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the Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari says his commitment to transparency is serving the government well in the face of severe shortage of resources in the country. The President spoke at the State House, Abuja while receiving the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin. He said, “It has been a very difficult year for Nigeria. Before we came to office, petroleum sold for about $100 per barrel. Then it crashed to $37, and now oscillates between $40 and $45 per barrel. “Suddenly, we are a poor country but commitment to transparency and accountability is not making people know that there is severe shortage”, Buhari said. He urged the UNFPA to bear with Nigeria in whichever area the coun­try could not live up to its responsibilities for now, and thanked the UN agency for its commitment to saving lives in the country, particularly of women and children. president noted that population exp...

On May 1, 2016, Edo state government announced an increment of the minimum wage from N18,000 to N25, 000 for Edo state employees. Adams Oshiomhole has revealed why he increased the minimum wage in the state. The Governor said he made the increase to show other state Governors that wages could be increased and paid promptly. he said “I have increased the minimum wage when my colleagues are debating that it is too high and I insisted that it is too small. “I decided to increase it to show that not only that it is too small but it is possible to increase it and pay it. “We are not in arrears of one month salary in Edo State. We are up to date for all those who are in direct employment in the state government, including teachers at all levels.” Adding that he will also pay the outstanding salaries of local government workers in the state. Speaking on how his government has improved education in Edo state, Oshiomhole said “Only nations with educated citizens can cope with the rigours of co...

A lecturer, Dr. Aondosoo Tondo with University of Mkar, Mkar Gboko local government of Benue State was yesterday assassinated by unknown terrorist. Public Relations’ Officer of the institution, Mr. Suemo Shagba who say this to newsmen in a telephone conversation, said Tondo who resides in the University Stafff quarters was murdered at about 4 am by 4 unknown gunmen. According to him, the assassins came into the lecturer’s room while he was saying his early morning prayer with his family, did not request for anything and just shot him, adding that he later died at a teaching hospital in Gboko. The late lecturer with the Department of Political Science hails from Buruku local government area of the State and is reported to be an aspirant for the local government election which has been postponed indefinitely. Confirming the incident, the State Police Public Relations’ Officer ASP said the lecturer was murdered in his compound in early hours of yesterday, intimating that investigatio...

sadden, in Nigeria, upon the dawn of a fresh ‘scandal’, the goal is often to applaud the accuser and hasten to convict the accused in the court of public opinion. Just name and shame the fellow(s) concerned, until they are able to prove their innocence, in an inverse application of the standard law which presumes an accused as innocent, until proven otherwise. It does not matter if the pursued, most often in front of the chasing mob, is the one now chanting, ‘thief, thief, thief’ in order to secure a get-away. Victor Afam Ogene “I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I gave you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.” – John Adams, 2nd President of the United states of America. In penning those words to his wife, Abigail and their five children, Adams was obviously under the clear understanding that the legislature was the anvil upon which every hammer of publi...

The fight in Syria that's threatening to undermine a U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire that has held for over a month. A monitoring group says a leader of an al-Qaida faction in Syria was killed in a U.S. air strike in a northern part of the country along with his son and several other people. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites, says that Abu Firas al-Souri, a spokesman for the Nursa Front, was killed in the attack in the province of Idlib. The report could not be independently verified. The Nursa Front is considered a hard-line group that has crushed moderate rebel groups in northern Syria for their links with the United States. Syrian state media and an activist group say government forces and their allies have entered a central town that was held by the Islamic State group. Syrian troops and pro-government fighters pushed into Qaryatain on Sunday, after days of intense clashes with IS extremists outside the town. The Britain-based Syrian Observat...

Australian author, journalist and speech writer for the center-left Labor Party Bob Ellis died at his Sydney home of liver cancer on Sunday, his son said. He was 73 years old. "He died, as was his wish, at home. His family were by his bedside," Ellis's son Jack wrote on his father's blog "Table Talk." "The camaraderie of his regular readers has been a source of tremendous joy to him these past few years. Thank you all," he said. Ellis's accomplishments include the screenplay for the acclaimed 1978 Australian movie "Newsfront" and the autobiographical 1992 movie "The Nostradamus Kid." He wrote 19 books including best-selling "Goodbye Jerusalem" that was pulped in 1998 after then conservative government ministers Tony Abbott — who later became prime minister — and Peter Costello sued for defamation. Born a Seventh Day Adventist in the New South Wales state country town of Lismore on May 10, 1942, Ellis becam...

Kenyans on Saturday marked the first anniversary of the Garissa University attack, when four extremist gunmen massacred 148 people, with renewed criticism of the government's handling of the crisis. Hundreds gathered at the site of the attack in eastern Kenya to remember the incident, one of the country's worst-ever terrorist attacks carried out by gunmen from the al-Qaida-allied Somali al-Shabab group. The gunmen were finally killed by a police commando unit after 12 hours. The government has been heavily criticized for its slow response to the attack, despite there being a military base nearby. Kenya has suffered a wave of extremist attacks since it deployed troops in October 2011 to Somalia to support the weak government there in its battle against the al-Shabab militants. The university reopened in January after extensive refurbishment of the bullet-scarred buildings but only 150 of its 700 students have returned to class. Others were transferred to Moi University in ...