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Veteran actress Patience Ozokwor advise the Ladies

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Patience Ozokwor who is popularly knowing as mama G advice the single ladies."  See her statement below.   This is my advice for all Ladies and myself....... I'm sorry If it will annoy you but it's the Truth, you really have to take correction now. Dear ladies, Firstly, if you are still struggling to find a husband at an old age because you are looking for a perfect man, Something is wrong with you, Sorry to say that but it's true. Your propaganda magazine tells you that 'All men are liars, cheats and useless, but let’s be honest here, which is more likely?. Is it that there’s something wrong with about 70million African men, OR there is something wrong with one African Woman?.Ladies, you certainly will not get into a blissful matrimony if you are always hanging out with your so called girlfriends every night at a beer palour or bar and waiting for a guy to buy you a drink and take you home. Drinking yourself to stupor every Friday and Saturday nights d

ASUU’s fresh demands, sabotage, says Don

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A Lecturer at the University of Calabar, Dr Edidiong Ebitu, has described the new demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as an act of sabotage of the education sector. Ebitu made the declaration on Friday in Uyo in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The teacher, who is a senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing in the university, said he was in support of the Federal Government’s directive that lecturers should resume classes. “The various branches of ASUU had already voted to resume classes. The over four-months strike has done enough damage to the system. “The president had made reasonable concessions, so ASUU should resume for other things to fall in place,” he said. However, reacting to Ebitu’s views, the Secretary of the University of Uyo Branch of ASUU, Dr Aniekan Brown, debunked the claim that ASUU was making fresh demands. “ASUU is not making fresh demands, ASUU is asking for the implementation of 2009 agreements.

FG promises to pay Keshi and his assistant salary by the end of this month

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ABUJA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's government will pick up the tab for Keshi and his assistants, who are owed a total of 4.85 million U.S. dollars, the country's sports minister announced Friday. "I had to appeal to the Presidency and everything should be cleared soon," the minister said. Keshi, who has not been paid for at least five months, took Nigeria to glory in the Africa Cup of Nations and qualification for the World Cup finals in Brazil. Despite shocked and surprised by Nigeria's position, the coach still said that they should continue to win and make Nigerians proud. In the latest FIFA world rankings announced on Thursday, Nigeria slipped three places from 33 to 36 despite their World Cup qualification and a 2-2 draw in a friendly versus Italy. The Nigerian Football Federation, which relies on government funding, has been plagued by financial worries in recent years and receives little in the way of private sponso

Family of murdered poly worker tackles police

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The Punch reports. Bereaved family members of Frank Moses, an employee of the Federal Polytechnic Ekowe, Bayelsa State, have raised the alarm over plot by the police authorities in the state to shield his killers. The 35-year-old, who was the Financial Secretary of the Bayelsa chapter of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics, was killed by gunmen at his residence at Agudama, Yenagoa about 9pm on November 8, 2013. For about a year before his murder, Moses and other union leaders had been embroiled in an industrial dispute with the poly’s authorities over unpaid workers’ benefits and issues bearing on financial profligacy by the management. In a position paper issued after an emergency meeting on Saturday, and signed by Mr. Frank Talent, Chief Benjamin Egberi-Puyate and Chief James Frankiyel-Ama of Okiki and Okoroba family in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state, the relatives asked the Inspector-General of Police to take over the matter because of the