Sample opinions and the result you are sure to get is that the average Nigerian journalist is arithmophobic, (or numerophobic). Safe those in specialised areas of reporting like banking and finance, the economy, and the sciences, one can safely posit that majority of journalists have a morbid fear of figures or numbers. The reason they…
Edo NUJ Accuses Nigeria Gas Coy of Sabotaging Operations of Ossiomo Power Plant As Customers Experience Blackout
The Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has berated the Nigera Gas Marketing Company for alleged sabotage of the services of the Ossiomo Power Plant which operations are being hampered by inconsistent gas supply. The NUJ called on the Federal Government, the national security institutions, the state government, and all other…
2023: Edo PDP Government Mops Up Campaign Billboards, Leaves Billboard Owners, Opposition Parties in a Fix
Amidst allegation by the Billboard Owners Association in Edo State that its members have been warned by the governor, Godwin Obaseki, against accepting patronage by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and other opposition political parties as campaigns rev up for the 2023 general elections, the government has admitted mopping up all available campaign billboards in…
Corruption Fight: Ugwuanyi’s Aide Underscores Character, Integrity
Special adviser to the governor of Enugu State on Financial Matters, Paschal Okolie, has emphasised character and integrity as crucial to the fight against corruption in Nigeria’s public service. Okolie, a professor of public finance and accounting, who spoke at a two-day Audit Reporting Training workshop for journalists in Anambra and Enugu States in Awka,…
Alleged Marginalisation: Niger Delta Group Threatens Showdown With FG Over Appointments Into Amnesty Programme
The Niger Delta Volunteers for Good Governance (NDVFGG) has threatened a breach of public peace to register its protest over perceived marginalisation of Edo and Delta States in the appointment of principal officers into the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). The NDVFGG vowed to mobilise for “a total lock down of economic activities” within the Niger…
Concerned Delta REC Seeks Journalists’ Support in Sensitising Registrants to Collect Over 300,000 Unclaimed PVCs As He Inaugurates INEC Press Corps
The partnership between Nigeria’s election umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and media practitioners in Delta State, was on recently taken a notch higher with the inauguration of INEC Press Corps, IPC, where the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Monday Udoh-Tom, a cleric, charged journalists in the state to help create awareness for registrants to…
Pinnick Out, Gusau In As New NFF President
Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Friday emerged the new president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) at its Annual General Assembly/Elective Congress held in Benin City, Edo State. Until his election, Gusau, a member of the Confederation of African Football, CAF committee, was the Chairman of Zamfara State Football Association. At the keenly contested election, Gusau…
Security Threat: Govt Shifts LG Poll From January 19 To May 6, 2023
For fear of insecurity and voters’ disenfranchisement, Edo State government has moved the date for local government election from the earlier scheduled January 19, 2023 to May 6. A statement issued on Thursday by the Administrative Secretary of the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, (EDSIEC) Sunday Osayande said the new date was informed by fear…
UNIBEN Announces Dates for Post-UTME, Direct Entry Screenings Despite Ongoing Strike by ASUU
The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, not withstanding, the University of Benin, (UNIBEN) Benin-City Edo State, has released dates for its Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME) and Direct Entry screenings for the 2022/2023 academic session. The university, in a notice by its Registrar, Ademola Bobola on Wednesday in Benin, said…
2023: Atiku’s Policy Document, Roadmap to Nigeria’s Recovery- Okowa
Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Wednesday posited that the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s policy document signposted the preparedness of a man ready to salvage the country, andremained the hope of recovery for the nation. Okowa, governor of Delta State, who stated this at the inauguration of the…
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