If Nigeria Dies, Hatred Killed Her – Femi Adesina
What a week it has been for our own dear native land! Just at the beginning of the month, as the country turned 60 as an independent entity, President Muhammadu Buhari had charged us to “begin sincere process of national healing, eliminate old and outworn perceptions that are always put to test in the lie they are.” What began about...
Edo State Govt Declares Over 200 Vehicles Missing
The committee set up by the Edo government to recover government assets says over 200 vehicles belonging to the state are missing. The chairman of the committee Kelly Okungbowa shared the information with journalists in Benin City, the Edo State capital on Friday. He said three of these vehicles have been recovered less than a day after the group was inaugurated. Okungbowa...
Jail Me Instead Of 13-Year-Old Boy Sentenced For 10 Years, Foreign Activist Writes Buhari
Piotr Cywinski, director of Auschwitz Memorial in Poland, says he is ready to be imprisoned in Nigeria so that Umar Farouq, a 13-year-old boy sentenced for blasphemy, can regain freedom. A Sharia court in Kano had sentenced Farouq for “using disparaging language on Allah” during a disagreement with his friend. In a letter dated September 25 and addressed to President Muhammadu...
Metuh, Pondei, Maina, Other Politicians Who Collapsed Under Weight Of Corruption Allegations
In Nigeria, it is one day, one drama from the theatre of the ruling class. Nigerian politicians and public officers have carved a niche for themselves in the art of fainting, and it is almost always over one issue — corruption allegations. In other instances, some suddenly took ill when they were to be probed. Uneasy, they say, lies...
BMW Tupac was shot dead in is being sold with bullet holes for $1.75m
The car Tupac Shakur was in when he was shot dead has been put up for sale for $1.75m. The legendary rapper was a passenger in a BMW 750 when he was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996. The shooting took place while Tupac Shakur was being driven by his friend and notorious record producer, Suge Knight after watching a...
[OPINION] 21 YEARS UNINTERRUPTED DEMOCRACY: WETIN WE GAIN?
BY ALEX ENEMANNA As the country keeps basking in the euphoria of our democracy anniversary, it becomes pertinent to appraise this 21-year-old journey, which represents the longest we have attained as a people since the 1960 Independence. A retrospect into our basket of offerings will give us a broad view of our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, otherwise known as...
A’Ibom Works Commissioner, Ephraim Inyang and his failed roads
Abasifreke Effiong If you drive slowly from Ikot Akpaden, Mkpat Enin to Uyo through the 12.742 kilometres Mkpat Enin-ONNA road, from Comprehensive High School Ikot Ayan to the Y junction which leads to Awa, you will count about 50 potholes and multitude distresses of different geometric patterns. The road has moderate volume traffic with limited heavy vehicles, yet it...
PHOTONEWS: Kalu’s Wife Begins Birthday Celebration With Holy Mass
The Aso-Villa home of Mrs Ifunanya Kalu, the wife of the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu was in celebration as she began her birthday celebration with a morning holy mass at Kalu's residence. Dressed in a colourful patterned Ankara dress; the Birthday celebrant Mrs Kalu was in all smiles as immediate family members and friends converged...
[OPINION] POOR SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN ABIA STATE, BY NWAGBOGU AMARA
Education in Abia state, especially in the public sector is in a state of dysfunction. The students are disillusioned with public education. Their teachers are frustrated in the face of poor motivation and Lack of good facilities. What is clear is that successive governments have paid lip service to revamp a sector bedevilled by low budgetary allocations, poor incentives for...
FG orders cinemas to stop showing Banky W’s movie
The National Film and Video Censors Board has ordered cinemas nationwide to stop showing a recently released movie, titled, Sugar Rush. The NVFCB, Executive Director, Addedayo Thomas, however, told The PUNCH that the movie was not suspended because of some scenes found to portray the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as an incompetent organisation. The film, which has reportedly grossed about...
