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  Senator representing Cross River North senatorial district at the upper chamber of National Assembly on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, has vowed to defeat the Cross River State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the senatorial election in 2023, Prof. Ben Ayade. Jarigbe spoke during the just-concluded one-million-man march organised by supporters of the federal lawmaker in Ogoja LGA of the State ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections. While boasting that he has the capacity to defeat the state governor, Ayade, who is the APC candidate in Cross River North senatorial election in 2023, stressed that his track record alone was enough to make the people of the Senatorial district put their weight solidly behind him. In a question and answer session with journalists shortly after the one-million-man march, the lawmaker stated that he was seeking re-election back to the Senate on the PDP platform to ...

  The immediate-past Secretary to the Katsina State Government (SSG) under the incumbent Governor Aminu Bello Masari, Dr Mustapha Muhammad Inuwa, has announced his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Inuwa is also a former Commissioner for Education in the State. Inuwa, who is the longest-serving SSG in the State, made this known at his campaign office in Katsina on Sunday after meeting with hundreds of his supporters and groups, who were chanting songs of solidarity on his capacity and ability to shape the politics of the State. LEADERSHIP reports that Inuwa resigned as SSG some months ago to contest for Katsina State gubernatorial election under the platform of APC and he lost the party’s primary election to Umar Dikko Radda. He had pledged to support Radda before this latest development. Detail Later… from Leadership News https://ift.tt/G9v0axC

The School of Politics, Policy and Governance (SPPG) is no doubt changing the course of leadership in Nigeria and Africa as a whole by grooming disruptive leaders. SPPG is an unconventional school of the research-anchored #FixPolitics initiative that is designed to transform the quality of political and public leadership in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. The innovative leadership school is invested in developing a massive pipeline of value-based and disruptive thinking political-class equipped with the requisite knowledge, skills, and mindset to solve complex leadership problems to reposition Africa in the 21st Century. Undoubtedly the world suffers from the rapid emergence of a complex myriad of political, social and economic problems that require a leadership revolution to solve. The “normal” that societies once knew no longer exists with global risks like health pandemics, financial and economic crises, climate change, political upheavals within and between countries and on the o...

Hygiene EducatioIn a strategic move to advance good hygiene practices across the nation, global hygiene company Reckitt through its Dettol brand in Nigeria has partnered with leading non-governmental organization, Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) for accelerated Hygiene education in schools, communities, and healthcare facilities using the Dettol Hygiene Quest Curriculum, a collaboration which also coincides with the 2022 Global Handwashing Day campaign. The public presentation and official flag off the Partnership was held on Thursday, 13th September 2022 in Lagos State. In attendance were representatives from the Federal Ministry of Health, the State Basic Education Fund, leaders from both organizations, stakeholders in the health and education sectors from Lagos state, Kwara state and the FCT, Abuja. The Dettol Hygiene Quest curriculum aims to educate, empower and inspire 6 million school children to practice healthy hygiene habits, to achieve a 20% increase in hand washing inci...

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kebbi State has commenced  training of 50 unemployed school leavers on “Quick fix demand driven” and techno cultural craft skills. Speaking while declaring the training open yesterday in Birnin Kebbi, the director general of NDE, Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said the combined trainings, quick fix and techno cultural craft were introduced by the directorate to assist youths to acquire marketable skills within a short period. Fikpo, who was represented by the state coordinator of NDE, Mr. Francis Amos Ambionto, said the 50 trainees would be engaged in quick fix demand driven skills of make-up, bead making and saloon and  another sets as well as techno cultural skills on mats, bed and hart making. Ambionto commended the director general for initiating such programs which according to him would reduce the current mass unemployment, poverty and create wealth through self-employment. He noted that all the trainees and trainers would ...

The lawmaker representing the people of Okene/Ogori-Magongo federal constituency of Kogi State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Yusuf Ahmed Tijjani Damisa, has trained 100 youths and women of his constituency in Poultry Production Value Chain. The lawmaker has always been training youths and women in rice, snail, poultry, fishery, soya beans, benny seed farming as part of his constituency project to create jobs and improve the livelihood of the electorate that gave him the mandate to represent them three consecutive times. One of such empowerment was a two-day training organised for 30 youth and women in poultry value chain to stimulate development of poultry production in Kogi Central senatorial district. The participants were equipped on modern techniques in poultry farming. At the training held at Afim Hotel in Okene, the headquarters of Okene local government area of Kogi State recently, facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in conju...

The Tinubu For President Action Group (T4PAG) has continued in its quest to drum support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and his running mate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim  Shettima respectively for the 2023 presidential election. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja at a rally and the official inauguration of its Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, chairman of the group, Prince Eyitayo ‘Lanre Adegun, said the Tinubu/Shettima combination is the only hope of Nigeria and Nigerians, and promised that the group would mobilise support for this achievement. Prince Adegun urged all well-meaning Nigerians to join them and work for the victory of Tinubu and Shettima. The director, planning and strategy, Omooba Tokunbo Adegun, added that T4PAG is the only support group that currently has a unit which emphasises on and caters for the inclusion of the disabled in Nigeria’s current political clime. In his response after being officially recognised...