By Ben Ezeohagwu I Final Prayer! trapped under rubbles, bent position several hours of rumbles, so weak at that point, dead bodies everywhere, bricks had fallen on workers, struggling to breathe, cloudy and dark everywhere, as if end had come without bubbles. II Immense tragedy, wrapped in karmic debts, paving way for credits, figures of […]
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Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has honoured nine-year-old Miss Deborah Quickpen for her heroic feat at the recent Africa Youth Chess Championship in Accra, Ghana. Quickpen emerged champion in the U-10 category after winning nine of 10 games. According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Daniel Alabrah, aside from appointing the Bayelsa-born chess […]
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To read Onyeka Onwenu’s autobiography is to be a fly on the wall completely absorbed in multilayered intimate conversations with her about a thoroughly fascinating life. It transports the reader from the joys of a relatively privileged childhood in pre-Civil War Port Harcourt to the traumatic death of her father in a car crash before […]
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Says it’s govt notice for parents to withdraw their children The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned the over 100 percent increase in school fees at the state’s University of Medical Science, Ondo, UNIMED. It described the hike as government notice for parents to withdraw their children from the university. Management of the state-owned university […]
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Ondo State Government is working with the Catholic Bishop of Ondo Catholic Diocese, Most Rev Jude Arogundade, to ensure smooth and seamless return of missionary schools to the owners. Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu who on Wednesday confirmed that discussion is still ongoing on the terms of return, assured that his administration is ready to return the […]
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By Tunde Odesola Before death came knocking God took her away gently Silently, like a breath Deep, and was gone 79 in September Heaven in October My second mother; If you’re afraid of the truth Avoid her She was Mother Sarcasm She had a joke for everyone Beautiful heart, intelligent brain I’m glad you lived […]
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), in a joint operation with the Department of State Services (DSS), have arrested 48 individuals for alleged illegalities in the conduct of tests by the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB). JUPEB is an advanced level educational examination that qualifies candidates for admission into 200-Level […]
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By Ben Ezeohagwu I World now in rubble, with so much noise. II World now in tremble, without such poise. III World now in rumble, with so much trouble. IV World now in fumble, with so much tumble. V World now in crumble, without such humble. VI World now in bubble, with so much babble. […]
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Two professors were among those abducted when armed men on Tuesday morning stormed the Senior Staff Quarters of the University of Abuja at the Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. It was gathered that six people were abducted in the attack which happened around 1am. Those abducted were Prof. Bassey Ubom (including […]
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Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, and other notable women on Saturday in Abuja, reechoed the need to educate the girl-child, among other needs of the female gender. This was made known when the First Lady alongside 47 women, received awards for outstanding performances from Women of Worth, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). She noted that […]
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