Ned Nwoko urges united Igbo support for Anioma state creation
Senator Ned Nwoko (Delta North) has called on political leaders and stakeholders across the South East to rally behind the creation of Anioma State as the sixth state of the zone, urging a unified approach to what he described as a strategic opportunity for the Igbo nation. In a press statement released in Abuja and […]
When systems fail, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
A popular actress joins a new church and decides to recommit herself to her faith. She takes it upon herself to perform a public ‘deliverance’ for a schoolgirl, who is still in her uniform. There are no teachers or parents in sight. Just the actress/pastor fiercely gripping the face of a teenager and performatively screeching at […]
Pharmacist laments huge food-drug interactions affecting prescriptions
By Rosemary IwunzeThe founder of PharmaPlan Systems, Dr. Remi Olukoya has lamented that 50% of patients cannot identify a single food-drug interaction affecting their prescriptions. Olukoya, who is a Healthcare innovator and licensed pharmacist, sounded the alarm that your favorite African staple might be turning your life-saving medication into a silent killer.Speaking during a health […]
Even INEC admonishes the media? By Tonnie Iredia
No other group played a greater role than the media in the struggle for Nigeria’s independence. The British had to harass Nigerian media professionals using obnoxious laws that confiscated freedom of speech in the colony. The Newspaper Ordinance of 1903, the Seditious Offences Ordinance of 1909, the Criminal Code of 1916 and the Newspaper Registration Act […]
FCSC grants automatic promotion to kidnapped civil servants
Six civil servants from the Ministry of Defence who were kidnapped in Kogi State while they were travelling to Abuja from Lagos to write their promotion examinations in 2025 have been granted automatic promotion. The Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission ( FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja . While […]
The lights of democracy are going out in Nigeria, by Dele Sobowale
“There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about; because when you are neutral, you become an accomplice” – Christiana Anampour, CNN. For reasons too numerous to discuss, I had since my days in university vowed never to participate in politics by becoming a member of any political party. That should not be interpreted to […]
