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Big Mama flanked by members of Proudly Anebira The entire staff of EbiraView Media congratulates Pastor (Dr.) Halimat Christy Salihu a.k.a Big Mama on her recent honorary doctorate award as Doctor of Divinity confered on her by Freewater Nathaniel Issah College/Institute of Pastoral Ministry at FCE Okene on Saturday, 30th August 2014. May the good Lord prolong your life and elevate you to higher stations. We appreciate your good work at Tao FM in keeping our people abreast of happenings within the community and across the nation. Pastor Halimat Christy Salihu decoration as Doctor of Divinity May the Lord continue to protect and bless you with the wisdom to lead our community to the ranks of informed society. Congratulations ma. Signed: Management .

By Ismail M. Kabir An Ebira Woman weaving cloth on the loom In recent time, the loom, popularly known as Oguntoro in Ebira language, has disappeared from most homes in Ebira communities. But does it mean an end to the age-long clothe weaving heritage in Ebira land? The Okene main market (ohu bariki) retains an unparalleled record of patronage when it comes to local trade of the Ita-inochi otherwise known as woven cloth. Historically, people traveled from across the country to buy the clothes from our local weavers. This gave rise to the yoruba acronym for the clothe "Aso-Oke", meaning cloth from the upper (Northern) Nigeria. The Oguntoro (loom) was a common feature in most Ebira homes when the trade thrived locally and internationally. Today, modernization has taken over the local weaving method as simple mechanized approach now make it easier for women to weave faster and produce more for their clients. Innovation has taken centre stage with new skills being ado

NTA Okene at construction phase By Ismail M. Kabir My recent visit to the abandoned site of Okene station of Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) was very disappointing. For over six years since the idea of establishing a local TV station in the central senatorial district of Kogi state, the people have waited in vain for a media station that continue to exist only in their imagination. Similar facility in the two other senatorial districts in the sate (Western and Eastern senatorial districts) have since commenced operation. Several failed promises by successive governments in the state including an official visit by the former governor Ibrahim Idris led by the then honourable commissioner of of information, Dr. Tom Ohikere have left the NTA substation to a mere hope. In October last year, chairmen from the 5 local government council of Kogi central viz Adavi, Ajaokuta, Ogori-Magongo, Okehi and Okene Local government areas, visited the abandoned station with renewed

Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson has thrown her critics into ‘dustbin, saying that she will continue to move on in life ahead of them.  Mercy Johnson The (Ebira) Kogi State-born star in an interview with City People said ‘People will keep criticising when they want exactly what you have. They hate and they talk, but they want what you have. They crave to have what you have. So when they talk, the only way to shut them up is to even do better and up your game.’ She went on to add: ‘We are in an environment where people who have boils all over their faces will look at me that has just 1 pimple on my cheek and try to tell me what cream to use. People hide in the shadow and say stuff.’ She made it clear that nobody can make her to go back now, adding: “So it’s like hate all you want, I am moving. So you are just going to stay there and keep talking and I am ahead of you.” Read more...

Eihuri came from a large and prominent homestead in Ahacheche village... It was very clear that Eihuri was extensively schooled in cookery by her parent, right from her tender age till the time she got married to Abaukaka of Omoyeye clan. She possessed the ability to prepare pounded yam that was fluffy and yet retained enough texture which made it amendable for it to be moulded into desirable size, for swallowing. This was greatly complemented by her ingenious way of preparing melon soup with Grass cutter meat. Eihuri had distinguished herself as a celebrity of a kind when she was 12 years of age. Elderly people talked loudly about her emerging beauty. The hair, skin legs, teeth, her courtesy were taken one by one and analyzed by the young men in her village and even beyond with avid admiration. Everybody dreamed to posses her when she would have become an adult.... The oracle had earlier revealed that some white skinned people would set foot on Bura land. It also caut

Momoh Jimoh Lukman (25) is an Orphan who hails from a very humble background in Nagazi, Adavi LGA. He is the first of  3 children with 2 younger siblings (a boy and a girl). Since his parents couldn't sponsor his studies beyond college, he taught in a private elementary school before joining a barbing saloon where he earned about N3,000/month as a helping hand after loosing his teaching job. With the meagre income, he supported his younger ones and his mother, a poor widow who runs a petty trade on candies. Luck came Momohjimoh's way in 2010 when he, with a handful of friends were presented with the opportunity to locate and secure a land to erect a Glo telecom mast. The excited friends boarded a motorbike and sped towards Abobo area of Okene-Lokoja road where a suitable spot for the mast has been identified. Just few meters from the Federal college of education in Otite, a fast moving vehicle knocked the two boys off the highway leaving Momohjimoh badly injured

Commuters wait as robbers operate ahead (Sat.16th Aug.2014) The frequent armed robbery operations along Okene-Lokoja road has degenerated into daily operation by dare-devil highway robbers. Report reaching us indicates that in spite of the presence of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) often sighted along Osara axis of the road, the men of the underworld continue to have a field day. They now operate up to three times in a day unchallenged. Just last week, Guardian Newspaper reported the ordeal of travellers plying Lokoja -Okene road who, according to the report by John Akubo (Lokoja) have sent a distress call to Governor Idris Wada to step up security on Lokoja-Okene road where incessant attacks by armed robbers has become a daily occurrence.  The report said that one of the victims who narrated his ordeal to reporters Mr. Innocent Mbanefo said that he was travelling from Lagos to Abuja when armed robbers numbering about fifteen barricaded the highway at Irepene farm camp along

 By Yusuf Ozi-Usman Yusuf Ozi-Usman It all started on Friday, August 1, like foul wind, when people were making phone calls across the country, to enquire whether it was true that President Goodluck Jonathan was dead. As a matter of fact, to those who were fully in the knowledge of the good health in which President Jonathan was carrying on with official state duties that day, the enquiry or the rumour of his death was qualified to be dismissed, even with lots of laughter. In deed, as at the time phone calls were taking the centre stage on the purported death of President Jonathan, he (the President) was supervising the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the federal government and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote on $1 Billion (about N160 Billion) rice production project. The signing was done in the Presidential Villa. The same day, President Jonathan also witnessed a book presentation, on Nigeria 100 centenary status as well as,