Workers Day and Rights of Vulnerable Workers in Nigeria

Workers Day and Rights of Vulnerable Workers in Nigeria

By Roseline Oghenebrume There is a connection between human rights and employment: human rights will only be functional when a person’s source of livelihood is unhindered as this impact on rights to life, movement, peaceful assembly and association, privacy, and human dignity, liberty, property, etc. Even at this, an unhealthy working environment and poor terms […]
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Sports suffers as Ayade’s men fight for office space

Sports suffers as Ayade’s men fight for office space

On Monday last  week, two of Senator Ben Ayade’s aides on sports engaged each other in fisticuffs following a misunderstanding over office space for, arguably, the most neglected sector in the state in recent times.

Robot helps Tunisia medics avoid infection from coronavirus patients

Robot helps Tunisia medics avoid infection from coronavirus patients

Medics have deployed a robot in a Tunisia’s hospital caring for coronavirus victims to limit contact between staff and infected patients, in a first for the North African country. The tall, single-limbed machine is mounted on wheels and is capable of taking pulses and checking temperatures and blood oxygen levels. It enables nurses, doctors and patients’ […]

Covid-19: Onuesoke calls for sensitization of rural communities to contain spread

Covid-19: Onuesoke calls for sensitization of rural communities to contain spread

By Ephraim Oseji People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has called on government, humanitarian and non-governmental organizations to embark on immediate large scale sensitization of the rural community in order to curtail the spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic. Onuesoke who made the appeal while addressing newsmen in Warri, Delta […]

Secret relationship is a fraud – Mandy Ujunwa

Secret relationship is a fraud – Mandy Ujunwa

By Ayo Onikoyi Busty Nollywood actress, Mandy Ujunwa Obi is as desirable as any woman could be in terms of frontal endowment. But if you are looking for secret relationship you may be on a wrong page with the ebony bombshell of lusciousness from Nnewi, Anambra State. Bale ‘definitely interested’ in playing in Major League […]

Life has to go on, but differently!

Life has to go on, but differently!

Dr Ugoji Egbujo When SERS and MERS came, they didn’t get us. So when I heard of coronavirus in  Wuhan in January, I simply called it OPP – other peoples property. Yes, property! But Coronavirus is here and if our recent daily jumps and the news from Kano are anything to go by, then the […]

Marriage Na scam?

Marriage Na scam?

By Francis Ehwerido Many young people are increasingly getting disillusioned with the institution of matrimony. Some have seen situations in other marriages, and even in their young marriages, that they did not bargain for and they tell you that marriage is a scam or fraud. Today, we want to interrogate marriage and find out if […]

REVEALED: What Abba Kyari did for Nigerian sports

REVEALED: What Abba Kyari did for Nigerian sports

•Arsenal lost a fan in him By Jacob Ajom The novel coronavirus, also called Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on humanity. In the US for instance, over 60,000 deaths have been recorded since the first case was reported in that country. In Italy, Spain, England, France and many other countries across the world, thousands of lives […]

A-Ibom missed SFTAS N43.4bn over delayed budget passage — Gov Emmanuel

A-Ibom missed SFTAS N43.4bn over delayed budget passage — Gov Emmanuel

Inaugurates post-COVID-19 Economic Reconstruction C’ttee By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has explained that the state missed out in the N43.4billion World Bank Assisted States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability (SFTAS) Programme for result-fund recently shared to 24 states by the federal government due to delayed passage of the 2019 […]

Police confirm abduction of monarch in Nasarawa

Police confirm abduction of monarch in Nasarawa

The Nasarawa State Police Command on Saturday confirmed the abduction of Abdullahi Magaji, the “Aron Akye” of Ugah, a Second-Class traditional ruler in the state. The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Bola Longe, who confirmed the development to journalists in Lafia, said the command had mobilised personnel to the area to rescue the monarch. He said: […]

Charles Idahosa: Why we walked away from Obaseki

Charles Idahosa: Why we walked away from Obaseki

The dilemma of Charles Idahosa is understandable. He is a fading politician with neither skill nor connection to survive in other legitimate economic enterprises. But as an elder, one expects that even if Charles is sent on an errand befitting only for slaves, he ought to deliver it like a freeborn.

COVID-19:  Gov Emmanuel re-opens markets for three days weekly

COVID-19:  Gov Emmanuel re-opens markets for three days weekly

Declares use of face mask compulsory By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state government has relaxed the closure of markets in the state for three days in a week. Emmanuel who announced this in a state-wide broadcast on Saturday morning, while giving an update on the ongoing lockdown imposed to […]