… She holds unbroken academic records nationwide Miss Ebizi Blessing Eradiri holds an unbroken record in law in Nigeria because of her outstanding and very intimidating academic performances. Beside graduating with FIRST CLASS degree in Law from our most prestigious Niger Delta University (NDU) and also graduating with another FIRST CLASS from the Nigerian Law School (NLS), she also represented Nigeria at the Prof. Manfred Lach Space Moot Court Competition as a Student-Agent in South Africa. ACADEMIC HONOURS AND PRIZES 1. Pioneer Double First Class Lawyer Prize, Bayelsa State House of Assembly, 2020. 2. Director General’s Prize for Attaining First…
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By Marufh Bello Mouths have been running. Tails have been wagging. Faces squeezed and frowned till furrows and wrinkles take over the faces. Yet, the paymaster looks askance and unperturbed, busy like Mr Jones in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. “Hey, wait! Stop fretting! You’ll get compensated soon!” says at last the billionaire paymaster after so much so long murmuring. For politicians in Oyo State, especially of the remaining annihilated and debilitated small membership of the original pure PDP (People’s Democratic Party) extraction who were the remainders of the casualty suffered in the frail undeserved political success of APC (All Progressives…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is to assist the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, secure prompt and adequate revenue remittances to the Federation Account by revenue generating agencies of the federal government. This was disclosed on Thursday, November 12, 2020 by EFCC’s acting Chairman, Mohammed Umar Abba when a delegation of Post-mortem Sub-committee of FAAC, led by its vice chairman, Chris A. Akomas came on a working visit to EFCC’s corporate headquarters, Abuja. Abba, who expressed worry over dwindling remittances from revenue generating agencies into the Federation Account, noted that it was a serious national issue that needed…
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has directed its members to sell Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) between N168 and N170 per litre. Recall that the Pipeline and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, on Thursday, advised the marketers to peg petrol price between the same window with effect from Friday, 13th November 2020, giving the prevailing market forces. Following PPMC’s advised, IPMAN’s supervisory chairman for Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa and Katsina states, Bashir Dan-Mallam on Friday, directive its members to comply with PPMC’s circular, which advised. The PPMC circular dated 11th November 2020 and signed by the EDC, Ali Tijjani R.,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed the conduct of 15 pending by-elections for Dec. 5. Mr Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, in a statement issued in Abuja said that the decision was taken at the commission’s meeting held on Friday. He said that INEC among other things reviewed the outcome of its quarterly consultations with stakeholders in the electoral process. He said that the commission further reviewed the security situation and other challenges regarding the by-elections holding in 11 states. The commission on Oct. 22, postponed the by-elections earlier scheduled for…
The Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Mr Chiji Collins, has been impeached, ChannelsTV reports. The speaker was impeached by lawmakers during plenary in Owerri on Friday over allegations of financial impropriety, high handedness, and gross misconduct. The motion for Collins’ impeachment was supported by 19 out of the 27 members of the House. In his place, the lawmakers elected Mr Paul Emeziem from Onuimo local government area as the new Speaker of the House. Details later…
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has taken drastic measures to curb the rising rate of insecurity in the state, Mr Donald Ojogo, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, said on Friday in Akure Ojogo, in a statement made available to newsmen, said the measures include banning of unauthorised use of vehicles with tinted glass and restriction of activities of commercial motorcyclists to between 6am and 6pm. The commissioner, who expressed concern on the worrisome spike in crime rate in the state, warned that any commercial motorcyclists, otherwise known as okada riders, found flouting the directive shall have his motorcycle…
Nigerian music star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has dropped his long-awaited album titled “A Better Time’’. The album which should have been released earlier but delayed by the recent #EndSARS protest was dropped on many music platforms in the early hours of Friday. The album has 17 song tracks such as “Fem, Jowo, Holy Ground, Heaven, Very Special, The Best, Shopping Spree, Sunlight, Tanana, Mebe, La La, So Crazy, Birthday Cake, I Got A Friend, Fade and On My Way’’. Davido featured top music celebrities like Nicki-Minaj, lil Baby, Chris Brown, Nas, Tiwa Savage, Mayourkun, Bella Shrmurda, Hit…
A new study, using new data and novel analytical approaches by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners, has underscored the size of the prize on offer from integrating action to save nature and combat climate change. In a statement issued by UNEP and mailed to AsheNews on Friday, the report, Strengthening synergies: How action to achieve post-2020 global biodiversity conservation targets can contribute to mitigating climate change, which was released on Friday, finds that “conserving 30 per cent of land in strategic locations, could safeguard 500 gigatonnes of carbon stored in vegetation and soils – around half the world’s vulnerable terrestrial carbon…
China has broken its silence on the U.S. elections by congratulating the President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, according to media reports. Bloomberg and Reuters attributed the reaction to China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, on Friday. “We respect the choice of the American people. We extend congratulations to Biden and Harris. “We understand the results of the U.S. election will be determined according to U.S. laws and procedures,” Reuters quoted Wenbin as saying. Until now, China was among a few notable countries who were yet to congratulate Biden since he was projected to have won the election on…