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- Project Educate Africa Inc partners with a home NGO in Nigeria
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Family that prays together
And indeed they pray together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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Our Volunteer of 2010 – Henry and Linda D’Amato
We are happy to present Mr & Mrs Henry and Linda D’Amato of OUR LADY OF THE SNOW CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WEEDSPORT, NY, as our VOLUNTEERS OF THE YEAR 2010. Henry and Linda have been passionately involved in the book driver effort of Project Educate Africa Inc., for about 5 years. Henry and Linda being such humble energizers have this to say, after some pressuring from the members of the … Continue reading
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Obi disburses N650m to LG education authorities
Obi disburses N650m to LG education authorities Continue reading
Central Bank Governor: Lamido Sanusi and Nigerian politicians!
Source: Punch On the Web: http://odili.net/news/source/2010/dec/3/828.html
Friday, December 3, 2010
John Ameh and Fidelis Soriwei (authors)
There was a dramatic twist to the scheduled appearance of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, before the House of Representatives on Thursday, as lawmakers backed down.Sanusi had been summoned to appear before the House in plenary to defend his statement that 25 per cent of Nigeria’s annual total overhead … Continue reading
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Tagged abuja salary saga, central bank governer, corruption in nigeria, lamido sanusi, national assembly, nigeria, nigerian corruption, nigerian news, nigerian politics, nigerian senators, obasanjo, politicians in nigeria, politicians salary, president obasanjo
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Nigerian National Assembly salary saga!
Nigerians turn heat on Senators, Reps
Politics Friday, December 3, 2010
By Uduma Kalu Deputy Features Editor
Nigerians are turning the heat on members of the National Assembly following the weekend revelation by the CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido that as much as 25% of the nation’s overhead is used to service the legislative arm alone.
They are not impressed by strenuous efforts by the legislators to discredit the allegation and Mallam Sanusi who was summoned by the Senate on Wednesday to come … Continue reading
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Tagged abuja corruption, corruption in abuja, lamido sanusi, national assembly, nigeria, nigerian corruption, nigerian politics, nigerian salary scale, nigerian senators, obasanjo, obasanjo corruption, politicians in nigeria, politicians salary, president obasanjo, sanusi
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From Church Bulletins!
They’re Back! Those Wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank
God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually
appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services Continue reading
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Tagged church friendly jokes, church humor, church jokes, church women, family friendly jokes, humor, jokes, joy, laughter, spell checks, women in the church
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Fall Book Drive Runs December 10th – 31st, 2010
This Fall Semester’s Book Drive runs from December 10th – 13th, 2010. Currently Project Educate Africa Inc conducts Book Drive with two universities. Volunteers are still needed. Any student who can help us do Book Drive in his/her college or university may contact us for guidelines. Project Educate Africa Inc conducts Book Drives twice a year.
Oxymorons
1. Christmas – What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
Saving Gas and Environment vs…..
Buy A Smart Car for Great Gas Mileage-
Save Money and the Environment
Open the Post for a Photo of An Accident Near New Orleans Involving
Two Trucks And A “Smart Car.
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Best couple ever to visit Jerusalem
01 – Ellens Gesang III (_Ave Maria_), song for voice & piano, D_ 839 (Op_ 52/6)
A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation in Jerusalem . While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, “You can have her buried here in the Holy Land for $150 or we can have her shipped back home for $5000. The husband thought about it and … Continue reading
Strike: Anambra hikes university fees by 300%
Source: Nigerian Tribune Nov. 11, 2010)
http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/11/616.html
Written by Sam Nwaoko, Awka
Thursday, November 11, 2010
The Anambra State government has decided to jack up the fees payable by students of the state-owned Anambra State University (ANSU) by 300 per cent as part of measures to meet the demands of striking lecturers of the institution.
The state Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Professor Chinyere Okunna, gave this indication on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen at a stakeholders’ meeting on 2011 participatory budget forum and … Continue reading
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Anambra increases lecturers’ pay.
Source: Vanguard Online Edition, Nov. 12, 2010
http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/12/300.html
ONITSHA-The Commissioner for Information in Anambra State, Chief Maja Umeh, yesterday gave a marching order to striking Association of Senior Staff Union of Universties, ASUU, in the state to go back to the class room, following increment of the lecturers’ salaries by Governor Peter Obi.
Addressing reporters in his office, Umeh explained that the salaries of the lecturers were increased from N235,000 to N400,000 as recommended by Anambra State University Governing Council against the N500, … Continue reading
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Bill Gates Foundation trains 120 Ondo farmers on cassava processing.
Source: Nigerian Punch (on the web) Nov. 11, 2010
http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/11/809.html
Sunday Aborisade, Akure.
No fewer than 120 farmers in Ondo State have benefitted from a training programme funded with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the Natural Resource Institute in the United Kingdom.
Under the programme, known as the Cassava Adding Value For Africa, the beneficiaries are expected to train other farmers on the latest techniques and methods that could be employed to process cassava.
They were trained by … Continue reading
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The Nigerian Falcons have done it again!!!!
Falcons defeats Equatorial Guinea 4-2 in the finals
Source: Vanguard Online Edition
http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/14/399.html
News Sunday, November 14, 2010
• Falcons reclaim African crown
• Perpetua wins top scorer award
• MVP — Stella Mbachu
• Fair Play Award
Nigeria’s Super Falcons re-claimed the African Women’s Championship with a 4-2 victory over Equatorial Guinea Sunday at the Sinama Stadium on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
It was also a sweet revenge for the Nigerians against a team who dethroned them two years ago.
The Falcons also scooped the top scorer award, Most … Continue reading
Project Educate Africa Launches new website and programs
I am very please to announce to all that as from November 1, 2010, Project Educate Africa Inc will roll out a new interactive website, with a lot of capabilities to help reach its aims and objectives. The following will be some of the many new features of Project Educate Africa Inc:
* Student Scholarship application: Nigerian students can log in from anywhere in the world and apply for scholarship on line. Students who apply are … Continue reading
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