molestation which traumatizes kids from their early ages and hinder their psychological and physical growth and development The Honourable Minister of Women Affairs, Barrister (Mrs) Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye stated this today in her office in Abuja when a delegation from the US Embassy, led by its Country Consular Coordinator for Nigeria, Daniela Zadrozny paid her a courtesy call. She stated that under the guise of adoption, several Nigerian Children have faced all forms of inhumane treatment and molestation from their guardians without adequate attention being paid to them The Minister informed that the Ministry under her watch, was determined to ensure that children are libera...

Health Care Delivery: Sen. Balogun harps on synergy among governments, practitioners  Senator Representing Oyo South Senatorial District, Kola Balogun has identified synergy among all tiers of governments, practitioners and private partners to sustain quality health delivery to Nigerians.  He called on all stakeholders in the health sector to redouble their efforts, saying the present challenges posed serious threat to the infrastructural investments in health sector.  Speaking at the official launching of Actigraft, the first wound care product that enables health care providers to produce - in real time - in vitro blood clots from a patient’s blood to the site of the chronic wound to initiate and support the body's natural healing process in Abuja on Wednesday, Sen. Balogun said the government is poised at addressing the shortage in man power and issue of fragment among practitioners.  Sen. Balogun called on both the Federal, State and Local Government ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen an account belonging to Abubakar Ahmad Sirika, brother of immediate-past minister Hadi Sirika, over an alleged N8.06 billion contract fraud in the Federal Ministry of Aviation. The anti-graft agency made this known after the arrest of Abubakar Sirika over contract fraud of about N3.2 billion that was traced to his private company, Engirios Nigeria Limited, the Nation reports. Abubakar Sirika is also a Level-16 officer and a deputy director in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. It was gathered that four big contracts were awarded to Abubakar’s Engirios Nigeria Limited when his brother was in charge of the ministry. According to EFCC investigators, Abubakar Ahmad Sirika is listed as the company’s MD/CEO and the sole signatory to the two accounts linked to the firm with two banks. The four contracts the ex-minister awarded to his brother which were not executed are: Construction of the Terminal Building in Ka...

Coalition For Peace Kicks Against Payment of Ransom by Fmr Minister Pantami for Family  ... Says it's encourage kidnapping business  ...Lauds Tinubu's Proactive efforts in Tackling Insecurity problems Group under aegis of Coalition  for Peace and National Unity Condemns has condemned payment of ransom to kidnappers by the immediate past Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Mal. Isa Pantami .  Recalled that On Wednesday ,January 5, gunmen invaded  residence of a family in Bwari area council ,the Zuma 1 area of Abuja, abducting a father and his six girls with one girls reportedly died in captivity.  The former Minister had made announcement, seeking donation to pay the N60 million ransom via his x social media handle for their rescue. According to Pantami, a friend of his has offered to pay N50 million ransom to the kidnappers to secure the release of the five remaining sisters,who were abducted in Abuja. "It might appeared ...