November 2021

Tuesday 16 November will be observed as a work free day in Anambra, in honour of Nigeria’s first President, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.

C Don Adinuba, the State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, announced the holiday in a statement today

‘Tuesday, November 16, 2021, has been declared a work-free day in Anambra in honour of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first president, who was born on November 16, 1904,”’according to the announcement.

‘Anambra State is commemorating the birthday of the man who led Nigeria to independence on October 1, 1960, and is renowned as The Great Zik of Africa because

A former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, on Monday, accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of destroying Nigeria’s education system.

Garba described ASUU as the single most destructive system of Nigeria’s education sector.

He lamented that the union was always striking for money and not innovative learning.

In a Facebook post, the businessman wondered why ASUU is allowed to exist in Nigeria.

‘The single most destructive system of Education in Nigeria is ASUU. Always Striking for money, not for innovative learning.’

‘I don’t know why such kind of Union still exist when we are not a communist state,’

The federal government and Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri are currently under fire over the death of Itunu Babalola in Cote D’Ivoire prison.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that Itunu who was wrongly charged and sent to prison died last night after contracting an undisclosed infection.

Recall that Gabriel Odu, the commission’s Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit officer, in Abuja, had confirmed that Itunu was wrongfully charged and incarcerated for a crime she didn’t commit following a series of investigations.

NIDCOM at about eight months ago promised to do everything to secure …

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has told the Federal Government to pursue a political solution to the ongoing secessionist agitations by initiating a process for regional autonomy.

The advice was contained in a statement by the Secretary-General of the Chidi Ibeh-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro.

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He said an additional State for the South-East was also necessary to give the zone a sense of belonging.
Isiguzoro said “the best political solutions for the Biafra agitation in the South-East are to provide platforms for genuine dialogue, and initiate the …

The Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, has lamented that Nigeria has a revenue-generating challenge, as over 32 million citizens have blatantly refused to pay its lawful tax.

The director-general pointed out that with an inflation forecast of 13 percent for the 2022 fiscal year, and the Federal Government’s aggregate expenditure is projected to be ₦16.39 trillion, 12.5 percent higher than the 2021 budget, Nigeria is ‘assets-rich’.

With ₦6.2 trillion as projected budget deficit in 2022, representing 3.39 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Akabueze said the deficit  would be ‘financed by …

Controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Dr Abubakar Ahmad Gumi, has opined that with the provision of education opportunities to Fulani herdsmen at the grassroots, the raging insecurity in the country could be checked.

Sheikh Gumi, who on an inspection visit of the Sheikh Uthman Bin Fodio Centre at Kagarko Grazing Reserve Kohoto Village, Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State donated by Sultan Bello Mosque Foundation, stated that education is the best approach to help widen the knowledge of the Fulani herdsmen against involving themselves to insecurity in the country.

He explained, ‘The construction of the school is an

No fewer than 20 people have been killed in a militant attack in Burkina Faso’s northern border region, the authorities have disclosed.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that nineteen of the victims are said to have been officers in the military police while one was a civilian.

The militants targeted an outpost near a goldmine in Inata.

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Two days earlier seven police officers were killed in another attack in the region, which borders Mali and Niger.

Islamist militants with links to al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State state group operate …