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By Iduozee Paul, Benin CorrespondentThe Edo State Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, Dan Ose Orbhi, has berated the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari for unleashing unprecedented hardship, hunger, poverty, unemployment, insecurity and other vices on Nigerians since he assumed office.Dan Orbhi also rated low the senator representing Etsako Federal constituency in the upper House; Senator Francis Alimenkhena on project execution in the areas, lamenting that the  only project he saw after touring the constituency is the erection of the Senator’s campaign billboard, sign-posts and posters in every local government area he visited.Orbih blamed the Buhari…

By Iduozee Paul, Benin CorrespondentAs political parties  fielding candidates for the 2019 elections commence their campaigns, the project coordinator, European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), Nigeria, Rudolf Elbling, has called for the quick implementation and monitoring of the February 2019 general elections.Rudolf Elbling made the call at a two-day workshop for South South EMSC zonal implementers in Benin City, Edo State.The ECES project coordinator said the group seeks to integrate the Election Project Plan (EPP), and the Election Management System (EMS) to create room for effective execution of the 2019 polls.”The EMSC is an effective tool INEC required to manage…

L-R : Vice president of Interact Sports, Mr Kazma, Commissioner in Rivers State Government, Mr Boma Iyaya and Mr Al Hajj on Monday at the Government House Port HarcourtRivers State Government has commenced the process for  the establishment of a Football Academy that will be affiliated  to Real Madrid Football Club of Spain.Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Monday met with officials  of Interact Sports and Real Madrid Campus Experience in the presence of a Commissioner in the Rivers State Government, Mr Boma Iyaye.Briefing journalists after the meeting, Mr Boma Iyaye said that a Memorandum of understanding will be…

An illustrious son of Bayelsa State, committed Ijaw son and distinguished educationist, Professor Prince Efere was recently committed to mother earth.His home call drew friends, relatives and the cream of Ijaw sons and daughters home and abroad to Yenagoa recently.photos: Esumi Ambrose.

In the face of the horrendous impact of the 2018 floods on Niger Delta communities, stories of gallantry, personal sacrifice for the common good by concerned activists, community organisations emerge to point the compass to solutions to the deluge of communities set off by man made interventions and other developmental challenges of the Niger Delta.Food victims waiting to meet Vice President Osibanjo when he visited Bayelsa State After the floods of 2012 that left a trail of inundated communities, death, destruction, tears and pain for ordinary folks in hundreds of communities, the nightmare continues for many communities in the flood…

Mariam Nabatanzi, a 40-year-old woman from Uganda’s Mukono District has been dubbed the African country’s most fertile woman after it was reported that she has given birth to 44 children.In her home village of Kabimbiri, central Uganda, Mariam Nabatanzi is known as Nalongo Muzaala Bana (the twin mother that produces quadruplets) and that nickname is well-earned.In the 18 years that she spent being pregnant throughout her 40 year life, the woman has given birth to six sets of twins, four sets of triplets, three sets of quadruples, as well as a few single births.Out of the 44 children that she…

-By Inuiro Wils“Every morning … a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning … a lion wakes up, it knows it must run faster than [the gazelle], or it will starve.It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” (Christopher McDougall, Born to Run. Quoted on the blurb of “My Vision”, the book by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai)To present the keynote at the Strategic Leadership and Governance Platform is a privilege. I am…

When a brilliant mind which impacted many, many people very positively passes, even nature heaves, quakes at this demise. Tears flowed dampening starched etibos and Senator suits and the eulogies unprompted tumbled out unceasing in Toru Orua and  Yenagoa when the remains Of Prof Prince Ayebaye Efere were interred in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, Saturday, August 25, 2018.Prof Efere, who was popularly and affectionately known as Prince, was Dean of  Foundation Studies,  University of Africa, Toru Orua, Bayelsa State died suddenly June 13, 2018.The passing of the brilliant, passionate, self-assured intellectual and educationist had sent shock waves down the…

The uninvited intervention in the ongoing controversy over President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior secondary certificate by the West African Examination Council, WAEC, has further weakened faith in the examination agency’s integrity.On November 2, 2018, Nigerians watched on national television as an assumed delegation of officials of the WAEC including a Nigerian from its Ghana head office, paid a visit to Aso Rock and presented an attestation certificate to the president. The move was to halt heightening calls on the president to present his acclaimed certificate as required by the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for candidates seeking to…

Ahoada West, Rivers StateNigerian government has been charged by experts to adopt sustainable measures on flood mitigation rather than the current reactive measures that have yielded no positive results over the years. Flooding has become an annual expectation in the Niger Delta with heightened negative impacts in 2012 and this year.An environment expert, Dr. Kabari Sam, head of environment and conservation, Centre for Environment Human Rights and Democracy, CEHRED, Port Harcourt says our response to flooding though a perennial problem, has been merely reactive. “We already know that the floods will come but wait until it comes before we start…