ARE WE GOING FOR OTAMPA MEETING? LITTLE THING THAT MATTERS ON ST’ PIRAN’S CHURCH SCHOOL CULTURAL DAY, 2016

Report by Nnabugwu Ngozi

Chinazaekpere and Ihechiluru

Chinazaekpere and Ihechiluru are children of the same parents. They hail from Otampa, in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria, but resident in Jos, the Plateau State capital, with their parents.

Chinazaekpere is in the Primary, while Ihechiluru is in the Nursery session. Both attend the St Piran’s Church School, located at St’ Piran Avenue, GRA, Jos.

On Friday, June 17, 2016, the school marked her 2016 Cultural day; which held at the school compound. The cultural day, at the St Piran’s Church School, is a big event, which attracts the low, middle and high class citizens. It is a day that teachers and pupils of the St Piran’s Church School appear on cultural or native attires to depict different ethnic nationalities in Nigeria and beyond.

TEENS CORNER – I’M PROUD TO HAVE A FATHER

BY PRINCE EMMANUEL C. UMAHI, AKA DE LYRICAL POET

♫ I’m glad

    That I have a dad

    Who thought me not to subtract

    But add

     So I’m always happy and not sad.

     Through all the troubles

      And struggles

     Daddy was always there

     And he taught me that God is everywhere.

♫ He is the sunshine to the rain

    And the rainbow that gives joy

    To every pain.

    He is the perfect husband to his wife

    And he represents Christ without strife

    He speaks like a prophet

    And synchronizes harmony like a duet.

CBYF REINFORCES SUPPORT FOR HON. SARAH BALI’S MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE IN BASS ALGA IN PLATEAU STATE

By Nnabugwu Chizoba

Hon. Sarah Bali

A group under the aegis of "Concerned Bassa Youths’ Forum" (CBYF), which claims to have membership cutting across all ethnic, religious and party affiliations in Plateau State, has in a press statement, stated it would no longer be an on looker in the affairs of Bassa Local Government Area, of Plateau State, in order to promote and actively participate in ensuring that inclusive, people oriented and accountable governance is delivered to all citizens and patriots of the Bassa community.

365 DAYS IN OFFICE: THE STRIDES OF RT. HON YUSUF GAGDI, DEPUTY SPEAKER, PLATEAU STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, NIGERIA

By Nnabugwu Chizoba

Rt. Hon. Gagdi, Deputy Speaker PLHA

As the first Legislative 365 days of the 2015/2016 legislative session, has come and counted in the country, the need for stock taking has dragged most representatives back home to give account of their stewardship. But for Rt. Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, it was rather a time to interact with the media to fine tune the way forward for the new Legislative second year, as he has continued to be around his people, “the good people of Kantana Constituency.

In his recent interaction with media practitioners in Plateau State in his office at the Plateau State House of Assembly complex, Rt. Hon Gagdi has disclosed that:

“As a Deputy Speaker and a member representing my constituency, I have been trying my best to do better than I was doing, when I was not a representative of my people. As an ordinary citizen of my Community, I was able to sponsor students from my constituency into the university, polytechnic, and collages of education. If as an ordinary citizen in kanam LGA, I was able to donate 17 cars, and 63 motor cycles; today as a member of the State Assembly, the people certainly expect that I should do more. This is one of the areas I have tried my possible best to put a line between what I used to do then and now as a legislator. It is a very big challenge”.