I was a girl sold for the price of a used motorcycle at 17
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a village when the rains fail and the yams come up stunted and grey.
With road construction contractors, it’s mere sighs, hisses as NDDC comes calling
The nine states that make up the interventionist constituency of the Niger Delta Development Commission has since last month been taking turns to play host to top officials of the Commission on projects inspection tours of these states. Recently, it was the turn of Imo State that prides itself as the Eastern Heartland. But after a tour that took the NDDC delegation round some project sites, the unequivocal verdict was: Poor job all the way.
Succour underway for water-starved Benue residents
BENUE State enjoys the privilege of being the host of River Benue which of one of the longest rivers in the Nigeria with its supposed attendant benefits especially in the area of provision of potable water for the teeming populace.
Insecurity in South-East: Military might to the rescue
OMUGO is an Igbo word which finds relevance in allmost all Nigerian tribes.It is an exercise every Nigerian mother looks forward to with enthusiasm. So, what is Omugo? It is a mother’s visit to her daughter, who has just been delivered of a baby. The aim of the visit is to care for mother and child.
When cry for justice is drowned by sounds of torture
Instructively, United Nations Declaration against Torture, recognises it as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity”.
My kids encouraged me to become a truck driver
When Mrs. Taiwo Agbaje announced to her family that she was applying for the Female Drivers’ Scheme at the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, little did she know what the future held for her. Now, not only does she drive a truck but takes pride in ridding the state of waste that threatened to become the new face of Lagos.
There can be no sustainable development without survey plans – Dr Atilola
Dr. Olushola Atilola is the immediate past National President of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS). In this interview with Kingsley Adegboye before he handed over to a new helmsman. He bares his mind on his tenure, the GIS system, land reforms among other topical issues. Excerpts:
Child Rights Acts: Before the curtain falls for the girl child
The argument in certain quarters is that the call for Yerima’s ‘head’ would be for nothing since, as it is, he is hiding under a religious guise to commit this heinous ‘sin’.
An artist cannot really put a price tag on his work – Onu
Mr. Uzodimma Onu is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Uzotex Arts, an outfit dedicated to various works of art like sculpture, painting, designing etc. Recently, the consummate artist who has his head office in Onitsha, Anambra State, spoke to Financial Vanguard on his work.
How Umaru Musa Yar’Adua emerged
Perhaps, Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo should be blamed for foisting Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on Nigeria as President
Actualise Yar’Adua’s dreams – Eminent Nigerians
The death of President Umaru Yar’Adua marks the end of an era of pro-people politics that started with his membership of the second republic Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) led by Mallam Aminu Kano, according to Senator Gbemisola Saraki.
Amnesty, Yar’Adua’s major legacy
RHETORIC aside, one notable achievement for which Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua will be remembered is the defusing of tension in the Niger Delta region through the Amnesty programme.
How Nigeria can turn its brain drain to brain gain – Phillip Emeagwali
IN the last 25, 26 years, Philip Emeagwali, the Nigerian born American, world famous computer scientist, who is most times credited with the feat of being a father of the internet, has never set his foot on the Nigerian soil. And he has no apologies or immediate or future plans to visit. Ask him why, and he is unable to proffer any convincing answers.
Moggers meet their waterloo
There was pandemonium last Friday at the popular Cele bus stop along Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos, when two suspected armed robbers on a motorcycle snatched a bag from a woman waiting to board a bus to Ikotun area of the state. This incident took place at the peak of commercial activities at the ever-busy bus stop.
Death penalty and prison decongestion
Perhaps, this informed the recent position of the thirty six state governors on prison congestion.
Hinging on the fact that condemned prisoners contribute to the ever growing list of detainees, the governors approved the execution of all convicted prisoners across the country.
Hope rises for 2nd Niger bridge
AFTER over 40 years of poor maintenance, overuse, frequent subjection to overbearing deadweight and cannibalisation, the River Niger bridge at Onitsha has become a nightmare to commuters.
