Housing families of fallen heroes
The commissioning of 50 energy-efficient homes for wives of fallen military personnel in Ibadan is a reminder that the nation’s obligation to those who die defending it does not end with a funeral. Delivered through PHDL, Family Homes Funds Limited and other partners, the homes offer security and dignity to families who have paid a […]
Those clerics’ visits to Yar’ Adua
ON Friday, April 2, 2010, the Chief Imam of the Abuja Central Mosque, Alhaji Ustaz Mohammed and other Muslim leaders, including Dr Ibrahim Datti Ahmad, disclosed that they were among a group of Muslim clerics who visited ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua at the presidential palace and found him well enough to have received and prayed with them.
Our Prosperity Is Tied To Security
The state of insecurity in the country is deteriorating. By the day, we are recording terrible cases of murder, assassination, violent robbery and extra-judicial killings without any one being brought to justice.
Happy Easter, but…
Today, we continue the celebrations of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, from the dead. The Easter period, in some Christian denominations, kicked off with the 40-day Lenten period of self-denial, while in some it started with Palm Sunday.
National Unity – Not on Gadaffi’s terms
FOR the second time in as many weeks, the Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi created some furore in Nigeria with his comments on the question of unity in the country, and what should be done about it.
Lessons from food sellers’ strike
IT had seemed like a crisis situation. Indeed, for many families, it was. When recently foodstuff sellers from the northern part of the country decided to withdraw their services as a result of oppressive taxation and extortion they suffered, especially in South Western parts of Nigeria , the markets ran dry of such commodities as meat, vegetables, fruits and other agricultural consumables that people, especially Lagos dwellers, had come to take for granted.
