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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Fred Okopie A BAYELSAN, Perewari Victor Pere, has bagged a First Class Honours from Lincoln University, USA, emerging the overall best and named University Valedictorian. Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has described the 21 students on state government scholarship to the prestigious Lincoln University as worthy ambassadors, a pride to the state and their families. This was contained in a congratulatory message the Governor sent to the students, who all graduated on May 12, 2017. He said the graduands have made the state proud, having successfully concluded their studies in flying colours and having being found worthy in character and learning! The governor particularly expressed his delight over Perewari Victor Pere, who graduated with First Class Honours, emerged as the overall best graduating student and named the University Valedictorian. Pere’s brilliance has endeared him to the foremost ICT giant, Apple, as there were indications t...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J  Dr. Leonard Mbamara is the Chief Medical Director of Albina Mejeel Specialist Hospital in Lagos. He is a former USSR trained medical practitioner with over 30 years in active practice spanning from Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH, Idi-Araba, Falomo Police Hospital, Lagos, Bonny Camp Medical Centre and others before delving into private practice. His vast experience in general practice armed with a doctorate degree in orthopaedic medics and obstetrics positioned him in a state to allay the challenges parents go through during their children’s’ teething period. By Chris Onuoha WHY is teething in children a challenge especially to young parents? When a tooth wants to come out from the gum, it comes with a lot of pains. Anyone who has developed wisdom teeth as an adult will attest to this. For children, there are equally pains that are connected to growing of teeth.Since children cannot talk, the only means of communicating is by crying. Confusion mig...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi THE Anambra State Drivers Welfare Association, ASDWA, has established a N150 million welfare foundation, known as Anambra State Drivers Welfare Foundation, ASDWF, towards taking care of themselves and helping their members who run into health and accident problems in the course of their jobs and to help their bereaved family members. Speaking with South East Voice , President of ASDWA, Chief Emmanuel Ukatu, said the funds from the foundation will also be used to carry out charity works and to invest in ventures that will generate funds for the foundation from where it will be getting money to sustain it. He said that the ASDWF will be a separate entity that will be managed by a different body from the ASDWA to ensure that the leadership of the drivers association does not meddle with the funds from the foundation. Ukatu said,“The drivers welfare should be one of the most important things that should be considered in their jobs, be...

http://ift.tt/2qtKn6S By Emmanuel Elebeke ABUJA—Minister of Budget and National Planning, Mr, Udoma Udo Udoma, yesterday, said the 2017 budget was designed to take the country out of recession, assuring that the country would experience the impact. This came as the Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, said the Nigerian economy was gradually coming out of its worst recession in years. “Nigeria is coming out of recession. We are beginning to see the signs and we will come out to become stronger,” Adeosun said. They both spoke at an Abuja Town Hall meeting, organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture in Abuja. Adeosun added that though the administration inherited a bad economy, it had succeeded in cleaning all the mess in the system and had put steps in place to check further revenue leakages. She said the six per cent to GDP was one of the lowest in the world and as such plans were ongoing to make Nigerians pay commensurate taxes to release more revenue for infrastructur...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Granted N200m bail By Ikechukwu Nnochiri A BUJA — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned  immediate past Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, before a Federal High Court in Abuja on an eight-count money laundering charge. Aliyu was docked alongside the 2015 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Umar Nasko, over allegations that they conspired and diverted over N1billion from the state Ecological Fund received from the Federal Government in 2014. Nasko, served as Chief of Staff and Commissioner for Environment, Parks, Gardens and Forest Resources under Aliyu’s administration between 2007 and 2015. They all pleaded not guilty to the charges, and also prayed the court to allow them on bail pending the determination of the case. The defendants, through their lawyer, Mr. Mamman Usman, SAN, argued that the charge against them are bailable offences, stressing that they were earlier gra...