N-Delta amnesty: Counting the gains one year after
A critical look at the amnesty programme of the Federal Government for the Niger Delta militants one year after.
Since October 4, 2009, the booming of guns in the creeks of the Niger Delta with their harrowing human and economic calamities have been replaced by a peaceful environment conducive for normal living and doing business.
At CHD’s award ceremony, Akachi Ezeigbo told a story
Centre for Human Development (CHD), organizers of a writing competition to mark Ford Foundation’s 50 years existence in Nigeria with the theme: Nigerian Women: Yesterday, today and tomorrow, had their reasons when they invited University of Lagos lecturer and award-winning author, Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, as the Chairperson for the award ceremony.
BOOK FEATURE: Decades after, Mobolaji Johnson renders stewardship account
Political office holders in Nigeria are fond of travelling abroad. When it gets to the extreme with some of them, the media say they are junketing around the world. What provokes the majority of the people is not the amount of money usually expended on the trips. They are particularly angry that the leaders do not care to replicate some of the good things they see and enjoy abroad when they return home.
PHCN workers petition BPE over privatisation
SENIOR Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, has accused the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, of misleading and misinforming Nigerian public on the planned privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.
Ilaro Oronna Day: Unifying festival marred by politics in Ogun
The absence of the politicians is attributable to the struggle for governorship which has divided the entire Yewa into two camps.
How kidnappers hijacked Abia
HIS real name is Obioma Nwankwo, alias Osisikankwu, a former hunter and ex-fighter of the Icelander Confraternity, founded by ex-militant leader and Rivers State warlord, Ateke Tom. Between him and 10 other kidnap kingpins, notably, Mopol -a dismissed policeman, Stone, Tallest, 10-10, IK in Ukwa West local government area; Onyeme – a dismissed soldier and King Solomon in Abala; Dan Fryo and Susu in Umuezi axis, Abia State was held captive in the past two years until their handgrip went beyond the elbow region, in the last two to three months.
