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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ediri Ejoh The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Delta State on Intelligence Gathering and Community Development, Mr. Smart Olorunyomi Asekutu, has called on community leaders and people in the state to take advantage of the office in seeking solution to their grievances. Addressing selected community leaders from across the state who visited him in his office at the Governor’s Office Annex, Warri yesterday, Mr. Asekutu stated that the state Governor, Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa means well for all individuals, communities, organisations and establishments across the state, that is why he established the office which will serve as a platform for genuine complaints, claims and other issues begging for attention, for prompt action. Mr. Asekutu strongly appealed to all communities to have confidence in the office and embrace it, by passing useful information to it, stressing that “the office will treat all your reports with the utmost confidence and prote...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ndahi Marama MAIDUGURI—Member representing Kwaya Kusar Local Government Area in Borno State House of Assembly, Mr. Ahmed Banga, escaped death, yesterday, as a mob attacked him at one of the centres for the ongoing continuous voters registration in the town. It took the  intervention of security operatives to rescue the lawmaker from the mob, who were reportedly armed with cutlasses, knife, sticks and other dangerous weapons. The lawmaker was rushed to the nearby Gombe Federal Medical Centre. Efforts to speak with him were unsuccessful, but the Caretaker Chairman of the Council, Babangida Peta, confirmed the incident, stressing that he had travelled from Kwaya Kusar to Gombe to sympathise with the lawmaker. He said: “Youths beat up one of our stakeholders and lawmaker, Saleh Banga. I was with him in the hospital at Gombe Federal Medical Centre this morning (Tuesday). “I am happy to inform you that he is responding to treatment. I have constituted an inv...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lagos – The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) at the weekend caved in to pressure mounted on it by some of the political parties over what they termed exorbitant and illegal administration charges fixed for the July 22, 2017 council elections and agreed to review the fees. The decision followed a consultative meeting between executive members of the inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC),Lagos State chapter, and LASIEC top officials on how to resolve the crisis over the controversial administrative fees. Independent gathered that the agency’s chairman, Hon. Justice Ayotunde Philips, has already agreed to reduce the amounts to N50,000 for chairmanship candidates, N30,000 for the vice chairmen and N20,000 for the councillorship candidates to save the elections and avoid mass boycott by parties. Prior to the review,   the agency had fixed the administrative charges at N100,000 for Chairmanship candidates, N75,000 for Vice Chairmanshi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The people of Agaga Erugba community in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State have vowed to resist any attempt to add other families from Effurun community that have no ancestry with them into the leadership of their community. In a protest letter dated  May 10, 2017 by the leadership of the community, signed by Chief Blessing Eyagomare and  Churchill  Ajueyisi,  addressed to the Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Abe I, they vowed to resist the inclusion of Ajomata,Eduoh,Efebraye and Arigbe families of Effurun community which they said had no historical nor ancestry within the leadership of their community. They wondered why other communities of Ekpan,Enerhen, Ugborikoko, Ugboroke, Ugbomro, all in Uvwie ” had  members of their communities constituted into their respective leadership, saying the case of Agaga Erugba community should not be different’ They vowed to resist any attempt to add any additional families to their comm...

http://ift.tt/2qcWfNn By Temitope Adegbola …Restructures Christian Education The Christian Education of Foursquare Gospel Church has been restructured, according to the body’s National Director, Rev. Mrs. Kafilat Olabisi Ayanbanjo. Speaking during the 2017 Annual Christian Education Workers Training at Foursquare Gospel Church, Ipakodo District, Ikorodu, Lagos, Ayanbanjo pointed out that the Christian Education heritage is gradually eroding and needs to be brought back. “We want to repackage the Sunday School ministry to make it more relevant and contemporary due to the increase in knowledge as well as to meet the need of men,women, young and old”, the National. Director said According to her, Sunday School was left for only children to attend whereas, that is not the initial aim of the ministry. The content, she stated, is still there, but the method is what is being changed. The cleric, who noted that the restructuring would take effect from the first Sunday of July, 2017, said...