By Elizabeth Adegbesan Food hawkers, known in local parlance as Mama Put, have always enjoyed tremendous patronage, among site workers and artisans, who have no time to patronise well constituted restaurants. Women from all over Nigeria, especially the West, are well known for their expertise and vigour in the business. It has also been seen […]

By Dirisu Yakubu For President Muhammadu Buhari, it is now a season of one week, one trouble. Far from the optimistic disposition of many Nigerians seven years ago when he was first elected President; Mr. Buhari is fast losing the confidence of Nigerians many of whom now question his capacity to protect them from the evil […]

 *Occupy part of Okpanam community; food scarcity looms as farmers stay home By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South;  Jimitota Onoyume, Festus Ahon & Ochuko Akuopha  IN defiance of the Anti-Open Grazing law passed September 2021 by the Delta State House of Assembly, herdsmen still shepherd their cows with irresponsible impunity, killing, maiming and attacking farmers, […]

… captured in Dr. Ugoji Egbujo’s gripping tale about life in megacity By Prisca Sam-Duru In the words of Wilfred Peterson, it is “Through books you can orient your life to the world you live in, for books link the past, the present and the future”. This is a truism when one considers the content […]

• Victims predisposed to the damage of the liver, kidney, lungs, testes • With 5k, we learnt how to mix chemicals in three days — Maker By Ezra Ukanwa, Abuja AMONG other environmental insecticidal threats, malaria has been one of the most life-threatening diseases caused by parasites and transmitted through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. This […]

By Adesina Wahab, Education Editor Since February 14 this year, students in public universities have been at home, as academic activities have been put on hold following the strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Other staff unions in the university sector have also joined the wagon of embarking on industrial action. […]

By Ebunoluwa Sessou In March, Womanifesto, a coalition of women groups led by Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, occupied the National Assembly and demanded immediate passage of the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill, GEOB.  Then in April, the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the government to comply with the 35 percent affirmative action for women as […]

By Emmanuel Unah Just last week, a truck crushed a mobile policeman at a roadblock at Akamkpa. He used his body to barricade the road and the truck brakes failed and he was eventually crushed. According to reports, he was not trying to stop the truck because the truck or its driver committed any crime […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela EKITI State governor-elect, Mr Abiodun Oyebanji, will have his hands full when he takes over from Governor Kayode Fayemi on October 16. Oyebanji, who has been part of the government until last December, knows the tasks at hand. Addressing the press on Sunday, while delivering his acceptance speech, Oyebanji disclosed the immediate […]

By Biodun Busari The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has used a total of 1,404 days to go on strike since the inception of this democratic dispensation in 1999. This figure means that the universities’ lecturers have used three years and 10 months to boycott classrooms as one major means of pressing home their […]