Presidency: DDG advises North to seek fairness in 2015
DEFENDER of Democracy Group, DDG, a group in the Niger Delta, has said rather than attempting to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from running for a second term, Northern leaders should seek for a level-playing ground for all those interested in the 2015 Presidency.
Landmarks since amalgamation
1914: Nigeria is created through the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates.
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Badagry: From slave port to missionary outpost, by Akran of Badagry
THE Akran of Badagry Aholu Wheno Menu-Toyi 1 holds sway over a swathe of territory covering Badagry town and 70 adjourning villages and districts spread across the mainland and islands in Southwest Nigeria.
The influence of past rulers of Badagry is believed to have also reached the Nigerian border town of Seme.
The octogenarian present Akran of Badagry, ascended to the throne in 1977 and before then, was a journalist whose exploits in the pen profession started in 1961 in the then West African Pilot established by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, and spread across several platforms including Daily Sketch and New Nigeria where he rose to the position of Acting News Editor, South.
Before him, Badagary had been ruled by 14 paramount rulers, since the days of Akran Gbafoe in 1425.
Banks close early in Ilorin over fear of robbery attacks
Bank customers in Ilorin, the Kwara capital, have been going through hassles to transact businesses as the local branches now close at 2.00 pm over fear of attack by robbers.
Slouching into 2014
From the same poem that gave Chinua Achebe the title of the work that immortalised him, Things Fall Apart, comes this more foreboding sentence: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
