From August 2017 to August 2018, Benue State witnessed the worst humanitarian crisis in the history of the state.

Mr Dele Durojaye, the Chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), doubles as Chairman of the Joint Action Committee of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Chapter. He speaks on the warning strike by his union and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU, junior staff members of universities).

Clement Onyeaso Nze, the Director-General of the Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency, NHSA, in this interview, says Nigeria is awaiting river flooding from Niger Basin.

If you were to complain about three main things in your environment today, I’m very that one of those things top on your list would have something to do with our roads. Traffic is a major deterrent to the proper functioning of our daily activities. In the past the roads used to be predictable, but today we experience all sorts. One moment the road is unusually free and we cruise the streets in minutes, only to find that the next day there is absolute gridlock. Unfortunately, many times we never get to know the real reason behind some of these gridlocks. Spending two to three hours on the roads sets off a negative tone for the day. 

Two Fridays ago, the final curtains closed in on the former strongman of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. We woke up to the news of his passing away at a Singaporean hospital, thousands of miles away from Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. There is no pretence that his death was a shock or unexpected. It was […]