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Just this afternoon, we had hardly landed the Sam Mbakwe Airport at Owerri when I spotted an unusually unique aircraft. My amazement increased when I noticed a woman making her way to the aircraft. One of the flight attendants who was my friend of 45 minutes while we were airborne identified the woman as Capt. […]

Our Nigerian way of life is the way of plenty of rituals of religion and very little of deeds to match our religious professions. It is public conduct and confessions that are divorced from personal responsibility and rather attached to “faith”. It does not matter what the outcome of our “faith” may be. Our most […]

Just four months after some school children collapsed after inhaling gaseous substances in Lagos, not less than 13 students of the Ogba Junior Grammar School located at the Ogba area of the state on Thursday lost consciousness, as they were affected after inhaling gaseous substances while in school. Some of the students were rushed to the hospital […]

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday lamented the ongoing fuel scarcity all over the country, urging the Federal Government to take responsibility for the attendant punishment on Nigerians. The labour union observed that since the last few weeks when scarcity of petroleum products at sale stations became noticeable, workers and the Nigerian people have […]

A total of 7,390 Nigerians were sent back to the country from different countries overseas, in the year 2013, Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr David Parradang revealed on Thursday. Speaking at the Immigration headquarters in Abuja on Thursday while answering questions from journalists, Parradang stated that the repatriations were conducted because many […]

Four persons convicted of involvement of homosexuality in Bauchi State have been sentenced by an Upper Sharia Court to 15 strokes of the cane, in addition to paying a fine of N20, 000 each. Of the seven men arrested by the Bauchi State Sharia Commission and charged with the offence, Shehu Adamu, Yusuf A Adsamu, […]

President Goodluck Eblele Jonathan, Thursday,approved the appointments of three Assistant Secretaries and 492 delegates to the National Conference. According to a press statement issued by Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim,Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Assistant Secretaries, who are  to serve in the National Conference Secretariat are Dr. Akilu Ndabawa (Assistant Secretary, Conference Proceedings), […]

“…I beat him up, yes, this old man who does not respect his gray hairs,  I beat him up because he did “waka” to me and said that he will call police for me. You should thank your God that I did not have my gun with me, I would have shot you and wasted […]

The other week, the leading opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), took its predilection for obfuscation to another level by engaging in self-serving opinion poll.  For those who have followed the politics of Jonathan bashing and anti-PDP propaganda by the APC leadership, the result of the self-commissioned public opinion survey on the approval rating […]

The gunmen who kidnapped the cousin of President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Inengite Nitabai, have rejected the N30million ransom offered by the family. According to a security source who spoke under the condition of anonymity, the kidnappers dismissed the offer as too small, saying it fell far below their expectations when they were preparing to launch […]

The gruesome attack at the Federal Government College Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists, once again reinforced the palpable despair that there seems to be no end to the sorrow, tears and blood flowing in the country. No fewer than 39 students were murdered […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday remanded erstwhile Managing Director of the defunct Integrated Micro Finance Bank, Akinteye Ademola at the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police Force. Ademola is facing an amended three-count charge bordering on banking and financial crimes, which he has pleaded not guilty to. He is […]