Why hardship may increase corruption in Nigeria, by cleric
By Emma Una CALABAR—CURRENT hardship affecting a large section of Nigerians has the capacity to increase the rate of corruption as people become desperate to survive, Bishop Emmah Isong, Assistant National Deputy President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, South South, has said. Speaking with Vanguard, yesterday, the President of Central Christian Chapel International, […]
Relatives search Lagos rivers for suicidal mother of 3
LAGOS—Relatives of the single parent and mother of three, Olubunmi Uko, who disappeared from her Fola Agoro, Lagos, home with her nine-year-old son last Friday, leaving a suicide note, have begun to search for her body in Lagos rivers.
Spiteful search for oil out of season
Out of the 46 years of Nigeria’s political independence, northern elites had power on their grab for nearly 38 years; what is boggling the minds of northern talakawas is: what had stopped the elites then in making a true resolute effort in the search for oil in north despite the fact that preliminary geological survey had shown evidence of oil existence?
Duke of Edinburgh tasks youths on Nigeria’s future
LAGOS—Secretary General, the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation, Mr John May, has said the future of Nigeria was in the youths.
Ooni of Ife to leaders: Champion emancipation of our youths
LAGOS—The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, yesterday, urged the Nigeria political class to champion the cause of emancipation of teeming youths in the country and charged the leaders to live an exemplary life worthy of emulation.
CHIBOK GIRLS: No more excuses, #BBOG tells Buhari
ABUJA—The Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, movement pointedly told President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday that he no longer had any excuse not to rescue the 218 Chibok school girls, saying the time to act was now.
