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Jimmy and Deborah Coker went to college at Alabama School of Trades, which now is the Gadsden State Community College East Broad Campus, and gained much more than a skill set that would create long-term careers they found a lifelong partnership.
“We know that the trade school brought us together,” Deborah said in a release provided by GSCC. “It’s really funny how it all came about.”
Deborah graduated from Gadsden High School in 1970, and enrolled at the School of Trades a week later. She was in the secretarial studies program, which required students not only to learn the necessary skills of administrative assistants, but also to perform housekeeping duties.
By Deborah Coker
Benin, April 9, 2021 The Atlantique Marine Engineering Services (AMES), promoters of the AMES-Edo Inland Container Dry Port, has disclosed that it projected a standard gauge rail for the port.
Dr Charles Akhigbe, MD/CEO of AMES, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Benin, that the rail line was significant to the project meant for transport infrastructure.
He explained that the Federal Government had already paid for the feasibility plan for the rail and the projection was made for standard gauge rail.
He also disclosed that the Edo Government had approved the reconstruction of the road leading to the dry port while a rail connection from Agbor in Delta State was also in the offing.
By Deborah Coker
Benin, April 5, 2021 Chief Dan Orbih, National Vice Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (South South), has said that secession is not the solution to the country’s myriads of problems as being touted in some quarters.
The national vice chairman of the party said this in an interview with newsmen in Benin on Sunday.
He said that frustration caused to the citizenry by poor resource management by the political elite could trigger the kinds of agitation by different ethnic nationalities to seek self determination.
Orbih, however, noted that the country could grow bigger and stronger with the right leadership that could put the abundant resources the country was endowed with to equitable use.
By Deborah Coker
Port Harcourt, March 9, 2021 The coast appears to be clear for Chief Dan Orbih, the caretaker committee National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to emerge the substantive occupant of the zonal leadership position.
Orbi may be returned unopposed as the national vice chairman the South South, reports.
Orbih’s emergence will be as a result of the disqualification of the immediate past National Vice Chairman of the party from the zone, Elder Emmanuel Ogidi
A trusted member of the Screening Committee for the Zonal delegates’ conference holding in Port Harcourt told NAN on Tuesday that the committee had disqualified Orbih’s opponent, Ogidi, from the race.
By Deborah Coker
Port Harcourt, March 9, 2021 Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta said on Tuesday that the South South zone would continue to remain strong and united in the quest by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to reclaim power in 2023.
Okowa, who is the Chairman PDP Governor’s Forum, South South, said this in his opening remarks at the party’s South South Zonal Congress in Port Harcourt.
He said that the zonal leadership would be positioned to help the party to reclaim power at the centre in 2023.
According to Okowa, when the PDP South South speaks, we speak with one voice.