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As part of the Children's Day Celebration, the staff of Diamond Bank in their different State Branches made a hilarious move by putting on school uniforms to work yesterday.



The staff went to the extent of forming an assembly line, a routine that is common among kids and secondary school students.. They also knelt down in the banking halls just to carry out a convincing show. 

West Ham coach, Slaven Bilic has been short of options up front in a difficult season, with Andy Carroll and Diafra Sakho frequently injured.

Ifeanyicy.com reliably gathered that the 20-year-old Iheanacho has scored seven goals for Pep Guardiola's side this season, but the Nigerian international has only started one league game since the start of 2017.

And with Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus ahead of him in manager Pep Guardiola's estimations, Iheanacho may look to move for more first-team opportunities.

The Ohaji Egbema, Imo State Nigeria born Kelechi Iheanacho will take a medical at West Ham tomorrow after a £24m bid was accepted.

The Rivers State government has learnt with much relief news of the  rejection of a proposed State award, by a former governor of  the State, and current Minister for Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi.

Given Mr Amaechi's sanctimonious statement of rejection, it is important to clarify that the Rivers State Government never set out to honour Mr Amaechi for any meritorious service to the State during his time as governor.

As part of the events of the State's Golden Jubilee celebration, the State government accepted the recommendation of the organizing committee that a variety of awards be given to different categories of individuals who have earned a place in the history of the State.

There is a category of the awards designated for former governors of the State. And as a former governor, Mr Amaechi fell automatically in that category.

We wish to emphasize that the award was never meant as a validation of Mr Amaechi's horrendous administration.

Mr Amaechi was personally indicted for stealing billions of public funds during his time in office, by a court-approved panel of inquiry set up by the state government.

The government will soon initiate a prosecutorial process against him in multiple jurisdictions, in Nigeria and abroad. And no award would have stopped that process.

We must confess that as a government, we wrestled with the moral horror of giving any kind of award to a man whose government was no better than a criminal syndicate.

Mr Amaechi may be a scoundrel of  history, but he was once a governor of the state. The proposed award was to serve as a sad acknowledgement of the especially dark place he occupies in our State's otherwise illustrious history.

His rejection of the award is therefore a huge moral relief for the administration,  and the people of the state.

Signed:

Dr Austin Tam-George
Commissioner for Information and Communication,
Rivers State.
26th May 2017

The Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has taken over some bank accounts and properties traced to a former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, erstwhile managing director of Niger Delta Commission, NDDC, Mr. George Turnah .

The confiscation was done on Thursday sequel to an interim forfeiture order  granted the Commission by a Federal High Court sitting in  Port Harcourt, Rivers State. One of the properties covered by the forfeiture order and which had been attached by the EFCC is a massive complete building known as “KOLO VILLA” in Kolo Town, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Other properties will soon be attached.

It would be recalled that Justice Ibrahim Watilat granted the interim forfeiture order  based on an application filed before the court  by the EFCC's counsel, Adebola Olatunji.

Turnah, together with seven companies, were arraigned on a 12-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretense, money laundering and abuse of office to the tune of N3, 094, 268, 235.69( Three Billion, Ninety Four Million, Two Hundred and Sixty Eight Thousand, Two Hundred and Thirty Five Naira, Sixty Nine kobo) .

The seven companies arraigned with Turnah are: El Godmas Global Servises Limited; Turnoil and Gas Nigeria Limited; Kolo Creek Petroleum Development Limited ; Celtic Pride Consult and Events; Yenagoa Mall, Adaka Boro Marine Services Limited and Sugarland Intergrated farms Nigeria Limited.

NHB

Finally, American computer programmer and Facebook Founder/CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has graduated from the The Ivy school, 13 years after he dropped out from Harvard.
  
The 33-year-old Mark  posted a photo of himself on “his social network” holding his honorary degree with his proud parents standing next to him.
He wrote:

‘Mom, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.’