Month: November 2017

Suicide Attacks: Last Acts Of Dying Terror Group -PMB

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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration has taken the necessary measures to end the suicide bombings by Boko Haram terrorists, saying the attacks were like the last kicks of a dying horse. Speaking at the commissioning of the Pulaaku Radio in Yola, Adamawa State, on Sunday, the President, who was represented by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Boko Haram has been massively degraded and its surviving members put on the run. ”Instead of being hunters, they are now the hunted. In their…

ABU Best Graduating Student Bags NNPC Scholarship…. As Baru Reiterates Corporation’s Commitment to Educational Development

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the award of a full postgraduate scholarship, up to doctorate level, to the 2016/17 best graduating student of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, who made the announcement while speaking at the University’s 40 th convocation ceremony held in Zaria on Saturday, said Al-Amin Bashir Bugaje, would be sponsored by the NNPC to further his education up to Ph.D level in any institution in the world. Twenty Three year old Bugaje bagged a…

SANI BELLO FOUNDATION GRADUATES 115 STUDENTS …As Gov Sani Bello calls for more Investment In Vocational Education

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Niger State Governor, AlhajI Abubakar Sani-Bello has identified vocational education and trainning as veritable tools for youth empowerment and national economic development. He said this on Saturday in Kontagora during the 6th graduation ceremony of 115 youths trained in various skills and vocations by Sani Bello Foundation, a non-governmental organisation. The Governor noted that with the increasing number of graduates produced every year by the nation’s Universities and their inability to be gainfully employed has further enforced the need for vocational training and education. l According to the Governor ,…

Morocco prays for rain as shortage threatens agriculture

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The king of Morocco has called on all mosques in the country to pray for rain on Friday, amid a shortage threatening the country’s agriculture. King Mohammed VI issued a royal decree asking Moroccans to implore the Almighty to spread his benevolent rains on the earth. The lack of rainfall is hindering the country’s seasonal cereal production. Earlier this month 15 people were killed in stampede for food aid , as costs have risen amid shortages. About 40% of the country works in the agricultural industry, and a drought last…

Police Arrests Man with 7 Human skulls

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The Kwara State Police Command has paraded a suspected ritualist, Olayinka Abbas Akeem,the suspect was arrested with seven human skulls said to have been exhumed from a cemetery. Punch Newspaper reports that Akeem was arrested along Ilorin-AjaseIpo road with a sack containing the human skulls by policemen on a stop and search operation on Tuesday, November 21, 2017. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Lawan Ado, said on interrogation, the suspect confessed that himself and his friend identified as Tunde aka Bante, exhumed the human parts from a cemetery…

NIGER SEEKS PARTNERSHIP WITH NIPC ON INVESTMENT VALUE-CHAIN

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The Niger State Governor, Alhaji Sani Bello has solicited for the support of Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) in developing investment profile for the state’s agriculture and tourism potentials for prospective global and local investors. The Governor made the request yesterday at a meeting with the management team of the commission led by its Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Yewande Sadiku at NIPC corporate headquarters in Abuja. Governor Sani-Bello said the state was soliciting for the expertise of the commission in helping to profile and prepare feasibility reports…

PMB URGES RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA TO FIGHT CORRUPTION

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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged religious movements to assist African countries rid themselves of the scourge of corruption. Speaking at the State House on Friday while receiving the Grand Khalifa of Tijjaniyya Islamic Movement Worldwide, Sheikh Muhammadul-Kabir, the President also enjoined such movements to work for the cementing of our continental relationships and peaceful coexistence. President Buhari commended the movement’s commitment to spiritual cleansing. According to him, “while the evil of material corruption seeks to undermine the dignity and worldly existence of man, moral and spiritual corruption seek to destroy…

PROF DURO DAMISA: PARADISE FOUND By Rafatu Idris Salami

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A TRIBUTE Now that the words appear to have come to me, maybe I should talk about the time we found each other or rather the time we discovered each other, the time we were close to the edges of the garden of Eden; a time when the intensity of an innocent relationship took a whole community by storm and shook some of the fundamentals of that period; a time when bonds were forged and some others were severed never to be reunited; a time of innocence so pure it…

More than 230 killed in Sinai Egypt Mosque Attack

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Militants have launched a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai province, killing 235 people, state media say. Witnesses say the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed, near al-Arish, was targeted during Friday prayers. It is the deadliest attack of its kind since an Islamist insurgency in the peninsula was stepped up in 2013. Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has held emergency talks with security officials to decide how to respond. Local police said gunmen arrived in four off-road vehicles and bombed the packed…