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Absentee voting starts next week for Ely primary Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:58 pm
ELY – A recording of the Ely mayoral candidate forum held this week at City Hall can be viewed on YouTube (search for Ely Mayoral Candidate Forum 2021). The event was co-hosted by The Ely Rotary Club and the American Association of University Women-Ely Branch.
The event was held after the Timberjay’s deadline this week. Read a summary of the comments by the six candidates in the Feb. 26 issue of the Timberjay.
As for the randy lecturers in Nigeria’s higher institutions, the earlier they know that the time when teachers see their female students as part of their perks of office is gone forever, the better for them.
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Dabiri-Erewa, Uwais to coach participants of Bolaji Abdullahi mentorship programme Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), and Maryam Uwais, special adviser to the president on social investment, will coach mentees in the second cohort of the Bolaji Abdullahi.
IMF: Three things Nigeria must do to boost economic growth The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the Nigerian government to implement a minimum of three reforms to boost the country’s economy.Advertisement Abebe Selassie, IMF director of African department, spoke.
February 18, 2021
President Joe Biden has long kept his thumb on the scale against college students accused of sexual misconduct. The accused, overwhelmingly, are men, so his efforts have been discriminatory in outcome if not also in intent.
His alma mater, the University of Delaware, also pervasively discriminates in favor of women and against men. Let me count the ways.
Worst is Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, where I count six violations of Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination based on sex. The lion’s share of the violations lie with the Lerner College’s Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI).