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By Donatus Olufade     A robbery incindent along Kabba – Okene road, on the 31 st of August 2010 led to the blocking of roads around Kabba Junction in Adavi Local Government of Kogi State by Luxurious Bus drivers. The drivers complained about the incessant robbery case in Kogi State . They explained that some unsuspecting passengers in their Vehicles were transiting the State from Lagos to Abuja , only to be attacked by robbers between Kabba and Okene. Leader of the drivers, Mr. Olisa Onyia, while speaking with our correspondent, decried the spate of robbery in Kogi State . He claimed that “I have always wondered if there is government in Kogi State . If I’m traveling from Lagos to any part of the country, I’m always scared when entering Kogi State . If you are not robbed along Kabba – Okene, you’ll be robbed at Ageva. If you are not robbed at the check point in Okene, you’ll be robbed along Ajaokuta road. I don’t know if any road around Ebiraland is safe”. The Ko

Engr. Ahmed Rufai (LeadershipNigeria) Aug. 30, 2010 In a bid to confirm the authenticity of the Nigeria Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) e-Voting system ahead of the 2011 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday inspected the facilities. In his presentation, the managing director, NIGCOMSAT, Eng. Ahmed Rufai, said his agency had engaged in the manufacturing of the full compartment of the machine since two years in order to ensure that it is ready before the elections. Among the facilities presented are Virtual Voting Machine (e-voting system), RFID staff attendance register and access control system, GSM phone, IP -core-centre multi-media network, two-way video and voice capability for conferencing between INEC headquarters and state RECs, network to support dynamic file transmitter for uploading picture and data, among others. According to Rufai, the machines were all manufactured by the agency and are capable of assisting the c

AT THE FIRST EBIRA POLITICAL REFORM CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY EBIRA ADVOCATES PRESENTED BY DR A TOM ADABA, OON , OHI ETOHUEYI OF EBIRALAND ON AUGUST 07, 2010 Protocols Introduction To the glory of God Almighty and for the peace, love and unity among our people, I share with you distinguished organisers and guests, these few thoughts which I dedicate to my bossom friend, Chief David Amodu Braimoh (DABRAS) who recently passed on to God’s glory. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace. I congratulate the organisers of this gathering for deeming it fit to get together to share views on the way forward for our people who have been so decimated and degraded by forces that have set us against one another. Forces of marginalisation, of oppression, of hunger and indeed poverty have reduced us to a leprotic paraiah race who now eat the crumbs instead of feeding our neighbours. Our self-sufficiency and contentment which was the symbol of our pride has been snatched from us. What n

By: Pastor Suleiman, Joseph Manjoe The plethora of geographical entities in different sizes, all over the world, isthe contrivance of divine wisdom. God is the master-architect. In building thisworld He reckoned with diverse sizes. He fashioned the big nations and the smallnations. He designed the big tribes and the small tribes. Virtually all thingsare in sundry sizes: big men, small men, big rivers, small rivers, big trees,small trees. The sum total of all these is a universe with compelling appeal. Itfollows therefore, that any attempt by man in his own inventions to ascribemonopoly to big sizes is a curious and deliberate confrontation with divinearrangement. Characteristically, man has continually challenged the divinewisdom by suggesting and effecting his own devices. God juxtaposed minoritieswith majorities to make the world thick, but man with prejudices sought totwist this arrangement by ascribing to the minorities inferiority tag. Firstly,let us see who

I had an exhuastive experience on saturday, the 13th August 2010 as I was heading to Lokoja around 4.30 PM after a hectic day of snapshots around Okene and environs. For what has become a regular routine, I had to stop around Federal College of Education (FCE) Okene to board a cab enroute Lokoja. The road was awash with the heavy downpour of the rain  as we approached the school gate. To my awe, a long traffic jam was right ahead and smaller vehicles were hurriedly engaging in u-turn. My friend and I dashed out of the car and ran for shelter. The more we walked, the longer the traffic so, I became curious. Though I was familiar with traffic in that part of Adavi local council, the heavy jam amidst heavy rainfall that hour drove me mad.  Travellers were stranded, impatient passengers disembarked as more heavy duty vehicles joined the long queue. I took the risk of severe damage to my camera by approaching a youth who-at my friend's request- directed me to a high building and witho

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri (Vanguard) ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, 60 days to produce the Certified True Copy, CTC, of an alleged  petition that it said culminated in the trial of an ex-Chairman of Adavi Local Government Council of Kogi State, Mr. Raji Owuda Ahmed. The embattled ex-chairman, who is answering to a 10-count criminal charge preferred against him by the anti-graft agency, was alleged to have siphoned about N590 million from the treasury of the council in two years. Justice A. A Kafarati, ordered EFCC to produce the substantive petition against the accused person, after listening to the testimony of the alleged petitioner in court yesterday. The petitioner who was simply identified by the EFCC as a security consultant, yesterday, boasted in court that he single handedly dragged the embattled chairman to court via an alleged resolution he insisted was passed by councillors in that local go

Our ref: EYC/NEC/01/16                                                                            Date: 29 th May, 2010 His Excellency Dr. Goodluck E. Jonathan, GCFR President and Commander–in–Chief Federal Republic of Nigeria Your Excellency, REMOVAL AND THEFT OF VITAL INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT AT AJASTEEL AND NIOMCO:   AN APPEAL FOR URGENT INTERVENTION The above named umbrella body of youths of Kogi Central Senatorial District hereby congratulates you on your epochal assumption of duty as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. We also commend your historic strides in governance so far; as evident in your appointment of technocrats, your avowal to ensure a credible reform in the electoral process for the nation and, indeed, your administration’s approval of the sum of six hundred and fifty million naira (N650, 000, 000.00) for the take-off of the Ajaokuta Steel Company (Ajasteel) and National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), Itakp