Daily Archives: November 9, 2012
Man kills, roasts, eats brother’s killer
There was pandemonium in Abgbarho Community, Delta State yesterday when a middle-aged man burnt a member of a vigilance group alive and ate his flesh. Daily Sun gathered that the culprit took the action to avenge the murder of his ... Read More »
Reps accuse Executive of excluding grants in 2013 Budget
House of Representatives yesterday accused the executive of deliberately excluding foreign ‘grants’ from the 2013 Budget. The observation was coming as it also threatened to arrest heads of 61 Federal Government agencies over refusal to answer queries of financial misconduct ... Read More »
Boko Haram: Amnesty International opens up on Nigeria
Amnesty International, in an unusual report alleged violation of human rights in the military operations against Boko Haram insurgents in Northern Nigeria. No close observer of those events would be surprised at the report, given unofficial accounts emanating from the ... Read More »
Obagol: I’m still Nigeria’s weapon of mass destruction
Levante’s forward, Obafemi Martins, has disclosed that he is ready to score for Stephen Keshi in the forth coming international friendly against Venezuela on November 14 in Miami. Martins, who was recently handed a call up by Keshi, owing to ... Read More »
INCREDIBLE! In the Caribbean Islands, indigenes speak Igbo, Yoruba
You may find this incredible, but Igbo and Yoruba languages are widely spoken in the Caribbean Islands. And the speakers are not Nigerians living in those countries. Indigenes of the Caribbean Islands speak Igbo and Yoruba Read More »
Anambra’s night of long knives
Sitting comfortably in one of the sofas in her sitting room at her Nnewi country home and beaming with smiles was Nigeria’s first woman governor, Dame Virgy Etiaba. Mama Anambra, as she is fondly called will on Sunday, November 11, ... Read More »
Stowaways and airport security
The recent discovery of the corpse of a young man in the wheel well or undercarriage compartment of an Arik Airline aircraft that returned to the country from New York, in the United States, has raised salient questions on security ... Read More »
2015: Battle for Aso rock hots up
Ahead of the 2015 presidential election, three interest groups in the country are clamouring to produce the next president. LAWRENCE ENYOGHASU writes. The race for the 2015 presidential poll is gathering momentum by the day. Already the South East, South ... Read More »
Re: The heat over Achebe’s war memoir (3)
Concluding part of Bamiduro’s piece and others. Yes, the Igbo have been wronged but the wrong is our mutual fault, it is our mutual responsibility. The Yoruba is not an enemy of the Igbo as I believe the Igbo is ... Read More »
Because Achebe, Awolowo are involved
What a cursory look into history has revealed and which many people probably failed to appreciate is that Chief Awolowo’s ambition to be Minister of Finance or even President of Nigeria did not start with the war. As far back ... Read More »
