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Nasarawa govt. dissolves Joint Account Committee of LGs In  NEWS October 31, 2015 NAN 0 comments Gov. Umaru Al-Makura Nasarawa State Government has dissolved the state’s Local Government Councils Joint Account Committee (JAC), to ensure that what is accrued to each council is shared in accordance with the constitution. Gov. Umaru Al-Makura made this known in Lafia on Saturday at a meeting held with local government chairmen and members of the committee. According to the governor, every local government figure is catered for from Abuja, but the cheque for local government allocation that comes to the state is for the total allocation of the 13 local governments in the state. “The essence of the JAC meeting is to ensure proper distribution and allocation in accordance with the distribution of FAC. “The function of JAC is to ensure every local government gets its own allocation as stipulated by the Federal Allocation Committee (FAC),’’ he said. He, however, e...

Beware Of Counterfeiters Of Any Products

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  Metro Watch     October 31, 2015     Crime •Seals 3 shops     The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC,  this Saturday  impounded suspected fake and substandard fast moving skin lightening cream, bathing soaps as well as serum worth millions of naira in Lagos even as it sealed three shops in the process in connection with the offensive products. The suspected fake products identified as Q7 range of cosmetics products impounded during the Agency’s raid and enforcement exercise at the Lagos Trade Fair complex include; Q7 whiteniser body milk strong treatment, Q7 carotte multi- active whitening serum, Ndak Q7 whitening body lotion with manufacturing dates: 07/2015 and expiry dates: 06/2020 and Q7 gold soap among others. The impounded products originally registered with NAFDAC by ‘Visible Image Cosmetics Company Nigeria Limited’, were said to have been brought into the country throu...

No Tight Friends In Politics

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— Edwin Clark POSTED BY:  HAKEEEM OGUNYEMI   OCTOBER 31, 2015 A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Edwin Clark, has alleged that Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, sabotaged the former president by failing to promote his image and achievements. Against Mr. Abati’s claims that Mr. Clark no longer considered Mr. Jonathan his ‘son’, Mr. Clark said he still sees the former president as a political son despite gaining nothing from his presidency. While expressing his resolve to quit partisan politics, Mr. Clark was recently reported as saying Mr. Jonathan “did not have the political will to fight corruption”. In his response to Mr. Clark’s remark on the ex-president, the former president’s publicist wrote in an opinion article titled, “Clark the Father, Jonathan the Son” that the octogenarian was only making the disparaging remarks because Mr. Jonathan had lost the 2015 election. “Who would e...

Itsekiri Culture And History

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TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE Celebrating our African historical personalities,discoveries, achievements and eras as proud people with rich culture, traditions and enlightenment spanning many years. Monday, March 3, 2014 ITSEKIRI PEOPLE: THE UNIQUE RIVERINE AND SKILLFUL TRADERS AND ONE OF THE FIRST NIGERIAN ETHNIC GROUP TO EDUCATE THEIR PEOPLE IN EUROPE The Itsekiri  (also called the, Isekiri, Itsekri or Ishekiri or Itsekhiri) are a peculiar and unique riverine people who were traditionally fishermen and skillful traders living in the Nigerian Niger delta. They have inhabited their homeland, which now constitutes the three Warri Local Government Areas of Delta State, Nigeria, for centuries. The Itsekiri make up an appreciable proportion of the modern towns of Sapele, Warri, Burutu, and Forcados. The Itsekiris traditionally refer...