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By Editor October 12, 2022 Honourable Funkekeme Solomon has urged Nigerians to rally for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections with a bid to return the country back to the path of sustainable growth after years of economic regression under the All Progressives Congress. Funkekeme, a  Senior Political Adviser to the Delta State Governor, senator Ifeanyi Okowa, made the call in a congratulatory message to the party's presidential running mate on the conferment of the prestigious Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) on him by president Muhammadu Buhari Dailymonitorngr reports that President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday conferred national awards on 437 Nigerians and some foreigners. A statement signed  by Honourable Pius Mordi, Special Assistant on Political affairs to the Governor and made available to Dailymonitorngr, said the Senior Political Adviser to Atiku’s running mate described the national award of Command...

By Editor October 11, 2022 A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed Nov. 8 for hearing a suit challenging the emergence of Kola Abiola as the People’s Redemption Party (PRP)’s presidential candidate. Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the date after a consensus agreement by counsel for the parties in the suit. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Madam Patience Ndidi Key, a female presidential aspirant in the June 5 primaries conducted by the party, had prayed the court to nullify the poll that produced Abiola as the PRP’s presidential candidate. Key, in an originating summons marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1001/2022, also prayed for an order setting aside the declaration of Abiola as the winner of the primaries conducted across the country. NAN reports that Mr Kola is the son of late MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. The plaintiff (Key) had sued PRP, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Mr Latifu Kolawole Abiola a...

 By Editor October 11 2022 Some Abuja residents have said hair braiding makes men look irresponsible, describing the practice as alien to the Nigerian culture. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that hair braiding or weaving is popular among African women as they use it to maintain their natural hair textures. Some Nigerian men have lately also adopted it as a fashion statement, especially footballers and those in the entertainment business as a way of creating a unique identity for themselves in society. But a cross-section of Abuja residents interviewed by NAN  in Abuja said hair braiding should be restricted to women alone, as it is their exclusive reserve. Mr Vincent Chukwuebuka, a resident of Wuse 2, said that “society sees men who engage in hair braiding as people who deviate from societal norms and values and as such have nothing to offer to the society. “ People tend to see them as being irresponsible in society because they tend to look rough and unk...

It’s time to stop forceful feeding of babies- Abuja residents By Editor October 11, 2022   Some residents in Abuja have expressed reservations over the practice of forceful feeding of babies by mothers. A cross-section of those interviewed by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said that although the practice was widespread, especially in the South West, it amounted to an abuse of children. Mrs Khadijah Aminu, a parent in Dei-Dei, said forceful feeding of children is abuse because it always results in maltreatment or punishing of the child when it refuses to eat. Aminu said the act of feeding a child by withholding its nose is abuse in that it could lead to breathe loss and possible death. “Forcefully feeding a child will not only discomfort to the child because it can lead to indigestion and malnutrition,” she said. Mr Femi Afolabi, a father of two in Suleja, corroborated the claim, saying, however, that finding what a child likes to...

By Editor October 11, 2022 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that about 2.7 million double registrations were removed from the system from the last Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise that was conducted by the Commission. According to a Channels Television report, this was made known by the Chairman of INEC, Professor Mamoud Yakubu, while speaking at a National Endowment for Democracy event on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, in Washington DC in the United States. Yakubu also stated that the commission will make available the new set of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by November this year. The INEC boss at the event pointed out that about 50% of the new PVCs are ready but yet to be distributed to collection centres. The National Commissioner and Chairman of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, had in an update in September on the CVR exercise hinted that the commission had detected several double, multiple, and in...

A group photograph at the two-day audit reporting training programme in Benin City organized by FrontFoot Media Initiative for journalists  By Editor Oct 9, 2022 As part of efforts to entrench accountability and transparency in the expenditure of public funds by the executives of the three-tiers of governments, media and financial experts have called  for a coordinated synergy between the media practitioners and auditors. The experts in a two-day two workshop on Audit Reporting, organised for journalists in Benin City  by the FrontFoot Media Initiative noted that the synergy will ensure that the governed has access to information on how their local government chairmen, governors and president make use of public funds entrusted in their care at the end of every fiscal year. The media and financial experts are  Mr Sully Abu, Mr Chido Nwakanma, Mr Emeka Izeze and Sonala Olumhense while the financial experts are Chief Chukwuemeka Joe-Nsika and  Mr Godswi...

Edo State Government House. By Editor October 9, 2022 The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has thrown its weight behind the Nigeria Union of Teachers' (NUT) call on the state government to employ permanent teachers in public primary and secondary schools. The party added its voice to the teachers' agitation on Sunday in a statement signed by its Assistant State Publicity Secretary, Victor Ofure Osehobo and made available to dailymonitorngr in Benin City. Recall that the dailymonitorngr had last Friday reported that the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) during the 2022 World Teachers' Day celebration in Benin  told the state government that they need permanent teachers in  public primary and secondary schools and not that of Edo Star teachers. The World Teachers Day had in its  theme, "The transformation of education begins with teachers". Supporting the  teachers' demand, the party blamed the collapse of t...