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SENATOR HELEN ESUENE, THE NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS OF AKWA IBOM STATE It was on November 4, 1924 that Nellie Tayloe Ross was duly elected as the first governor in the history of the United State of America after the death of her husband, William Bradford Ross on October 2, 1924 from a complication from an appendectomy. Born on November 29, 1876 in St. Joseph, Missouri, Nelly was the sixth child and first daughter of James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green who owned a plantation on the Missouri River. In 1884, when Nellie Tayloe was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas. This relocation happened after their Andrew County home burned and the sheriff was about to foreclose on the property. After she graduated from Miltonvale High School in 1892, her family moved to Ohama, Nebraska. During this time she taught private piano lessons, and also attended a teacher-training college f...

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS OF JONATHAN ADMINISTRATION DEMOCRACY AT WORK In response to the challenges of military dictatorship in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was formed by like-minded individuals to mobilize Nigerians to build a nation responsive to the aspirations of its people. In the past 15 years, the Peoples Democratic Party has been at the center of democratic governance in the country.  Within this numbers of years, many has attempted to discredited PDP government as not making any achievable impacts since 1999 but it is worthy to note   that the Party has deliver on its mandate in line with the vision of the founding fathers and its manifesto. From President Olusegun Obasanjo to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and now President Goodluck Jonathan administration, PDP had recorded landmark achievements in all sectors of the economy. From the onset, Obasanjo was able to attract technocrats and Nigerian expatriates to his administration...