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ORTOM DIRECTS IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF N50 MILLION FOR STUDENTS BURSARY ALLOWANCES By Jimin Geoffrey Fb/ekumvoice Governor Samuel Ortom has directed the immediate release of N50 million naira for payment of bursary allowances to students of Benue State origin. Governor Ortom who gave the directive today at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi during a courtesy call on him by the new executives of the National Union of Benue State Students, NUBESS, said the remaining amount of about N130 million would be released in batches as resources permit. While congratulating the new NUBESS officials on their peaceful election, the Governor frowned at the high level of students involvement in cult related killings, saying government would not condone such barbaric behaviour. He stated that a crack team comprising security agents would be deployed to monitor and deal with issues of cultism in schools, pointing out that such activities also lead to kidnapping and other related crimes. National Presid

Published by ECHEKWU SUNDAY ON MARCH 18, 20209:06 AMIN NEWS The Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU ) said on Wednesday it has reached concrete proposals with the Federal Government on the crisis in the university system. The ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, disclosed this in Abuja while addressing journalists at the end of a closed-door reconciliatory meeting at the Ministry of Labour and Employment in Abuja. The meeting which began by 3:00 p.m. ended late on Tuesday night ASUU embarked on the warning strike on March 9 over a disagreement with the federal government on the revitalization of universities, earned academic allowance, visitation panel, mainstreaming and most importantly Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Ogunyemi said ASUU would not make any pronouncement on the matter until the union leadership presents the new government proposals to its members. He said: “We had some fruitful discussions and we have improved on where w

(All notes and annotations are by Hunter Miller) The famous case of the  Caroline  is treated and discussed, with elaborate citation of authority, in Moore, Digest, II, 24-30, 409-14; VI, 261-62; VII, 919-20; see also Moore, International Arbitrations, III, 2419-28, regarding the claim of Alexander McLeod. The following statement is extracted from Moore, Digest, II, 409-11 (and see the following, there cited: House Document No. 64, 25th Congress, Ed session, serial 322; House Document No. 74, 25th Congress, 2d session, serial 323; House Document No. 302, 25th Congress, 2d session, serial 329; House Document No. 183, 25th Congress, 3d session, serial 347; House Document No. 33, 26th Congress, 2d session, serial 383; House Report No. 162, 26th Congress, 2d session, serial 388; House Document No. 128, 27th Congress, 2d session, serial 403; Senate Document No. 99, 27th Congress, 3d session, serial 415): During the insurrection in Canada in 1837 sympathetic commotions occurred at various

PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE Being a Cultist is now regarded as a normal thing these days. Young boys and Girls now belong to one particular Confraternity or the other and sometimes it could be really hard to tell if your child, neighbor or brother is one of them or if you are around a group of cultist planning to do you harm. All Cultist groups have different Slangs for communicating with themselves. Special codes they could use to plan their devices in your front without you knowing it. 1. Jew/48 Meaning- Someone that is not a member of any Confraternity. (My brother is a Jew)- in a sentence 2. In-Jew Meaning- A member of a different Confraternity 3. Bella Meaning- A female Member of Vikings Confraternity 4. Sticker Meaning- For Vikings Cult, special code for Cutlass 5. Talasa Meaning to- To Hit someone till he bleeds 6. H.I.T Meaning- When the whole crew is going for an ambush 7. O.V.B Meaning- To kill 8. S.M Meaning- Personal Girlfriend, the one they can can ride for 9. Odi

Tuesday 3rd March 2020 REPUBLISHED BY ECHEKWU SUNDAY N47.2 Billion and $487.5 Million in cash and properties have so far been traced to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. This followed painstaking investigations by operatives of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. TONY ORILADE/AISHAH GAMBARI From time immemorial, precious metals - gold, silver and sparkling stones such as diamonds have delighted women.  Relationships have been built and destroyed, wars fought for and reconciliations cemented with gold and precious stones.  Not too far back in history, Liberia was the theatre of war over Blood Diamonds. Unlike Liberia however, the Nigerian nation is not at war.  But, it seems Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, until recently, Minister of Petroleum Resources, going by the sheer amount of her acquisition of gold and diamonds, may have been fighting a spirited war agains