January 17, 2023

[GIST] Armed forces remembrance: 2,140 soldiers, policemen, others killed under Buhari

[GIST] Armed forces remembrance: 2,140 soldiers, policemen, others killed under Buhari

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No fewer than 2, 140 security personnel have lost their lives under the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), between June 2015 and January 2023. Investigations by The PUNCH indicate that the deceased agents included personnel of the military, Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Services, Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigeria


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January 16, 2023

“Atiku’s Five Point Agenda Is The Only Pragmatic Development Plan We Have At The Moment” – Prof. Cyprian F. Edward-Ekpo

“Atiku’s Five Point Agenda Is The Only Pragmatic Development Plan We Have At The Moment” – Prof. Cyprian F. Edward-Ekpo

 

In a recent interview with Channels TV, Prof. Cyprian F. Edward-Ekpo, who is the
Director-General, Institute of Law Research & Development of United Nations (ILAWDUN), Washington DC, USA; Registrar, International Institute for Humanitarian & Environmental Law ( ISHERL): and Principal Executive Officer, Universal School of Eclectic Analysis, Research & Legal Studies ( UNISERL), London, United Kingdom – talked about some of the problems that bothers Nigeria’s democracy. He also disqualified Tinubu’s Manifesto while calling it plagiarism.

During the interview he higjlighted some daring points from his recently published book titled, “SIX DECADES A MISSING PRESIDENT: The Untold Story Why Nigeria Fails, and Atiku Abubakar’s Rethinking of Link Between Governance Agenda and Nigeria’s Renaissance”

The book, Six Decades Of A Missing President, offers readers a series of pedagogic narrative and insightful reflections on challenges and prospects, power and politics, and vistas of development, including how ideological politics and governance mission could illuminate the path of a nation and potentials of the citizens revealing deeper truths about why Nigeria fails and opening new vistas for development.

The book is divided into two complementary segments on the sociology of Nigeria’s leadership. The first part is an epistle on all the political leaderships of Nigeria from 1960 till date while in the second part, which is solution engrossed, Cyprian Edward- Ekpo’s emphasizes and analyzes in a more substantive methodology, a presidential workplan that he finds apropos to the current maladies bedeviling Nigeria – in terms of finding a sustainable solutions to them.

Edward-Ekpo examines the system of development-driven politics as against the current trajectory in Nigeria, which constitutes the baseline of the country’s failures and her impending collapsed state status While acknowledging the importance of general political assumptions, he demonstrates how they are grounded in intellectual poverty and trivialities instead of scientific and legal norms, pragmatism, and law. He dives deeply into the classical tradition and elements of socio-political renaissance towards development with various influential objectives of international law, and illustrates how the pragmatic governance workplan christened “Five-Point Agenda” by Atiku Abubakar – Former Vice President of Nigeria, could be deployed by the citizenry and political leaders to build a better Nigeria.

The book should not be referenced to personality; rather, it should be regarded as a masterpiece that relates to issues espoused in Atiku Abubakar’s Five-Point Agenda, which strikes the author as the most viable pragmatic workplan towards the Nigerian renaissance, and each of the Agenda topics are analyzed in the most pedagogic sense – with emphatic reference to the principles of sustainable development.

Watch the interview below:

[GIST] FG unveils 1,071 NHP homes

[GIST] FG unveils 1,071 NHP homes

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The Federal Government has concluded plans to inaugurate 1,071 completed houses in eight project sites nationwide. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria Group Head, Corporate Communications, Timan Elayo, and made available to The PUNCH on Sunday. The statement revealed that the houses constructed under the National Housing Programme


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[GIST] Opportunists profiting from building collapse prevention scheme – Awobodu

[GIST] Opportunists profiting from building collapse prevention scheme – Awobodu

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The former President of the Nigerian Institute of Building, and Building Collapse Prevention Guild, Kunle Awobodu, has alleged that opportunists were hijacking the building collapse prevention scheme and turning it into a money-making venture. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting recently in Lagos, he said the scheme was designed to get professionals involved in the safety


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[GIST] Delta Air Lines records $45.6bn revenue

[GIST] Delta Air Lines records $45.6bn revenue

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Delta Airlines has announced its $45.6bn revenue in profit for the year ended 2022. The President, Delta Air Lines, Glen Hauenstein, revealed this in a statement on the airline’s financial report for the year ended 2022. Hauenstein stated, “Industry-leading operations and the best-in-class service our people provided drove strong customer satisfaction scores and increasing brand


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[GIST] Raheem: Court begins killer cop’s trial Monday

[GIST] Raheem: Court begins killer cop’s trial Monday

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A Lagos State High Court will on Monday (today) begin the trial of ASP Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Vandi, attached to Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah, Lagos State, allegedly shot Raheem dead while she was returning from an


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[GIST] Growing concerns about assault on healthcare workers

[GIST] Growing concerns about assault on healthcare workers

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In 2014, it was reported that some soldiers stormed a hospital in Ore, Ondo State and assaulted many hospital staff when the hospital refused to take in a deceased soldier they brought to the mortuary the previous day because its mortuary was already full. Recently, THE PUNCH reported the case of angry relatives attacking a


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