Casual worker in court for allegedly stealing 10 sachets of seaman’s schnapps
A 29-year-old casual worker, Babatunde Adewuyi, on Tuesday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun for allegedly stealing ten packs of seaman’s schnapps worth N15,000. The police charged Adewuyi, whose address with theft. The prosecution counsel, Insp E.O. Adaraloye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Feb 23 at 6 p.m.at […]
REPORT: SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS: Kogi schools turn to PTA for help
By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja A shortage of teachers harms students, teachers and the public education system as a whole. It hampers students’ ability to learn, reduces teachers’ productivity, and consumes economic resources that could be better deployed elsewhere. The state of education in Kogi State at present is in a state of coma. One of […]
How I became successful, starting from the scratch in UK despite being a prince – Tonye Princewill
By Ekaette Bassey Apart from being a Prince of the Kalabari kingdom in Rivers State and son to an eminent Professor of Medical Microbiology and First class King, Prince Tonye J.T Princewill is a prominent businessman, petroleum engineer, movie producer, philanthropist and politician. He was also two-time gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State under Action Congress […]
A Save Our Soul Plea: An Open Letter to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq
By Ademola Adedoyin Dear Mr Governor, I will like to start this letter by stating the obvious: we are in unusual and disturbing times. Our nation is going through a most challenging circumstance perhaps never experienced since the end of the civil war in 1970. Some will even argue that the current tension in the […]
Our abductors threatened to kill, fry, eat us — Jangebe schoolgirls
One of the victims of last Friday’s Zamfara Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, abduction, Hafsat Anka, said the captives threatened to kill, fry and eat them if they misbehaved. Hafsat, while narrating her ordeal to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Government House, Gusau, shortly after regaining freedom, stated that they trekked over […]
PHOTOS: Freed Jengebe schoolgirls after their release
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Why Gumi should not cause disaffection in the military
By Emmanuel Aziken The Unity Advocacy Group (UAG) has alerted Nigerians of the dangers of having a military divided along religious and ethnic lines. UAG reaction follows recent statement credited to Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, where he accused non-Muslim soldiers of carrying out orchestrated killings in some communities and precipitating anger in the North. Sheikh Gumi […]
States should lead in economic recovery and sustainable growth
By Kayode Fayemi ONE of the most significant consequences of the global public health crisis, the novel coronavirus, was the adverse effect that it had on economies around the world. As the world faced the greatest public health challenge in most of our lifetimes, we also grappled with the economic effects of lockdowns: limited travel […]
Outrage greets blockade of food, cattle coming south
….As DSS invites food, cattle dealers’ union leadership …Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff, cattle dealers stop movement of food to south …It’s a wake-up call for S-West, says YCE …It’s cold war against the South-West—Agbekoya …Action of northerner food dealers strange —Ohanaeze …N-Delta’ll stop flow of oil to North if… PANDEF …We believe they have a […]
Insecurity: Yobe govt orders closure of all boarding schools
The Yobe government yesterday announced the closure of all boarding schools in the state, as part of proactive measures to safeguard the lives of the students. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Muhammed Idris, made the announcement in Damaturu while addressing newsmen. Idris said: “The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has ordered […]
#EndSARS: Ex-Finance Minister, Nenadi Usman demands N5bn over murder of niece
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri Former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, on yesterday, approached the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other Units of the Nigeria Police Force, sitting in Abuja, to seek redress for the extra-judicial murder of her niece, Miss Anita Akapson, by a trigger-happy […]
