The Amauzam Ugbawka autonomous community in Nkanu East Local Government area of Enugu state recently elected a new executive to pilot the affairs of the community in the next four years. Speaking after the election, the newly elected President General, Chief Boniface Okoli, thanked members of the community for the honour done to him by electing him to serve.

The spate of fuel tanker explosions on Nigerian highways is getting curious by the day, once again, raising questions about what has became of the rail-line projects of past administrations as an alternative routes to Nigerian highways. Nigeria bemoans losses everyday caused by heavy duty vehicles on the nation’s highways but yet nothing concrete is being done to alleviate the problems, a situation which postures the nation as one whose leaders play the fiddle while the country burns. Otherwise, the leadership of any serious country would call a spade by name and tackle the issue head-on.

The organized Labour under the auspices of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has cautioned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of the implications of listening to unsolicited advice coming from some uninformed quarters to slash salary of poorly paid civil servants as part of the move to cut the cost of governance.

Halima gets pregnant and suffers Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF), after child delivery. Now, we see her abandoned by her husband and her own father and overly discriminated by the society. They say she smells. They throw things at her in the market. They say she disgusts them. Her co-wives want her out. She is thrown out by her husband and his mother. This is when Zara Robbins (played by Stephanie Linus) comes into the picture.

CLEAN, calm and coherent. These three attributes best describe the matriarch of Williams’ family, Mrs. Ibilola Williams, who is 100 today.