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Former Vice President of Nigeria and All People Congress APC, chieftain, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has advocated for legislations and incentives to promote girl child education in Nigeria. This is as the Turaki Adamawa called for the abolition of practices which jeopardize the educational interest of the girl child in the country. Atiku, who made these comments on his Facebook page to mark International Day of the Girl Child yesterday, said promotion of equal socioeconomic opportunities will spur the girl child to maximize her full potentials. “Let us talk solutions for improving education access for girls in Nigeria. #DayoftheGirl. 1. Legislation to promote girl child education. Compulsory enrollment is critical. 2. Abolition of practices which jeopardize the educational interests of the girl child and enforcing these laws. 3. Providing incentives for enrollment of girls, to ensure girls are kept in school. 4. Promotion of equal socio economic opportunities to spur girls into ma...

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites entries from Nigerian reporters for the 10th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting from October 4, 2015. The award programme, true to its tradition, will honour works that involve reporting on public and or corporate corruption, human rights abuses or on the failure of regulatory agencies. A statement signed by Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Coordinator, Motunrayo Alaka and made available to newsmen recently indicates that the award plans to reward outstanding reporters from print, radio, television, online, photography and editorial cartoon categories. “The submitted stories must have first been published or broadcast in a Nigerian media between 4th October 2014 and 3rd October 2015. In addition to the entry coding system which makes the details of media house and by-line of entrants anonymous to judges introduced in 2012, the WSCIJ now converts entries to electronic format before s...

WASHINGTON, D.C. : The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has concluded arrangements to host its 2015-2016 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony during the organization's 2016 convention in Washington, D.C. A statement made available to journalists indicates that instead of holding the Hall of Fame ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 16, the event will take place as a luncheon on Friday, August. 5, 2016, within NABJ's joint convention with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, where 44 founding members met and signed the document that created NABJ in 1975. The next class of NABJ Hall of Fame inductees includes: Tony Brown, Charles Gerald Fraser, Dorothy Leavell, Dori Maynard, Gil Noble, Monica Kaufman Pearson, Austin Long-Scott, Stuart Scott, Jacqueline Trescott, Morrie Turner, John H. White and L. Alex Wilson. "Incorporating the Hall of Fame ceremony into the convention enables more NABJ members to attend this h...

Atita's corner Guest Columnist Chidiebere Collins Today, marks a watershed in the annals of the history of the National Assembly  under the mantra of fight against or for corruption. Today, the number one law maker will be arraigned before a court of law for allegedly breaching the code of conduct for public officers. There is the additional charge of willful absence from attending court for which there is a bench warrant. These are mere allegations but they are weighty. It is important to underscore that a fundamental principle of law is that every accused person is presumed innocent until found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction. Our law is predicated on the principle that he who alleges must prove. Today, Senator Bukola Saraki will go and have that proverbial handshake with the law for which it is a popular aphorism that nobody is above the law. Nobody is indeed above the law. The matter is for all intents and purposes a criminal trial and the accused will be requ...

A group has condemned Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki for not appearing before the Code of Conduct Tribunal if he had nothing to hide. This is as the organization accused the number three citizen of ‘applying every trick in the bag’ delay the wheels of justice. In a strong worded statement issued in Abuja, the federal capital of the West African country, yesterday, National Coordinator, Foundation Against Fraud, Indiscipline and Corruption, FAFIC Dr Uche Diala urged the Inspector General of Police, his men and other relevant security agencies to go all out to arrest the senate president. “We view with utmost dismay and totally condemn the failure of distinguished Senator Bukola Saraki to appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja. This is after he was duly served with a notice to that effect. We consider this a serious act of indiscipline especially in view of the exalted office that he occupies as the Senate President of the Federal Republ...

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BANKING: T he Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the registration for Bank Verification Number (BVN) to October 31. The apex bank had earlier pegged the deadline to today June 30 but following the rush and inconveniences experienced by both commercial banks and Nigerians, the apex bank rescinded the decision to end the registartion today. CBN Director, Banking and Payment System Department, Mr Dipo Fatokun, while disclosing this in a statement issued today in Abuja said, “It has come to our notice that the BVN registration has elicited tremendous interest from the Nigerian bank customers who crowded the banking halls in order to beat the deadline. “In view of the foregoing, it has become imperative for the banks to extend the timeline for all customers to have the BVN. “The deadline for the enrollment is hereby extended from June 30 to October 31,’’ Fatokun said. Many Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief as the the extension is expected to fast...