School abductions: Big test for Tinubu
The first and most infamous school abduction was the Chibok Schoolgirls incident of April 14, 2014, when 276 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, were whisked off into Sambisa Forest by Boko Haram jihadist terrorists. Though some of them were recovered, more than 100 of them remain unaccounted for.
High cost of treatment, hampering management of sickle cell disease, stakeholders lament
Governments at all levels have been called to include treatment and management of sickle cell disease for sickle cell warriors in the health insurance policy of the country.
Mercy Corps charges media practitioners on peace promotion
By Peter Duru, Makurdi Media practitioners in the country have been enjoined to be in the vanguard to promote peace and use their reports to douse potential conflict situations before they escalate to violence. The Conflicts Technical Adviser, Community Initiative to Promote Peace, CIPP project of Mercy Corps, Mr. Godwin Okoko made the call during […]
For telecoms, an industry perennially challenged, By Okoh Aihe
The situation in the country has made life difficult for the people, and has made planning impossible
I’m not restrained from performing my traditional functions — HRM Ekioemi
The Ebenanaowe of Operemor Kingdom in Burutu local government area of Delta State, HRM (Dr) John Oweiagbe Ekioemi, Gbesa 1, said that he has not been restrained from performing his traditional functions and dealings with government by a state high court.
Otigba’s new book relives Nigeria-Biafra war experience
By Chris Onuoha About 50 years after Nigeria’s painful civil war, book lovers are being regaled with yet another novel on that ugly experience. The new book, ‘I Remember: The Nigeria-Biafra War – Graphic Recollections of a Child’ left nothing to the imagination, as it captures most of the low incidents of the time, as […]
