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Dayo Emmanuel While the war on terror comes to an end, the obvious need for reconstruction and rehabilitation are of national concern. Observing these needs, the House of Representatives Thursday, passed a bill for the establishment of North East Development Commission. The Commission, when formed would receive funding from the Federal Government and donation from international donours for resettlement and …

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Ifako-Ijaiye Federal Constituency of Lagos State, Thursday was thrown into mourning as the news of the demise of a member of the House of Representatives representing the Constituency at the House of Representatives broke. Hon. Elijah Adewale was said to have slumped and died at the early hours of Thursday in his Abuja residence. The deceased was said to have …

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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has announced the replacement of Abdulmumin Jibrin from Kano State as the House Committee Chairman on Appropriations. Announcing the resignation on Wednesday, Dogara said that the Chairman, House Committee on Housing, Rep. Mustapha Bala Dawaki also from Kano State and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would replace Rep. Jibrin as chairman of the appropriations …

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Diseases such as colorectal cancer, liver cancer ,helicobacter pyloris and other infections that occur in the gastrointestinal(GI) tract are usually not easy to detect when looking out for signs and symptoms. And even when the symptoms are obvious its often to late to treat. That is the situation in our hospitals at the moment and doctors treating GI diseases are …

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The controversy raging in the Nigerian Senate between Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Oluremi Tinubu has generated several comments nationwide in the past few days. Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district at the National Assembly, has come to the open to deny some of the utterances attributed to him. According to him, it is impossible for him to impregnate wife of …

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Dayo Emmanuel Lagos based media NGO, International Press Centre (IPC), has produced a documentary on its community journalism initiatives. With support from the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) Canada, the documentary, is IPC’s intervention in community reporting focusing on the challenges as well as government’s developmental efforts in selected rural communities captured in the documentary. Speaking at the presentation …

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Folake Sokoya Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu, member, House of Representatives on Wednesday, described the freezing of the personal account of Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Peter Ayodele Fayose with Zenith Bank by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as an abridgement of democratic norms, ethos an practice as seen all over the world. In a release by Adebutu on Wednesday, the …

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Oluwatobi Oyetunde In a bid to identify with children living with disabilities, a non-governmental ogranisation, JOINValue (Jewels of Inestimable Values), has donated gift items to Modupe Cole Memorial Child Care and Treatment Home in Lagos. The group, whose motto is: Impacting lives positively, recently played out its motto, impacting children living with disabilities with love. Chief Executive Officer of the …

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Folake Sokoya The first african female drummer, Aralola Apeke Olamuyiwa has been appointed as Cultural Ambassador for the Ife Kingdom, the cradle of Yoruba. The appointment of the famous drummer was contained in a letter available to Premium Times which was approved and personally signed the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The Royal father in the letter said, Olamuyiwa …

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By Emeka Oparah PROTOCOLS I am grateful to the author for giving me the opportunity to review her soul-stirring, breathtaking, disturbing yet inspiring book. It’s been a while I have been meaning to comment on the subject of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, and Mrs. Amara Van-Lare, by making me her book’s reviewer handed me a brilliant opportunity to ventilate my views on …

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