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Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Minna branch, has resolved to embark on an indefinite boycott of all courts in the state with effect from Monday, January 14, to protest the refusal of the state judicial service commission to investigate several p...
There are indications that the Federal Government is set to recruit massively into the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in order to meet local and international security challenges facing the country. This is even as the Minister of In...
The Niger Delta Elders Forum (NDEF) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan should not count on the support of people of the South-South geo-political zone in 2015 if he fails to address their demands. The elders, in statement in Port Harcourt, signe...
In the renewed effort to encourage massive rice production in Niger State, the state government is to expend N34 billion in its rice multiplication programme over three years. In this regard, the state has acquired over 100,000 hectares for the r...
Kaduna State Governor Mukhtar Ramallan Yero has approved the appointment of Alhaji Ishaq Hamza Dan’Mahawayi as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG). Alhaji Dan’Mahawayi takes over from Alhaji Abdullahi Samaila Yakawada who was th...
Rev. Chris Okotie has expressed his resolve not to contract any marriage with women again. Reacting to speculations suggesting that he might remarry after his two previous encounters that ended in controversy, the reverend-turned politician in a statem...
The governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, yesterday revealed that his decision to dissolve the State Executive Council was to refocus, reenergise and reinvigorate governance in the state. Fayemi said his action was to put in place a more virile an...
As the controversy over the prolonged absence of Enugu State Governor Sullivan Chime continues to reverberate in the country, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has stated that the governor will be back shortly. In a press sta...
The presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the 2011 presidential election, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Thursday expressed optimistic that merger talks among opposition parties in Nigeria would succeed and dislodge the Peoples...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday vowed to monitor strictly compliance of set rules of conduct of the Nigeria Police Force as they discharge their duties in the country. The president stated this in Abuja when he launched the ‘Code of Conduct...
Minna, Niger State capital, has been listed by the world urban forum as one of the three towns in Nigeria that are among the world most liveable cities, the State Commissioner of Land and Housing, Dr Peter Sarki, has said. The commissioner, who stated ...
The influential Forbes Magazine has listed the country as ranking high in global index for habouring one of the world’s saddest people, saying the country’s leadership must move from corrupt practices and official profligacy to render quali...
Gov. Umar Al-makura of Nasarawa State has re-assured the people of the state of his administration’s plan to renovate public schools. This is contained in a statement signed by the Governor’s Special Assistant on Media, Alhaji Sani Mairiga, and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday.
According to the statement, the governor is worried about the dilapidated state of public schools and is determined to upgrade them to appreciable standards. ''Gov. Umar Al-makura is committed more than ever before to uplift the standard of education in primary, post-primary schools and tertiary institutions in the state.
''That is why he took the responsibility of paying the registration fees of final year students of secondary schools wishing to write the NECO examinations,'' the statement quoted the governor as saying.
It recalled that prior to the advent of the present administration, most of the schools in the state were neglected thereby exposing the school buildings to reptiles and questionable characters.
It also said that more than N2 billion was budgeted for schools' rehabilitation in 2013, pointing out that this was done to underscore the governor's seriousness in the development of the education sector.
The statement said Al-makura urged all teachers, students, and pupils to re-double their efforts and co-operate with the government in its quest to improve education in the state. It, however, warned heads of schools not to collecting illegal fees from students, adding that anyone caught would face the wrath of the law. (NAN)
Gov. Umar Tanko Al-makura of Nasarawa State on Thursday said that the state government would invest N5 billion on the construction of a power substation in Lafia to boost electricity supply. Al-makura, who disclosed this at a meeting with experts in th...
Mr Mike Omeri, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), has said that the Federal Government has no plan to restrict the use of social media. Omeri told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that the social media was a lifestyle which everybody had adopted.
He said that the social media was a lifestyle adopted by people, governments, youths and personalities, adding that it was just the use to which it was put to that should be checked.
``There is no plan at the moment to restrict the use of social media, but what the agency is doing is to encourage people to do the right thing, NOA cannot control the lifestyle of individual; that will become too excessive,'' Omeri said.
He said that the agency would soon unveil a strategy for the use of social media, adding that a situation where it was being use for criminal activities was undesirable.
``The NOA at its level now in addition to sensitising Nigerian in allowing themselves to become susceptible to criminal and other deviant behavior on social media, is planning to engage media practitioners to discuss its role in the social development of the country through the use of social media,'' he said.
Omeri said that the agency would partner with media houses to come up with effective strategy that would ensure Nigerians did not fall victim of the negative side of social media.
``We will ensure that our people do not fall victim of what should otherwise be a source of news information and entertainment,'' he said. According to him, the best thing to do now is to sensitise the people to do the right thing by deploying the social media for good purposes like education, and some social purposes that are not danger prone.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that a few people had become victim of the use of social media such as facebook, twitter, Badoo, to go, among others.
NAN recalls the case of Cynthia Osogwu, a post graduate student of Nasarawa State University who travelled to Lagos to meet his facebook friends on the guise of transacting business, but was raped and killed. NOA has, however, promised to ensure that Nigerians were sensitise on the positive use of social media and sensitise the people on the danger inherent in abusing it. (NAN)