CALABAR—RESIDENTS of Calabar metropolis and environs in Cross River State, reputed to have the finest potable water in Nigeria, have been hit by an excruciating water drought, following the breakdown of the operational system of the Cross River State Water Board, CRSWB, despite a subsisting public-private partnership, PPP, agreement with Ortech Nigeria Limited.

CALABAR—WHILE worshipers trooped to different churches during the last Easter Sunday celebration in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, a group of nine giddy-looking young men surrounded a bottle of drink at a murky street curve at 7am. They took turns to fill their tumblers with the dark liquid content, which they guzzled down their throats.

YENAGOA—DISABLED persons under the aegis of Persons Living with Disabilities, PLWD, in Bayelsa State have given the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, a two-week proviso to formally commence procedures of including them in the Community Service Scheme of the Federal Government’s Subsidy Reinvestment Programme, SURE-P or face violent outburst.

We are from Orlu in Imo State. I started selling this yam pepper soup in 1982 by Benoni Junction in Benin City. But we moved from Benoni to Airport Road in 1987. I got married in 1980, but my husband was a furniture maker then. We found out that after building the furniture and exhibiting them for sale, for over one week buyers do not come. So things became very difficult for us and my husband entered into palm wine tapping. He started supplying people and people love buying his palm wine because it is always fresh.

YOU may not have heard of a man called Bruce Rauner. Well, there isn’t anything so exceptional about him that he should command international attention. He is the current elected governor of the state of Illinois in the U.S., and he assumed office in January this year. Governor Rauner is a Republican who campaigned on the values of cleaning up the bad governance Illinois has been associated with in past years