By Sam Eyoboka TUESDAY, July 26, 2009 will remain indelible in the memory of Elder Emmanuel Ndah. Until that day, the Kogi State-born middle aged man had lived peacefully with his wife and son in Low Cost area of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital trying to eke a living through the sale of patent medicine. […]

…Children and relations call on igp for help By Evelyn Usman I watched my mother breath her last. She died in my hands, after being in coma for three days, without a word on how she met her unprepared end”. Those were the pathetic and touching lamentations of Godsent Oghenekewe Apkede, an Ordinary National Diploma […]

The four former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officers of Oceanic bank, Mrs Cecilia Ibru; FinBank Nigeria Plc, Mr Okey Nwosu; Mr Sebastian Adigwe of Afribank Plc and Bartholomew Ebong of Union Bank of Nigeria, who are presently standing trial before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, will spend the next 10 days in detention, as the court yesterday, adjourned ruling on their bail applications to September 14, 2009.

Rivers State Social and Rehabilitation Committee is set to graduate its first batch of reformed militants who have been trained on different skills.

SACKED Chief Execu- tive Officers, CEOs, of the five banks the Central Bank Of Nigeria, CBN, moved in on recently have allegedly resorted to frenzied prayer sessions in their EFCC detention centres, calling on God to intervene and rescue them from their ordeal..

Desperation in a relationship could lead to a number of things. People do all kinds of things in their desperate bids to get hooked to someone. A lady shared an experience of how a guy lived off her for years in her bid to have him by his side at all times and at the end of the day, he left her kobo less, pregnant and abandoned. Jessica’s story stemmed from the fact that she thought that without that guy, she would not get another person to marry her and she was wrong.

In true Jack Welch fashion, the former CEO of General Electric and lauded biz guru, recently made some pretty definitive statements about work-life balance to a group of HR professionals. “There’s no such thing as work-life balance,” he told the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference. If you take time off for family you risk being passed over for promotions because “you’re not there in the clutch,” he said.

The church, christened Christian Bible Ministry (CBM), is located in an obscure area on Dunamis Street behind Apakun Saw Mill, along Murtala Mohammed Airport Road, Mafoluku, Oshodi, not too far from ‘Reverend King’s CPA in such manner that it is ordinarily difficult to know if there was any building in that area.

Did you take steps towards being your personal best after reading last week’s article? If so, great job! Keep going. If not, this is your week to get started. Please remember that the journey to excellence should be fun. Being your best is not about putting pressure on yourself or trying to please others.

That’s a million dollar question. When I was studying in England, I was always analysing and thinking- ‘ah, this will work in my home, this will not’. I believed that when I came back, I’d be the authority in music. Very few people had degree in music. I have been very lucky to have had the best of education and having the best teachers in the world. All the shortcomings were of my own making. God has given me opportunities that are so rare.