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Nigerian Army awards scholarships to four outstanding students
The Nigerian Army has awarded scholarships to four students of the Command Secondary School, Makola, Ibadan in Oyo state and Command Secondary School Ede Osun State for their outstanding academic performance.
The General Officer Commanding 2 Division Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Mohammed Usman gave the awards to the students who performed excellently in the Armed Forces Mathematics Olympiad Competition 2023 organized by the Ministry of Defence for Armed Forces Schools recently in Abuja.
The students are Sofiat Lawal and Adesewa Ojediran both of CDSS Ede as well as Okeke Christopher and Showunmi Abdul Somad of CDSS Makola.
In his remarks, the GOC stated that the event is to reward the students and their teachers for their hard work as well as encourage them to keep it up.
He further stated that he has contracted an Educational Consultant to carry out a 2 days training workshop for the teachers at each of the Command Secondary Schools in 2 Division’s Areas of Responsibility to help build on their capacity.
Maj Gen Usman expressed joy in their performance especially in Mathematics assuring the students of his readiness to reward them abundantly.
In his welcome address, the Acting Director of 2 Division Education Service Lt Col Thafa Musa congratulated the students for their outstanding performance during the competition. He also thanked the GOC for awarding the deserving students.
In the same vein the Zonal Director of Quality Assurance Ministry of Defence, Mrs Fumilayo Adeoye stated that the Olympiad Mathematics competition was organized by the Ministry of Defense (Education department) Abuja in collaboration with the National Mathematics Center Abuja.
She further stated that the Command Day Secondary School Ibadan has done well to come 1st in the competition while Command Secondary School Ede also came 3rd.
The Armed Forces Mathematics Olympiad Competition 2023 was held in Abuja by the Ministry of Defence and involved 110 Armed Forces Schools in Nigeria that participated in the competition. This year’s event took place on 23 March 2023.
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Breaking: Court of Appeal rules in favour of Turaki -led PDP candidate for Osun governorship election
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Thursday, ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Gubernatorial Candidate in Osun State was validly nominated by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee.
The court also ordered INEC to list the PDP logo on the ballot ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial election.
The Court held that access code is neither a creation of the Constitution nor the Electoral Act; rather, a creation of INEC’s guidelines and cannot, in any way, override the provisions of the Constitution.
Section 288 of the Constitution does not specify the method for nominating candidates; it only states that the names of candidates should be forwarded to the Commission.
The court further held that the defendant (INEC) should take steps to include the name of the appellant on the ballot paper.
Additionally, the court ruled that the primary election conducted by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP was a valid primary election in law.
The three-man panel of justices—Justice Mahmud, Justice Jaro, and Justice Ankawere, was unanimous in its judgment.
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Breaking: NHRC sets up situation room to monitor and document hate speech, intimidation, threat to life ahead 2027
The national Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has set up a situation room to monitor and document all incidences of hate speech, intimidation and threat to life by politicians and other actors ahead of the 2027 general election.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, revealed this on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference.
He said the situation room would enable the Commission harvest data, analysis and document persons, agencies and others involved in the negative statements in order to ensure they are properly tracked and brought to book by relevant agencies.
Ojukwu also took journalists on a tour of the newly set up situation room.
Details later…..
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Breaking: NHRC expresses concern over rising incidences of hate speech, threat to life ahead 2027 elections
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
At a press conference in Abuja Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, recalled statements credited to Senator Francis Fadahunsi and Sheikh Yahya Jingir and described the das dangerous with capacity to set the nation ablaze.
He called on politicians, religious and traditional rulers, among other stakeholders to call their supporters and faithful to orders.
He urged government to act before rhetorics turn to violence, saying the forthcoming election in Osun State should serve as example of Nigeria’s capacity to conduct political contest in compliance with international best practices.
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