Flood victims return home to uncertainties (2)
HOWEVER, the state government, which expressed concern over the plight of the victims given the colossal loss incurred during the flooding, reiterated its commitment to ensuring their quick resettlement. The government, however, ruled out monetary compensation to the victims, saying it was more concerned about how they would start life all over again, especially those who lost farmlands, properties, livestock and other means of livelihood.
Our procedural laws are frustrating corruption cases – Godwin Obla
Chief Godwin Obla, is one of the foremost prosecutors in the country. He is prosecuting some cases for Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Obla, who recently turned 50, in this interview, spoke on the challenges facing criminal justice administration in the country and problems militating against the prosecution of economic and financial crime cases. He also counseled young lawyers on the need for hard work, noting that success only come through hard work and perseverance.
I did not offend Kalu – Gov Orji
ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, yesterday challenged the people of the state to find out what he did to his predecessor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, to warrant opposition against his government.
Lagos PDP needs unity – Obasanjo
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, called for unity in the Lagos State chapter of Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to enhance the party’s chances in the 2015 elections.
Soldiers intercept alleged illegal oil bunkering vessel in Delta
Men of 19 Battalion of Nigerian Army, Koko, Warri North, Delta State, yesterday, intercepted and arrested a Lagos bound vessel, MV RAAF, with 15 crew members arrested onboard, at the Escravos high sea.
2015: Atiku’s loyalists regroup in C-River
POLITICAL associates and loyalists of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in Cross River State have started consultations towards the realization of the presidential ambition of the Turakin Adamawa.
Winners Chapel denies complicity in death of 3-yr-old pupil in Benin
LIVING Faith Bible Church (aka Winners Chapel), proprietor of Kingdom Heritage Model School in Benin City, Edo State, has absolved itself of complicity in the death of one of its pupils, Miss Imiefan Omokaro, aged three, who was found dead in one of the school toilets in November, last year.
Prostate cancer: Know the facts
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men worldwide and ranked second as the cause of death in cancer-related diseases. About 20,000 men die of prostate cancer every year in Nigeria. On daily basis, at least 14 men die in the country.
Dissecting Soyinka’s abaiku afflicted Continent
Penultimate week in Lagos,and precisely at popular event centre, Terra Kulture, Harmattan Haze on African Spring, a book of critical essays written by renowned intellectual and Nobel laureate , Professor Wole Soyinka was presented to the public.
Pains, gains of workers in 2012
BY this time last year, precisely 3rd January, the country was literally on fire over the January 1, hike in the pump price to N141 per litre, from N65.
Resolutions and a peek into the life process
IT is a New Year. We all renew hope and make resolutions. I have never been particularly conformist about many things in life. From childhood, I have asked uncomfortable questions and thrown pebbles at orthodoxies. The conventional wisdom has never satisfied my search for answers about our often mysterious but lovely world, either the natural world that conditions us and which we are very much part of or the social canons of existence. So resolutions at the beginning of a new year often resembled for me, an admission of human weakness. If there is a thing to change, why wait till the beginning of a new year? But just for once, I fell into line and made a resolution which I have never betrayed.
