Among the awardees was the man in charge of Hajj affairs in Nigeria, Abdullahi Mukhtar Muhammad, who received the award of the “most responsive CEO, corporate organization in the public sector”. He was also honoured by Manara Satellite TV/Radio station. Those who can sincerely attest to the transformational indices going on in Hajj management in Nigeria will laud these recognitions.
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The world is moving, unstoppably, towards a more open system, one that is not a respecter of tin gods – or goddesses. Politicians who would last are not those who fiddle with their tenure or those who game the system: it’ll be those with a listening ear and a heart of flesh
I looked at the customer service lady as she said it. In my mind I was saying: “Do you expect me to stay here till that time and end up leaving the cinema around midnight?”
However, some civil society groups and prominent Muslims have asked NAHCON to shift the deadline. Independent Hajj Reporters in a statement by its chairman, Ibrahim Muhammad, said that for Nigeria to maximally utilize her 95, 000 slots for the year, that the deadline was not attainable. Its findings showed that less than a month to the deadline, states pilgrims’ boards were yet to register 40 percent of the allocations given to Nigeria by the Saudi Arabian Government.
While Nigerians were faced with how to tackle or at least escape from being victims of the dread sect, another one in the guise of Fulani herdsmen sprang up. This is the latest terror in town; it has embarked on a wanton killing spree. Hundreds of lives have been wasted by the marauding killers.
Sponsored by tough talking Joseph Malema, leader of the leftist leaning Economic Freedom Fighters, the motion which will usher in a review of the constitution, was passed by a majority of 241 votes with 83 members voting against it.
Switzerland about a year ago opened an 11 billion Euro rail tunnel 17 years after the project started. California is spending $77 billion to have bullet train and that is about four years budget of the Federal Government of Nigeria in dollar terms.
Communication is important in tax administration. While it is natural for people to oppose any form of taxation, a tax system must be seen to be fair, just and equitable. The current resistance to taxation in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria – FCT, Anambra, Benue, Edo, Cross River – in part raises governance issues
One of the greatest gifts the LORD gives to us is the ability to recognise when to wait at a particular position or in a circumstance, and when to advance into the next phase of our destinies
With the advent of the Global System of Mobile Communication and the growing availability of internet facilities across our continent, I had no doubt that the future of politics was going to be determined and shaped by a wider scope of communicative culture where restrictions, controls and censorships, as they were known, would become tall orders.
Unity is not something we just have because we are Nigerians, or because someone like me or any other weighs in asking Nigerians to be united. Unity is something we must deliberately work for. In order to unite Nigeria, me must consciously define the fundamentals of our nationhood, to ensure everyone feels safe, secure and carried along.
Today Nigerians are living with a bitter sense of betrayal. The Buhari’s lies is becoming a fixture even among liberal commentators
When you give your ‘last meal’ to God or for humanity, expect not just the miracle of multiplication, but the visitation of the power of resurrection
Our take up point in this brief intervention would be to condemn in un-mistaken terms, reports in the news media particularly that of The PUNCH newspaper of Thursday, 8th, 2018 where a purported seven-days ultimatum was issued to the Lagos State Government by one, Mr. Adeshina Ogunlana, the Chairman, NBA, Ikeja branch to reverse the Land Use Charge Law, 2018.
I’m now in my Coomson season, wondering exactly what I’m doing here and whether I should not be going to Accra
Being excerpts from a paper delivered by the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, Bayo Onanuga, at the the Workshop on Hate Communication in Nigeria: Identifying Its Roots and Remedies. The workshop was organised by the Nigerian Press Council on February 22, 2018 in Abuja
Although I am not a politician and I have no sympathy for any political party, I am a critical stakeholder in the Ekiti Project. As a community leader, whoever becomes the governor of Ekiti State should be of great interest to me personally
If PDP wants to use age as the cornerstone of its campaign strategy, that will be bunkum strategy and the party will lose the presidency miserably in the 2019 election
The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new…
Tastes do not stay the same eternally. We have no option, but to accept that. It is exactly why I am moved to challenge the view that Big Brother Naija (BBN for short) is show without benefits. Looked at carefully enough, it offers benefits, which we fail to see, most likely, because we already harbor prefabricated notions that blind us to modern realities.