Fear rules here. The signs are everywhere. Any vehicle that comes around to drop passengers intending to catch a bus out of Abuja is looked at with suspicion. And unlike the former practice, touts here no longer run after approaching vehicles as they scout for passengers. They allow the vehicles to stop and the passengers out before meeting them. Indeed the fear of suicide bomber operating in a vehicle has become the beginning of wisdom for touts at the Jabi Motor Park, Utako, Abuja since the bombing at the Sabon Gari Motor Park, Kano which claimed scores of lives.

When the Babanginda administration appointed Dr Walter Ofonagoro the Director General of Nigerian Television Authourity NTA, little was it known that, that simple policy decision by the new helmsman was going to inaugurate a revolutionary trend both on stage, movie and in the entire literary appreciation of one the greatest prose narratives of the last century, Things Fall Apart.

The memories and life of late Afrobeat music leg end Fela Anikulapo Kuti came alive last week when friends , family members and followers of the revolutionary social crusader gathered at Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island for the public presentation of a new book about him entitled Kalakuta Diaries written by a friend and former personal aid to Fela, Uwa Erhabor.

In the mid 1950s, just as he was completing his medical studies, fate played a cruel trick on Professor Jacques Grosset, the world renowned tuberculosis researcher. He was just 25 when he was struck by the deadly tubercle pathogen which causes tuberculosis (TB). The occurrence was ironical because the young scientist was infected right in the same hospital where he was undergoing his clinical training.
It was a drug-resistant strain of TB, and there were few antibiotics at the time, so the infected parts of his lungs had to be removed.
That incident decisively marked the end of his dream to become a surgeon. Ever since, he has nursed a grudge against TB.
To extract his pound of flesh, Grosset dedicated his life to fighting TB to the finish. Today, at 82, the famed scientist relentlessly pursues his ambition to eliminate TB permanently by killing the tubercle bacteria.

This is bizarre but true. A two-month -old girl was arrested and paraded in lieu of her father who was suspected to be a dare-devil robber. The mother was taken into custody along the toddler identified as Oyinkansola. It happened in Ogun State.

Policemen stormed the residence of the alleged armed robber, Ismail Adeosun, at Ago-Ika in Abeokuta North local government area and, because they could not find the suspect, they arrested every Adeosun available.

Plans by Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to return to the classroom as an  academic appear to be at the final stage as the Vice Chancellor of  Ekiti State University (EKSU), Prof  Dipo Aina, presented to the governor documents on the establishment of the Institute of Governance as passed by the Varsity  Council. Fayemi […]

A 14- year-old house maid, Otobong Edet John, had her buttocks seared with hot electric iron by her mistress, simply identified as Ekaette, on the suspicion that she was promiscuous.

Narrating her ordeal, Otobong said she was receiving a call on her phone when the madam operating a canteen asked her who was on the phone and she said it was one of her friends. “But madam did not believe me and started beating me. So I ran and stayed somewhere with my friend”,she stated.

Manchester City capitalised on a stumble from Chelsea to tighten their grip on second place in the Premier League on Saturday, after Manchester United took another stride towards the title.

MILAN – Fabio Quagliarella and Alessandro Matri scored one apiece for Juventus as the champions reinforced their Serie A title defence with a commanding 2-1 away win to Inter Milan here at the San Siro on Saturday. Inter began the day 18 points adrift of the leaders and despite having a game in hand had […]

*‘Further fuel subsidy removal is uncalled for’
The pronouncement by President Goodluck Jonathan on a new strategy by the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy has sparked another round of controversy. While some stakeholders say the money allocated for fuel subsidy in the budget must be channelled into agriculture, housing and other sectors to reposition the economy for rapid growth and development, others warn government against the removal.