Ejigbo council empowers 75 unemployed youths, 25 widows
As part of measures to eradicate poverty among residents, and in Nigeria in general, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, Lagos State has provided free three month skill acquisition training for 75 unemployed residents including men and women as well as undisclosed amount of financial support for 25 widows in the council area.
Tribute to Auntie Chinyere
VERY few of the people around us have significant impacts on our lives. And I want to pay a heartfelt tribute to my beloved late auntie, Chief Mrs Chinyere Asika, who recently passed away and will be buried today in Onitsha.
Asagba of Asaba marks 90th birthday, lauds Buhari
THE Asagba of Asaba, Professor Chike Edozien, yesterday, said President Muhammadu Buhari was an Apostle of change and urged Nigerians to support him to bring about the change that would move the country forward.
Okorocha’s aide counsels Ndigbo over Buhari’s appointment
As mixed reactions continued to trail the recent appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari, people of the South East region, have been urged to exercise restraint in making quick conclusions that they will be marginalized under the Buhari’s administration.
Is probe the way to go?
THE way we plunge from one controversy into another, as if we are a people determined to scatter can be baffling sometimes! Some more optimistic persons insist that Nigeria will never break up, no matter what, but many more believe rightly too, that we must not take things for granted, for as long as we have deliberate inequality and unfairness in our handling of very crucial national issues, one of which is corruption.
We don’t need to speak Greek
IN Greek mythology, Sisyphus, founder and first King of Corinth, was accused of betraying the secrets of the gods, tricking and chaining death. He was sentenced to endlessly rolling a boulder up a hill and watch it roll down. Modern Greeks have been sentenced to a similar torture by their fellow Europeans since 2010.
