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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Board of Continental Broadcasting Services Ltd. (CBS), owners of Television Continental (TVC) and Radio Continental have restructured for a better service. A statement made available to newsmen on Friday by the group said, following the restructuring, 145 staff members would be affected. “The Board of Continental Broadcasting Services Ltd. (CBS), owners of Television Continental (TVC) and Radio Continental, wishes to confirm a restructuring of its group companies. This restructuring is geared towards repositioning the business for better and greater delivery of its services to audiences and advertisers alike. In line with these changes we are reconfiguring our workforce as part of the rationale to achieve our objectives. “145 people will be affected by today’s announcement. “We wish to make clear that our core channels consisting of TVC News Nigeria, TVC Entertainment and Radio Continental will now become the main focus of our business going forward where ...

http://ift.tt/2rg3bXs  US President Donald Trump during a joint press conference / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN The White House on Tuesday said communications director Mike Dubke has resigned, the first in what is expected to be a series of moves to shake up Donald Trump’s press team. Dubke, 47, occupied the high-powered but low-profile, post for three crisis-filled months. “I can confirm that Dubke has resigned,” an official told AFP. No date for his departure, which has been in the works for almost two weeks, has been announced. For months rumors have echoed around the West Wing about Trump being poised to fire his public relations staff en masse. Many come from the Republican Party establishment and have been uneasy allies with the president. Trump has privately and publicly expressed fury over a litany of bad headlines, lashing out at reporters, alleged “fake news” headlines and staff. The president’s failure to pass significant legislation, legal challenges to h...

http://ift.tt/2onOqjU A civil servant, Victoria Igbo, on Monday told a Nyanya Customary Court, Abuja, that her pastor hurried her into marrying the wrong man. Victoria, who filed a petition seeking dissolution of marriage her, said that her pastor did not give her enough time to make up her mind before marriage. “My husband proposed to marry me the same time he met my pastor and asked my hand in marriage. “I told my pastor that he should give me three months to think about it. “But my pastor said that three months was too long to think about it. He then gave me only two weeks to pray over it which I did; after which I told my pastor that I agreed,” she said. Victoria said that since she married her husband, it has been one trouble or the other. “My husband keeps acquiring debts and most times when he gets into trouble as a result of that, I have no other option than to pay,” the petitioner said. She also said that she was not aware that her husband had several children be...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ikorodu – An Octogenarian, Alhaji Salisu Alogba, says one of his greatest regrets in life is his inability to get his desired level of education due to circumstances in which he found himself. Alogba, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikorodu West, Lagos, spoke in an interview in Ikorodu on Sunday, as friends joined him to celebrate his 80th birthday. He said that he lost his parents at an early age, and as such, could not complete his secondary school education. The octogenarian, a builder, said he had made up his mind to support the needy to achieve their dreams and advised governments at all levels to give priority to education. Alogba said on his part, he would continue to contribute to the development of education in Ikorodu community as much as he could, as part of efforts to ensure a better future for the youth. He urged Nigerians to ensure their impact was felt in whatever endeavour they found themselves, saying this would would go...