The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has nominated all the service chiefs who were changed last week as non-career ambassadors. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday titled “President Buhari nominates Olonisakin, Buratai, Ibas, Abubakar, Usman as non-career ambassadors.” Adesina said their…
Myanmar’s new military leaders are reportedly planning to charge detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi with treason, according to numerous reports in social media on Wednesday. Suu Kyi was detained in the capital Naypyitaw along with President Win Myint and other members of the government during early morning raids on Monday. The military then…
Uromi women of Edo state on Wednesday protested against the fulani’s living in the state, demanding that they must leave their community. With pictures of them chanting, #FulanimustGo, the women said they can no longer go to their farms, due to the fear that they may be killed by herdsmen. They were seen blocking…
The US Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria has announced that the services of Yoruba and Hausa teachers are needed in the United States. According to the Public Affairs Section of the US Mission Nigeria which made the announcement on its website, applications from qualified Nigerians wishing to teach Hausa or Yoruba languages and cultures…
From Jude Chinedu, Enugu A former member of Enugu State House of Assembly, Chief Obinna Okenwa, alongside 3,000 of his supporters have dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Among the decamping PDP members who complained of injustices within the party was a former chairman of Enugu South Local Government…
Shehu Sani Speaks Shehu Sani, former senator representing Kaduna central, says the solution to the crisis between farmers and herders in the south-west is the setting up of grazing reserves and agro-allied industries in the north. Speaking on Arise Television on Friday, Sani said it is not possible for herders to move around with cattle…
Buhari Cries Out Again President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday placed the country on notice over what he described as a plan to launch a smear campaign against him in the media. President Buhari, who gave the heads-up in a statement in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, alleged that people stoking ethnic…
Police REFORM: Force devolves power to CPs, DPOs to take directives from govs, LG chairmen as Decentralisation of Police Tactical Operations Begin. Commissioners of Police (CPs) in state commands and divisional police officers (DPOs) have been invested with more powers in discharging their responsibilities, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, announced yesterday. Adamu, during…
In the sanctity of the sacred journey towards posterity, in the furnace of refinement to reshape and fine-tune societal political orientation towards egalitarian political society, there certainly must be true believers. In his book The True Believer, Eric Hoffer said: “the True Believer is the mortal enemy of things-as-they are and he insists on sacrificing…
It was the philosophical Soren Kokegarde who said “an individual is the substance in a human person”. Suffice it to say that the term ‘personality’ can actually be defined as the characteristic sets of behaviours, cognitions and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. Even psychology, as a discipline, has boldly attempted…
