Community exhumes, consumes frozen chicken buried by Customs
There was pandemonium last weekend near the Trailer Park at Ebubu, in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State when thousands of youths, women and children descended on a pit where several tonnes of chicken condemned by men of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, were buried. They dug them out and took same home for consumption.
36 Ministerial appointees storm Abuja for two day retreat
The two day retreat for 36 ministerial nominees who were recently screened and confirmed by the senate recently would kick off today.
Prof Mahmud Yakubu at the INEC
THE recent confirmation by the Senate of Prof Mahmud Yakubu as the new National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and five National Commissioners is a welcome relief.
Buhari, look your front
MY people have a saying which I will tell in my “inner” Igbo dialect and then translate. We say: “leruo enya akala nari zuru ife”. When you visit someone and you are about to depart, he will usually tell you: “fare well” or “take care” or “be careful as you go”.
DOGARA TO APC MEMBERS: Accept c’ttee headship in good faith
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, may have shunned entreaties from members of his party, the All Progressives Congress, to tinker with the list of committee heads which he released with a view to giving the ruling party a comfortable grip on the leadership of the lower House of parliament.
Man in prison for slapping wife’s friend
An Ejigbo Magistrate’s court in Lagos has remanded a 44-year-old man, Oluokun Olarewaju, in prison for allegedly slapping his wife’s friend, Miss Christiana Duntoye, who told his wife that she saw him with another woman.
