Timi alaibe biography of abraham
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No! Fathers should not die. Our fathers are our heroes. We love to rest on their shoulders. Fathers are symbols of strength. They teach us not to cry. Fathers are never hungry. They only feel tired. Losing a father is like losing one’s right grabb. Who do we run to when the bully threatens?
Fathers are our shield. They are the big umbrellas that cover our weaknesses. Fathers should live forever. We need them.
Just a few days ago, the kunskap came with the foreboding touch of something to avoid. Nobody enjoys bad news, especially when life is lost. No bad news elicits smiles, or ignites laughter.
The message was short and straight to the point: your governor has lost his father. The eerie feeling transmitted alongside those few words was real. My mind raced dozens of years backward.
The news carrier was not lost on the details, which I guess he was familiar with. Pa Abraham Michael namn Diri was not just my governor’s father, he was a father-figure to several of us. We cal
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Unwarranted Rumblings at NDDC
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, a federal government interventionist agency, established 24 years ago, had been ridden in a series of crises, revolving around the politics of appointment of either the board members or the constitution of its management team. Inaugurated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the year , the commission has had more than its fair share of such organisational crises.
The consequential effect has been the appointment of 16 managing directors either in acting or substantive capacity within the space of 24 years, a record described by industry watchers as unprecedented, and unnecessary.
Sections 3 and 12 of the Act establishing the commission had spelt out a renewable two term tenure of four years each for any appointed MD from within and amongst the nine oil producing states in the Niger Delta region of the country.
By arithmetic progression, the 16 MDs of the interventionist agency had respectively put i
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Blackmail of NDDC boss will be resisted, South-South group warns
The South-South Emerging Leaders Forum (SELF) has warned those using blackmail to distract the recently inaugurated governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from its quest to fast-track the development of the Niger Delta region, to desist forthwith.
In a statement, national coordinator of the forum, Benjamin Kwalowei, said Ogbuku had long been cleared of all the allegations by competent courts of law in the country.
Kwalowei condemned the publication in an online publication, of Thursday, January 12, , entitled: “How Newly Appointed NDDC Managing Director, Ogbuku Was Arrested For Alleged Murder In , Arraigned By Anti-graft Agency, EFCC For Multi-billion Naira Fraud.”
He expressed dismay that the online medium reported a case of alleged assassination attempt on the life of Timi Alaibe, where six persons were killed in Opokuma, Bayelsa state, in and another case of alleged N billion fraud