The just concluded football extravaganza in South Africa, in my view, is one of the most interesting World Cup finals in recent history. Indeed, it is a pivotal achievement for FIFA, because it was the first time the soccer fiesta was held in Africa.
A randy lecturer at Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo State, who allegedly specialises in threatening female students with “Carry-Overâ€, was yesterday given the beating of his life by irate students.
We cannot solve our problems with short-gun approaches. If there had been vision in leadership
Nigeria would have been at peace with herself today because she is one of the richest nations in the world. It is gratifying that the condemnation of the present system is coming from as high as the Deputy Senate President.
A BENIN chief priest, Felix Osadolor, alias Afro, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Benin High Court presided over by the Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Cromwell Idahosa, over the murder of fellow chief, Sunday Ahanon.
If we take Orji Kalu into the corners of Abia and present him to the people as one of us we are going to lose because people in Abia State still blame him for the problems of today.
THE Edo State correspondent of the Nation newspapers, Friday Otabor, was yesterday, severely beaten by political thugs allegedly loyal to a chieftain of the Action Congress (AC) while monitoring the bye-election into the state House of Assembly in Oghede ward, Ovia North East Constituency 11.
Viagra is no longer new on the market-and a lot of new brands of pills performing exactly the same ‘miracle’ have since flooded the chemist’s shelves. But is Viagra the magic pill men thought it would be?
Those who might have no ideas about the nature and character of opposition politics in Jigawa State and the agenda of its godfathers which some surrogate writers pretending to be Lamido praise-singers are now carrying out may not be in a position to appreciate this disapproval.
Nigeria can now, properly speaking, be described as a mafia state. Its
national ethic in other words is structured by a distinct disregard for the rule of law.
The Delta State Government declared, yesterday, it was “completely unaware†of the car allegedly sent to Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan as birthday gift.
Let’s not deceive ourselves. The kidnappers of four journalists are known.
They are not ghosts, not spirits as the radio jingle tells us.
“Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgment, not till he shows his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the testâ€.
I am yielding this space today to my son, Boye, who has some observations concerning this country. You see, Boye has been out of this country for about 13 years.
As shoes continue to trample over clothes, so are designers getting very creative with what they do as wearers continue to crave for extreme shoes. This season, designers are drawing inspiration from the talaria, or winged sandal, in their quest to take shoes from mere footwear to wearable art pieces.
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