Last week, I started with Jos and ended with Warri; this week let me reverse the approach. In the end we are looking at the same impending catastrophe from two different ends of a prism.

Bukky was busy giving the big bedroom a long overdue clean. She was running the vacuum cleaner over her husband’s side of the bed when the flex caught the corner of a partially opened drawer. It had been loose for months and Mati, her husband, hadn’t come round to fixing it yet.

Lieutenant General Jeremiah Timbut Useni (rtd), aka JERRY BOY, is the Sardauna of Plateau and Nasarawa but he is one unusual individual who has a split personality. One is that his mien could be so fierce that everyone around him would sit up. Yet, this Langtang born army officer loves to enjoy and does enjoy life, might we add, to its fullest. A sampler: “There is this saying that says work, work, work and no play makes a man a fool. You can not be serious all the time. When it comes to work you have to get it done and after that you have to relax and enjoy and play with people as if nothing has happened.

Heineken premium beer is the international beer brand that has made its way around the world.

The high rate of child abuse and corporal punishment in the country has been attributed to lack of awareness on the part of the government, parents, guardians and teachers. Despite the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, many States and not only in Africa still use corporal punishment as the only way to disciplining children.

Colonel Muamar Ghadaffi, the leader of Libya, is a well-known figure in Africa and the world. He is one of the world’s longest reigning heads of state, having ruled his country for over three decades.

Violence against women the globe over, is real, alive and thriving in all societies, though in varying degrees and intensity, depending on how enlightened the society is about human, and how much respect they have for their female folk.

I was at Benin on March 18 to speak at the 8th triennial conference of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria. I was asked to speak on Nigeria at 50 – Issues and Challenges. I likened the mystery that is Nigeria to an elephant that three blind men encountered and reported authoritatively o

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan penultimate Wednesday decided to strike by dissolving the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, in a move many have described as unavoidable. But the list of ministerial nominees sent to the National Assembly last Wednesday is a mish-mash of recycled politicians and professionals. Yet, there are insinuations in Abuja that one of the first moves of this EXCOF would be to clear the path for a substantive President with a view to appointing a Vice President. And to do this, EXCOF members must give effect to the letters and spirit of Section 144 of the Constitution. Can this EXCOF bite the bullet?

Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has appealed to the Senate to reject the plan of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cede two local government areas, Uhunmwonde and Orhionmwon, from Edo South Senatorial District to Edo Central The governor, in a letter to the Senate President, yesterday, said “Your gracious intervention is required […]

THE faction of militants which carried out the March 15 bombing in Warri, Delta State says its next target is to bomb the Government House, also known as Creek Haven, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and the NDDC office.

The Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Inde Dikko, and the Nigerian Customs Service Board have been taken to court by a retired Comptroller of Nigerian Customs Service.

The Yoruba Youths for Good Governance (YYGG), a group saddled with the responsibility of monitoring and ensuring probity, equity and fairness in south-west public affairs, says it is “deeply perturbed by the skewed ministerial list in favour of Ogun State by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan”.  “The list that is before the Senate needs another look […]

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, has extolled the virtues of the Oore of Mobaland, Oba Oladele Adedapo Popoola, saying that the monarch ranked among the ten most important Yoruba traditional rulers in Nigeria and in the diaspora. Sijuwade made the remark at the grand finale of the 10th coronation anniversary of the Oore […]

President Hosni Mubarak returned to Egypt yesterday, landing in Sharm El Sheikh where he will reassume presidential powers while recovering from gallbladder surgery in Germany, state television showed.