Ekiti workers will soon heave sigh of relief – Speaker
Ado-Ekiti – The Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr Kola Oluwawole, has urged civil servants in the state to exercise patience, saying relief will soon come their way. Oluwawole, in a Workers’ Day celebration message issued in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday by his Media Aide, Mr Stephen Gbadamosi, lauded the resilience of workers across the […]
BLEAK MAY DAY: 26 states’ workers owed salaries
AS Nigerian workers today join their counterparts across the world to celebrate May Day, gloom, frustration, bitterness, anger, lamentation, and despair are not enough to describe their mood as not more than 10 states have fully paid workers’ salaries and allowances up to date.
This Leap Year you can go on your knee and propose to your dithering man!
How do two people who love each other madly actually make it to the altar? When is the moment right for him to pop the question, or would he leave it till never? How do you convince your man you love him enough to want to commit without forcing the issue and scaring him off? In other words, why the heck, after all these years, hasn’t he asked you to marry him?
Eschew violence, Mamora urges youths
ERSTWHILE APC senator representing Lagos East, Senator Olurunnimbe Mamora has called on Nigerian youths to deploy their mental and physical energies towards productive areas, eschew violence, and have faith in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
Ethnic nationalities storm Lagos, sign up for peace
A summit of ethnic nationalities has called for the formation of a national Strategic Group on Conflicts (SGC) for the mobilisation of support of community leaders for conflict prevention and for coordination of activities of community-based peace actors in Nigeria.
Social Media adjudge The Gist with Emma Ugolee most followed youth talk show
The name Emmanuel Ugolee is synonymous with Nigerian entertainment as many recall his role in the development of the new age entertainment industry almost two decades ago.
A secular humanist critique of religion (2)
Like other psychological traits the combination of which, with physical and intellectual attributes, constitute human nature, faith and fear are not necessarily harmful. Faith, in the sense of tentative conviction about something or acceptance of a belief inspite of insufficient evidence, is rational and justified as long as the individual is willing to change his or her mind when better evidence supporting the contrary view becomes available.
Technology Shifts, James Agada
The emergence of Information Technology has forever changed the way economic and social development occurs in Nigeria. Most stakeholders in IT industry prefer to talk about what’s coming.
Herdsmen invasion: The residents’ measures to stop attacks in Anambra
FOLLOWING last week’s slaughtering of dozens of people in Uzouwani local government area of Enugu State by suspected herdsmen, many communities in Anambra State have been strategizing on how to deal with the situation if it arises in their areas.
Our story, by Fulani herdsmen
Baba Othman Ngelzarma is the National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, otherwise known as Fulani herdsmen.
Rev. King should rot in jail instead – Rev. Kasali
Reverend Yomi Kasali, founder/overseer of Foundation of Truth Ministry, while unveiling plans for the last Easter celebration, in an interview with Olasunkanmi Akoni, spoke on a number of national and religious issues. He was in Foursquare Gospel Church before founding the Foundation of Truth Ministry 11 years ago. Excerpts:
