Edeson Online News: 08/08/15

Saturday 8 August 2015

POLITICS: President Buhari Approves Payment Of N65,000 Each To All Ex Niger Delta Millitants

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the process for the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to commence payment of N65,000 to each former militants in the Niger Delta. In an electronic mail on Friday, the Head of Media and Communication of the Amnesty Programme, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, explained that the apex bank began paying the to each of the beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme on

Two young Nigerians suspected to be on their way to joining the Islamic State (ISIS) terror gang were on Friday arrested at the volatile India-Pakistan border after scaling a barbed wire fence near the border . Alert Border Security Force (BSF) troopers apprehended Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu both from Kano and later handed them over to Punjab Police. The suspects aged between 24 and 25 told BSF officials they wanted to go to Pakistan and later to Iraq.They

The Adamawa State House of a$$embly has approved the nomination of Dr. Fatima Atiku Abubakar, daughter of Atiku Abubakar as a commissioner. However, there was an anxiety when the lawmakers withheld the confirmation of Mr Ahmad Sajoh, the spokesperson of former Governor Murtala Nyako.

Twelve out of twenty-two nominees were scheduled to appear before the House on Thursday for the first phase of the screening exercise. Ten nominees were

Well, I think I’m finally safe to write this article, since I’ve set up my e-mail software to automatically filter out any messages containing swear words.

Sincerely, I don’t know if there’s any song that made me change the TV station faster than this one. If I didn’t, I’d have been doomed to have a group of adults with hideous and unsync voices chanting, “ we are the children” over and over in my head for the next six months. And that certainly isn’t all that’s wrong with the song. Michael Jackson would probably be spitting and cursing in his grave right now, like a pregnant woman with whitlow on her ten fingers and toes. What the heck were they thinking

The Governor of the State of Osun, Mr Rauf Aregbesola as well as Oyo State's, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, have both called for an end to the use of 'His Excellency' and 'Executive' to refer to the president, governors and other public office holders in the country. This was made known at the opening ceremony of the 45th Builders Conference of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), held at International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, on Tuesday.

The governors described the 'His Excellency' affixed to names of public office holders, as an unnecessary ego inflater which transfers “unnecessary extraordinary powers to public office holders.”

The Enugu State Government has amended its Civil Service rules to grant six months maternity leave to nursing mothers. Interestingly, husbands whose wives might put to bed were also given a ‘paternity leave’, but it would only be for just three weeks. The paternity leave was meant to give such husbands the opportunity to support their nursing wives, according to the state government.Before, female workers who gave birth were entitled to three months maternity leave while the men whose wives delivered babies were not exempted from work. Similarly, the state government also resolved that henceforth, nursing mothers were free to breast-feed their babies in offices during work hours.