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By Kelvin Osas, African Vogue Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC ), was established in 2000 with the mission to facilitate the rapid, and sustainable development of the Niger Delta region. This was a palliative measure for the structural deficient Niger region (Oil-producing states) of Nigeria at the time. Presently in 2017, NDDC have not been able to fulfill 10% of the commission’s mandate compared to the huge resources the Federal government has pumped into the commission since inception. According to an independent source which undertook the appraisal of money NDDC has so far received compared to projects NDDC has successfully completed. According to the same source; “NDDC is now an establishment for the enrichment of the management and their cronies, open malefic activities of the executives of the NDDC.  The commission is also ridden with huge debts and uncompleted projects due to blatant corrupt practices by every successive administration of the commission...

Bayelsa State Sanitation Authority sold off unpaid contractor's equipments parked at Project site. It was pandemonium   on   08/02/2017   morning at Okaka Phase two housing estates   Yenagoa as men from Bayelsa State government Sanitation Authority accompanied with police men stormed the area to impound equipments belonging to a contractor. From the eye witness account, the representatives of the contractor were surprised to see that the equipments were not taken to the   office of the sanitation authority, instead the   heavy-duty   equipments   (Mack lowboy truck &   Heavy duty compacting Roller)   were being taken out of Yenagoa. Alarmed, the equipment owners quickly alerted Ekeki Police station. The Ekeki police DPO alerted their team at the Yenagoa tow gate (A border line between Bayelsa & Rivers) instructing the...

Activists have posted a memo allegedly by the Government of Eritrea asking men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage of men occasioned by casualties during the civil war with Ethiopia. In the statement written in Arabic assures of government support to the polygamous marriages. The activists translate it thus: "Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances in which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following .” "First that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour." “The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment,” alleges the activists in their translation. Meanwhile some Kenyans have reacted to these announcements with bemusement with some suggesting if they could change their ...

    Daniel Ally Self-Made Millionaire & Business Expert       I hear people giving financial advice all the time. Most of them aren't rich.   Those who are rich would disagree with what many charlatans preach. The other day, I came across an article proclaiming, "Skip your lunch, don't buy expensive coffee, cut your hair less often." This is a horrendous way to live your life and it promotes poverty. It's smart to be thrifty, but you don't want to be cheap. You should never do anything that will deprive you from your joy.   I promote prosperity--and taking away these simple pleasures will not make you rich. It will drive you to be more frustrated from these unrealistic disciplines. Most of these hypocrites who profess these antics haven't even made it financially. They just sit at a keyboard in a delusional manner, waiting for a payday that often never happens.   Financial advice is freely given by most people...

By Edo Nation According to the oral history of Lagos, at some point around 1300-1400 CE, the Oba (King) of the Benin Empire - who used to send trade expeditions to Ghana, where spices were traded - heard from one of his traders complaints about the way she was being treated by the Awori who lived in the area of current day Lagos. The Oba of Benin then sent a trade expedition by sea to engage with the Awori people, who nonetheless declined to engage and attacked the mission sent by Benin because they were too afraid to even attack, if they did, the consequences would be to severe for them. When the mission returned to Benin City, the Oba of Benin commanded the assembling of a war expedition, led by Ado, a Benin Prince, which headed to the settlement of the Awori (current-day Lagos; the whole area was called Eko by the Benin people) and demanded an explanation from the settlers there on why they would ever dare to treat a Benin trader without respect. On getting there, Ado and...

AN NNDC CONTRACTOR’S APPEAL FOR PAYMENT AFTER DEBTORS FORECLOSED HIS HOUSE AND OFFICE COMPLEX. A contactor of the NDDC (name withheld) is appealing to the management of the NDDC to please pay his IPC of nine months in other for him to regain his residence and office complex foreclosed by his debtors. The contractor that may not have a roof over his head this celebration season if NDDC refuses to pay him still has no ill will towards the management of the NDDC. In his words  he said, “ The God almighty that they serve is who I serve, the Executive Director Project is a man of prayer, he never begins any working day without praying with his working staff, I am appealing to him to help me in the name of Jehovah that he prays to everyday. The Managing Director is also a good Christian; let him remember his brethren in his time of need”. Touched by this story NFIQ VOGUE decided to publish it hoping this desperate appeal will get to his “Christian brothers”, a phrase he kept us...