Lifetime history of Shehu Shagari

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Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari GCFR, (born February 25, 1925 – December 28, 2018) served as the first and only President of Nigeria’s Second Republic (1979–1983), after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo’s military government. Shagari also served seven times in a ministerial or cabinet post as a federal minister and federal commissioner from 1958–1975. Shagari was made the Turaki of the FulaSokoto Caliphate in 1962 by the Sultan of Sokoto Siddiq Abubakar III. Turaki means an officer at court, in this case referring to the sultan’s court at the palace of Sokoto. In addition, he also holds the chieftaincy titles of the Ochiebuzo of…

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CODAF urges FG, State govt to remodify environmental laws to monitor sand mining Niger/Delta region

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By Uruemu Favour, Community Development Advocacy Foundation, CODAF, a Non-Governmental Organisation has urged the the federal government to step up monitoring strategies and enacts policies that will put an end to illegal and indiscriminate sand mining activities in the Niger Delta region. According to the Organization, illegal and indiscriminate sand mining in the Niger Delta region if not properly monitored would cause havoc in the nearest future. In a communique issued at the end of a one day town hall meeting, on Policy Dialogue Community Action Against Indiscriminate Sand Mining in…

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Bashorun Askia Foundation Empowers Isoko South Market Women With Over N6.2m cash

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  BY Joel Grandball, Bashorun Askia Foundation, a non-profitable Organisation has empowered 124 Isoko South Market women with over N6.2m to boost their various businesses in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State. This is just the foundation also embarked on a three days free medical services in the local government. According to the president of the foundation, Bashorun Askia Ogieh JP, who is also the Executive Director Finance and Administration, EFDA, at the DESOPADEC board, “The cash empowerment is geared towards stimulating the petty businesses of the market…

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Isoko Professionals map out activities to celebrates its 10th anniversary

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By Moses Omovevah,   The Isoko Professionals Association, a non-partisan socio-cultural group consisting of diverse professionals of Isoko extraction has mapped out several activities in commemoration of its 10th Anniversary, will be held this Saturday 29th Dec 2018 in Ozoro, the Headquarters of Isoko North Local Government of Delta State . According to a statement signed by its President, Deacon Martins Ugbegwo, he noted that, the 10th Anniversary with the theme “The many challenges of the Isoko Child; Survival Instinct”, coincides with the association’s maiden Investiture / awards ceremony, where…

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Tunisian Journalist Sets Self Ablaze Over Hardship

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Tunisian journalist, Abdel Razaq Zorgi, has died after setting himself on fire, officials said, in a protest over harsh living conditions that prompted overnight clashes with police in the country’s west. Police fired tear gas at dozens of people who took to the streets Monday night in the city of Kasserine, 270 kilometres (165 miles) from the capital, setting tyres ablaze and blocking the main street. Six members of the security forces were injured and nine protesters were detained, interior ministry spokesperson Sofiane al-Zaq said Tuesday. By Tuesday morning, calm had…

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Urhobo Women Vows To Vote Out Omo-Agege For Daring To Say They Are Only Good For Beauty Pageant

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By RT Hon Sunny Apah Ughelli . Urhobo Women, under the auspices of Urhobo Women With PVCs have vowed to vote out Senator Ovie Omo-Agege come 2019 for allegedly daring to say that women are only good for beauty pageant. The women in their thousands, displaying their PVCs, vowed to vote out Omo-Agege from the Senate as he has no respect for womanhood, so he can never represent them in any capacity. It could be recalled that Senator Omo-Agege made the derogatory statement against Urhobo women while inaugurating his campaign…

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APC is committed to infrastructural Development, Nation building – Osinbajo 

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  By Joel Grandball Nigeria Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that the APC led administration is committed to to infrastructural development and nation building for the common man in the street. He made this statement on the occasion of the flagging off ‘Tradermoni’ empowerment scheme for market women at the palace of the Ovie of Ughelli kingdom, HRM,  Dr. Wilson Ojakovo, Oharisi III, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Speaking, Osinbajo said, “We are here for the beginning of the enumera of tradersmoni scheme and…

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I WANT TO BE A BRIDGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN ISOKO-Onowakpo

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—– promises to ensure completion of Isoko Ring Road and other projects By Karo Awodeha, A House of Representative candidate for Isoko Federal Constituency, Hon. Joel Onowakpo has vowed to complete the Isoko Ring Road and 132 KVA electricity projects cited at Ozoro if voted into office come 2019. Onowakpo who is contesting under the All Progressive Congress (APC) also maintained that the era of classroom renovation projects by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was over, adding that he will ensure major and massive projects are cited in Isoko…

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EGCDF Commissions Infrastructural Projects Worth N382.6 Million

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  The Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation (EGCDF) has commissioned infrastructural projects worth N382.6 million with promise to handover Cottage hospitals at Polobubor and Oporoza to the Delta State Government in no distance time. Speaking during the commissioning of the projects, Comrade Jude Ebitimi Ukori, Executive Chairman of EGCDF stated that the projects were meant to alleviate the sufferings of their people in terms of basic infrastructural needs affecting transportation, access roads, health, shelter, water hygiene and sanitation, improvement in tourism potentials, enhance the welfare of the people as…

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