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Prof. Ango Abdullahi, OUR attention has been drawn to your statements in Vanguard of Saturday, June 10, 2017. You are alleged to be in support of the call on the Igbo to quit. It is unfortunate, grossly unfortunate, that a scholar of your calibre will be so partisan as to be unable to see the wisdom in retaining Nigeria as a corporate entity. I know you have, in the past, been anti-Igbo. One would have thought that our education exposes us to a level where we can live even with our enemies. You said in the alleged publication that, “each year up to the time Nigeria gained its independence, none of the two regions East and West was able to produce for its self. I mean none of the Western and Eastern Regions had the money to effectively run the affairs of the region until they got financial support from the Northern Region.” It is this assumption of yours that I want to address. First of all it is not true that the North had bailed out Eastern Region or the Western Region. But you ...

My associates and I come daily through several candidates’ CVs (we have a repository of 15000+ Nigerian CVs). Over the years, I have also read several -unfortunately- bad books on CV writing and a lot of outdated online advice. And while there is plenty of advise on what to write and the how-to, there is also good to know what to avoid in a CV… those CV mistakes known as ‘CV-Killers’. So, kindly allow me to offer some brief but absolute ‘no-no’- tips coming from experience. List of CV ‘No-No’s 1. Don’t put on top ‘Curriculum Vitae’ or ‘Resume’! Is there really a chance that someone will think that it is something different? Thus, assume that you are addressing intelligent people, please. 2. No unnecessary obvious words. So, don’t use words like “address, phone, email” in front of the actual information 3. Absolutely no unprofessional email address. Avoid using things like SexyGirl4uNow@gmail.com or Bestbeerdrinker67@yahoo.co.uk , or azonto-man2017@gmail.com, etc. 4. No ...

Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina 2017 World Food Prize Laureate 2017 World Food Prize Laureate just named Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), will be recognized as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. Through his roles over the past two decades with the Rockefeller Foundation, at the newly established Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and as Minister of Agriculture of Nigeria, Dr. Adesina has been at the forefront of galvanizing political will to transform African agriculture through initiatives to: expand agricultural production, thwart corruption in the Nigerian fertilizer industry, and exponentially increase the availability of credit for smallholder farmers across the African continent. Drawn to action in terms of policy reform, financial innovation and enhanced agricultural production, Dr. Adesina organized the 2006 Africa Fertilizer Summit, as part of the Rockefeller Foundation; led a major expansion of commerci...

A South Africa’s Church has barred blacks from attending service as the church on Sunday disallowed two black journalists from entering. The Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk church in Orania, told the journalists “the church is only for whites”. Orania is an Afrikaans-only South African town located along the banks of the Orange River, in the arid Karoo region of the Northern Cape Province. The journalists were on an assignment and decided to attend a Sunday service before returning to Pretoria but they were intercepted by a church leader, identified as Mr. Theunis Oukamp, at the door. According to Africa Review, Oukamp said allowing black people into an all-white church would be violating the “rights of Afrikaans people”. “I am now in a difficult situation. You know that Orania, is only for white people, this is why we are here. “You must understand I know you want to serve God and everything but I have to protect the rights of Afrikaans people. So I cannot let you in, you g...

JALINGO—Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State has condemned the strike and protest by the Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Taraba State chapter, which led to the total closure of the two major abattoirs in Jalingo and other livestock activities across the state. Miyeti Allah, Monday, protested to the Taraba State House of Assembly, demanding the withdrawal of an ongoing executive bill sponsored by Governor Darius Ishaku, which intends to prohibit open grazing of livestock in the state. Ishaku-Darius The association, while protesting in Jalingo, also vowed that if the state Assembly refuses to withdraw the bill, there would be total closure of livestock activities for one week across the state. Governor Ishaku, who spoke through his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Sylvanus Giwa, said the protest by the Miyeti Allah, which led to the closure of abattoir and activities of livestock in the state, was condemnable and uncalled for. In Benue Me...

Dozens of Tunisians demonstrated on Sunday to demand the right to eat and drink in public during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and to protest against non-fasters being arrested. There is no law against eating or drinking in public during Ramadan, but every year, the issue comes to the fore in the North African country. Tunisia’s constitution guarantees ‘freedom of belief and conscience,’ but the state is also regarded as the ‘guardian of religion.’ Following a call by the ‘Mouch Bessif’ (Arabic for ‘Not against our will’) group, protesters in central Tunis shouted, ‘Individual freedom is guaranteed by the constitution!’ One man openly smoking a cigarette — also deemed unacceptable during Ramadan daylight hours — held a placard in French that asked: ‘Why does it bother you if you fast and I eat?’ Demonstrators also protested against the arrest of people who were not fasting. At the beginning of June, four men were sentenced to a month in jail for ‘public indecency’ ...

Last week, Nigeria witnessed the most disturbing hate messages been spewed out from the mouths of some men who identified themselves as coalition of Northern youth or Arewa youth. The hate messages by the Northern youth targeted against the over thirty million Igbo families residing legitimately in the North of Nigeria since after the end of the first Nigerian/Biafran civil war is disconcerting to put it mildly. These unruly Northern youth served a quit notice to those Igbo families in the north to depart the region on or before 1st October 2017 or be forced by the youth to be evicted. This hate messages by these Northern youth were read out to the media from the political headquarters of the core Northern Nigeria known as Arewa house in Kaduna. Already, discordant tones have greeted the quit notice served on the Igbo families in the North by these selected but sponsored Northern youth. On the one hand, people such as the Kaduna state governor, the Gombe state governor, the c...