Agberos have seized textbook writing and publishing.In those days, siblings shared books. Older siblings wrapped their textbooks with brown paper and powdered the pages so that the books could remain clean and fresh, preserved for younger siblings. But that has changed.

A 2023 Presidential Aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Ibrahim Bello Dauda, has decried the poor performance of the APC in Saturday’s council polls in Abuja and urged the party to learn from its mistakes ahead of the 2023 general elections.

I would have written this long before now, but my heart was torn between just writing to share an experience, and the horrible truth that innocent children were involved. It was New Year eve, my sister and I had gone for last-minute shopping at one of Diya Street, Gbagada’s supermarkets.

Alhaji Abdulkadir was the Managing Director of NIDB in 1985 when then-President Babangida made him head a committee on IMF following the heated national debate on whether Nigeria should go the IMF route or not. I had a good relationship with him and visited his office from time to time – often without an appointment – to pick his brains on national issues.

By Sola Ogundipe Amid the lingering fuel crisis in Nigeria, cases of hazardous health effects from unsafe exposure to Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, (petrol) has been on the increase. Reports of persons reporting to the hospital with complaints of headache, nausea, dizziness and respiratory irritation, etc., after accidental ingestion of petrol or inhalation of the […]

By Sola Ogundipe Use only approved portable containers and store containers at room temperature, away from sources of heat or ignition such as the sun, portable heaters, sparks, and flames; keep in a well-ventilated area. Avoid spilling petrol on your skin or inhaling the vapour. Use absorbent materials to clean up and prevent the spill […]

As things currently stand, particularly in the ruling party APC, a case of “things fall apart” amongst members, (apologies to Chinua Achebe, the author of a famous book by that title) may be imminent.

When the 18th indigenous Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, created the Intelligence Response Team, IRT in 2015, as one of his innovative initiatives, it was aimed solely, to combat violent crimes, especially kidnapping, which had become an intractable scourge before he assumed office.

By Emma Amaize                   In the last few weeks, propagandists, extortionists and their sponsors have charged up the political airwaves in Delta State with half-truths and outright mendacity. Okowa accused of covenanting with Ijaw deity   During the week, it was a frontal shot at the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Benue state government is to access a $3million counterpart fund for immunization programmes in the state. Governor Samuel Ortom who made this known Friday while flagging off the Polio Outbreak Response Vaccination Campaign in Makurdi said his government had already paid the sum of $100,000 counterpart fund to access the fund. […]

Since she made her acting debut in 2012, after trying her hands at modelling, Lizzy Gold Onuwaje has not looked back in her bid to conquer the screens. To date, she remains one of the divas ruling the screens in the country.

An Abia State High Court sitting in Aba, Friday, refused to sack Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu as the authentic Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC in Abia State.

Former Manager with Fanmilk Nigeria Plc, Mr Emmanuel Alor Odafi is dead. Aged 67, late Odafi battled high blood pressure and diabetes for years during which he took his medications for 28 years before he died on January 3, 2022, after he took ill briefly and spent three days in the hospital. Born on December […]

. Dayo Johnson Akure A 25-year-old junior housewife, Rebecca Nicodemus has reportedly stabbed her rival, Precious to death over a disagreement on sex turn with their husband at Ode-Irele, in Ondo State. The two women reportedly lived in a room and a parlour apartment with their husbands. Police prosecutor, Obadasa Ajiboye, informed a Chief Magistrate […]

The resurgence of the activities of the ominous unknown gunmen in the South-East geopolitical zones in the recent weeks is becoming worrisome.