July 2022

NPC disowns fake recruitment portal for 2023 census

The National Population Commission (NPC) has disowned an online ad-hoc staff recruitment portal said to be for the 2023 census. The NPC’s Federal Commissioner in Katsina State, Alhaji Bala Almu-Banye, stated this while briefing newsmen on Friday in Daura insisting…

NGO donates N5m to fire outbreak victims in Ebonyi

The Ebele Anyichuks Foundation, a humanitarian, non-governmental organisation, has donated N5million to victims of a fire outbreak at Eke Market, Afikpo, Ebonyi. The Coordinator of the foundation in the state, Chief Christain Onu, made the donation at the scene of…

Soludo signs Anambra 2022 revised budget

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has assented to the 2022 revised appropriation budget of N170 billion naira. Anambra State House of Assembly had on Tuesday passed the budget tagged “Building off from the Blocks” during a sitting of the…

BBC Yoruba and the limits of media propaganda

By Ismail Omipidan As a trained journalist, I hardly take on colleagues who genuinely make mistakes in the course of discharging their responsibilities. But when the mistake is repeated more than twice, it means a pattern is emerging and the…