Month: July 2017
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Pension, gratuity burdens rattle Bauchi
By Sule ALIYU, Bauch The Bauchi State Pension Board has disclosed that the number of retiring civil servants is increasing exponentially in the state every year at a rate of 70 to 90 monthly. The Director of Administration and Finance of the board, Sama’ila Ahmed, disclosed this during the ministerial briefing by Ministries, Departments…
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Ogba Zoo vs EDHA Deputy Speaker, court adjourns ruling to 6 Oct.
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City, on Monday, adjourned ruling on the case involving a parcel of land belonging to Ogba Zoo purportedly trespassed upon by the Deputy Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Elizabeth Ativie and others. The suit No B/302/2017 Everel Services Ltd vs Elizabeth…
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Legion Seeks Artificial Limbs For Amputee Members
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Nigeria Legion Corp of Commissionaires has made a passionate appeal to the three tiers of government as well as well-meaning Nigerians to come to the aid of 28 ex-service men who were in dire need of synthetic artificial limbs due to injuries they suffered while serving their fatherland. The Commandant General / National…
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Involvement of Military in Police Duties in Peace Time Alarming – Dogara
By Aaron Ossai The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has said with that the deployment of the Armed Forces to more than 28 States of the Federation in peacetime, Nigeria is effectively permanently in a state of emergency. This is just as he added that rather than complement civil authorities in…
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Teachers Protest over Alleged Plan To Cede Primary Education To Local Government
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City Commercial activities were on Tuesday paralyzed in Edo State following the protest embarked upon by the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Edo State chapter over the proposed handing over of the affairs of primary education to local government councils. The protesters drawn from the 18 local government areas of the…
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Appointment of Uselu Psychiatric Hospital CMD against FG’s Change Agenda
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City Some aggrieved staff of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatrist Hospital in Uselu, Benin City, have condemned the appointment of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the facility, Dr. Sunday Osasu Olotu for a second tenure by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo recently. In a letter addressed to the Acting President,…
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The Gang up of failed Ministers and the Illusion of Grandeur
There couldn’t have been anything more absurd, a gathering of ministers who in their time failed to deliver on key programmes of their administration and were summarily sacked from office. But in Nigeria, anything is possible as people no longer feel ashamed over the consequences of their actions. In trying to understand the motive for…
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US Child-Soldiers Hoopla And Nigeria’s CJTF
By Kolawole Anthony The all-powerful United States of America (USA) is a bundle of contradictions. It goofs so childishly and owes no one any apology . It is sensitive and alive in protecting the dignity of nationals of other countries in the globe, but in the haze pathetically forget in extending same to their own…
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N-Power Registration: Bauchi targets 37,000 applications
By Sule ALIYU, Bauchi Bauchi state is targeting about 37,000 applications across the state in the ongoing N-Power registration exercise. The state focal person and the Special Assistant to Governor Mohammed Abubakar on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Mansur Manu Soro disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said the state has also increased the number…
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Edo North East APC Voids Suspension Of Special Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin city Leaders and members of the All Progressive Congress in Esan North East local government have voided the suspension of the newly appointed Special Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki on Agriculture and Food Security Programme, Prince Joe Okojie. Prince Okojie and five others were purportedly suspended by some members of…
