Super Eagles and Chelsea star, Victor Moses has credited manager Antonio Conte for reviving his career at Stamford Bridge by converting him into a wing back during their Premier League title charge this season. The 26-year-old Nigeria international was previously sent out on loan for three consecutive seasons by manager Jose Mourinho before Conte arrived…
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From: Godwin Tsa, Abuja A witness in the trial of the then Chairman of the House Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, has denied receiving bribe from businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola in 2012. The witness, Mr. Adams Jagaba, was a three-term member of the House of Representatives and was testifying as the fourth…
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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in the Gudu District, Abuja has ordered the remand of former Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed in prison custody pending the ruling on his bail application. The former minister was arraigned before Justice Abubakar Talba on six charges of…
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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja Former Benue State governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam Wednesday withdrew his N10 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit he filed against the Department of State Service, its Director-General, Lawal Daura, and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) before the Abuja division of the Federal High Court….
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By Philip Nwosu, Lagos and Molly Kilete, Abuja The Nigerian Army has announced the appointment of 147 officers to man key positions in the various divisions and formations. The Army says the appointments is to enable it to re-strategies in tackling the security challenges in the country. Under the new arrangement, Major General AM Dikko,…
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• How some private schools overuse teachers but pay them peanut • First degree holders collect N10,000 as salary; Masters, N15 – N20,000 • We’re really concerned and doing something about it – Prof. Ajiboye, General Secretary, TRCN By Jet Stanley Madu The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has its motto as: “service and justice.” Some private…
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• Foundation unveils teachers’ reward on earth as three of them win N3.5m By Perpetua Egesimba One of the major reasons many young school leavers avoid the teaching profession like plague is the old saying that the teacher’s reward is in heaven. That is the belief that Meadow Hall Foundation, a subsidiary of Meadow Hall Group,…
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By Jet Stanley-Madu The Proprietress, CEDEC International Group of Schools Olodi-Apapa, Unachukwu Ijeoma (PhD) spoke extensively on the derivable benefits in paying teachers well. “It is a well motivating factor”, she insists, asserting that poor remuneration contributes to high teacher turnover. “Of course, we don’t need to over-flog the issue. The benefits are enormous. Like…
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From Emmanuel Ahanonu and Ubong Edet, UNICAL The University of Calabar (UNICAL) International Conference Centre was recently filled to the brim during the induction of 80 UNICAL Medical Lab. Scientists. Declaring the ceremony open, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Zana Akpagu, represented by the DVC (Academics), Prof. Florence Obi, described the occasion as epoch-making. “Medical laboratory…
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• UNIZIK takes its China relationship a step further by inaugurating alumni body of her Confucius Institute By Franklin Onwubiko (UNIZIK) The existing romance between Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, and China through her Confucius Institute experienced a leap recently when the alumni association of the institute was inaugurated by the Vice Consular General of Chinese…
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Paul Osuyi, Asaba About 208 principals in Delta State-owned secondary schools are billed to retire before the end of the year, thereby, creating additional vacancies in the civil service. But, Daily Sun learnt that the development may lead to administrative crisis in some schools within the state’s education sector, as the state government seems not…
Obidike Jerry Nnamdi Obi, a Pharmacist, is the MD/CEO, Embassy Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company Limited. He believes that the survival of the country is a collective responsibility. For those who are angling to play third force in 2019 either through a coalition or red card movement, he urges them to quickly appropriate a registered political…
Ismail Omipidan The saying, “Reject every form of corruption which divest resources from the poor,” by Pope Francis, appears apt in situating the recent sermon by the vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to Nigerians on how to tackle corruption headlong. In the last one month, he’s been seizing every available space and opportunity to tell…
Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka Former vice chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Prof. Ikenna Onyido, has blamed the drastic drop in quality, in Nigerian universities, on lazy professors, he described as “internet professors.” Onyido said this when he delivered the keynote lecture at the 55th meeting of the Committee of Deans of Postgraduate Schools…
Adewale Sanyaolu A former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has warned that Nigeria’s over dependence on oil and gas resources would not take the country out of the doldrum. Ezekwesili, gave the warning at the 1st National Education Summit organized by the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria with the theme ‘‘ Sustaining…
Nollywood movie Ojukokoro and three other flicks – Oblivious, The Encounter, and Tell Me Sweet Something – were screened on Saturday night at Metrograph Theatre, New York. Ojukokoro (greed) is the hilarious feature film leading the line-up at the inaugural ‘Nollywood 3.0 Images and Stories From the African Diaspora Film Series’ in New York City….
Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure The history of Yoruba is certainly not complete without reference to Oranmiyan, a direct descendant of Oduduwa, the progenitor of the race. Oduduwa was believed to have descended from heaven and landed on Ile-Ife, Osun State, and from where he founded other Yoruba towns. Oranmiyan was a warrior who fought many wars…
Nkechi Onyele & Marcus Nkire A red light area is not only a place where prostitution is carried out or men go to buy sex; it is also a place where generations live and where children are born and raised. Children of women in prostitution who live in red…
…Want contractor back on site Okey Sampson, Aba Residents of part of Ogbor Hill, Aba, the commercial capital of Abia State comprising Federal Housing Estate, Pepple, Aguwa, Akpu, Ovom roads and other adjourning areas breathed a sigh of relief when in 2001, the administration of Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu constructed access link from Ogbor Hill…
•Decrepit facilities, weeds and reptiles define historic complex Joe Apu Dan Anyiam Sports Complex is a multi-purpose stadium located in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. Named after Daniel Amobi Amadi Anyiam, a former national football team player and coach, it is the home stadium of the Heartland Football Club. It also has facilities for…
Henry Akubuiro, Lagos Perhaps more than any other group in the last three decades, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), has contributed to the promotion of reading and discovery of new literary talents in Nigeria. Founded in 1981 by the legendary novelist, Chinua Achebe, the association has through, its routine creative writing workshops, award of…
Chuks Onuoha, Umuahia Youths, it is often said, are the leaders of tomorrow. They represent the future of a people. In Igboland, it is believed that any community without virile youths would eventually go into extinction. And when youths begin to lose focus, communities worry. It is feared that the youths might not have anything…
Clement Adeyi, Osogbo Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede who was inaugurated as the 11th substantive Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State in June last year, bares his mind on efforts being put in place by his administration to improve on the school’s infrastructure, maintain the rich academic standard that the university is…
Fatimah Muhammad-Omolaja Fast rising actor, Yomi Fabiyi lost his beloved mother recently. But much as he still feels the pain of her demise, he takes solace in the advice she gave him while alive. In an online chat with the thespian, he talked about how his late mother’s advice has continued to sustain him in…
Oludayo Tade In the light of many eye-sore and ear-sore episodes which have characterised contemporary every day lived experiences of Nigerians, it is practically impossible to allow our dead leaders-of-thought to rest in peace; I need to invoke the spirit of the unusual being, (Abami Eda), Fela Anikulapo Kuti, for a perspective on Authority Stealing….
Last week, on April 14, Nigeria marked the fourth anniversary of the capture and abduction of 276 young girls, all of them students, by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok, Borno State. The government of President Muhammadu Buhari has had 163 of them returned in tranches to Nigeria and their parents. All of them…
Every March 29 his disciples gather for an intellectual banquet. This year’s feast attracted President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and an army of APC faithful. Unlike the other nine years where seminal topics on democracy were discussed, this year’s Ahmed Bola Tinubu Colloquium, held to mark his 66th birthday, was expectedly devoted to…
The mistake we have been making in this country since our democratic evolution is to vote for political parties irrespective of candidatures. This is majorly why we have had issues with most of the characters foisted on us. If it were not so, I do not see how Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Ayo Fayose…
Okigwe South Federal Constituency is fast gaining popularity as the nation prepares for next year’s general elections. This popularity derives from the meddlesomeness of Governor Rochas Okorocha, who, not being satisfied with his vile endorsement of his son in-law as his successor, has traversed the entire landscape of the state, dictating who gets what post…
Last Monday, the All-Progressives Congress likely standard bearer in the 2019 presidential election finally verbalised the message we had long inferred from his body language. The somewhat shock announcement came during his party’s National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja, a day before the president left for London to attend to commonwealth and health matters. It…
As a newspaper publisher, I am quite familiar with the famous journalism dictum: “Comments are free, facts are sacred.” What this means is that everyone has a right to hold and express his opinion without let or hindrance. But while that is true, I haven’t found where it is written or stated that you can…
The Federal Government has been releasing what it calls the looters’ list. The first episode of the soap opera came with its controversies. Before the minister of information, Lai Mohammed, could release the second episode, a number of characters in the cast list had threatened court action. Some have wondered why the list contained mainly…
Often times, I wish I was never on WhatsApp because it can be annoying. My phone beeps endlessly with messages that don’t make sense at all. For me, having to juggle between reading tons of inspirational quotes that have no bearing with my life, to dealing with moral stuffs threatening me to forward to others…
It is another windy and rainy day, everyone has closed and I even had to force Debbie to leave, assuring her that I will lock up properly when I am done. She left reluctantly probably convinced I will not be able to cope without her, I should feel insulted. I was so engrossed in what…
Money is good. It enables you live well and work well. The argument of the poor that money is bad is just an anticipatory defence mechanism. But money is good when it is a blessing that adds no sorrow; when it is the product of hard work and sincere efforts. Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer…
