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  President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census, earlier scheduled for 3-7 May 2023, to a date to be determined by the incoming Administration. The President gave the approval after meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council and the Chairman of @natpopcom and his team at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday (28 April 2023). In arriving at the decision to postpone the Census, the meeting reiterated the critical need for the conduct of a Population and Housing Census, 17 years after the last Census, to collect up-to-date data that will drive the developmental goals of the country and improve the living standard of the Nigerian people. The President noted that with the completion of the Enumeration Area Demarcation of the country, conduct of first and second pretests, the recruitment and training of adhoc workers,procurement of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and ICT infrastructures, appreciable progress has...

  In the fray of last gubernatorial crusade, utmost Osun electorates might have had all their eggs in Governor Ademola Adeleke's basket with the hope that industries would be major concerns after 12years of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) which was largely focused on road networks. Few weeks agone, Governor, Ademola Adeleke bagged "The Best Governor of The Year" by a Lagos based Champion Newspapers without parameters  but proposed road project ongoing symbolises flirting with power. As German social theorist, Robert Michels. In his seminal analysis of the German Social Democratic Party in 1911, said that, all organizations, no matter how democratic their original intentions eventually come to be ruled by a powerful entrenched minority that, when necessary, will act illegitimately to squelch internal opposition and divert the organisations goals in order to maintain its power. As a matter of urgency, one of the substantial blueprints to sail through the aqua of...

  It was on a Sunday morning, 33 years ago, on April 22, 1990 when we woke up to hear martial music on our radio. A bloodiest military coup spearheaded by unassuming gentleman, a Military Officer, Major Gideon Orkar took place at the Dodan Barracks, Obalende, Lagos. They came to forcefully took over power from President General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Rtd) popularly referred to as IBB who planned to become a life president. A group of young military officers mainly from the Middle-Belt States and the South came together to plan the bloodiest coup in the history of Nigeria that failed. The coup was allegedly sponsored by a businessman guru, Chief Great Ogboru from Delta State. The Gideon Orkar's speech was repeated on the radio until the then Lagos State Military Governor, Colonel Alagbe Rasaki came on air through Radio Lagos stammering to make a broadcast which was later supported by General Sani Abacha''s nationwide speech that finally foiled the coup. From Major Gideo...

Publisher of Voice Air Media, Bright Olorungbotemi was asking if there has been any transformations by the omnicompetent entity administered to provide for adequate security, employments and other functions of goverment. In what he describes as sinking, languorous displays by the current, oozing that; On the 26th January, 2023; His Excellency, the Osun State number citizen, Governor Ademola Adeleke, intensified his drive for enhanced partnership with local and multinational firms for direct investment in the heart of the South West of Nigeria's economy, Osun in his statement. Then, what has changed? The issue of insecurity. Insecurity in the state has become something of grave concern to all well-meaning citizens, most of whom continued to wonder how the Land of Virtue arrived at such a dastardly situation where no one is safe; and worse still, rather than abate, the problem is escalating and the matters arising is a recurring phenomenon that threatens the well-being of ...

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The publisher of Oriontimes has rejoiced with comrade Adebisi Adekitan Lukman, the immediate past NANS Secretary General, on his birthday occasion. Oriontimes in a statement read, "The feet of a "legend" can never be forgotten, "Our comrades are supposed to take the front role because they are risk takers like our generational leaders we are now seeing but glory never departs from shadow." You have strived to be useful to "others, to a "cause, to yourself and to the planet. Whether you're serving now, you take a recess, the book have to pause and respect your name among the legendary men. Be reminded that you're in no way diminished for any reason that you called off your activities among the seminarians with the hope that you've paid a supreme price. move on by creating available chances without limitations. On this remarkable day, 'may you have reason to rejoice and celebrate innumerous years on the land of the living. Con...

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) Osun State Chapter, has tasked the state government on youth involvement, having carried out its constitutional obligation, held its election with smoothly transition of power from predecessor, Comrade Abdul'aziz to successor, Comrade Adetunji Ajala in an historical Congress. The youths specifically pleaded for gender balance in the appointment of cabinet members and other positions in a press conference held Thursday, 6th of April, 2023. at the council secretariat, Osogbo, the state capital. The immediate past chairman of National Youth Council of Nigeria, Comrade Abdul'aziz reeled out the achievements of NYCN, baring that the condition of the council's secretariat had undergone certain obsolescence stages, which the building's early figure had been restored and now wearing new look after painted and procurement of office equipments under his leadership. He said that the council were able to manage other youth struct...

There was tension in gwadabawa community of sokoto state, following a conflict between the fulani and hausa people residing in the area, bencity times has learned. I t led to the death of many locals from both sides, including a security operative. a local official, aminu gwadabawa, told the voa hausa in an interview on saturday, that “people in the area were living in fear, as the conflict even claimed the life of a soldier. “they are afraid of reprisal attacks from the fulani bandits.” A statement by survivor, “the fulani attacked my relation with knives. but he has spiritual powers that would not allow sharp objects to pierce his skin. “so they intensified the attack on him and succeeded in hacking his head off his body.” similarly, a fulani man who survived the violent communal clash, narrated his ordeal. according to him, “i was shot at twice but i survived. i begged them not to kill me. but they shot at me.” the voa hausa reported that when the police in sokoto were co...

Nigerian artist, Eedris Abdulkareem has stated that a bill to keep politicians in Nigeria for medical treatment should be passed. This is coming following a proposed bill set to be passed at the national assembly to keep graduate doctors in the country for five years before traveling out. Eedris stated this on his Instagram page He said “I think they should also pass a bill… that all politicians should stay in Nigeria for their medical treatment.”

Following the intensity of Mr Peter Obi’s challenge, he, according to his party, has become a target of state-sponsored intimidation, blackmail, threats, invasion of privacy and other acts of subterfuge aimed at forcing him to abandon his legal challenge. Perhaps for the first time in Nigeria’s recent political history, a leading opposition figure is allegedly being pressured by state actors to leave his homeland because his presence is said to be threatening national stability. Only last week, the Department of State Security DSS, raised an alarm that political actors were plotting to orchestrate violence through “demonstrations and frivolous court orders” to stop the scheduled presidential inauguration on May 29th all in a bid to pave the way for an illegal interim government. Within days, the Federal Government through the Minister for Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in far away Washington DC, in the United States of America, accused the LP candidate and his running mate, Dr...

No fewer than 80 children were Friday morning kidnapped by bandits in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The children are between the ages of 12 and 17, BBC Hausa reported. Some parents of the abducted children who spoke to the British broadcaster said the abductees were in the bush fetching firewood at about 8:00 a.m. when the marksmen rounded them up and wisked them away into the forest. Bandits’ activities have refused to abate in Zamfara despite several government intervention to stem the criminal activity. Hundreds of schoolchildren have been kidnapped and some later released upon payment of ransom. The abductors are yet to reach the parents to make any demands as of the time BBC reported the kidnap.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters in France marched and went on strike for the 11th time in three months, even after Macron’s pension overhaul, which raised the legal age of retirement to 64 from 62, became law. Though large, the number of protesters — about 570,000, according to French authorities, and about 2 million, according to unions — was lower than in previous rounds of protests, a sign that the movement was losing some steam, at least for now. The number of strikers in key sectors like transportation and education has also slowly declined. The protests came a day after a cordial but fruitless meeting — the first since January — between Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and the heads of the main labor unions. The union representatives left after less than an hour and complained that they were not being heard. Unions are also planning a new day of protests on the eve of a key ruling on the pension law by the body that reviews legislation to ensure that it conforms to the Cons...

Maksim Fomin, a Russian military blogger known as Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed yesterday when a bomb exploded in a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia, in what appeared to be one of the most high-profile attacks on a supporter of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Tatarsky was giving a public talk when the explosion ripped through a cafe, the Russian authorities said. Videos posted on social media show him receiving a small statue in his likeness onstage shortly before the explosion. According to NYT, No fewer than 25 other people were injured in the blast, with 19 of them hospitalized, according to the city’s governor, Aleksandr Beglov. Tatarsky represented a radical wing of pro-invasion bloggers and activists who backed Moscow’s war but also criticized what they saw as the flaws in the Russian Army. His death was the most significant attack on a prominent war supporter inside Russia since August, when a car bomb killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of an ultranationalist Russian suppor...

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