I mean, you’ve asked my friend to marry you and she has agreed to do so. But now, you don’t want to marry her but me. Isn’t that quite ridiculous and irresponsible?
... Ama
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| Muhammadu Buhari, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria |
SENATORS Biodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti) and
Yusuf Yusuf (APC, Taraba), on Wednesday, disagreed over calls for the
impeachment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over his
inability to deal with Nigeria’s worsening insecurity, reports Punch
Newspapers.
The report establishes that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party senators had last week asked Buhari to rise up to the occasion or risk legislative action while their counterparts in the ruling All Progressives Congress dismissed such calls, insisting that the president was doing his best to tackle the situation.
“Impeachment is not yet on the table”, Senator Olujimi Abiodun (PDP, Ekiti South) said, urging her colleagues not to hesitate to opt for Buhari’s impeachment whenever the need arose, lamenting however, that the Buhari regime was not doing enough to tackle the scourge. “When it is on the table, we would all look at it squarely in the face because if we have a serious problem like what we have in Nigeria, we need to also think seriously about the solution.”
Today, at a stakeholders' meeting on security which included religious leaders, military chiefs, traditional and community leaders, students, unionists and members of the State Executive Council, we got the support of Lagosians to tackle all security challenges in the state.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State gave the message a few days ago via a post on his official social media handle.
“The issue of the unruly behaviour of Okada riders is a major concern and we are determined to deal with this with the strong arm of the Law”, the message read further. “We are introducing First and Last Mile buses next week, which will ply the routes the motorcycles are plying.
“To make the state more secure, we will fully implement the State’s Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law of 2019 which will enable us demolish abandoned buildings and construction sites being used as a safe haven for hoodlums and miscreants.
Nigeria's human right activist, Reno Omokri was last week featured as guest on "Focus Nigeria", AIT's current affairs programme to lend his opinion on the issue of insecurity currently ravaging Nigeria.
Got this from Evangelist Mike Bamiloye's official IG with the message "The Scripture is far ahead of Man". What do you think? See the video below:
The Mass was celebrated by Very Rev. Fr.
Zacharia Samjumi, General Secretary, CSN, on May 1, 2021 at 8am.
Linda Ikeji shows off her favourite shoes on Instagram. What do you think? See the video below:
COMMISSIONING OF EFFURUN-OTOR/OVWOR
BRIDGE AND ACCESS ROAD UGHELLI SOUTH LGA DELTA STATE 16 03 2021
TVC NEWS: An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Adebayo, her 19-year-old granddaughter, Funmilola Adebayo and two other ladies have been arrested in Akure, the Ondo state capital by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for selling assorted illicit drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, Tramadol, Swinol and Skuchies.
Following intelligence-based raids and follow up operations on their locations on May 2, over 19kg of cocaine and other psychoactive substances were recovered from the suspects while the octogenarian, her granddaughter and two other ladies; Tessy Matthew and Blessing Adesida were arrested.
As a result of the bust, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed the acting Commander, Ondo state command of the Agency, Callys Alumona to launch a manhunt for other members of the drug cartel now on the run.
TVCNEWS: Imo State government procures additional one hundred security vehicles and gadgets for "Operation Search and Flush" state owned special security outfit to stem the spate of insecurity in the State.
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| President Joe Biden arrives to speak at an event to mark Amtrak's 50th anniversary at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) |
One of President Joe Biden's top White
House advisers suggested Sunday that he's still wearing a mask outdoors out of
habit although the latest public health guidance says he doesn't need it,
reports Associated Press News from Wilmington, Delaware.
Questioned about Biden's practice, senior adviser Anita Dunn told CNN's “State of the Union” that she realized that she was also still wearing her mask outdoors even after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fully vaccinated people like her and Biden can stop wearing masks outside when they're alone or not among strangers.
INFORMATION
AS A PUBLIC GOOD AND THE QUEST FOR PRESS FREEDOM
Lead Paper
presented at the World Press Freedom Day Media Stakeholders’ Roundtable
Abuja, May 5,
2021.
By
Rev. Fr. George
EHUSANI, Executive Director, Lux Terra Leadership Foundation
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1. The theme for the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2021
is “Information as a public good” per UNESCO, and the day was observed
in Nigeria as elsewhere according to tradition. It is a day to Promote the
Freedom of the Press, to Fight Against Oppressive or Tyrannical Governments
that seek to curtail this fundamental right, and also a day to honour our
fallen heroes – innocent journalists like Dele Giwa, Bagauda Kaltho and Chinedu
Offoaro who lost their lives at the hands of brutal dictators or “disappeared”
on account of simply discharging their duties! We pay tribute to the likes of
Tunde Thompson and others who spent years in jail, for simply doing their work
as journalists during the dark days of military dictatorship in Nigeria. We pay
tribute to functionaries of the Newswatch Magazine, Tell Magazine, the
Guardian, Tribune, Punch, Champion, Vanguard, and Daily Trust Newspaper among
other print media outfits that risked everything in the course of providing
space for champions and advocates of democracy and free speech, through those
years often describes as “years eaten by the locust.”
Yes, I agree with Lanre Arogundade that “there cannot be information for public good where journalists are in chains!” Yes, there cannot be information for public good when governments or agencies of government routinely weaponize the law, to punish individuals and group that express dissenting views. We cannot have information for public good when journalists and media houses are targeted mainly for uncovering uncomfortable truths, reporting failures of government or exposing high level corruption.
What is a public good? “Public Good,” also known as “the Common Good” is one of the nine cardinal principles in the Catholic Social lexicon, along with: the principle of Human Dignity and Inviolability, Participation, Distributive Justice, Peace & Non-Violence, Subsidiarity, Preferential Option for the Poor and the Vulnerable, Solidarity, and Human Stewardship over Natural Creation. In this lexicon the common good is defined as “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as individuals or as groups, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily.”
In ordinary political discourse Common or Public Good refers to those provisions and facilities – whether material cultural or institutional – that a community provides to all members in order to fulfil a relational obligation. They all have to care for certain interests that they all have in common. Typical examples of the common good in a modern liberal democracy include: the road system; public parks; police protection and public safety; courts and the judicial system; public schools; museums and cultural institutions; public transportation; civil liberties, such as the freedom of speech (which includes the press freedom) and the freedom of association; the system of property; clean air and clean water; and national defense. The term itself may refer either to the interests that members have in common or to the facilities that serve common interests. For example, people may say, “the new public library will serve the common good” or “the public library is part of the common good”.
