‘Ndigbo have collectively sold their birthrights …’
The unbridled quest for money and the attitude of "only money counts" in all Igbo affairs, came under severe attack Tuesday, when the Catholic Bishop of Nsukka, Most Rev. Professor Godfrey Igwebuike Onah, delivered the 33rd Public Lecture of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, titled "Intellectualism and the Development of a People".
STUDY: Low dose CT helps drop lung cancer deaths by 20% in high risk individuals
This significant improvement in lung cancer patient outcomes arises from the ability of doctors to use CT to detect small lung nodules that they can’t see on standard x-rays.
STUDY: Low dose CT helps drop lung cancer deaths by 20% in high risk individuals
This significant improvement in lung cancer patient outcomes arises from the ability of doctors to use CT to detect small lung nodules that they can’t see on standard x-rays.
The greed and rascality of the APC
THERE are so many things wrong with the PDP. It is an understatement to insist it is a very imperfect political party. But for everything that is wrong with the PDP, the APC is worse. It is ludicrous to pretend the APC is squeaky-clean while the PDP is corrupt when a large chunk of APC members were formerly in the PDP. Today, both the Senate president and the Speaker, for example, are former PDP members. These turncoats did not become new creations when they crossed over to the APC.
Buhari laments delay in extraditing indicted Nigerians in UK
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed reservations over the delay in bringing to Nigeria officials of former President Goodluck Jonathan and its collaborators indicted in corrupt deals taking refuge in Britain.
Task force official stabbed, fingers chopped off by hoodlums in Oshodi
LAGOS—Rampaging commercial bus drivers and motor park touts, yesterday, attacked officials of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Task Force, who stormed Oshodi market to impound buses obstructing other motorists plying the route.
Adamawa APC chieftains in free-for-all at Atiku’s house
THE residence of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was weekend allegedly turned into a boxing ring as two top chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, engaged in fisticuffs.
Budget 2016: FG to cut borrowing with N2.2trn daily TSA funds
LAGOS — THE Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, in Abuja disclosed that the Federal Government had a balance of N2.2 trillion in the Single Treasury Account on a daily basis.
‘Several dead’, around 100 injured in train crash — Police
Two trains collided in southern Germany on Tuesday, killing “several” people and injuring around 100, police said.
CBN earmarks over N1trn to fund real sector
THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has set aside over N1 trillion to promote lending to the real sector of the economy with a view to stimulating economic activities in the country. The Governor of the CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this at the 21st Seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, yesterday.
IAAF, CAA to build high altitude training centre in Jos
A High Altitude Athletics Training Center is to be established in Jos Plateau State.
This is contained in an agreement signed in Lagos at the weekend by the Federal government of Nigeria represented by the Minister for Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung and the President of the Confederation of African Athletics Hamad Kalkaba Malboum as well as the Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s President, Dr Solomon Ogba.
