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23/06/2023

1st picture: image of the original Titanic.

2nd picture: image of the wreck of the original Titanic after over a 100 years under the ocean.

3rd picture: The submarine which sank in search of the Titanic.

4th picture: the 5 heroes that sank with it.

5th picture: John Jacob Astor who was the richest man in the world with a networth of over 150, million dollars (around 10 billion dollars today) when the Titanic sank in April 15 1912. He was only 47 years old.

His grandchild is among the passengers of the ill-fated submarine.


The titanic is so historical that once in a while a debris from the wreck would break and wash ashore and be found by seamen.

A few years ago, 4 pieces of rusty metals from the Titanic were auctioned and bought for 160 million dollars.

In 1912, Thomas Andrews, the Man who designed the Titanic Ship Sank with it.

111 years later, the man who designed the Titanic Submarine has so just sank with it in 2023.

Credit: Kelly Hassino

19/06/2023

By Christopher C. Ulasi

Doctor Micheal Okpara governed the nine states which made up eastern Nigeria from 1959 to 1966. When the military coup of 1966 terminated his governorship on January 16, 1966 the only property he owned was an old bungalow he had in his village Umuahia Abia State. When the Biafra war ended in January 1970 he desired to study Economics in an American University but he could not raise the fees.

In 1974 after he had gone back to brush up his medical knowledge and was in Edinburgh for his membership examination he shared a flat with a foreigner, a West Indian.

The first time I saw Dr Okpara was at a political rally in Enugu in the early 1960’s. What impressed me that day was his pronunciation of the word simultaneously as in Simon. The next time I encountered him was in 1974. This time it was on one on one basis. It was in the city of Edinburgh Scotland the United Kingdom. He was there to prepare and sit for his membership examination in medicine. Dr. Okpara had qualified as a Medical Doctor in the 1950’s at Yaba Higher College but had gone into politics and had almost forgotten everything about medicine, when he was the Premier of Eastern Nigeria.

Mazi S.G. Ikoku, a renowned economist was the leader of opposition. Ikoku used to confuse, dazzle and bamboozle the government side with economic jargons. It got to a stage where Dr. Okpara could not take it anymore. He bought books on Economics and when others would be sleeping he would keep awake to swort Economics. Armed with what he was able to learn he was prepared for Ikoku’s fire. He was able to return fire for fire and there was always thunderous applause from the government side whether he got it right or not. This kindled his interest in Economics.

When the Biafran war ended, it was every man to himself. He first went to Ivory Coast and then from there to the United Kingdom. He was hoping to study Economics in an American University but he could not afford the fees nor did he get a

15/06/2023

Just in!

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of the following as Special Advisers:

1. Mr. Dele Alake
Special Adviser, Special Duties, Communications and Strategy

2. Mr. Yau Darazo
Special Adviser, Political and Intergovernmental Affairs

3. Mr. Wale Edun
Special Adviser, Monetary Policies

4. Mrs. Olu Verheijen
Special Adviser, Energy

5. Mr. Zachaeus Adedeji
Special Adviser, Revenue

6. Mr. Nuhu Ribadu
Special Adviser, Security

7. Mr. John Ugochukwu Uwajumogu

Special Adviser, Industry, Trade and Investment.

8. Dr (Mrs.) Salma Ibrahim Anas

Special Adviser, Health

Abiodun Oladunjoye

Director Information

State House

June 15, 2023

14/06/2023

Anambra tops mathematics championship

13/06/2023

All you need to know about the Student Loan Bill that President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed into Law today. The bill was the brain child Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila as majority leader of the House of Representatives in 2019. Bill passed all the reading and was adopted in the NASS

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12/06/2023

10/06/2023

The NNPC is now the Northern Nigeria Petroleum Company. The all-Muslim top 20 executives in NNPC makes Nigeria look like an annex of Arab Emirates.

1. Mele Kyari (GMD)
2. Umar Ajiya (Chief Finance Officer/Finance and Accounts)
3. Yusuf Usman (Chief Operating Officer)
4. Farouk Garba Sa’id (Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services)
5. Mustapha Yakubu (Chief Operating Officer, Refining and Petrochemicals)
6. Hadiza Coomassie (Corporate Secretary/Legal Adviser to the Corporation)
7. Omar Ibrahim (Group General Manager, International Energy Relations)
8. Kallamu Abdullahi (GGM Renewable Energy)
9. Ibrahim Birma (GGM Governance Risk and Compliance)
10. Bala Wunti (GGM NAPIMS)
11. Inuwa Waya (MD NNPC Shipping)
12. Musa Lawan (MD Pipelines And Product Marketing)
13. Mansur Sambo (MD Nigeria Petroleum Development Company)
14. Lawal Sade (MD Duke Oil/NNPC Trading Company)
15. Malami Shehu (MD Port Harcourt Refining Company)
16. Muhammed Abah (MD Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company)
17. Abdulkadir Ahmed (MD Nigeria Gas Marketing Company)
18. Salihu Jamari (MD Nigeria Gas and Power Investment Company Limited)
19. Mohammed Zango (MD NNPC Medical Services)
20. Sarki Auwalu (Director, Department of Petroleum Resources)*

*Only three top positions were allotted to the entire Southern Nigeria.*

*What happened to federal character? What’s the job of the Federal Character Commission? Do we have a National Assembly? What the hell is wrong with the members of National Assembly? Where’s the Senate oversight committee on NNPC? Where are the activists?*

The North produces nothing and contributes zero revenue to the central purse in Abuja. Yet, the North gulps 99 per cent of the revenue*

Nepotism results in bias, unfair treatment, and exclusion of others. Nepotism.

LAMIDO's Confession

*Fulanis with no sea shore are controlling Yoruba seaports and NPA, Fulanis with no single barrel of crude oil are controlling the NNPC. Minority fulanis with a population of less than 10 mil

02/06/2023

Presidential Tribunal: Peter Obi tenders results of 6 states, 115 LGAs in evidence
Peter Obi

Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, who is insisting that he won the presidential election held on February 25, pp on Thursday, produced certified copies of results of the election from six states of the federation, to support his claim.

Obi tendered the results, which were obtained from 115 Local Government Areas, LGAs, in evidence before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja.

Though Obi’s legal team was led by Prof. Awa Kalu, SAN, however, the election results, which were contained in Forms EC8A, were tendered from the Bar by one of his lawyers, Chief Emeka Opoko, SAN.

The first set of results of the election that was tendered before the court by the LP candidate who came third in the presidential election was from 15 out of 22 LGAs of Rivers State.

Despite opposition by all the respondents in the matter, Justice Haruna Tsammani-led’s five-member panel admitted the Rivers state results and marked them as Exhibits PD 1 to PD 15.

Obi and the LP equally tendered results from 23 LGAs in Benue state, which were also admitted in evidence and marked as Exhibits PC 1 to PC 23, while results from 18 LGAs in Cross River State were added in evidence as Exhibits PD1 – PD 18.

On Niger state, Obi tendered Forms EC8A from 23 LGAs and they were admitted in evidence as Exhibits PE-1 to PE 23, as well as that of 20 LGAs in Osun state which were marked as Exhibits PF 1 – PF 20.

The last set of results the petitioners adduced and tendered in evidence before the court were from 16 LGAs in Ekiti and they were marked as Exhibits PG 1 to PG 16.

The Justice Tsammani-led panel subsequently adjourned further proceedings in the matter till Friday.

All the respondents said they would give reasons why they challenged the admissibility of the presidential election results that Obi and the LP tendered in evidence, in their final written address.

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30/05/2023

HOW THE 36 NIGERIAN STATES GOT THEIR NAMES:

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1. Abia

Abia is an acronym from the four main groups of people in the state as at the time it was formed in 1991: Aba Bende Isuikwuato Afikpo.

2. Adamawa

Adamawa was named after a warrior, Modibbo Adama Bin Ardo Hassan, that conquered the region in the beginning of the 19th century.

3. Akwa-Ibom

Akwa Ibom is named after the Qua Iboe (or Kwa Iboe) River.

4. Anambra

The state got its name from the corrupted version of Oma Mbala (Ànyịm Ọma Mbala), a popular river in the area.

5. Bauchi
'Bauchi’ is Hausa word meaning the southern flanks of Hausaland. Tribes living in the southern parts of the Hausaland were referred to as "kasashen bauchi" and the area they lived in later came to be known simply as Bauchi.

6. Bayelsa

Bayelsa is a combination of the acronyms of three local government areas which were pulled out of old Rivers state — Brass LGA known as BALGA, Yenegoa LGA known as YELGA and Sagbama LGA known as SALGA. in the formation of their names is BA + YEL + SA

7. Benue

The state was named after the "europeanised" corruption of 'Binuwe', the Batta word for ‘Mother of Waters’.

8. Borno

The alternative name of the Kanuris, the predominant ethnic group in the state, is 'Borno' which gave inspiration for the naming of the state.

9. Cross River

The state took its name from a River called Oyono or Cross River.

10. Delta

The state is where the River Niger forms a delta as it enters the Atlantic Ocean.

11. Ebonyi

Ebonyi is the anglicised version of 'Aboine', a river that cuts through Abakaliki, the state capital.

12. Edo

The Bini people who dwell in the area had always referred to themselves as Edo or Iduu. This inspired the name of the state.

13. Ekiti

‘Okiti’ is a term that is said to denote a settlement of many hills. It later became 'Ekiti'.

14. Enugu

Due to the many hills and rocky terrain in the area, the people named it in igbo, "Enu Ugwu" meaning "top

18/05/2023

Breaking!

The NCC has merged all the network codes. So, from today, if you have an MTN, Airtel, Glo or 9mobile line, the new code to check your balance is *310 #.

18/05/2023

Unified USSD codes for all mobile networks in Nigeria:

⏺️ Call Centre: 300
⏺️ Borrow Services: *303 #
⏺️ Stop Service: *305 #
⏺️ Check Balance: *310 #
⏺️ Credit Recharge: *311 #
⏺️ Data Plan: *312 #
⏺️ Data plan balance: *323 #
⏺️ Share Services: *321 #
⏺️ DND: *2442 #
⏺️ Porting services: *3232 #
⏺️ NIN Verification & NIN-SIM Linkage: *996 #

13/05/2023

BREAKING: Nollywood actor Saint Obi Is D€∆d. The veteran Actor was 57 years old. May his soul rest in peace.

12/05/2023

Labour Party leadership tussle."am now in charge" Apapa says as he move to take over

12/05/2023

Labour Party leadership tussle " Am now in charge" Apapa says...

08/05/2023

Just in: Peter Obi arrive Presidential Election Petition Tribunal Court.

01/05/2023

Nasarawa State Governor at sons wedding Abroad.

01/05/2023

Peter Obi at Eagle Square For Workers day celebration.

25/04/2023

Why We Invited Peter Obi To Our Mosque ~ Awka Muslim Community

The Awka Muslim Community has explained that their invitation to the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, to their mosque was to fraternise with him as they always did in the past, and to encourage him on his journey to New Nigeria, not minding the falsehoods peddled against him. They said that they had wanted to visit Mr Peter Obi at his house in Onitsha. However, on receiving their invitation, Obi offered to visit them at the mosque and celebrate Eid el Fitr with them.

Speaking at the Central Mosque in Awka during Obi's visit, the Zonal Chairman of Miyetti Allah, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, recalled that Obi never failed to celebrate their sallah with them when he was the Governor of the State, a ritual he continued after. He praised Obi for his visible contributions to the development of their Community over the years.

Gidado stated that under Obi administration as Governor, many of their children received scholarship. He revealed that many of their members were sponsored for pilgrimage to Mecca by Obi, and since Obi left office, that tradition ended. "No Governor has sponsored any of us to Mecca since Obi left office," Gidado said.

He continued, "Some of our members applied for agricultural loans under Peter Obi's administration, and they were approved, without knowing us in persons. Such a thing has never happened. Obi treated us like indigenes and made us feel at home in Anambra. He did not segregate between muslims and christians, nor between Northerners and Easterners."

The Leader of Awka Muslim Community, Alhaji Garba Sarki, in his speech, maintained that the many lies told by traducers to tarnish Obi's image in the North is sad. He said he was willing to tell the whole world who Obi is, and how he has helped their community to grow in the State. He said that the Muslim Community in Awka supported Obi's bid for presidency because they know and understand the kind of person h