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Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has supervised the palliative distribution of N175m cash and food items for over 50,000 vulnerable residents in Dikwa town of Dikwa Local Government Area.  The distribution was started on Thursday and rounded up on Friday morning with each of the 35,000 females receiving one wrapper and N5000 each.  Over 15,000 male heads of households received one bag of rice and one bag of maize grain each.  “We are here in Dikwa town of Dikwa Local Government Council to distribute food and non-food items to vulnerable persons. For us in Borno State, the distribution of palliative started in May 2011 because of our peculiar situation. I think for us, it's a continuation”, the governor reiterated. Zulum regularly shares food items during visits to local communities affected by over one decade-long Boko Haram insurgency.  He, however, scaled up the distribution since the withdrawal of fuel subsidy.  The governor is targeting about 400,...

Mrs Glory ISREAL has called out her Husband identified as Pator Samuel Emetu to provide for his five Children which he abandoned for so many years now. It was gathered that both Mrs Glory and her husband pastor Samuel had married in 2005 but the marriage started having issues after five Children leading to their separation in 2020. However sometime in 2022, their Church dissolved the marriage in March and Pastor Samuel Emetu remarried in October 2022. “Let him take care of his five Children, till now he hasn’t divorced me because am yet to receive any divorce document to that effect, I didn’t even know when the Church dissolved our marriage before you know it, I heard he has remarried while still married to me” “He married me as a V!rgin, our marital problem should not affect our innocent Children” “Am tired of suffering with these Children alone, currently our daughter Deborah had an accident and she is having excruciating pains all over her body ,let him come and take care of his dau...

Breaking: Appeal court Sacks Darlington Nwokoro from Senate, declares PDP Austin Akobundu winner of Abia Central Senatorial Election. BREAKING: Appeal court Sacks Darlington Nwokoro from Senate, declares PDP Austin Akobundu winner of Abia Central Senatorial Election.

“I wanted to book the Ojapiano crooner for my Child Dedication , but immediately he heard I was from Abakiliki Ebonyi State, his manager sighed and ended the call”  Ebonyi born influencer Nwoba Chika Nwoba  “Three days ago, I placed a phone call to the young boy who blew flute in the Kaycee's latest music, Ojazzy Igbo to book him for my daughter's dedication next week in Abakaliki. His manager, Igwe Credo Mbem picked it. Everything was going on well in the discussion until he asked me where the venue was. I told him Abakaliki and he hissed, a sort of disapproval just because it's in Abakaliki” he said

Oseni and the Journalism Profession: A Critical Perspective By Dele Elempe  The expectation on Rufai Oseni, Arise News TV Channel's anchor by members of the rational public, not the usual friends is too high for him, as a matter of fact. Rufai is not a journalist as a matter of fact. He studied Animal Anatomy and Physiology from the University of Agriculture in Abeokuta, and also studied at the Lagos Business School. He is a very bright mind, no doubt. He has been a guess lecturer in  prestigious institutes like Cambridge and Sussex Universities. He has led trainings for senior executives. He is a mentor and presided over several technology conferences.   However, there a question mark on his formal education in the field of journalism apart from his experience in several media houses.  First, journalism has its core codes and ethics all around the world no matter the differences in cultural traditions. The most common shared elements are the principles of Truthfulne...