From Chidi Nnadi, Enugu As the November 4, Enugu State local government election draws closer, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun to carry the wind of change to all the nooks and crannies of the Coal City. The state chapter of the party has continued to show impressive campaign outings ostensibly to reap…
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THISDAY, THE SATURDAY NEWSPAPER, of October 28 welcomes us to this week’s edition of our language series with schoolboy blunders that ring true: “We must demand for better protection for these hapless Nigerians at Muna Garage.” Delete the first ‘for’ lest we agonize! “I don’t just have fans like you do movie (a movie) and…
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“Justice is greater than the law” •Justice Alfred Thompson Denning, 21st Century British celebrated Jurist and Statesman He was the first and the last black man to be invited to speak to the Soviet Union’s most powerful Parliament. On that early winter of 1968, with history beckoning on his side, a Biafran war Ambassador was…
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There are men and there are men; there are men whose lives count; there are men who have left behind indelible footprints on the sands of time. There are men who by virtue of their work here on earth, heaven can rightly say, “these are my beloved sons in whom I am well pleased.” There…
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THE President Muhammadu Buhari administration added verve to its war against corruption on Monday, as it kicked the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke, out of office. Buhari’s needless dithering on the cases of the two men, and his…
Continue Reading ...By Fred Nwaozor The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can currently boast of the use of Electronic Card Reader otherwise known as ‘smart card reader’ during elections in Nigeria. Since the inception of the agency, its leadership has been working assiduously toward ensuring that the country can boast of credible and fair elections. This may…
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By Itaobong Offiong Etim Our leaders never disappoint the pessimism of the many citizens of the country. I recall the remark of one analyst who warned civil servants not to celebrate the news of the Federal Government’s release of Paris club refunds for the payment of their outstanding salaries. His reason was that the present…
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By Louis Okoroma It is always difficult to disabuse the minds of people of the lies they are told. The members of the press and non-medical doctors in the health sector have portrayed medical doctors as the problems of the Nigerian health sector. While Dr. Angela Uwakwem superintended over the affairs of FMC Owerri, there…
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EIGHT people have been killed and 15 injured in yesterday’s terror attack in New York, USA. The attacker identified as 29 years Sayfullo Saipov drove a rented truck down a bike path in Manhattan a few blocks from the site of the World Trace Center memorial. According to witnesses, people on bikes were left scattered…
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‘I have nowhere to keep these goods for safety’ By Fred Ezeh Though it was long envisaged, the widespread demolition of some markets and shops by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) threw not a few traders off balance during the week. Many of them openly wept like babies. It was not the…
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Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka on Thursday declared that the old politicians need to voted out in the next General Elections. Soyinka advised Nigerians youths to take up the challenge of leadership by showing interest in elective positions with a view to serving the people better than the old politicians, who he…
Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has called on all citizens of the country, particularly the elites, to be prepared to make sacrifices as a foundation for national growth and development. He made the call on Sunday in Daura when he met with Katsina senior citizens, led by State Governor Aminu Masari, according to a…
Vice The man once known as “America’s dad” is now a convicted felon. Actor and comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in a Pennsylvania sexual assault retrial Thursday. The jury, made up of seven men and five women, took about 14 hours to deliberate. On Wednesday, during their deliberations,…
A case of N9.8million fraud preferred against a businessman, Abayomi Arodu, has been struck out by an Ikeja Magistrate Court presided over by her honour, Mrs T. Akanni. The decision of the court was based on lack of diligent prosecution and an agreement reached between the two parties. A charge of N9.8 m was…
Omotayo Edubi, Abuja Controversial American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur Kanye Omari West, popularly known as Kanye West, is in the news for tweeting support for Donald Trump. The rapper returned to Twitter on April 13, 2018 nearly a year after he stopped using the social media site, and since then…
Vice The man once known as “America’s dad” is now a convicted felon. Actor and comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in a Pennsylvania sexual assault retrial Thursday. The jury, made up of seven men and five women, took about 14 hours to deliberate. On Wednesday, during their deliberations,…
Wole Balogun, Ado-Ekiti Esu is the Yoruba fashion of Satan in Christian and Jewish belief. It is generally known as the Devil across the western cultures, but in Yoruba cosmology, he is a god of mischief, created by Eledumare, Almighty God, to serve as an examiner/task master for humans. The Yoruba worldview does not portray…
Okwe Obi and Nwakaudu Charity, Abuja Vehicular movement was, on Wednesday grounded sequel to an accident which claimed three lives under the popular Banex bridge in Abuja. Eye-witnesses reported that a tiper loaded with sand, lost control and crushed three persons to dead at Banex Bridge, in Abuja while trying to avoid a police van….
Residents in Aba cry out over dumpsite Okey Sampson, Aba You’re going to Good Morning market located at the Ngwa Road end of the Aba River popularly known as Waterside. For convenience sake, you decided to use the farther distance of Opobo Road in Ogbor Hill. At Emelogu junction, the air around whiffed. What could…
Bianca Iboma In keeping with its humanitarian gesture and commitment to the welfare of persons living with albinism, the Onome Akinlolu Majaro Foundation has taken its community support higher by offering full scholarship to a blind undergraduate student of University Of Lagos, Akoka living with albinism, Victor Kalu. Co-founder of the Foundation, Onome Okagbare Majaro,…
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…
•Jobless parents of newborn quadruplets seek help, beg Enugu govt, firms for employment Felix Ikem, Nsukka For the family of Mr. and Mrs. Uchenna Nnadi, November 16, 2017, will remain an unforgettable day. It was the day the couple, from Amikwu Village, Ohom Orba, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, got a memorable blessing….
Xinhua/NAN Education ministers from African countries are to evaluate status of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on education in the continent at a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. The April 25 to April 27 Pan Africa High level Conference on Education to be held under the auspices of UNESCO and African Union, will bring together African…
Christian Agadibe Daniel Kanayo Daniel popularly known as DKD turns ladies’ heads whenever he steps out. This is because he’s not only handsome; he’s also macho with a sexy six-pack. To attest to this, one of his female fans went gaga recently. On sighting the actor, she just grabbed and spanked his butt… without offering…
I have been wondering what could be possibly fueling ethnic and sectarian violence in Nigeria one night. As the night became increasingly serene and opaque, I began to wonder why many well-meaning Nigerians seem to be indifferent and go about their business during a brief absence of brutality only to be hyperventilated at hearing the…
How truly sincere and dedicated we are to the desire to see tourism boom and grow in Nigeria will need another summit to expose our failings. For two and half decades of reporting this beat, one finds it very embarrassing that our talks have never in any way matched the desired platforms needed to transform…
Club moss is a low-growing, creeping, evergreen plant. It has dense spirals of bright, yellow-green leaves and a one-metre long stem that sprawls on the ground. Spores are produced in two to three cylindrical cones and are best when collected either in July or August. It is available in the temperate regions of the Northern…
For long I had wanted to write about this, but whenever I tried to hit my keypad, my fingers got cramped. I guess it was the incredible nature of this discuss that slowed me down. Lately, I was invited by a colleague to perform an appendectomy on a young man. Had chastised him because I…
I have been wondering what could be possibly fueling ethnic and sectarian violence in Nigeria one night. As the night became increasingly serene and opaque, I began to wonder why many well-meaning Nigerians seem to be indifferent and go about their business during a brief absence of brutality only to be hyperventilated at hearing the…
‘The moment the prerogative of violence slips away from the hands of government into an unknown body, there is no government…we have been challenged with Boko Haram for so long and now it is (the) so called herdsmen…” – Dr.Ahmadu Ali, former Education Minister, ex-PDP Chairman. The unnerving part of…
As I contemplate my lecture in a few days in Paris on leadership at the University of Schiller, as part of the graduation of the university, where I have been invited to speak, I am saddened by how hard it is to find home-grown examples on good leadership. This is an issue of grave importance…
Culture is internally too intricate to be understood from the outside. This perhaps is one of the critical messages of Professor Chinua Achebe. That perhaps again explains why his novels, especially Things Fall Apart, are such global hits. Much of the world came to see how finely woven a society is. The point is that…
As I write this piece, I am confined to a bed in a private hospital in Abuja. The question then is, how did a strong energetic man find himself confined like a helpless being. In life, things happen without your knowledge but with you awareness. We had closed from church service and heading home when along the Kubwa expressway, my…
Femi, if Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (retd), former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), has any remorse, let him first apologise for his past deeds, including Odi and Zaki Biam massacres, when he held sway as the Minister of Defence under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in his first term. Since the killings started, he, former Head of…
What transpired on the floor of the Senate last Wednesday can only shock the uninitiated. On that day, Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central in the National Assembly, invaded the Senate chambers with thugs. They threw chairs freely, broke legs and then took away the mace, the legislature’s symbol of authority. The scene was…
