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By Pastor Joseph Suleiman Manjoe Preamble As the race towards 2011 gather momentum, key players in the field of politics are perfecting their strategies to win the confidence of the people. As activities peaks on the part of the politicians not much is heard or seen from the people who matter most in this matter, the electorate. This is to be expected since most of the followers are always passive, apathetic and unenlightened on issues of governance. If there is anything that most followers are concerned with, it is the issue of how to get a little peanut from the politicians and take care of their immediate needs. This indeed is a sad commentary on our politics. But the few enlightened followers are silently concerned about who lead them, the moreso given our experience in the last few years and the growing fear of insecurity in the land. I have therefore chosen to discuss, the leadership challenge for some reasons: (i) Leadership is central to the management of man and resour

His Royal Majesty Alh. Dr. Ado Ibrahim was born on Thursday 7th February, 1929 to HRH Alh. Ibrahim Onoruoiza Atta and Hajiya Hauwawu Ozianuva. He is one of the 148 children of his late father and an only child of his Mother. HRM Ado Ibrahim had a priviledged birth, and a disciplined upbringing with its emphasis on the work ethic. His father, according to him, gave his children educatiom, the glory of work and high integrity. This disciplined upbringing with its emphasis on the work ethic ensured that, rather than lapse into a scriptive explotation of the fact of their priviliged birth, the children will strive to achieve excellence in different vocations to meet the demands of a changing social structure. His enlightened father was a widely travelled traditional ruler of his time. By the late 1920s, he had toured West Africa, ZEurope, and Asia. He was a devout Muslim, nonetheless, he believed that the Northern Nigeria of his day needed both Quranic and Western Education.

Home support came the way of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Austen Oniwon over the weekend when the traditional ruler of Okene, his home town, the Ohi of Oke Ngwe/Okene, His Royal Highness Alhaji Yakubu Yusuf, led a team of traditional Chiefs to the NNPC Towers, Abuja, to declare support for the new GMD in his quest to transform the fortunes of the Corporation. Clad in flowing Ebira traditional regalia, the Ohi paid tribute to the President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for deeming it fit to appoint Oniwon as the GMD of NNPC in this critical stage of reforms in the oil and gas industry. He pledged the full support of the Ebira people in ensuring that the GMD succeeds in his mandate of transforming the NNPC to a reputable world class national oil company. Welcoming the traditional ruler and his team to the NNPC Towers, Engr. Oniwon pledged to ensure that youths of Kogi State like their counterparts from other parts of

Matthew Ohiani Adeiza, a 400-level student of Mass Communication at the University of Jos, has emerged second place winner of the 2009 edition of the Culture of Enterprise International Student Essay Contest. The second place prize is $5000. The award ceremony at which Mr Adeiza was physically present, took place yesterday at the Harvard Club of New York. The first place winner was Matthew Shaffer of Yale University while Rachael Bishop of Mercer University, (both in the United States), came third. The essay contest is an initiative of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, ISI, a non-governmental organization committed to academic excellence and holistic education. It is based in Delaware, United States. Interested students post their entries to an address on the essay website at www.cultureofenterprise.org The annual international student essay contest is on the topic, "Can Character and Communities Survive in an Age of Globalization?" The contest is designed to encourage

A fuel tanker laden with with diesel has just crashed into Adavi LG corpers lodge, Okunchi Adavi local government of Kogi state. The incident which happened at about 10 minutes past 12pm thiss afternoon left about 5 injured and a woman crushed to death. EbiraView, upon arriving the scene almost immediately after the crash, put a call to the office of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) whicch aattracted rapid response from the sectoral office in Ogori-Mangogo. As at the time of filing this report, the lady, simply identified as Bariki (Mama Nazir) was still trapped under the huge truck as youth in the area threaten to block traffic flow to attract the needed response from the Local government. They, however, heeded to the plea from the traffic men who promised to put the situation under control. The deceased, EbiraView gathered, arrived from Kano yesterday to pay a visit to the family. After braiding her hair this morning, she went to fetch water from a nearby compound but met he

Screening excercise for the 2nd phase of Community Free Eye Care Service by Asmau Foundation for Orphans and the less priviledged commenced 22nd March 2010 at the Local government health department, Okene. [ Click here to download the p resentation ] At a time of devastating global economic challenge, Asmau Foundation is touching the lives of Anebira in an uncommon way; rendering sucour to the less priviledged. Due to the rising threat of blindness in the country and the world, the foundation recently embarked on a broad campaign against blindness in Ebiraland, in tune with the United Nations’ target of reducing blindness to its bearest minimum by year 2020. Towards the end of year 2009, the foundation demonstrated a feat when it conducted Free Eye surgeries on about 200 people with Cataract or Pterygium as its first Phase of Community Eye Care Service in Ebiraland. This resulted in sight restoration to over 50 people, about 200 provided with Free (corrective) Eye glasses and more tha