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when i was a boy,we use to be told that We are the leaders of tomorrow;i am now a man....when will this dreams be fulfilled? instead,We are still being rulled by our fore fathers. when will all this stop? Arise ooooh ye youths and claim your Right we are not longer gonna be rulled by our grandpa's anymore. This is our Right clickmoore.blogspot.com — feeling sad

New Greek Government Holds First Meeting

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (front row C) and members of his government pose for a group picture after the first meeting of the new Cabinet in the parliament building in Athens, Jan. 28, 2015. New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he wants to reach a "fair, viable and mutually beneficial solution" with its international lenders as he begins to reverse the austerity measures he says have led to a humanitarian crisis in his country. Tsipras said Wednesday in Athens during his first meeting with his new Cabinet that he is eager to avoid any destructive confrontations with its creditors, but said Greece would no longer blindly submit to the demands of the European Union. The new government is seeking to eliminate some of Greece's massive debt and ease austerity measures imposed on it in exchange for more than $300 billion in loans, including reversing sharp wage and pension cuts. It is also canceling plans to privatize many of its assets

Minister predicts victory for Jonathan in Imo

The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will win in Imo State in the February presidential election. This was contained in a statement by the minister’s assistant, Peter Osamgbi, on Tuesday. According to the statement, the minister addressed a group of professionals in Owerri, the Imo State capital. While fielding questions from the professionals, Onwuliri said President Jonathan had fulfilled his electoral promises to Nigerians through “his lofty transformation programmes which Imo State has immensely benefited from.” Onwuliri,who is also the deputy coordinator of the PDP presidential campaign in the state, said that “aside reclaiming the Government House from the APC government under Rochas Okorocha on February 28, the Imo PDP shall first and foremost deliver hundred percent votes for President Goodluck Jonathan on February 14 to further prove that Imo remains a PDP stronghold.” Source:punch

Students sat for Hausa in 1961 WASSCE - Cambridge

The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, now known as Cambridge Assessment, on Wednesday confirmed that African language papers, including Hausa, were offered for the West African School Certificate Examination in the Northern Region in 1961. The UK examination body, in a statement on its website, also said that the number of candidates who sat for the WASSC Hausa examination in 1961 was 152. Cambridge was responding to allegations that the results presented by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) were fake as being alleged in some quarters. There had been reports that Hausa was not part of the WASSCE of 1961 as claimed in the results presented by Buhari. The examination body said it will not declare the results of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the grounds that the Data Protection Act of 1998 prevents the body from declaring anybody’

Bird Flu now in 11 states – FG

The Federal Government on Wednesday said the H5N1 influenza virus, also known as bird flu, is now present in 11 states in Nigeria. It confirmed the presence of the virus in four other states apart from the seven states earlier reported on January 22, 2015. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, outlined the additional states to include Oyo, Jigawa, Gombe and Imo. He said the total number of birds exposed had risen to 232,385 with 51,444 mortalities recorded. Details soon.