The Director General, National Orientation Agency ( NOA) Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu has stated that the Agency is being strategically repositioned for effective service delivery and the days of NOA winking in the dark are over. Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu made this known on Friday while speaking as a guest on a Sobi FM Radio Programme where he highlighted the Agency’s efforts towards achieving a CLHEEAN Community. The Director General explained that soon, there will be an unveiling of a new strategic approach towards resolving the multifaceted challenges bedeviling the country by President Tinubu. He stressed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government…
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By Dare BABARINSA It would be good if we all realise the truth that nobody is going to build our country for us. As of now, the country needs to be built, brick and mortar, little by little. It is a good sign that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has set up an Economic Team that looks quite formidable. No longer would the crucial business of the economy, the most important aspect of building our country, be left only in the hands of politicians. Looking at the team makes one to have the confidence that the government is serious about its…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the September 21, 2024 Edo State Governorship election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, on Friday urged youths to maximize their potential, channeling their skills, talents and energy towards making Nigeria a first-world nation. Ighodalo made the call at the Egor Youth Summit with the theme, “Building Leadership Skills, Confidence and Opportunities for Young People,” held at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub in Benin City, Edo State Capital. He said, “The youths are not to see themselves as just leaders in the future but are leaders of the nation now. The youths are in…
The Delta State Representative to the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Monday Ovwigho Igbuya, on Friday, led officials of the Commission, to a site inspection of the abandoned NDDC hostel in Site III of Delta State University, Abraka Campus. Receiving the NDDC team, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Andy Ogochukwu Egwunyenga, praised Rt Hon Igbuya for his personal commitment to infrastructural development in the University. The Vice Chancellor, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof (Mrs.) Rosemary Okoh, noted…
In a bid to enrich discourse on contemporary issues and foster intellectual engagement, Advocate Lecture Series Board of Council, (ALSBCS) is delighted to announce the participation of Dr. Harvey Igben as a discussant at its upcoming public lecture. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr. Shedrack Onitsha, Secretary, Advocate Lecture Series Board of Council, (ALSBCS) disclosed that the inaugural lecture is part of activities lined up to celebration of its 10th Year Anniversary in Newspaper Publishing by Advocate Publication Ltd. According to him, the Inaugural Lecture Series has a thought-provoking theme: “Youth Empowerment and Leadership Evolution:…
AHEAD of the Edo 2024 gubernatorial election, Nigeria’s estate giant, business mogul and former Chairman of Owan West LGA , Hon. Daniel Asekhame and his loyalists, have dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) to join forces with the PDP, amidst thunderous cheers from the party faithfuls. Asekhame and his loyalists; Arewa people in the LGA, APC members from Uzebba ward 9 and a host of APC members formed part of the census of personalities that joined the PDP in a well attended meeting that held at the LGA Secretariat in Sabongidda-Ora. Welcoming Hon. Asekhame and others, the Party Boss in…
Executive Assistant on Communications to Delta State Governor, and Head of Delta State Orientation Bureau, Dr Latimore Oghenesivbe, has attributed the finality of peaceful resolution of the over two decades Aladja and Ogbe-Ijoh boundary dispute in Udu and Warri South West Local Government Areas of the state, to the uncommon foresight and astute leadership craft of governor Sheriff Oborevwori. Oghenesivbe made the assertion while speaking to newsmen on Friday, saying that the enhanced peace and security encapsulated in the MORE Agenda of the governor, has started yielding tremendous results, describing the final peace accord signed between Aladja and Ogbe-Ijoh communities…
By Jorome Omonogbe Tadefua “Let no man panic or be anxious. Edo is a PDP state and September will really be a good time to properly establish that” – Harrison Omagbon, Edo State PDP Deputy Chairman While Nigerians were enjoying the extended Eid el Fitr holiday on Thursday, a fear-induced, jaundiced and reckless analysis of the three leading candidates and their political parties in the September governorship election in the state was released online. Titled, ‘How Edo election candidates and parties stand after primaries’, the so-called analysis is nothing other than a failed and miserable attempt to paint the candidate…
By Johnson Egbemudia Dudu, PhD. Professor Emeritus Andrew Godwin Onokerhoraye wrote the memoir, “On the Hot Seat: The Memoir of a Vice-Chancellor.” It was about his time as a Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State. The book is popularly known as “On the Hot Seat”. The 851 pages chronicled the sweet and bitter stories of the seat of the VC of the University of Benin, from 1992 to 1998. President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangidi (IBB) was the Chairman of the occasion, though represented by the former Vice President, late Admiral Augustus Aikhomu. That was about 20…
By Reno Omokri I see supporters of a certain candidate spreading the propaganda that our foreign reserves dropped because the Tinubu administration has abandoned the flotation of the Naira and is now defending it, like previous administrations, and that is why the Naira is rising. You do not need to be a supporter of President Bola Tinubu to know that not only is this false, but it is an economically and intellectually lazy statement. I will now present the facts. I urge my readers to fact-check me. The reason why our foreign reserves dipped by slightly over a billion dollars…