Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: An agent of Change
Chinua Achebe was a revolutionary genius with a descriptive warrior pen. He was ebulliently meticulous; a man of great wisdom and humility, with a rancor-free personality. But his literary approach and expression spearheaded by his novel Things Fall Apart was anything but radical and
revolutionary. It was an indeed a velvet revolutionary book. With the novel Achebe lunched the restoration of the African dignity, a clarion
call for Africa to define herself, tell her story and salvage her lost dignity.
ACN accuses FG of promoting policies that will plunge nation into crisis
The Action Congress of NIgeria, ACN, has accused the Federal Government of promoting policies that will plunge the country into crises and as well shuttle election in 2015.
20 illegal cocaine joints destroyed in Ijaw settlements
OVER 20 illegal cocaine joints at Olabrakopre, Ogbokone and other Ijaw settlements in Warri, Delta state were set ablaze, weekend, by a local task force of the bursting Meinbutus community.
More firms halt work at N. Korea industrial zone
Seoul said Sunday 13 South Korean firms had been forced to suspend production at a joint industrial zone in the North and warned of a “critical” situation if Pyongyang continued to ban access to the site.
Hypertension: Pharmacists caution against high consumption of noodles, paracetamol
AS Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark this year’s World Health Day, with the theme “High Blood Pressure”, the Pharmaceutical
Society of Nigeria, PSN, has cautioned against unrestrained consumption of foods such as noodles which are high in salt content, and drugs such as paracetamol that contain sodium, as a way of effectively addressing risk factors for raised blood pressure or hypertension.
Northern govs seek expansion of Amnesty Committee
The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has lauded President Goodluck Jonathan for setting up a committee to consider proposals for granting amnesty to members of the Boko Haram sect, whose uprising has left thousands of people dead and property worth millions destroyed in the North since 2009.
