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By Donatus Olufade Common sense demands that when you visit someone or a community, you are to comport yourself in a way and manner that will not anger or provoke your host. The above has also been supported by the saying that, “if you are in Rome, you should behave like the Romans.”  However vague that old saying might look, one can easily deduce from it that a visitor in a community should behave in accordance with the practice of his or her host. Recent happenings in Ebiraland has shown our Igbo visitor’s attitude is completely antithetical to that above wise saying, as they have been acting as if they can do and undo in Ebiraland without any consequence. Funny enough, our Igbo settlers have recently been using the police to gag and intimidate their host (Ebira sons and Daughters) over flimsy complains. At the mid of last Month, within one week over five of our sons and daughters were arrested by the police over trivialities, and in

For those running NGO or belonging to civil society organizations within Kogi Central, here is an important message for your action: Dear All,   NOTIFICATION AND CALL FOR REGISTRATION   This is a notification and invitation to register for the upcoming Biennial Kogi Central CSOs Network Retreat and General Assembly scheduled for October 23rd through the 25th 2014 at the Conference Hall of the Federal College of Education, Okene.   The three-day event features capacity building workshops, empowerment seminars, General Assembly and Retreat for NGOs members and unemployed graduates from within the zone. The President of Ebira Peoples Association (EPA) and other dignitaries have been invited as special guests.   Every participant is expected to pre-register for the event by paying a token sum of five thousand naira (N5,000.00) for the two-day activities to cover File, Brochure, Meals (Tea Break and Lunch), CD and papers, certificate of Attendance and Writing Materials. Organizatio

The general public is hereby cordially invited to the N3million launching of an Ebira movie titled: KADARA (Destiny) Produced by Goffry Films Entertainment. Date: 7th September, 2014. Venue: Ikorodu Secretariat, Beach Road Opposite General Hospital, Ikorodu Lagos. Time: 11:00am Prompt. Performing Artiste: Dan Ozizi. DJ: DJ Ehyo. Special guests of honour: Lola Alao, Edward Jatto, Sunshine, Ajoze, Mozez Praiz, Segun D comedian, Adekola Tijani and many more. Please come with friends and family. For more info, please call 0802 517 1806. Announcer: Organizers.

By Abdulkarim Adubi Abdulmalik As published by Greenbadge Reporters (September 3, 2014) .... On Monday, September 1st, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), turned 51. His associates had wanted to give him a Birthday bash but he quietly turned it down. Last year, he did the same thing. Bello Adoke, SAN This is an irony; considering the fact that in this part of the world, praise-singing is an art, a very good art. The average man of immense financial or political influence is an emperor. He likes to be seen and praised by his benefactors just as he likes to shout from the roof tops; after all, in marketing, if you do not say “here I am, nobody says there you are.” But Adoke had always taken an exception to this since his youth. I could recall that when in June, 1979, we completed our secondary education and were busy packing our baggage, he came from his hostel, Clark House, to my room in Oduduwa House and sai

By Ismail M. Kabir I just learnt from Tao FM this morning that a mad man went gaga yesterday in Adavi-eba, a community bordering Ihima town. The lunatic was reported to have fetched a sharp axe and started chasing people around, mowing down two people and leaving them mortally wounded. One of the victims is reported dead while the other is still hospitalised. This raises the question of why our local government authorities have done little to tackle the free entry of lunatics into Ebira towns in recent times. Several petitions have been written by concerned citizens in our community in attempts to draw the attention of constituted authorities to act decisively in curbing this anomaly but they mostly fell on deaf ears. An Ebira avid writer and poet, Buhari Omolori once wrote a well researched article on the subject matter which was published by EbiraView in 2011. The article berated the high rate of lunatics freely roaming our streets with some parading themselves around social

Dr. Iyeala Ajayi The Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State, has matriculated 1,867 students for the 2013/2014 acade-mic session. Administering oath on the students at the weekend, the college Provost, Prof. Ajayi Iyela, charged them to abide by the rules and regulations and remain committed to their studies. The provost warned the students to shun examination malpractice, cultism, indecent dressing, immoral behaviours and violence in order to remain and graduate from the college. He said the college's mission is to achieve academic excellence by producing students who are outstanding in knowledge, culture, morals and behaviour. "I charge you to start well by planning well. Study well and conduct yourselves well so that you can also end well. We have zero tolerance for social vices," he said.

By: BISI ADEDAYO (Daily Newswatch). The Chairman of Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), Alhaji Kola Belgore, has said the Federal Government wastes N3.4 billion monthly on the Ajaokuta Steel Mill. He lamented that despite the huge potentials of steel mill, it remained unproductive, saying: “We are paying for doing nothing monthly currently at Ajaokuta.” Belgore made the observation at the weekend  in Ilorin at an award ceremony in honour of the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Sulaiman Abba,  AIG Ambrose Aisabor, Corps Marshal of the FRSC and three other alumni of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State. The ceremony was organised by the former President of Association of Alumni of Institute (AANI) and chairman, LUBCON Group of Companies, Alhaji Jani Ibrahim. Belgore disclosed that AMCON was the only corporation with over six trillion naira still intact. He blamed mass unemployment problem in the nation on closure of compan