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IN THE NEWS TODAY University of Calabar sacks 20 Graduate Assistants over inability to complete master’s degree within four years as stipulated in their conditions of service. The affected staff are said to have spent between five to nine years post-appointment without a Master’s degree within the period of their engagement. Letters of termination of appointment signed by the Registrar of the university, Mr Gabriel Egbe direct them to return all university property in their possession to their respective heads of departments and tender evidence of being cleared of any indebtedness by the Bursary and the University Librarian before their final disengagement.

20 FACTS ABOUT TITANIC April 15th, 1912. This year makes it 111yrs ago when the then World's Largest Moving Object ever made “Royal Mail Steamer Titanic” aka The TITANIC sank.  It’s a Thread 1. She was the largest moving object for her age. Because of the advent of new technologies today it may be hard to appreciate the size of the Titanic but for her age & time she was a global object of fascination. Over 100,000 people attended her launch. She weighed 46,000 tons. 2. The Titanic consumed 825 tons of charcoal per day. That's huge! 3. She carried 2,224 passengers & crew members. 4. In the year 1910, it cost $7M to build the Titanic. That's some $200M in today's money. 5. During Titanic's construction, 246 injuries were recorded, 28 of them "severe", such as arms severed by machines or legs crushed under falling pieces of steel. Six people died on the ship herself while she was being constructed and fitted out, and another two died in the shipyard w...

BE CAREFUL, EVEN IN THE PLANE!  If you travel by air a lot, beware of over friendly chatty seat neighbours. The older lady comes and sits next to me inside the plane. She asked me to help her put her bag in the overhead luggage compartment. But a gentleman sitting across quickly came through. (I am not very tall and the overhead luggage compartment is something I try to avoid at all costs.  Immediately she sits down she strikes up a conversation.  She was very pleasant and well spoken.  So we chatted all through the flight to Dubai.  Suddenly, when the pilot announced that we were now proceeding to begin our descent into DXB, my good friend 'developed' stomach pains.  Me with my good heart, I pressed the stewards button, and the stewardess came to find out what the problem was.  I told her my seat mate was not feeling well.  And this lady, she suddenly began to address me as 'my daughter'.  The stewardess told me that there was nothing they c...

FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU 29 MAY 2023   THE NIGERIAN IDEAL   My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people, unwavering. And my faith in God Almighty, absolute. I know that His hand shall provide the needed moral strength and clarity of purpose in those instances when we seem to have reached the limits of our human capacity. This day is bold and majestic yet bright and full of spirit, as is our precious nation. As a nation, we have long ago decided to march beyond the dimness of night into the open day of renewed national hope. The question we now ask ourselves is whether to remain faithful to the work inherent in building a better society or retreat into the shadows of our unmet potential.  For me, there is but one answer. We are too great a nation and too grounded as a people to rob ourselves of our finest destiny. This nation’s j...

Dog Meat Delicacy: You Are Practicing Broad Day Light Witchcraft – Okon Slams Idimogu Renowned actor and comedian, Ime Bishop Umoh, popularly known as Okon Lagos, has reacted to the call out of Nigerian chef, Hilda Baci over her dog meat delicacy. The president of the Dog Lovers Association, Jackie Idimogu had publicly called out Baci for eating dog meat after she supported her during her Cook-a-thon competition. Reacting to Idimogu’s vituperations, Okon stated that she was trying to diminish Baci’s success by stirring Western hatred. He pointed out that consuming dog meat is common in Akwa Ibom, which happens to be Hilda’s state of origin. The thespian argued that if preparing dog meat is considered a crime, the same argument could be extended to other animals that are kept as pets by different individuals. He wrote: “Who’s this one sef? Ok Madam Cloutina, before you began inciting western hate on Hilda, you should have first of all known that there is no proof that the meat on that t...