When I wrote “Talba: Beware the gathering storms”, forewarning my Niger State Governor Dr.Babangida Aliyu, of the imminence of danger ahead of 2011, I was neither metaphysically prophetic nor in my prognosis of the elements was I premonitively predictive of what precisely held for the boisterous Governor of the hydro state famed for his surefooted trudges and verbal jabs that are as self-reassuring to ‘power’ as they often are terribly self-harming to it.

When I met Greg at a workshop recently and realized he was only 29, I lied I was in my 30s when the fact is, I was over 10 years older,” confessed Theresa as she gloated of her latest conquest. “My friends urged me to go for it – to enjoy it while it lasted. And why not? He was still single, very good – looking and thrilled with the idea of bedding a ‘sugar mummy’. I asked him if he’d slept with older women before and he clamped up. No skin off my nose really.

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When I received this text message out of the blue, many months ago, my reaction was to send a reply immediately.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may be stockpiling wood for another round of bonfire in the House of Representative with its zoning arrangement. The allocation of offices to the six geo-political zones have created a renewed bad-blood between the South-West and the South-East on account of the very dismal showing of the S/West zone in the National Assembly elections when compared to the S-East.

Oliver Okeregwu is an indigene of Umueke, Omuma in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. A construction expert, he shares his thoughts on the best approach to tackle the development of the Niger Delta. He also offers a perspective on the best method the president can assemble a performing cabinet.

The primary mission after the interview was arranged was to get Chief Olabode George to talk about his life in prison. But the former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would rather prefer to have the story of his prison life told in a memoir, hence his insistence not to tell the story now. The only aspect of it he elected to tell is the one relating to the reason he was jailed for two years for fraud at the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) while he was chairman.

As the nation’s debt increases, stakeholders are divided on the implications of a burden of $4.5billion external and N4.5trillion domestic debts on a developing economy like Nigeria

In just two weeks from today a new governor will be sworn in who will occupy Douglas House, the Governor’s lodge in Owerri. Rochas Anayochukwu Okorocha was elected by Imo people in a hard fought election in which the incumbent Ikedi Ohakim was roundly defeated.

*As the nation is united in grief By Jide Ajani That afternoon, grief was served for lunch. But Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, the man who appears to be doing well with his charm, soothed and consoled the parents of the deceased. Not that he bought their grief with N5million (which was to be given to […]

THE Anglican Diocese of Ughelli, Delta State has commended President Goodluck Jonathan and the INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega for the success of the 2011 general elections which gave many Niger-ians the opportunity of exercising their franchise at the polls, just as it urged all the winners at the polls to endeavour to fulfill the campaign pro-mises to the electorate.