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Afe Babalola donates N50m to fund emergency national conference
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti
Aare Afe Babalola, legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), on Tuesday, announced a donation of N50m to a self-sponsored National Conference, christened “Summit of Hope”
According to him, this becomes necessary “in order to find urgent ways out of the current crisis facing the country”.
The proposed conference which is scheduled to hold at his University in Ado Ekiti, anytime soon, was an initiative aimed at halting the country’s drift into imminent anarchy or resorting into another civil war.
How chocolate could make Nigeria great The Punch
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Think about this. There is not a single Nigerian person who does not consume chocolate in their diet at least once a week. Although many casually call them ‘tea’, “Milo”, “Ovaltine” and “BournVita” are, in fact, chocolate. There are chocolate desserts, chocolate ice-cream, chocolate cakes, and of course, all kinds of assorted chocolate bars for consumption in large quantity, and in variety of flavours. Chocolate serves the purpose of being a nutrient as well as being the therapeutic offering of choice to the beleaguered and restless baby, the romantic and young at heart, the birthday boy and girl. It’s a stress buster for some, and a useful tool to lock away hunger for many others. This is not to talk of the many overweight still binging on the odd wraps of chocolate, and the rural dwellers suddenly coming across a box of assorted chocolate wraps as a gift from a foreign trip. Whe
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Think about this. There is not a single Nigerian person who does not consume chocolate in their diet at least once a week. Although many casually call them ‘tea’, “Milo”, “Ovaltine” and “BournVita” are, in fact, chocolate. There are chocolate desserts, chocolate ice-cream, chocolate cakes, and of course, all kinds of assorted chocolate bars for consumption in large quantity, and in variety of flavours. Chocolate serves the purpose of being a nutrient as well as being the therapeutic offering of choice to the beleaguered and restless baby, the romantic and young at heart, the birthday boy and girl. It’s a stress buster for some, and a useful tool to lock away hunger for many others. This is not to talk of the many overweight still binging on the odd wraps of chocolate, and the rural dwellers suddenly coming across a box of assorted chocolate wraps as a gift from a foreign trip. When coming through major intern
Chief executives of government agencies and other public officials, on several occasions, shun the invitations extended to them by the National Assembly to respond to allegations levelled against them or their agencies, especially regarding their financial records.
Federal lawmakers described the disregard to their invitations by some public officials as an affront on the legislature, alleging that some heads of agencies were not ready to be accountable for their spending of public funds.
In most cases, the federal lawmakers invoke the necessary provisions of the law, including arrest warrant, to compel heads of agencies to appear before them.
Sections 88 of the 1999 Constitution as amended empowers the National Assembly to invite any person holding a public office to give account of any expenditure, or where it suspects that there is any infraction or corruption.