Author: Swift Reporters

As studies indicate that some jobs are vulnerable to automation in the next decade and how companies and organisations get to adapt to the rapid transformation, security risks triggered by digitization, the Director General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi has said that the agency is working round the clock to balance the concerns and advantages of Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR). The DG who represented by Dr Usman Gambo Abdullahi Director IT Infrastructure Solutions, said this during an International Conference on Information Technology in Education and Development (ITED 2020) organised by Academia in Information Technology…

By Dr. Ifeanyi M. Osuoza, There is a sense in which the good people of Delta State are now taking cognizance of the deliberate efforts being made by propagandists to promote lies through misleading publicity, one that is deceptively woven and distorted information that are systematically spreading. This is exactly what can be made of the newest in the ongoing series of mischief sworn to by the Delta All Progressives Congress (APC) that has consistently reached deep into its literature of cant and false piety, but which to serious and discerning members of the public is nothing but a barrel…

……insists that group remains united, committed to reelection of Obaseki/Shaibu The leadership of the Obaseki/ Shaibu Movement (OSM) has described the purported resignation of Mr. Patrick Okoudoh Iyoha, as the State Director General of the group, as false, baseless and a ploy to fraudulently obtain money from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who is known for giving out funds to decampees to score worthless political points. In a statement by the state coordinator of the movement, Hon. Eigbe Osezele Samuel, the OSM said it has no position of a State Director General, noting that the…

The Abuja Municipal Area Council, the Local Government responsible for administration of the Abuja city has concluded arrangement to hold a tax webinar According to the Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, Hon. Abdullahi Adamu Candido, he said the webinar; which is a dialogue between business owners and members of the Council aimed at sensitizing Tax payers on how to get the necessary support from the council, build more relationship and showing evidences of tax payments via dividend of democracy to the citizens by the Abuja Municipal Area Council. “Our aim at the end of the sensitization is to get…

Nigerians have been told to reflect on the occasion of this year’s celebration of the Eid-el-Kabir to promote accountability in both public and private offices as an act of worship acceptable to Allah and mankind. Executive Director, Accountable Leadership for Better Nigeria Initiative, (ALBNI), Remi Adebayo stated this in a statement to felicitate with Muslim faithful over the 2020 Eid celebrations. Rejoicing with Muslims across the nation, Adebayo noted that the peculiarity of celebrating this Sallah in the midst of globa Covid-19l pandemic calls for a reflection of how accountability in service has robbed the nation of much needed infrastructures…

The immediate past Governor of Bayelsa State, His Excellency, Chief Henry Seriake Dickson, has hailed the Traditional ruler of Twon Brass, HRM, King Alfred Diete Spiff, who turned 78 on Thursday. Chief Dickson said that King Spiff, the Chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers, Bayelsa State and the Former Military Governor of the Old Rivers State, has contributed in no small way to the development of Bayelsa, old Rivers State and the Niger Delta! Chief Dickson was quoted as having said in a statement by his Media Advisor, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, that the Royal father has continued to be…

The immediate past Governor of Bayelsa State, His Excellency, Chief Henry Seriake Dickson, has celebrated with the Governor òf Taraba State on the occasion of his 66th birthday. He said that Gov Ishaku has displayed the exemplary and unique qualities of hardwork, character, uncommon vision and discipline in leadership of the people of Taraba State. He prayed to God for continuous grace and good health for the Governor. ”My family and I felicitate with my brother and friend, the Governor of Taraba State, His Excellency, Darius Dickson Ishaku, on the occasion of his 66th birthday. ”I congratulate him on his…

As Muslims all over the world mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir, Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has tasked faithful in the state on the need to imbibe the spirit of selflessness, brotherliness and sacrifice that symbolizes the Sallah. Engineer Sule laid the task in a Sallah message to the people of the state, personally signed by the Governor, on Thursday. While congratulating the Muslims on the celebration, the Governor enjoined the faithful to see the Eid-el-Kabir as a test, in commemoration of the total submission by Prophet Ibrahim (AS) to the call for sacrifice. “This, indeed, symbolizes a call to…

By Mohammed Baba Busu The Etsu Nupe and Chairman, Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar has urged Muslims to emulate Prophet Ibrahim’s virtues of sacrifice, obedience and submissiveness to the will of Allah, in order to be successful in life. Etsu Nupe made the appeal in his Sallah message to the Muslim Ummah in his domain and Nigerians to mark the Eid-el-Adhah celebration at the Usman Zaki Juma’at Mosque on Friday. “Today’s celebration is a commemoration of total submissiveness and obedience to the will of Allah, as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim and Ismail. “It is also a…

…..SAMANO  blackmailing FG to pay $125million – NNPC The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has called on Nigerians to disregard the publications sponsored by SAMANO In a press release signed by Afe Babalola & Co. counsel to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation made available to Swift Reporters on Thursday in Abuja, the statement said that the Federal Government of Nigeria set up the Presidential Committee on Recovery of Stolen Nigerian Crude Oil in response to the claims made by several companies including SAMANO over alleged stolen Nigerian Crude Oil stored in China. “The said Presidential Committee requested that SAMANO furnish…