Dr. Chike Obidigbo, from Umunya, is a graduate of universities of Salford, Manchester, and Lancaster, UK; one time lecturer; journalist; and an industrialist engaged in product manufacturing and job creation for over two decades. He is presently the chairman of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Enugu, Anambra and Ebonyi states, and a member of National Council of Small and Medium Scale Industries.

The Federal Government, Saturday, summoned the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States (US) Embassy to protest a statement credited to the spokeswoman, Deb MacLean, on the embassy’s Twitter account expressing disappointment over the state pardon granted former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.

Swansea, United Kingdom – Arsenal bounced back from their Champions League exit to step up their challenge for a top-four Premier League finish as goals from Nacho Monreal and Gervinho secured a 2-0 win at Swansea City on Saturday.

Nigeria on Saturday ruled out a ransom payment to the kidnappers holding seven members of a French family as France’s foreign minister held talks with President Goodluck Jonathan on the abductions.

THOSE born in Nigeria 900 years ago and others who made unquantifiable sacrifices on behalf of this country; either during the nationalist struggles or paid the supreme sacrifice on the field of war to keep the nation one will not survive one week in today’s Nigeria. Many of them, civil servants, lived freely in any part of the country. Railway workers, P&T workers, as well as traders freely resided wherever they wanted in any part of the country.

Utimanik Suites, Grace Bill Road, Eket, in Akwa Ibom State, will on March 30, play host to lovers of literature and the state’s Literati as one of Nigeria’s budding authors Godwin Ekpe launches his two poetry books.

The 1998 graduate of Geology from the University of Calabar who also holds a Masters in Geophysics from the University of Port Harcourt, with the release of The Mirror of Self and The Soul of a Poet has ventured into the deep world of poetry.

Senator Christopher Babajide Omoworare (ACN, Osun East) is the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter Governmental Affairs. He also serves on the Senate Committee of Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters; Rules and Business; Sports and Social Development.
In this interview, Omoworare bares his mind on President Goodluck Jonathan administration, the Senate, and Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration, among other issues of national importance.

It was meant to inflict maximum embarrassment and damage.And had it succeeded, the nation would still have been reeling under the effect of a tragedy of monumental proportions.

If Akinbola David Akingbehin knew the trip his wife, Margaret Moronke, was making to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, was a journey of no return, on Thursday, February 28, he certainly would have stopped her. But fate has a way of playing a cruel joke on people.

A forty-year-old man, John Friday Akpan, from Akwa Ibom State but resident in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, is now explaining to the police how he allegedly heeded the advice of a herbalist, one Dr Okokon, and tagged his two children, Elisha Udobong and Esther, as witches.