Day: November 26, 2017

Education and the 2018 federal estimates

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In this season of the presentation of budget estimates by the executive and their consideration by the legislature, it is imperative to interrogate budgeting for education. Education is one of the building blocks of modern society and civilisation. The budget provides the opportunity for policy, plan and the budget to work in a continuum that moves resources towards the fulfillment of government’s core objectives in promoting development, economic growth, human rights and fundamental freedoms, etc. This discourse is focused on the right to education, which is a human right in…

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Egypt blames ISIS for deadly Sinai mosque attack

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Egypt has blamed ISIS fighters for the attack carried out during Friday prayers at a mosque in the country’s Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian government placed the blame on the group citing eyewitnesses who saw the attackers carrying ISIS flags. Egypt’s Chief Prosecutor, Nabil Sadeq had also accused ISIS of carrying out the attack. Sadeq also said that the death toll has witnessed a dramatic increase from the previously announced 235 fatalities to 305 worshipers, including 27 children, while another 128 were injured. He also said that the attack was carried…

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Ex-Niger Delta warlord Ateke Tom crowned king

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Ex-Niger Delta warlord, Ateke Michael Tom, has been crowned the new Amanyanabo of Okrika Town. At coronation ceremony, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, charged the new Amanyanabo of Okochiri town to continue to invest in the sustenance of peace in Okrika. Governor Wike advised the newly crowned monarch against being used to disunite the people of Okrika town. In an address during the coronation of King Ateke Michael Tom (JP) at Okochiri town on Saturday, Governor Wike charged the traditional ruler to further establish himself as an agent…

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NNPC, FAAC to parley on Monday over discrepancies

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) will tomorrow meet to reconcile the discrepancies in data submitted at its last meeting. The FAAC meeting was last Thursday, called off due to discrepancies in the oil revenue receipt reported by the NNPC. The corporation has insisted that it remitted all the required funds to the FAAC, saying the challenge has to do with the interpretation of the data it submitted. Confirming the re-scheduled meeting, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division GGM/GPAD of the…

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PDP chieftain, Obanikoro finally decamps to APC, gives reasons

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Former Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, on Saturday officially decamped from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The ex-Minister’s defection at his Lagos Island constituency ended months of speculations about the status of his political allegiance. He defected to the APC along with other PDP bigwigs in the state, including a former aide of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, Modupe Sasore. Others are a national officer of the PDP, Jide Damazio, and another PDP chieftain, Chief Kola Balogun. The decampees were received…

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Southern senators insist on restructuring, implementation of 2014 confab report

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The Southern Senators Forum has called for the restructuring of the country and the implementation of the 2014 National Conference Report, as it underscored the need for continued peace and unity in the country. This was just as the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) urged the Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, to allow Nigerians to create their own constitution through a constituent assembly instead of speaking out of tune and context on the restructuring debate Saraki had, on Friday, at the Southern Senators’ Retreat held in Calabar, harped on the unity…

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Community disowns ex-minister Tonye Graham-Douglas, 5 others over suspension of monarch

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Crisis is brewing in Abonnema Community in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State following the purported suspension of the monarch of the community, the Amayanabo of Abonnema, King Disrael Gbobo Bobmanuel, as the Chairman, Council of Chiefs by some chiefs led by former Minister of Aviation, Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas. The community and the Abonnema Council of Chiefs have subsequently announced the suspension of the “renegade” chiefs Graham Douglas, Chief Enoch Granville, Chief Edmund Young Jack, Chief Beremabo Pedro, Alabo Anthony Oweredaba and Chief A. B. Ajumogobia for allegedly embarrassing…

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Messi extends Barca contract to 2021

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Lionel Messi has signed a new contract with Spanish clubside FC Barcelona until 2021, the Liga leaders confirmed on Saturday. This ended speculation that the five-time World Player of the Year could leave the club he has spent his entire career for free next June. “FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi signed on Saturday morning a new contract that will keep the Argentine superstar at the club through the 2020/21 season,” said a statement from Barca, posting a picture of Messi signing the deal alongside club president Josep Maria Bartomeu. “The…

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