As the world and entire literary community mourn the death of one of Ghana’s most prominent men of letters, Kofi Awoonor, the organisers of The Storymoja Hay Festival, an event put together to celebrate writing and storytelling in Nairobi, which the Poet attended and was due to perform last Saturday evening as part of a pan-African poetry showcase before his death, organised a special tribute in his memory.

FOR many years Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, was a byword for a dirty city on account of the mountains of waste from both industrial and domestic concerns that became signposts in different parts of the city. Indeed, any visitor to Aba then was sure to be confronted by heaps of wastes that not only assault the nose with their putrefying stench, but also block almost all the roads in the city. The situation was also worsened by the ever-present deplorable roads, with stores and shanties built on top of drainage channels causing blockages and overflow of water especially during rainy seasons.

Switching to a healthier lifestyle may reverse the signs of ageing at the genetic level in men with low-risk prostate cancer.

WHEN news broke last weekend of the killing of nine individuals by the State Security Service, Marilyn Ogar, the Deputy Director, Information, DSS, carefully couched her narrative in classic anti-terrorist speak. Ogar, very much like a disciple of Joseph Goebbels, the notorious propaganda chief of Hitler’s Third Reich, told how two alleged Boko Haram “elements”, Kamal Abdullahi and Mohammed Adamu, earlier arrested “for terrorist activities”, led security operatives to uncompleted buildings, “where arms were purported to have been buried underground”.

THE Senate yesterday, suspended its scheduled debate on the 2014-2016 Medium Term Fiscal Expenditure,MTFE, for two weeks,saying the action was to allow relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies,MDAs, to make useful inputs to the document.

Women and children in the Nigerian prisons across the country are plagued with several concerns. These issues range from minors serving time or awaiting trial alongside adult detainees in the same prison facility, pregnant women serving time in prisons, to the more disturbing reality of nursing mothers incarcerated alongside their babies in the prisons.

The end seems not in sight to the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the aggrieved seven governors operating on the platform of the new PDP (nPDP) are insisting that President Goodluck Jonathan must meet their demands presented at previous meetings they held with him (president).

FEDERAL Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved various projects in the sum of N29.7bn. The projects included road construction and provision of water to some districts in the Federal Capital Territory.

Governor Godwill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has said that the governorship seat will move to Eket senatorial district come 2015.

PROFESSOR Margee Ensign, President of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), has said that respect for traditional, religious, and cultural heritage of students has brought AUN to its enviable position.