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Kaduna Deploys 2000 Teachers In 155 Schools To Enhance Girl-Child Education The Kaduna State government has deployed 2000 teachers in 155 schools across the 23 local government areas (LGAs) of the state as part of efforts to address the constraints of girl-child education in the state. The state’s Deputy Governor, Dr. Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe while speaking at a training organised by the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project under the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Teachers Service Board at Kaduna State University (KASU) said the initiative is aimed at ensuring that the girl-child is given every opportunity to achieve her full potential.    

Canada To Welcome 465,000 Nigerians, Others As Permanent Residents In 2023 Amid Labour Shortage The Canadian government has revealed its immigration plan to welcome half a million immigrants, including Nigerians, each year by 2025 to tackle the labour shortage. Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser released Canada’s 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan, which embraces immigration to help businesses find workers and attract the skills required in key sectors. According to the new release from the immigration ministry, the Canadian economy is now facing critical labour market shortages causing uncertainty for Canadian businesses and workers. The ambitious immigration plan will manage Canada’s social and economic challenges in the decades ahead. In 2021 Canada welcomed over 405,000 newcomers, the most in a single year. According to the plan, the government is continuing that ambition by setting targets in the new levels plan of 465,000 permanent residents in 2023, 485...

ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HAS APPREHENDED 3 GANG-RAPE SUSPECTS  AND WILL BE CHARGED TO COURT AFTER INVESTIGATION. By Chidinma Ikeanyionwu Three rape suspects has been arrested and handed over to the Nigerian Police in Awka. The operation took place when National Agency Fore Prohibition of Trafficking in Person officials alongside Anambra Vigilante Group security operatives  invaded Enekwesumpu Nkpor and arrested the said suspects. The arrest was as a result of a rape complaint made by a 13 years old rape victim in Nkpor. The victim who was brought to the office of the Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare was visibly in tears when narrating her ordeal.  The victim who is from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State explained that she was raped by four boys namely Sunday, Emelie, Chiedu and Nwa awọ but unfortunately Nwa awọ escaped when security operatives invaded the neighborhood. According to the victim, who narrated that the said suspects were co tenants with them but took her to N...

Armed Men Exchange Fire with Security Forces in Uli Uli, a town in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state and home for the first campus of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) experienced heavy shootout yesterday. According to an eye witness report, unidentified armed men with automatic rifle who came in a Toyota sienna vehicle and motorcycles engaged the security forces in a shootout in the university town that lasted for several hours. The issue of insecurity in Uli and Ihiala local government has become a matter of grave concern to all and sundry. The security situation in the local government area has caused massive exodus of indigenes and well-to-do individuals from the town. It has equally affected the school community as students and lecturers are now living in fear, a situation which has affected the once school environ. As at the time of filing this report, the identity of the armed men still remains a mystery and no casualty was recorded  

Nigerian billionaire business mogul, Femi Otedola spent €3million, which is over N2.2billion, to rent Aristotle Onassis' Christina O super luxury yacht ahead of his 60th birthday.   In celebration of his 60th birthday which holds this Friday November 4th, the astute businessman and Chairman of Geregu, rented the super yacht belonging to one of his childhood idols, the late Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, who was once regarded as the richest man in the world.  

GOV. UZODIMMA LAUNCHES THE IMO STATE INDUSTRIAL POLICY  In a bid to make Imo State an investment and Industrial hub that will grow the economy of the State, His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma has launched an Industrial Policy. The Industrial Policy which serves as a roadmap of Industrialization was launched at the Sam Mbakwe Exco, Government House for the promotion of economic growth and development of the State. In his address, Governor Uzodimma disclosed that the Shared Prosperity administration has again made an audacious step in *its* determination to put Imo firmly on the roadmap to economic growth and prosperity.  According to the Governor, the Industrial Policy is "designed to offer fresh, pragmatic and actionable insights into the State's thinking and approach to industrialization". He pointed out that the flagged-off Hope Green Revolution project yesterday, is an economic stimulus plan that buys into the investment opportunities presented by clim...

Abiodun: 203 inputs from town hall meetings incorporated into 2023 budget proposal  ...holds Treasury Board Meeting  The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said that no fewer than 203 inputs representing 95 percent of demands made at the citizens town hall meetings held across the four divisions of the state have been incorporated into the budget proposal for the year 2023. Abiodun stated this on Wednesday at the Treasury Board meeting held at the Obas' Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. He posited that the Town Hall Meetings, apart from being avenues to reach out to more citizens to harness their inputs into the 2023 budget, also served as an important aspect in his administration's inclusive governance in budget preparation. Abiodun further explained that the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) was not meant to produce budget, but how to develop good policies through the retooling of budget, emphasizing that it was important to think of each stage of the budget process i...

  GOV. ORTOM INAUGURATES CAMPAIGN COUNCIL IN BENUE, RECEIVES 25 BUSES FROM WIKE Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, said this on Tuesday at the inauguration of the PDP campaign council in Makurdi, the capital of the state. According to NAN, Ortom said each LGA of the state will get a bus. Ortom said the Rivers governor has always identified with residents of the state in “good and bad moments”. “Wike has also promised to be in Makurdi for the flag-off of the campaigns slated for Monday,” Ortom said. Speaking on the crisis in the party, Ortom said there would be unity if Atiku Abubakar, PDP’s presidential candidate, addresses the concerns of the aggrieved members. He, however, added that the chances of the party winning the 2023 presidential election may be affected if the national leadership fails to address the burning issues raised by the five governors. “All I and my colleagues want is for the committee of the whole house to address the issues holistically,” he said. “If the issues...

Naira Redesign: Bawa Engages Banks’ Compliance Officers, BDC Operators in Lagos The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has sought greater collaboration and partnership with the Association of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria, ACCOBIN, as well as Bureau De Change( BDC) operators  as a way of tackling foreign exchange malpractices, money laundering and other fraudulent activities in the nation’s financial sector. Bawa who made the appeal during a meeting with critical stakeholders in the financial services sector on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at the Lagos Command of the Commission, on the heels of the recent announcement by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to re-design and re-issue some of Naira notes, called for prompt disclosure of fraudulent activities through the exchange of relevant information about illicit deposits and movement of money through deposit money banks.  “In view of the recent move by the Central Ba...

Delta Police arrest suspected gunrunners, recovers 42 locally made guns The Command received credible intelligence about a syndicate who specializes in manufacturing locally made guns, and other arms. It was on this premise that the Commissioner of Police CP Ari Muhammed Ali, FCIA, psc+ detailed the State Anti-Cult Unit (SACU) to carry out intensive raids in the said area. The team led by the Commander SACU, SP Christopher Igbaji, on 31/10/2022, raided the hideout in Emuhu Community, Ika North-East LGA,  during which, forty-two (42) locally made single barrel guns, six (6) double barrel guns, three (3) pump action guns, two (2) filing machines, and a tool box containing fabricated materials working tools were recovered. The suspected ring leader, one Peter Okolie ‘m’ 58yrs and nine (9) others all from Agba Quarters Emuhu were arrested, exhibits in custody and investigation is ongoing. The CP commended the team for the successful operation and assures all residents in the State that...

ASSAULT: IGP ORDERS CP OSUN TO INVESTIGATE ASSAULT ON WOMAN INSPECTOR BAMIDELE The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc+, NPM, NEAPS, fdc, CFR,  has directed the Commissioner of Police, Osun State,  CP Olaleye Faleye, to investigate the alleged assault on woman Inspector Olorunsogo Bamidele by her DCO in Ode Omu Osun State.  We will await the report of the investigation from Osun State Police Command  before necessary actions are taken. However we assure the general public that justice will be done in the case, to protect the core values and ethics of the NPF.  Thanks.  Muyiwa Adejobi, Force PRO, FHQ Abuja  2nd November, 2022. Watch the video below.

. FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION: LASG URGES YOUTHS TO REGISTER WITH REPUTABLE  FILM STUDIOS  The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Film and Video Censors Board (LSFVCB), Mrs. Adebukola Agbaminoja, has called on interested youths in animation to align and register with reputable studios in the creative industry for mentorship. Agbaminnoja made the call in her address at the 2022 Lagos State International Festival of Animation held at Freedom Park, Lagos, imploring the youths to also take advantage of the State partnership with some Film Academies to get skilled so as to be able to compete globally.     She explained that this year’s Festival with the theme: “Get Animated, Season 6”, featuring over 136 short films from 22 countries, is targeted at the youth to encourage them to be more vibrant in the creative sector, assuring that the participants of the continuous support of the Governor Babjide Sanwo-Olu’s administration towards the attainment of their set goals an...