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Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, On Saturday, inaugurated the Governorship primary Committees of the party. The 28 committees will conduct the exercise in 28 states across the federation and the primaries will hold on Sunday, September 30. APC national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, released the list in a statement issued Saturday evening. Full list below: SOUTH EAST ABIA STATE S/N NAME DESIGNATION 1. DAVID IYOHA CHAIRMAN 2. NASIRU ADAMU JEGIRI SECRETARY 3. HON. IBRAHIM GAMBO MEMBER 4. HON. SAM ADEROGBOYE MEMBER 5. MUSA HUSAINI SHELLENG MEMBER 6. HAJIA AMINA MOHAMMED MEMBER EBONYI STATE…

Child rearing is another name for parenting. Wikipedia defines parenting thus “It is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.” It is also a process of developing or bringing up a child spiritually to maturity so that the child may not depart or deviate from the patterned beliefs or cherished norms of the father or mother. However, parenting does not require a straight-jacketed approach. Different parents, different styles or strategies in child upbringing, though the standards of reaching the set goals or expectations of the parents may…

Pope Francis has defrocked an 88-year-old Chilean priest at the centre of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy. The pope invoked his “supreme” authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court in 2011. On May 22, 2018, 14 priest involved in a sex abuse scandal in Chile — which has rocked Pope Francis’s papacy — were defrocked … up child abuse by Chilean paedophile priest, Fernando Karadima during the 1980s. In a statement Friday, the Vatican said Francis had laicized Rev. Fernando Karadima, who was originally sanctioned to live a lifetime of “penance and…

President Donald Trump, Friday, ordered FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Brett Kavanaugh, nominee for US Supreme Court, over the s3xual abuse allegations. His statement: “I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week.” Judge Kavanaugh is at the centre of multiple allegations of s3xual misconduct. Christine Blasey, Deborah  Ramirez  and Julie Swetnick have publicly accused Kavanaugh of s3xual misconduct in high school and college, and another anonymous allegation has surfaced. Kavanaugh has…

Akwa Ibom State government is said to have collected about N30 billion being Paris Club Refunds from the Federal Government last week. Though the state government is yet to make public the exact amount collected, Bayelsa State government on Tuesday, September 25 confirmed collection of N24.16 Paris Club refunds from the Federal Government. The Director of Information, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mr. Hassan Dodo said on Tuesday, September 11 that the Federal Government had approved $2.69 billion as phased payments to Nigerian states that did not owe a backlog of salaries and other related matters. So far, Akwa Ibom government…

Barely hours before the primaries election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom state, one of the governorship aspirants in the party, Barr. Bassey Dan-Abia, has vaunted that he is the only aspirant with the prerequisite wealth of experience to handle the state’s top job. Abia, who was addressing a crowd of his supporters Thursday during his official declaration in Uyo, urged members of the party to back him to emerge as the party’s governorship candidate at the primaries slated for Saturday, 29 September, 2018 and subsequently as governor of the state. “I have served in the government…

Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation /CNL Joint Venture, does not give considerations to race, gender, religion, ethnicity and disability in its employment decisions. The company in a statement issued Thursday, described itself as an equal opportunities employer. The statement read: ”Employment into the company is dependent on organizational requirements and business needs. ”CNL’s sponsorship of the Vocational Training Programme, VTP, was a corporate social responsibility initiative intended to help build the skills and capacity of the VTP trainees from the local communities in various areas of oil and gas operations. ”Trainees spend a portion…

Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola,  the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate of  has won the Osun State governorship election by scoring 255,505 votes to defeat his main rival, Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who scored 255,023 votes. Osogbo, Prof Joseph Adeola Afuwape, the Presiding Officer The Social Democratic Party, SDP, candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore scored 128,053. Declaring the result at the INEC office in for the election, said: “That Adegboya Oyetola of the APC, having satisfied the requirement for this election is, hereby, declared winner of the election and is hereby returned winner‎.” 48 political parties participated in…

The Nigerian telecommunications industry has lost $3 billion to call masking, Professor Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, said. He said those responsible for the nefarious act have managed to use a small box called SIM box that enables them to bypass legal call routes without getting tracked. Danbatta, who stated this Thursday in Lagos at the 85th telecoms consumer parliament in Lagos, said Sim box was one of the most prevalent frauds in the telecom industry, causing it to lose estimated $3 billion revenue. He, however, promised that the commission would soon round them up, having…

Africa’s biggest challenge has been the inability to transform the abundant natural resources into opportunities for creation of jobs and wealth, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of Ghana said. Akufo-Addo said this while delivering a lecture on Mainstreaming Industrial Policies to Catalyze Industrial Renaissance”, at the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, 2018 Manufacturers Annual Lecture & Presidential Luncheon in commemoration of its 46th Annual General Meeting. He said the continent boast of young, determined and highly educated people across all sectors and yet had not been able to get the right mix of policies to fully unearth and develop…