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Africa owes a debt of gratitude to Achebe – Zuma

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, March 24th, 2013

The South African President, Mr Jacob Zuma, says Africa owes a debt of gratitude to late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in view of his contributions to African literature. Zuma said this Friday in Johannesburg while expressing his deepest condolences to the Nigerian government and the family of late Achebe. According to a statement by the […]

Soldiers intercept 14 tankers with suspected stolen crude oil

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Abuja – The Nigerian Army said on Friday it arrested 14 tankers suspected to be loaded with crude oil stolen from the NNPC pipeline in Abaji, FCT. Brig.-Gen. Emmanuel Atewe, Commander, Guards Brigade, said at a news conference in Abuja that the tankers were arrested on March 10 by the army troops at Toto checkpoint […]

Achebe In The Eyes of The World: Bearing Witness, With Words by New York Times

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

“If you don’t like someone’s story,” Chinua Achebe told The Paris Review in 1994, “write your own.” In his first novel and masterpiece, “Things Fall Apart” (1958), Mr. Achebe, who died on Thursday at 82, did exactly that. In calm and exacting prose, he examined a tribal society fracturing under the abuses of colonialism. The […]

Nigeria among 22 countries with new cases of TB

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, Friday revealed that a total of 190,000 new Tuberculosis cases were recorded in the country in 2011, out of which 27,000 persons died. The minister, who disclosed this in Abuja, on Friday, at the commemoration of the 2013 World Tuberculosis Day also said Nigeria is listed among 22 high […]

We’re safe in Enugu —Northerners (Thank God for civility)

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Northerners residing in Enugu said at the weekend that they were safe and going about their business without any fear of attack or molestation. The confirmation came againsty the background of Tuesday attack on the Igbo in Kano State. But the usual piece which existed between the Igbo and their northern guests in areas heavily […]

Fear of terrorism in Lagos, police arrest 600

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

THE Lagos State Police Command on Thursday began a general raid on criminals’ hideouts in Lagos. The raid, which spilled over to Friday, resulted in the arrest of about 600 suspects who were taken to the premises of the Lagos State Police Command for screening. Many of them, including Nigerien and Beninoise nationals who were […]

Buhari expresses shock over Achebe’s death

Posted by admin Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

A National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has expressed shock at the news of the demise of Prof. Chinua Achebe. He said in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, in Abuja on Friday, that Achebe was a Nigerian writer that effectively […]

Kano bombing may have caused his death – Soyinka, Clark

Posted by admin Headlines, Wole Soyinka Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Veteran writers and Achebe’s compatriots, Prof. Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark, have linked his death to the bomb attacks that occurred in Kano on Monday. In a joint statement they issued on Friday, entitled “On the Passing of Chinua Achebe,” they noted that his death might have been hastened by the shock from the violence […]

Ini Edo begs fans

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry) Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Popular Nollywood actress, Ini Edo, has been so occupied lately that she has not had time for her teeming fan base especially on twitter. When she realised this, the screen diva apologised to her fans and explained why she had not been active on the social network for a while. She tweeted on Wednesday, “Hi […]

Achebe: Hometown quiet as kinsmen mourn demise

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

All was quiet at Ikenga Ogidi, the hometown of the literary giant, Prof. Chinua Achebe, when our correspondent visited on Friday morning. An old woman who claim to be the writer’s sister in-law was seen around Achebe’s house located on the way to Abatete. The black iron gate of the high perimeter fence was securely […]