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Sourced by: Alhaji Rufai Abdulmalik 28th August 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the demise of Alhaji Abdulmalik Ibrahim Atta, the distinguished statesman, diplomat and pillar of the Ebira community.  Born in 1914, the oldest child of Atta Ibrahim Onoruoiza (Atta of Ebiraland 1917-1954),  Abdulmaliki was among the pioneer pupils at Makaranta’, the first primary school in Okene at the Okeneba palace of the Atta. Beginning his education in 1922 along with other foundation students of the Makaranta with contemporaries like late Alhaji Abdulrahaman Okene, he transferred to Bida to complete his primary education (1927-1928). He proceeded to Katsina from Bida in 1929 to attend the famous Katsina College, graduating in 1934.  While in Katsina, he met some of the future pioneering indigenous political leaders of the and the country, as co-students. The positive impression he made on them, as a gentleman, was instrumental to his later public career. After college, he returned to Okene whe

Ahead of the upcoming National Conference on Ajaokuta Steel Project and President Muhammadu Buhari's Industrialization Agenda, over 100 CSOs have commended the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for having the political will to actualize what previous governments could not do in the last decade. Citing the recent Financial Reports of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC that have not seen the light in the last 44 years, the recent signing into law of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) that was pending before previous governments in the last 20 years and others as exemplary, progressive and developmental by nature.   The group noted that though security challenges is the major hindrance to accelerated human, environmental and economic development, the ongoing infrastructural developments across the country and the promise by the government to do more before the end of the administration is worthy of commendation.  The group, through it's national coordina

By: Farouk Ozigi Onimisi (The White Orator) 21st August, 2021 Africa has in one of her proverbs that cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you. Nelson Mandela was quoted as saying “there is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” A Great Greek Philosopher and Classical Theorist, Arisotle, once said, “moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. He added “the ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than mere survival.” Essentially, most times, the leaders ornament is not the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.  Indeed, good habits formed at youth make all the difference. According to Rick Pitino, “humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose th

Kogi State Focal Person of the National Social Investment Programme, Honourable Abdulkareem Onyekehi Suleiman has eulogised President Muhammad Buhari as the National cash transfer office is set to disburse about N1.5 Billion to poor and vulnerable women across Kogi State. The focal person who also doubles as the Special Adviser to Kogi State Governor on Special Projects declared this in a statement released to newsmen today in Lokoja. The focal person said a financial firm, Fortis Mobile engaged by the federal government would disburse the sum of N20,000 each as 4 months arrears of January to April 2021 to over 74,000 poor and vulnerable women in rural communities under close supervision of  Kogi State office of the NSIP. According to the statement, the Kogi State beneficiaries of CCT has been increased to 74,111, a development worthy of celebration, he said. He further noted that the schedule of payment would commence from Monday, the 23rd August to Thursday, 9th September

By Farouk Ozigi Onimisi (The White Orator) It was a remarkable day in the life of Kogi State Honourable Commissioner for Works and Housing, Engr. Abubakar Ohere, as he receives executive of Ohere Educational Outreach earlier today in the capital city of Kogi State, Lokoja. The body which cuts across the five local governments in Kogi Central came on behalf of her beneficiaries in the oneness of appreciating a man who took up their responsibilities of attaining qualitative and desired education.  The leader of the group, Mrs. Ibrahim Haleema in her remark after giving glory to Almighty Allah said if there ever be a time Kogi Central has had such tremendous attention from government, it was now. Recalling the past Ebira politics and its negative consequences, Halimat said through the Ohere Educational Outreach birthed at the onset of GYB-led-administration, the impacts of lives touched are immeasurable. "In this very outreach, we have produced essentially, po