Creamy or firm when cooked, yams have an earthy, hardy taste and usually a minimal amount of sweetness. Although they are available throughout the year, their season runs from October through December when they are at their best.

The bridge linking Owerri municipality and Nekede in Owerri West local government area, has collapsed.

Activities marking the 2010 Press Week of the Nigerian Union of Journalsts, NUJ, Imo State Council, kicked off Sunday with a Pontifical thanksgiving sung mass at Saint Mark’s Catholic Parish, New Owerri.

By Kenneth Ehigiator ENUGU—The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Southeast zone, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan and members of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, for approving N10.033 billion to upgrade  Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu, to international status, describing the development as a demonstration of great vision, fairness and determination to right the wrongs of the […]

THE Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force and Niger Delta People’s Salvation Front, NDPVF/NDPSF, led by Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, have taken a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, over his recent declaration that “the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, of ethnic nationalities to determine the terms of our collective existence was highly irrelevant and unnecessary.”

A pro-Sylva group, the Credible Sylva Movement, yesterday, said the booing and stoning of Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, during a civic reception organised for President Goodluck Jonathan, was sponsored to disparage the Governor.

WORRIED by the recent sacking of Urhobo natives in the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, by the Interim Management Committee, the Urhobo National Youth Council, UNYC, has called on all Urhobo at home and in the Diaspora, to be vigilant and watch keenly the recent happenings in Delta State.

Mr. Chinwengozi Obike, Lagos-based legal practitioner, hails from Abia State. He is poised to govern the state from next year, after, according to him, dusting Governor T.A. Orji at the polls.

Many are celebrating the installation of Dr. Kayode Fayemi as Governor of Ekiti State. I am celebrating too, thank you. But I am sad, very sad indeed. I am sad because I am also mourning; and you can’t be popping bottles of champagne when you are mourning.

AT their sparsely furnished two bedroom apartment on Achapo street Ajegunle, a densely populated community in Lagos state, Mrs Otunere Bye Braye visibly portrayed the posture of one that is totally crestfallen and has resined to fate.

Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo, poet, scholar, literary theorist and administrator is one of Africa’s leading men of ideas from the 20th century. His impact on the shaping of the ideas of the African world in modernity is vast and pointed.

Now Signs that the late rainy season is eventually coming to an end, appears to have raised hope that the flood ravaging some communities abutting the Ogun River will soon subside.

‘THROWN OUT’ was a newspaper’s headline, celebrating the Senate crushing of the executive bill sneakily passed to the National Assembly on the apron of the Jega-exigency which sought to reverse an electoral feat already achieved by the NASS-namely the barring of presidential battalion of aides as delegates to presidential party primaries!

This piece which is essentially on how an organization should manage information is informed by the directive of the Nigerian Senate to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last week to do his work and talk less.

AMERICA will be the last human government to rule the world. Apocalyptically saying, I am doubly sure of this fact. The United States had thrived in all she had embarked upon.