The multi billion naira Gusau ultra-modern motor park, Zamfara state, being handled by Field-Mark Construction Limited is to be completed in the next six months. The project coordinator Mr. Okeke Kalu Okeke disclosed this recently while conducting journalists round the project site. Okeke said the project is part of the Urban renewal initiative by Governor Dauda…
A father and his son have been arrested by the police for impersonation during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Wednesday after inspecting the Kaduna State University University (KASU) Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre. Oloyede…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday disclosed that the air component of operation Hadarin Daji has killed 30 terrorists in an airstrike in Zamfara. The Director of Media Operations, Brig. Gen. Musa Danmadami said in a statement in Abuja that the operation was carried out on October 14 following an intelligence report about the terrorists’…
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Prof. Joash Amupitan, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Amupitan was conformed a screening by the upper legislative chamber on Thursday which lasted for about two hour. Amutan who spoke on the lessons of the 2023 elections, ppromised to…
By Sylvanus Tyoakaa, Abuja The Senate on Wednesday amended the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, deleting a clause which made direct primary compulsory for political parties. Accordingly, the senate amended Clause 84(2) of the report approved direct, indirect primaries or consensus as procedure for the nomination of candidates by political parties for the various elective positions….
In this column, last week, I wrote about “The madness which manifests as nothing more than a sickness, to borrow from Michel Foucault, that points at the abnormality that had seized the mind of Abuja, and elsewhere”. I posited, among others, that the madness which manifests in the officialdom has turned our quarters of political…
