Month: November 2018

  Karthyayana Amma A 96-year-old Indian woman has set a record by scoring 98 marks out of 100 in the literacy exam in Southern State of Kerala, officials said. The Kerala State literacy mission conducts equivalency examination in different grades for people who could not get proper schooling. After the results were declared on Wednesday, Karthyayani Amma was felicitated by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday. Amma, who hails from Cheeped in Alapuzha district north of Kerala state’s…

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  Meaza Ashenafi, Ethiopia’s Supreme Court President Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday swore in Meaza Ashenafi as the country’s first female supreme court president, building on efforts by reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to achieve gender parity in government. The appointment of Meaza comes two weeks after Abiy named 10 female ministers to make Ethiopia the third country in Africa – after Rwanda and Seychelles – to have its cabinet split equally between men and women. Ethiopia has also named…

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National chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus Gbenga Joseph, Ado-Ekiti Leaders of the People’s Democratic Party in Ekiti State, on Thursday shut down the secretariat of the party  located along Ajilosun Street,  Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The operation which lasted for one hour was led by a member of the state working committee and former Secretary of the party in the state, Dr.Tope Aluko and other party stalwarts  chased some officials and workers in the office out and lucked…

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