YENAGOA—THE Environmental Rights Action, ERA, Bayelsa State, has urged the State Government situate receptacles from school surroundings saying the current scenario in the state was inexcusable and does not set a good example to children as regards hygiene.

Guinea captain, Ibrahima Sory Bangoura has said that the Super Eagles are in a class of their own at the CAF African Nations Championship, but they are beatable in their last group C game.

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu is expecting another hat-trick from Super Eagles striker, Chisom Chikatara, in the team’s last group match against Guinea in the ongoing Africa Nations Championship (CHAN), holding in Rwanda.

THE story of Warri city has been told so many times, a city that has given so much, yet got so little in return, with a giant sized reputation and wallowing in penury, a happy people, hospitable and full of live, yet dying slowly. Who will save Warri from its rot? You cannot see a Warri boy – wafarian – anywhere and not take notice; his unique pidgin english language, his braggadocio, his vigour and yes, his jokes.

THE feud between the Igbo and the Yoruba ethnic groups is contrived, just like the feud between the Igbo and the Ikwere. Whenever these feuds take centrestage, the impetus is invariably traceable to the divide-and-rule imperative, which inevitably profits the oligarchy of northern Nigeria. Every other explanation adduced in the explanation of the phenomenon can only be peripheral. It is important to make this point from the outset, before going about the business of explanations – for the benefit of those who may genuinely be ignorant of a crucial factor in the continued inability to resolve some of the more critical of Nigeria’s contradictions.