By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 12, 2014 – The Nigerian centenary celebration was to honor hundred persons, some, post-hummus. The number of the award recipients was deliberately pegged at one hundred so that it will conform exactly to the number of years of Nigerian existence. A number of questions ran through my […]
The Deputy National Chairman (South) of All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Annie Okonkwo has urged all true believers and patriots in the APC doctrine of change to work relentlessly to offer Nigerians a curative relief for the endemic internal political hypertension ravaging the country through the simple prescription of inclusive internal democracy. Senator Okonkwo, who […]
BY SEYE OJO No fewer than five persons cheated death when a three-storey building in Ojo Alaba, Lagos collapsed in the early hours of yesterday. It was gathered that the first part of the building still under construction on Adeyemi Street, People’s Bus Stop, Ojo Alaba, collapsed at about 2:00a.m, but no life was lost. […]
Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano yesterday swore in 19 new commissioners and 10 Special Advisers. Those sworn in are Chief Tony Onyinma ( Information) and Dr Chinedu Emeka ( Water and Public Utilities.) Two former commissioners in Gov. Peter Obi’s administration including Mr. Callistus Ilozumba and Mrs. Azuka Enemuo were retained in their former […]
In the first conversation of its kind at a World Bank/IMF shareholders meeting, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Friday met with 15 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) leaders from developing countries around the world to listen to their experiences and concerns about discrimination in the development process against persons solely because of […]
How in incarceration, inmates continue to cater for their families It was a cool Saturday evening, January 23, 2014. It happened to be another special day at the Ikoyi Prison in Lagos. Ordinarily, inmates are restricted or confined to their cells, but this day was delightedly different. The prison authorities had organised end-of-year-cum-thanksgiving service for […]
The Villa plays host to different people daily. They come with different missions. While some meet personally with President Goodluck Jonathan, others meet his close aides who they believe, will in turn, present their requests to the ‘Oga at the top’. The personalities involved determine the time they will visit and which part of the […]
Socres of students travelling to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in Borno State have been reportedly killed by the Boko Haram sect. They were among several persons that lost their lives in multiple attacks unleashed by the dreaded sect in four communities. The Senator representing Borno Central in the Senate, Zannah Ahmed, on Friday, […]
Ambassador Bola Dada Ambassador Bola Dada Ambassador Bola Dada shares his experiences in international affairs as a former diplomat with ADEOLA BALOGUN and JESUSEGUN ALAGBE When did you retire and how are you spending your time now? I retired from the federal civil service in June 2009, and since my retirement, I have been working […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed that the Peoples Democratic Party will capture the entire South-East region in the 2015 governorship election. The President, who spoke at the Unity Rally organised to reconcile aggrieved party members in the zone on Friday, said come what may, the PDP would capture Imo State in 2015 and complete the […]
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