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A Nigerian Man, 29, Elected As New York Albany County Legislator
Beroro Efekoro, a 29-year-old Nigerian has been elected as an Albany County legislator in New York. This is happening 11-years after he moved from Nigeria to New York with his father and siblings.
Efekoro moved to Albany in 2012 to pursue a degree in political science at the University at Albany. He defeated the incumbent Albany Democrat Bullock Doug in the November General election and will now represent the 7th legislative district, which is made up of Pine Hills and the Beverwyck neighborhoods in Albany.
Efekoro became a U.S. citizen in 2014while still in the University. He began a nonprofit International Organization for Education to assist the student to succeed in school. When he graduated in 2015, he became a committee person by Carolyn McLaughlin who was then-chairwoman of the Albany County Democratic Committee.
He currently serves as deputy ward leader for the 11th ward, but unsuccessfully contested for the common Council’s 11th ward seat against Democratic challengers Alfredo Balarin and incumbent Judd Krasher and Clifton Dixon in 2017.
The Nigerian man will be the first Nigerian-born politician to hold office in the country as he joins the 39-member body.
He spoke on his victory;
“I’m very excited to jump in and get to work on my first day. I am also looking to put in some initiatives that would better improve education in the neighborhood.
“I’ve been involved in community service almost all my life. I got elected as my senior class president one year after I arrived in the U.S. I got involved in the Democratic process even before I became a citizen. I was making calls to Congress and calls to people to support the Affordable Care Act, to go out and vote for President Barack Obama.”
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
