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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Senator representing Zamfara Central, Alhaji Kabiru Marafa, has donated food items and cash worth N94.3 million to his constituents for Ramadan Fast. The beneficiaries of the donation are orphans, physically challenged, widows as well as Islamic scholars drawn across the four local government areas that made up the constituency. The Personal Assistant to the Senator, Alhaji Abubakar Doctor disclosed this while distributing the items to the beneficiaries at Yandoto in Tsafe Local Government on Tuesday. He said other beneficiaries are traditional leaders, officials and supporters of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Jumu’at Mosques, preaching centers and associations. He said the food items include 27,900 bags of rice, 28,120 bags of maize, 920 bags of sugar and 360 cartoons of milk at a total cost of over N59 million. Doctor said the sum of N14. 44 million cash was distributed to some selected individuals in the constituency while the sum of N1.56 millio...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Edo state chapter of the State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB), on Monday, called for interested individuals to apply for employments, which were vacant in the education board, noting that the vacancies were only open to current staff of the Edo State Civil Service as well as those who registered in the ongoing Edo Jobs programme. A statement released from the Office of the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Godwin Obaseki, revealed that applicants interested in the appointments were to apply to the Office of the Interim Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board, Benin City with 5 copies of their applications, which should contain a typewritten cover letter detailing sustainability for the position and curriculum vitae. It would be recalled that Edo State had earlier called for unemployed citizens of the state to register in the ongoing Edo Jobs initiative, which was established to collate biodata of unemployed people in the state and match them with ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Bill for an Act to establish the National Sports Commission(NSC) to oversee the administration of sports and other related matters was on Tuesday passed by the Senate. The passage of the bill, sponsored by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Sports, Mr Obinna Ogba, came through a voice vote after its clause-by-clause consideration by the lawmakers. Presenting report on the bill earlier, Ogba had said that the function of the commission including encouraging the development, organisation and participation in sporting activities in the country. He also said that the commission would maintain all Federal Government sporting facilities, adding that the onus of training athletes and officials fell on it. He added that it would be the responsibility of the body to advise and guide the organization of sports competitions for the country. The lawmaker urged the senate to give the bill a favourable consideration in view of its importance to the country’s sports develo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The police seized the `Biafra flag’ and dispersed precession by Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) at Government Craft Centre bus stop on Aba road in Port Harcourt on Monday. MASSOB members were seen on the streets of Port Harcourt decked in light sky-blue uniform with the flag. Policemen had taken positions at strategic locations in the metropolis as early as 7.30 a.m. Hundreds of policemen were deployed on the streets of Port Harcourt and its environs to maintain law and order, following the MASSOB rally. DSP Nnamdi Omoni, spokesman for the police in Rivers told NAN that the deployment came in response to the planned rally by MASSOB. Omoni said the deployment was to prevent possible break down of law and order in the city and its environs. According to the spokesman, Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ahmed Zaki is also out monitoring the security situation. He said the police would brief the media after the moni...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J U.S. President Donald Trump said the war on terrorism is not a fight between faiths but “a battle between good and evil.” “This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations,” Trump told leaders of Arab and Muslim-dominated countries during a high-stakes speech on Sunday at a summit in Riyadh. “This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. This is a battle between good and evil,” he said. Trump also told Muslim leaders gathered in the Saudi capital that he was “not here to lecture” others about their faith and lifestyle. Instead, the US seeks “to offer partnership – based on shared interests and values – to pursue a better future for us all.” The Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh is the highlight of Trump’s two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and the first stop on Trump’s inaugural multi-nation tour as pre...

http://ift.tt/2qghvRg The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it had taken measures to effectively respond to the recent outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Regional Director of WHO for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja said that the organisation would work with the UN and other partners to halt the spread of the disease. Moeti said WHO had assured the DRC Government of its preparedness to respond to the outbreak of the scourge after the government’s alarm on it. She said that as at Sunday, 11 suspected cases, including three deaths, had been reported, adding that the disease had been discovered in Likati health zone, Bas Uele Province in northern part of the country. She stated that the organization had mobilised technical experts for deployment to Congo, adding that it would also provide leadership expertise to attain coordinated and effective response. “On May 10, 2017, a multi-disciplinary team led by the Ministry of...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Ogun Police Command says it has arrested a fake soldier who allegedly killed a petrol tanker motor boy in Abeokuta. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ahmed Ilyasu, stated this on Monday while presenting the suspect at the command’s headquarters in Abeokuta Ilyasu said the 49-year-old suspect, Tunde Olatunbosun, who allegedly committed the crime on April 29 at Leme in Abeokuta, was arrested on Friday. He said the incident followed an argument between the suspect and the victim, identified as Razaq, at a car wash at Leme. “On April 29, at Alaja car wash in Leme area of Abeokuta, one man named Olatunbosun Tunde, who brought his unregistered Sienna car to wash was engaged in an argument with a motor boy identified as Razaq. ” The argument came up over claims by the suspect that the vehicle which the deceased was working on obstructed his own vehicle. “All of a sudden, the suspect who was dressed in military camouflage knickers brought out a gun and sh...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Fighting eased in Syria on Saturday after a deal signed by government backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey to create four “de-escalation zones” began to take effect. The multi-phase plan, signed on Thursday in the Kazakh capital Astana, is one of the more ambitious efforts to bring an end to Syria’s six-year conflict. It provides for a ceasefire, rapid deliveries of humanitarian aid and the return of refugees after the creation of “de-escalation zones” across stretches of eight Syrian provinces. Those zones would see a halt to hostilities, including air strikes. The plan also proposes the deployment of “third-party” monitoring forces. It began coming into effect at midnight (2100 GMT Friday), according to Russia, but co-sponsors have until June 4 to finalise the zones’ borders. The four main battlegrounds covered are the northwestern province of Idlib, parts of central Syria, the south, and the opposition enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus....