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  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait elders inspire students - The Cairns Post
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait elders inspire studentsThe Cairns PostA conference of more than 100 indigenous students from Tully to Bamaga began in Cairns yesterday, aimed at helping the youngsters tap into their inner leaders. Uncle Bill Hollingsworth, an elder participating in the conference, insists Aboriginal and ...and more »


  • Awakening the search for cultural identity - Torres News
    Awakening the search for cultural identityTorres NewsMaway (Uncles) Michael Babia (left) and Robert Poipoi (right) lead Marsat Newman, Patrick Newman and Raymond Poipoi in the initiation ceremony in Bamaga recently. PHOTO: SARAH LUI By MELINDA TUPLING ON March 31, 2012, Marsat and Patrick Newman and ...


  • Lockhart River plane crash - tragedy drags on in court - The Cairns Post
    Lockhart River plane crash - tragedy drags on in courtThe Cairns PostFour Bamaga families are waging a battle with insurer QBE for compensation over their loved ones' deaths, and will attend a civil trial in Cairns next month after which Justice Jim Henry will make a long-awaited decision on the payouts.


  • Cathedral kids embrace traditional learning - ABC Local
    Cathedral kids embrace traditional learningABC LocalFive percent of the school's student population has Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage, with students coming from communities including Pormpuraaw, Bamaga, Coen, and Groote Aylandt. Cathedral's co-ordinator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...and more »


  • Cape girls dominate final for FN title victory - The Cairns Post
    Cape girls dominate final for FN title victoryThe Cairns PostMade up of players from Bamaga and Weipa, Cape United avenged their 34-22 defeat at the hands of Mackay in the preliminary rounds on Saturday. produce their best football when it mattered most. "We had a few injuries over the past couple of days, ...


  • El-Rufai - Too Small to Be President (Two) - AllAfrica.com
    El-Rufai - Too Small to Be President (Two)AllAfrica.comThis loathness of the old breed Northern leaders to dismount the soap box is a major problem of the North and was evident in the emergence of Alhaji Bamaga Tukur, a man just twenty three years away from being a centenarian. In a press conference just ...and more »


  • Discipline: PDP empowers zonal chairmen – Nigerian Tribune - Nigerian Bulletin
    Discipline: PDP empowers zonal chairmen – Nigerian TribuneNigerian BulletinDETERMINED to restore absolute discipline in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its new National Working Committee (NWC), under the leadership of Alhaji Bamaga Tukur, has barred state chapters of the party from further communicating directly with its ...


  • Of Dar`s continued misuse and abuse of open spaces - IPPmedia
    IPPmediaOf Dar`s continued misuse and abuse of open spacesIPPmediaAnd while on the same subject, a few metres from Bamaga petrol station at Mwenge a very interesting development has been going on. The proprietor of a newly opened hotel has developed a botanical garden of sorts in front of his hotel, ...and more »


  • 2012 Drama in Nigeria: Act one scene one - NgEX
    2012 Drama in Nigeria: Act one scene oneNgEX... the spiritual head of any kegite club, the convention that force tears out of some 'great' men in the political arena of this country, the Ebenezer Babatope, how the man Bamaga Tukur emerges as the national chairman and so many unholy and unwilling ...and more »


  • National confab timely now –Rotimi Obadofin, Kogi ACN chieftain - Daily Sun
    National confab timely now –Rotimi Obadofin, Kogi ACN chieftainDaily SunAt the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), since Bamaga Tukur became the managing director many decades ago, no other ethnic group has been allowed to occupy the position except the Hausa. The position is being rotated between one Fulani and Hausa or ...