The Former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Kogi State, Hon Ugbede Paul Ebije has condoled with All Progressive Congress, Kogi East,zonal chairman Hon Ahmedi Attah over the demise of his Dad, Mallam Attah. According to Hon Ugbede Paul Ebije, “death is an inevitable debt every living soul under the planet earth must taste when God Almighty dims it to happen” and that it is appointed unto a man to die once and which comes judgement. He added that Hon Ahmedi Attah should be consoled that his late Dad lived to have seen all his children grown to maturity. Hon…
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It was an eyes to behold in the city of Benin, Edo State of Nigeria a week ago as 12 year old boy fought a stubborn Masquerade known for terrorising people and destroying valuable properties to a stand still. An eye witness recounts that trouble broke out when an innocent boy was passing along the major road in the heart of Benin when the said Masquerade as usual started beating the boy without any offense. The boy who was said to have been angered by this inhumane and barbaric act as the authority shows I don’t care attitude to the…
American Police on Sunday bowed to pressure as they publicly knelt down before angry protesters to beg for forgiveness on behalf of their colleagues over the gruesome murder of George Floyd. Many people protested in Denver and other states in the USA by lying down in the position late George Floyd was held and choked to death by the knees of Derek Chauvin. Although Derek has been arrested and charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter, the protesters want the other three officers involved to be apprehended also with reforms in the Police enacted to avoid future violence against blacks.…
The abuse of the privilege and the future of a child; the long distance away from the corridor of formal education; the ghostly misplaced of its destiny like that of a desert wanderer in no traceable path; the dashing of hope and loss of dignity in a pluralistic society like ours; the careless and no oriented nature of its character due to abject poverty; the deprivation of the opportunity to grow, develop and unleash its potentials, are part and parcel of the flurries of abnormalities and negativities that hinged on the sheer display of the Almajiri menace up north. The…
The Federal Government has cleared the air regarding the rumours circulating on internet and in some news paper that the Federal Government FG, of Nigeria is set to Sack 500,000 N-Power beneficiaries across the country soon. The FG has debunked the information and said they have not officially sack any of the Npower beneficiary This was made known to some of the beneficiaries who contacted the Npower social media handlers to clarify them on the issue. In responses to their double tweets, they got the reply below: The disengagement rumuors which caused a serious tension among beneficiaries was released by…
Love is once again tested in this twist of fate in what Nu Century Audiovisual Productions titles: Desperation. In the movie, we saw that to keep their marriage from been destroyed by his mother-in-law, a child is needed by this lovely couple, Clara (Ruth Kadiri) and Charles (Clem Ohameze). Some years later, the fate of the child hangs in the balance. Charles mother-in-law insists he should go get another wife since Clara couldn’t conceive. Clara is not ready to share her husband with another woman, hence the need to conceive by all means. She had a child who will only…
It is no longer news that the issues of banditry and kidnappings in the Northern part of Nigeria have been matters of concern for a while. Despite huge attention paid to these issues by the federal government, the issues have remained with us. Different bodies have come up with literatures and recommendations on how to best fight these menaces but to no avail. In this particular write- up, the Former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Kogi State, Hon. Ugbede Paul Ebije xrays the issues of banditry and kidnappings as well as the possible ways to fight these menaces. Let…
On Thurday during the week, the whole world was thrown into explosive rage when the video of #GeorgeFloyd, being brutally abused and maltreated by five Minnesota police officers surfaced on social media. The police officer was seen kneeling on Floyd’s neck, who was already cuffed, and in the video #GeorgeFloyd was heard screaming “I can’t breathe”!, but all those fell on deaf ears as the police officer kept kneeling on his neck with his hands in his pocket. As a result of such cruelty suffered in the hands of these officers, #GeorgeFloyd later passed out and died. Since then, there…
Nigerian Governors on Friday took their case on Executive Order 10 which guarantees financial autonomy for the judiciary and the legislature at the state level directly to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, met separately with the President and the minister to press home the objection of the state chief executives to the order, which was signed by Buhari penultimate Friday. To the governors, the order is not only unnecessary; it is also an over-kill of Section 121(3) of the…
As part of plan to curb the high rate of unemployment in the country, the Federal Government FG, has rolled out a scheme which will see unemployed youths in rural areas earning N20 ,000 per month , ourworldgist gathered. The youths will be engaged in the clearing of drainages , sweeping markets , road maintenance , traffic control, and cleaning of public infrastructures like health centres and schools. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN ), said this at a news conference on Thursday. Keyamo said the scheme targeted 1 ,000 youths each from the…