The Head of Service, Mrs. Olabowale Ademola has urged participants in a specialized orientation programme designed for recently deployed local government management staff to show leadership skills that will engender improvement of the quality of public service delivery in Lagos State. Ademola who made the remarks at the closing ceremony of the programme noted that the event was designed to broaden the knowledge base of the Officers and expose them to the structure, processes and procedures in the mainstream civil service in order to adequately prepare them for the tasks ahead. “There is no gainsaying that the quality of an Organization’s human capital is central and critical to the attainment of its goals and objectives. This underlines and explains the unwavering commitment of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to the vigorous and systematic reform of, not only Public Service structures, processes and procedures including the realignment of existing MDAs and creation of ...

SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS FIVE TROOPS IN BORBO At least five soldiers were killed and another 40 injured when a Boko Haram jihadist rammed an explosives-laden pick-up truck into a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, security sources told AFP on Friday. The bomber, believed to be loyal to factional leader Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi, targeted the convoy, which was conducting “clearance operations” between Yobe and Borno states, two military officers said. “At about 1100 hours (1000 GMT) on Thursday, a suicide bomber believed to be a Boko Haram terrorist riding in a van loaded with explosives rammed into a military convoy at Manguzum village,” one said. “We lost five soldiers in the incident and more than 40 sustained various degrees of injuries,” added the officer, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to speak about the incident. The convoy was heading to the garrison town of Damboa, which is some 90 kilometres (55 miles) from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, at the ti...

Acrimonious tunes met the agitation for the Self-governing State of Biafra following the disagreements in the midst of renowned Igbo personalities on the argumentative issue at a book launch in Abuja, Titled (the Book) “The Audacity of Power and the Nigeria Presidency-Exclusion of the South East in Nigeria’s Power Politics and the Spectre of Biafra” inscribed by Godwin Ifeanyi Udibe and Law Mefor brought together the likes of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, Senator Ben Obi, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Udenta Udenta. The efforts of the authors were extolled by Chairman of the occasion and former Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo represented by Senator Obi; stressing that for a truth, the marginalization of the Igbo people is real. “The book is a description of what has been happening to a group of people from the South-East. It surrounds on how a people have been methodically harassed and denied,” Obi stated in his opening remarks. For Senator Nnamani, what...

Who would have believed that the World most educated president is an African? President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is recorded to be the most educated president the world had ever produced. With a Bachelor's degree in History, English, Administration, Education and Law and also a Masters degree in Law and in Economics alongside several other PhDs aside the 14 honorary degrees, this record will indeed be a very hard one for any other president in the world to break. But, who is the most uneducated president in the world?

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