July 6, 2019

Gov Dickson offers automatic employment to 102 PhD holders

July 6, 2019 12:57 pm

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has offered automatic employment to 336 professionals from various disciplines including 102 PhD holders.

A breakdown of the 336 beneficiaries showed that 102 PhD holders drawn from the state and other Ijaw-speaking communities across the country were absorbed as lecturers into the state-owned tertiary institutions.

A statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei, said Dickson presented employment letters to the beneficiaries on Saturday.

The governor named other beneficiaries as 60 medical doctors, 54 master’s degree holders and 119 first class graduates.

Dickson said his administration was working hard to lay a solid …

104-year-old World War II veteran urges FGN to pay pension

July 6, 2019 12:42 pm

A 104-year-old World War ll Veteran of the Nigerian Army, Adamo Aduku on Saturday urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay his pension.

Aduku was one of those conferred with the Chief of Army Staff World War II Veteran Award at the 2019 Army Day Celebration in Lagos.

While speaking to journalists at the event, he lamented that since he was discharged as a Private from the Nigerian Army in 1957 he was yet to receive his pension.

“I joined the Royal West African Frontier Force in 1942 in Markurdi, Benue State. Trained in Laguna and deployed to India

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Kaffy, Naira Marley in war of words over Soapy

July 6, 2019 12:03 am

The social media was buzzing on Thursday as controversial singer, Azeez Fashola well known by the stage name, Naira Marley, fired back his own venoms against Nigerian award-winning dancer and showbiz personality, Kafayat Shafau Ameh popularly known as Kaffy, who earlier had berated a new dance style, Soapy, which is geared towards promoting his song with the same title.

Kaffy, the Guinness World Record holder in dance, had on Tuesday, reacting to the viral dance videos, disapproved of the dance style, describing it as disgusting and immoral.

Taking to Instagram, the famous Nigerian dancer wrote: ”I am sorry, but I …

Trump, who has made a hardline immigration stance a key issue of his presidency and 2020 re-election bid,

Mass deportation ‘starting fairly soon,’ says Trump

July 6, 2019 12:00 am

Trump, who has made a hardline immigration stance a key issue of his presidency and 2020 re-election bid, postponed the operation last month after the date was leaked, but on Monday he said it would take place after July 4.

“They’ll be starting fairly soon, but I don’t call them raids, we’re removing people, all of these people who have come in over the years illegally,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last month said operations would target recently-arrived undocumented migrants in a bid to discourage a surge of Central American

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