IJEBULAND: Inside story of the Awujale succession crisis
For Ijebuland, the wait for a new Awujale has become much more than a traditional succession exercise.
It has evolved into a complex contest involving custom, law, family interests, institutional authority and allegations of political influence.
Two years after, it’s dancing time in Diri’s Bayelsa
By Mike Ebonugwo Thursday, February 10, 2022 was a day of joy for the people of the Igbedi community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. And to demonstrate their feeling in this regard they had put on their dancing shoes and trooped to the venue of the inauguration of the newly constructed 4.5km Igbedi […]
Ndi-Zoning of Enugu State are at it again
Former Commissioner for Information, Ogbuagu Anikwe , votes against zoning in Enugu State, but for a different reason.
Electoral Bill: Intrigues that threw up option of consensus
A mirage! That’s the presumptuous word for democracy. Though expertly defined as the government of the people, by the people and for the people, it’s hardly the case. It’s rather contextual, apparently subsumed in the thoughts and imaginations of the affluent, the powerful and the political mavericks who twist it to suite their own whims and caprices.
From Street to Stardom: Untold story of Salesian’s Bosco Boys
You do not even need to be deliberate about looking out to identify street children in a place such as Oshodi, Lagos, for instance, before noticing them. They are all over every nook and cranny of Nigeria and easily identifiable; dirty, from head to toe and with mien that says a lot about substance abuse.
Reasons men cheat?
Two weeks ago, Angela, 47, a banker, walked out of her 19 year old marriage. It had not been a very happy ride anyways, having been the family breadwinner since Chuks lost his job about five years ago. But the shocking discovery that her husband had not only been cheating on her all these while and even sired a son outside their matrimony was the final straw.
