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BY FREDRICK NWABUFO It appears Buhari campaign managers have little respect for intellectual property; obviate due diligence, and may be impotent of original ideas. President Buhari’s ‘Next Level campaign logo’ has ticked off an avoidable controversy. The logo is said to be that of “a project of Winthrop University-School Partnership Network in collaboration with Fort Mill School District (York 4), Lancaster County School District, and Rock Hill School District (York 3). It is a Professional Development Program grant funded by the US Department of Education and administered through the Office of English Learner Acquisition (OELA)”. Really, a look at the…
November 17, 2018 promptnewsonline The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Sunday lift ban on campaign for 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections slated for Feb. 16, 2019 A statement by Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC Director Of Voter Education and Publicity, on Saturday in Abuja said that political parties who fielded candidates for both elections would commence campaigns across the country. Osaze-Uzzi said that the commencement of campaigns was in line with the Timetable and Schedule of Activities issued by the INEC. He added that it was also in accordance with Section 99 (1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as…
By Fredrick NWABUFO The depth of filth in the APC primary election can contain a tsunami. The “inglorious” exercise and its resulting attrition betray the anti-corruption sloganeering of the Buhari administration. A lot has been said about the alleged involvement of Adams Oshiomhole, APC national chairman, in the corruption shin-dig. But what is the position of the DSS? The secret police interrogated Oshiomhole, and really did ask him to resign over allegations of bribery. Was it right in making this demand of him? What effectuated the agency to toe such a controversial and unpopular path? Well, the DSS has submitted the…
The Yale Young African Scholars Program 2019 application is now open! Apply today! The Yale Young African Scholars Program (YYAS) is an intensive academic and enrichment program designed for African secondary school students planning to pursue tertiary education and who wish to make meaningful impact as young leaders on the continent. Participants will enhance their academic skills, receive university admission and financial aid application guidance, and join a network of young leaders from across Africa. Following the eight-day program, students will be paired with mentors who will help advise them throughout the university application process. There are no tuition, meal, or lodging…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that the process for the extraditing former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke from the United Kingdom has begun. Acting Spokesman of the commission, Mr Tony Orilade, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. There have been calls from different quarters for the extradition of the former minister over several allegations of impropriety against her. Ex-Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke According to Orilade, EFCC’s Operations Department has made presentation to the Legal Department to commence the process, and that process has commenced. He, however, said that the action…
Three eminent Nigerians have joined the list of speakers at the News Express 6th Anniversary Lecture & Economic Forum holding next week Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at the main hall of Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos. They are the Honourable Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lagos State, Kehinde Bamigbetan; Executive Director of Media Law Centre, Richard Akinnola; and Manager, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Nigeria LNG Limited, Andy Odeh. “A seasoned journalist, politician and administrator, Bamigbetan boasts about two decades experience in government, so he is in a pole position to speak on how successive governments in Lagos State have…
Press release How plot to embarrass Atiku,plant foreign currencies on his aircraft failed on arrival from Dubai …As Special Security Squard searches him Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has revealed that a plot to embarrass the People Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on arrival early hours on Sunday from Dubai was a failure. Frank said Atiku, who returned to Nigeria around 1am on Sunday morning from his vacation in Dubai was thoroughly searched by a Special Squad of security men deployed by the presidency for some hours with recording…
The Police in Edo said they had arrested an 18-year-old boy who allegedly killed his mother for ritual purposes. The suspect, with other suspected criminals arrested by the command, was presented to newsmen by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Johnson Kokumo, in Benin on Wednesday. The boy told the journalists that he carried out the act after consulting a spiritualist, who promised to make him rich. He confessed to strangling his mother at 5 a.m. on Oct. 10 in Ologbo, near Benin, while the woman was asleep. He said that he had sexual intercourse with her…
A Kano High court on Monday ordered the state House of Assembly investigative committee to stop investigation on the bribery allegation against Gov. Abdullah Ganduje, pending determination of a case filed before it on the matter. The order followed a suit filed by one Muhammad Zubair for himself and the national coordinator of Lawyers for Sustainable Democratization of Nigeria. The suit is against three defendants: the Kano state House of Assembly, Chairman of the investigative committee, Baffa Babba Dan-Agundi, and the Attorney General of the state and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ibrahim Muktar. The presiding Judge, Justice A T Badamasi,…