Amaechi more impactful, APC group tells Wike, Sekibo
All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders in Okrika, Ogu/Bolo and Port Harcourt Local Government areas of Rivers State have called on Governor Nyesom Wike and a former Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Dr Abiye Sekibo, to stop their campaign of calumny against the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.
Gunmen kill five villagers in central Mali
At least five Malian villagers have been killed by suspected jihadists in the centre of the country where attacks and ethnic clashes have been on the rise, witnesses and local officials said on Sunday. The attack followed the kidnapping by gunmen on Tuesday of around 20 people at a weekly market in the same village, […]
Football: African international results
Results of African international friendly matches Sunday: At Blantyre, Malawi Malawi 0 Zimbabwe 0 At Dar es Salaam Tanzania 0 Burundi 1 (Ntibazonkiza 86) At Lisbon Benin 2 (Soukou 35, Mounie 71) Gabon 0 At Rustenburg, South Africa South Africa 1 (Dolly 66) Zambia 2 (Kampamba 78, Zulu 82) At Tunis Comoros 2 (Youssouf 70, […]
#ENDSARS: NHRC commends FG on dissolution
The National Human Rights Commission has commended the Federal Government for promptly dissolving the Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), an action it said showed the qualify of a listening government. The Commission spoke in reaction to an announcement on Sunday by the Inspector General of a Police, Mohammed Adamu, dissolving the special squad. According to a statement […]
APCON, NBC to tackle industry debt, advertising code issues
The Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), two government agencies with the responsibility of regulating advertising practice and the broadcast media in Nigeria, have commenced moves to resolve the age-long industry debt and adherence to advertising code, among other critical industry issues.
Preparing for the Brave New World of 2050 (2)
By Obadiah Mailafia The first part of this piece published last week submitted that while preparing for the emergent new world, governments must invest in human capital and skills, while updating the technical competencies of young people I met the Japanese-American physicist Michio Kaku a few years ago at an international scientific conference in Jordan. […]
