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By Mandy Park The Primate, Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Henry Ndukuba, has lamented the high cost of living, insecurity and huge number of unemployed youths, explaining that they posed a major threat to peace and national unity. He therefore called for more political will to address the various challenges in the country. In his new year message at the Cathedral Church of the Advent Life Camp, Abuja, Ndukuba said that the current challenges were biting hard on citizens. He however, believed that with the intervention of God,…

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Hoodlums on Sunday have attacked the convoy of Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Sunday when Tambuwal and other government officials were returning from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) statewide electioneering campaign in Silame and Wamakko Local Government Areas of Sokoto State. A source who spoke under condition of anonymity revealed that the assailants threw stones at the moving vehicles in the convoy, striking the front windscreen of the governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity’s SUV. He added that the stones also…

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By Mandy Park Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent his final years at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery within the walls of the Vatican. His successor Pope Francis said he had visited him there frequently. The Vatican said in a statement: “With sorrow, I inform you that…

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Mandy Park The Abia State College of Education, Technical, Arochukwu has described as provocative, confrontational and political blackmail the purported directive by the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union( COEASU)to Gov Okezie Ikpeazu to call its provost to order. It said it was disrespectful for the leadership of COEASU to demand Ikpeazu to call the provost,Dr Phillips Nto over the sack of Kelvin Egesi ,a former staff of the college. In a statement issued by the Registrar of ASCETA,Mr Ikechukwu Odemenam , the college faulted COEASU for its derogatory remarks…

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…urges Ikpeazu to approve NCCE salary structure By Mandy Park Lecturer and researcher, Amaju Augustine has lauded the immense contributions of Abia State governor Dr Okezie Ikpeazu and the Provost of Abia State College of Education Technical Arochukwu (ASCETA) on the massive development recorded in the institution.But Augustine wants governor Ikpeazu to approve the NCCE salary structure which is implemented in other institutions of same status.He said the governor has tackled the myriad of problems facing the college, stressing that he is God sent.Said Augustine “Truth must be told in…

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Mandy Park Comrade Akin Osuntokun, a former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was on Tuesday announced as the new Labour Party’s (LP) organisation director-general. He replaced Dr. Doyin Okupe, the former director-general of the campaign organisation, who resigned after he was convicted over money laundering charges. Spokesperson of the campaign organisation,, Diran Onifade in a statement on Tuesday, described Osuntokun as a “strategist”. Said Onifade: “The Obi-Baba Ahmed Campaign Organisation has appointed Balogun Akin Osuntokun as the new Director-General of the campaign organisation. He succeeds Dr.…

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Victoria Chukwuma Activist, critic and public commentator, Comrade Uche Okoroafor has said that the sustained campaign to tarnish the reputation of the Provost of Abia State College of Education Technical Arochukwu (ASCETA) Dr. Philips Nto by Kelvin Egesi, a sacked staff of the institution was laughable and a show of shame on Egesi’s crisis of credibility.He said that Dr. Nto has no equal given his laudable commitment in repositioning the institution, notingEgesiand his cabal of mischief makers were after the Provost because of the laudable innovations he has brought which…

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