RECENTLY, youths and residents of Agbarho Kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, stormed the palace of the traditional ruler, His Royal Majesty, Samson Owhe Ogugu I, who they accused of intimidating his subjects, collecting taxes under the guise of security among other diverse allegations.

On Wednesday August 15, 2018, Catholics the world over celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven. It was glorious. The Feast of the Assumption celebrates the Catholic teaching that, at the end of her earthly life, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was assumed body and soul into heaven.

A dangerous chemical that had irritating sulphurous odour has claimed the lives of no fewer than seven persons with several others hospitalized at Umuzu Mbana, Otolo Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State. This was disclosed yesterday by President General of the community, Hon Tony Afam Muodielo while addressing newsmen, in Nnewi. 

To many Nigerians, when you mention the name of Alhaji Balarabe Musa, what comes to mind is a principled man who stood his ground and lost the exalted seat of the governor of the old Kaduna state, which comprised the present Kaduna and Katsina states.

FORTUNE has smiled on the quintuplets (four males and one female) born to an unemployed housewife married to a tricycle operator in Anambra State, as an Nnewi –based philanthropist, Sir Louis Carter Onwugbenu has offered to train them to the university level.

The emergence of a new National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has rekindled hope for an exciting and democratic contest for the nomination of the party’s candidates for the 2019 general elections in Rivers State and other states of the Federation through the introduction of direct primary mode of electing candidates.

Olorogun Solomon Edojah, a former member of the House of Representatives who represented Ethiope Federal Constituency is presently a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC who ditched a leader of the party in the state, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor and pitched tent with Chief Great Ogboru.

The place of woman and technology in the development of a nation cannot be disputed. Women are the cradle of human existence as nature endowed them with the gift of procreation. Similarly, the advanced nations of the world are marked by their level of technology in conquering their environment.

Opposition politics, especially in fledgling democracies often face a herculean task in the quest to garner sufficient votes to form governments at the centre.

The APC  has come  alive. It barks endlessly these days. That is some  consolation for many of its disillusioned supporters.  They can begin to hope again. That  this enthusiasm and energy would yield a strong party  with  firm democratic traditions.