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Mark, Kwankwaso, Ngige ,Others for Leadership Award of Honour

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Former Senate President, David Mark , former Governor of Kano State, and Senator representing Kano Central in the National Assembly ,Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Minister of labour and Productivity Sen. Chris Ngige are among ten ex- Governors in Nigeria nominated to receive Three- Star Golden Leadership Honors Award by the Transparency Centre Network. Also on the Awardees list are Sen Sam Egwu, Sen Danjuma Goje ,Sen Adamu Aliero ,Adamu Abdullahi ,Sen Jim Nwaobodo , Liyel Imoke and Gen Ike Nwachukwu (rtd). According to the Coordinator of the Centre, Comrade…

Big Shock! Yakubu Aiyegbeni Retires From Football

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Nigerian striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni has announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 35. Aiyegbeni had been a free agent after being released by Coventry City earlier this year but after not signing for a new club, the Nigerian striker has decided to end his playing days. After first moving to English football in January 2003, Aiyegbeni went on to enjoy a fine career with teams competing in the Premier League and Championship, with 367 appearances being made in all competitions. Aiyegbeni represented Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City,…

AREWA MEN ARE SCUM By Mu’awiyyah Yusuf Muye

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An arewa man is arguably the most difficult husband any woman can ever have. Doesn’t mean they aren’t great husbands, being difficult doesn’t equate to being a total failure, This write up is not intended to bash arewa men in general or stereotype them either, as ofcourse there are exceptions, but an average arewa man to be honest doesn’t give his wife her rights fully. That’s why it bothers me so much when I see all these clueless women who tag themselves feminists, because to be honest, most of the…

Gov Jibrilla Bindow Expresses Shock Over the Death of Dr Alex Ekwueme

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Adamawa State Governor, Senator Mohammed Umar Jibrilla Bindow, has expressed shock over the death of former Vice President, Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, who died in a London clinic on Sunday 19th November, 2017. He described the sad event as a great loss not only to Ndigbo, but to Nigeria and Africa in general. In a statement by the Special Assistant, Media and publicity to the governor, Macauley Hunohashi, the Governor was deeply saddened by the death of Dr Ekwueme. He said “it came at a time when his experience, wisdom…

SON OF FORMER PDP CHAIRMAN STABBED TO DEATH BY WIFE OVER ALLEGED INFIDELITY

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Bilyamin Muhammed Bello, son of a former PDP chairman, Haliru Bello has been stabbed to death by his wife, Maryam Sanda, the daughter of embattled former Aso Savings boss, Hajia Maimuna Aliyu. It was gathered that the attack happened following an allegation of infidelity after she saw a text message on Bilyamin phone. The deceased was stabbed 3 times in the back; and severally on his private parts, at their home in Maitama, Abuja. Before this, Maimuna had bit part of his ear off and was treated at a hospital…

SEX FOR MOVIE ROLE ALLEGATION : I will Soon Get my Accuser Arrested-Yomi Fabiyi

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A Nollywood Actor,Yomi Fabiyi,has denied allegation of Sex for movie role made an upcoming actress, Eniola Omoshalewa Eunice,the sex for role saga want viral earlier in the week. In a chat with Saturday Beats, the actor denied the claims saying everything the lady said were all lies and that he will be taking legal actions against her soon. Yomi Fabiyi said ” I would be honest with you, I am aware of the sex scandal story but I doubt the lady exists. That person is not in the industry and…

Another Season Of Hate And Severance: World War III, Here We Come! By Niyi Osundare

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The journey from hate to holocaust Is perilously short…. (from ‘Ode to Hate’) Trail of Tears The two-line snippet above came to me (or was it I who walked up to it?) in my poem “Ode to Hate”, written in the mid-nineties, provoked by the wrenching crises of the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflicts. As I watched throngs of displaced human beings, harried, traumatized, and dispossessed, being loaded on those long trains to refugee camps and other wildernesses of agony and misery, my mind went forcibly back to similar scenes between 1939 and…

Save The Consumers Initiative To Mark World Toilet Day in Rural Communities

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A Non Governmental Organisation, Save The Consumers has said that it will mark this year World Toilet Day in some selected Communities in Niger State and Federal Capital Territory. In a statement released in Abuja by the Executive Director of Save The Consumers, Dr Aliyu Ilias, the NGO would mark the 2017 World Toilet Day with Government Girls Arabic School, Dikko, Gurara Local Government, Maje Central Market, Suleja Local government both of Niger state,and People with Disabilities ,at Agwan-Guragu ,Karamajii , FCT, Abuja, Ilias said ” the practice of defecating in…

Google Doodle Honours Chinua Achebe

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Google has resolved to change its logo to a doodle in honor of the late Chinua Achebe, who is considered to be one of Africa’s greatest storyteller. He would have been 87 on Thursday. Born in Ogidi to an Igbo family of Nigeria, West Africa in 1930, Achebe was the son of an evangelical priest. In love with reading and writing, he completed English studies at the University of Ibadan in just four years instead of five, which was the standard. Achebe was disappointed in the European interpretation of African…

NUJ FCT Council Mourns Funke Adebimpe

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Funke Adebimpe

The FCT council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists mourn the passing of one of her members Alhaja Kafilat Funke Taiwo Adebimpe,who suddenly passed on Saturday 7 November 2017.Alhaja Kafilat who sudden death occurred a few hours after complaining of ill health,was an Abuja based correspondent of The Herald newspaper. The Secretary of NUJ Rafat Salami,in a press statement,described late Funke as a devout Muslim,peaceful,warm and calm woman who illuminated her surrounding with her warmth’.”I met her for the first time in 2014 when she introduced herself to me in…