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The governor made the promise during a surprise visit to the Super Eagles training session at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba on Tuesday. While addressing the team the governor said, “I am pleased to have the Super Eagles here in Asaba. We hope you will make Asaba your home, and as a people, we will begin to follow your progress even more closely. “We appreciate the giant strides Nigerian football is making and commend the leadership of the NFF for making Delta part of its success story. “For every goal scored by the Super Eagles in Johannesburg on Saturday, we pledge a reward of $25,000. “Please don’t put a limit to the number of goals you score on Saturday. Try and score as many as possible.” Stand-in team captain Ahmed Musa responded on behalf of his teammates, saying “we thank Gov. Okowa, so much for the motivation to us to do well in Johannesburg on Saturday. “We promise that we will return here on Sunday with a victory. We will also do all we can to give the peo

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is currently in Enugu, capital of Enugu State, to perfect the acceptance of Peter Obi, his running mate by south-east leaders. see photo below

During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever.  One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year – none of them in the United States. We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren’t being delivered. If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.  We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.” So we began our work in the same way a