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Gunmen Attack Students Hostel, Shoot A Student

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Gunmen attacked a 165 Lodge located at Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo front gate. The attack resulted in serious injury to a 200 Level student of the university’s department of electrical engineering, simply identified as Charles. Orient Gist gathered that the injury led to the loss of blood by Charles and that he was transferred to the Federal Teaching Hospital in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital for medical attention. According to Gozie Ifeanyi, an eyewitness, “the incident is not the first time AE-FUNAI students are being attacked by gunmen. “Just last week, an armed robber was apprehended by some students after he missed his shot on a student. The students gave him the beating of his life before handing him over to the security personnel”. Francis Njoku, the students’ union government president, expressed total displeasure over the incident and assured the affected students that the union would liaise with Nigerian Police and the Community Security

5 Female celebrities with wealthy husbands you didn’t know

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The Nigerian entertainment industry is blessed with a lot gorgeous female celebrities who have done well for themselves career-wise. It is only normal for this kind of women to be attracted by equally successful men and in some cases very wealthy men. Some of these female celebrities have ended up getting married to these wealthy career men and business giants. Getting married to wealthy man comes with a lot of pros and cons as sometimes it slows down the careers of these already established celebrities. However, for some, it is just a plus as it rarely clouds their careers. So, guys, we would love to share with you five female celebrities who have gotten married to really wealthy men. 1. Dakore Egbuson Akande Dakore Egbuson-Akande (Instagram/Dakorea) Dakore Egbuson Akande needs no introduction as she’s one of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, Nollywood to be precise. Dakore’s acting career has been one which we’ve all watched blossom over the years. One can

Labour again shun meeting with FG on minimum wage

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ABUJA – ORGANISED labour last night shunned meeting organised by the Federal Government to resolve the impasse on the new minimum wage. Non of the labour leaders attended the meeting at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. A worker on his bike waves a Nigerian flag during a march to protest against the government’s failure to agree on a new minimum wage during a rally in Lagos, on October 30, 2018. – Workers across Nigeria march to protest government’s delay in agreeing on a new minimum wage and threaten to embark on nationwide strike if the authorities fail to meet their demand by November 6, 2018. One of the key officers of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, told Vanguard that the meeting was irrelevant as the only meeting they would attend was the one scheduled today for the signing of the report of the Tripartite Committee. It was reliably gathered that labour leaders switched off the phone lines to avoid distraction from the gover

2019: We Need To Fix Wastage In Governance – Durotoye

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Fela Durotoye The presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Mr Fela Durotoye, says he will work to curb what he describes as wastage in governance if elected president in 2019. He stated this during his appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, less than four months to the election. “We’ve got to fix the wastage that is in governance. We will collapse the wastage that is in governance alone which is within the power of the Presidency,” he said. According to Durotoye, the nation is faced with myriads of challenges which he hopes to address if he becomes president next year. One of which, he stated, is to fix the ‘rot’ in the nation’s judicial system and orientate the citizens on their mindset to national issues. With next year’s polls just 103 days away, the presidential candidate believes restructuring is critical to solving some of the nation’s challenges. He explained that restructuring entails getting governance closer to the people by u