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Yoruba Gets New Aare ona kankafo

The newly installed 15th Are Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Saturday pledged to unite the race irrespective of party leanings. Mr. Adams made the promise in his speech at his installation held at Durbar Stadium in Oyo town of Oyo State, which was attended by a number of personalities across the country, with majority of the guests from the South-west. The Aare Ona Kakanfo had been in seclusion for four days to perform traditional rites, before his official installation by the Alafin of Oyo, Lamidi Adeyemi, who accompanied him to the venue with his (Adams) regalia of office. PREMIUM TIMES reports from the event venue that the entire ancient town was agog, as the celebration lasted for hours. Notable dignitaries at the colourful ceremony include, Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao- Akala(former Oyo State Governor) ,Olusegun Mimiko(former Governor of Ondo State) and Emmanuel Uduaghan (former Governor of Delta State 0 among others. Speaking further, the Oodu...

WHAT THE NIGERIAN YOUTH NEEDS TO DO TO ACHIEVE MORE

Mr osinbajo meeting with delegates of young Nigerian innovators and beneficiaries of grants from the Growth and Employment, GEM, Project, an initiative of the federal government under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, which is supported by the World Bank and the DFID.   Nigeria’s youth will achieve more if they collaborate more on projects that will benefit them and also boost the nation’s capacity in innovation and technology.At the meeting, the young entrepreneurs showcased their business models during short presentations to the vice president, who commended them for their efforts and engaged them with questions on the sustainability of their laudable projects. It will be recalled that the innovators were selected following the Aso Villa Demo Day (AVDD), a technological innovation competition organised by the Presidency earlier in the year.

OGUN STATE GETS NEW POLYTECHNIC

The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has granted full approval for the take-off of academic programmes in 18 accredited courses at the newly established Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia. The Ogun State Government, which disclosed this on Tuesday, said the approval is with immediate effect. Governor Ibikunle Amosun had in September laid the foundation stone for institution, which at the time he said would commence operations in November The Secretary to State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, in a statement, also disclosed that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has enlisted the institution on its portal for prospective students of the school to register for the 2017/2018 academic session. He said the accredited courses include Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering, Building Technology, Architectural Technology, Quantity Surveying, Estate Management and Valuation and Surveying and Geo-Informatics. Others ar...

PANDA FAECES TO BE USED AS TOILET PAPER

A Chinese paper company will soon be producing toilet paper made from giant panda faeces and food scraps, state media said on Wednesday. Sichuan Qianwei Fengsheng Paper Company has engineered a way to recycle the copious faeces produced daily by the furry residents of the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in south-west China, Xinhua said. The company signed a deal with the centre on Monday, according to the news outlet. Due to pandas’ bamboo-heavy diet, their excrement is fibre rich, the news agency said. Pandas produce 10 kilos a day of faeces and an another 50 kilos of “food waste” from bamboo left unchewed or spat out, making it ideal raw material for paper products. The giant panda is one of China’s most iconic animals and the subject of vigorous conservation efforts. It is classified as “vulnerable” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Source premiumtimes

SELF CONTROL

SELF CONTROL By definition, self-control means you overruling your emotions because of a higher goal, Because you want to please and honor God you must go against your feelings of the moment.Self-control can also be described has the inward rule or regulation of every area of our life under the ultimate authority and control of God’s Spirit in line with His Word.God wants us to learn to control our lives under the control of His Holy Spirit,God’s Spirit helps us control our thoughts and actions Self control can be gotten either by natural temperament or by our upbringing. Self control primarily is from the inward and secondarily from the outward,its not self willed but connected with our will Lets ask ourselves this question, is self-control when someone keeps you from doing something, or when you can keep yourself from doing that thing? Self-control is when you control you, when you make yourself do the right thing not someone correcting you,our natural self wants to do bad stuf...

MAJOR REASONS WHY YOUNG CHRISTIANS START WELL AND END UP FALLING

If there is one thing that saddens or sickens the heart, It is seeing a person with great potentials starts well and then end badly. This is something that can happen to any one and cuts through all areas of life. For example; in the world of sports, where youngsters such as athletes or footballers who have shown from the onset that they have a bright future, youngsters who had started so well that it seems nothing can ever go wrong. Yet, they end their promising careers because of things such as; a loosed lifestyle or drug abuse. While this is common, In other cases it could be seeing sports men or women getting crippled due to one accident or another and therefore bringing their career to an end, and in other cases due to bad characters or wrong peer group advice/association. While these may be sad, the saddest of all still remains seeing it happen spiritually. Many of us Christians might have seen or experience such cases; it might have happened to people around us, where...