US releases fresh names, photos of 24 Nigerians to be deported
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published the names and photographs of 24 Nigerians arrested by immigration authorities in connection with various criminal offences, as the country continues its deportation operations.
How Anambra community sacked federal school over alleged neglect
THOUSANDS of people from the sleepy Eziagu community in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, last week forcibly closed the Demonstration Secondary School of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze (located in the community) for alleged non recognition of the institution by the Federal Government as originally agreed.
Day Archbishop Obinna wept over state of Owerri Prisons
Soon after some over ambitious Nigerian military personnel sacked second republic politicians from office, they were all hounded into various prisons across the nation. It did no matter to the khaki boys if all the politicians were guilty or not. They were all forced to taste the bitter pill of incarceration. But after regaining his freedom, the late first civilian governor of Imo State, Chief Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe, in his usual hilarious but sincere disposition, did not waste time to talk about his prison experience to anybody who cared to listen.
Five years after, old problems solved; new ones surface in Oshodi
THE insanity in the ever bustling Oshodi Market in Lagos, popular for cheap goods, a haven for pick pockets, all shades of criminals and perpetual traffic gridlock, was on January 2, 2009, brought to a halt when a Special Taskforce of the Lagos State Ministry of Environment stormed the area and demolished all illegal structures and squatters.
ENR: Indigenous approach to HIV/AIDS menace
IN Yamshyi, a small, sleepy community of farmers and rural dwellers in Kaduna State, routine incidences of rape of young girls are commonplace. The abominable act is usually perpetrated by males and other sexual predators under the pretex of assisting the unsuspecting victims to cross the dangerously water logged bridge which is the only bridge linking the settlement with the outside world.
Help! Favour with hole in the heart needs N2.5m to live
ELEVEN months ago, Mrs Maureen Falemara, 32, was proudly expecting the arrival of her second child. Maureen who holds a National Diploma, ND, in Marketing from Ondo State Polytechnic, Owo, however had her joy cut short when it was discovered that the baby girl she was delivered of at a private hospital in Agege, was not altogether a normal child. Baby Favour was discovered to have a large ventricular septa defect.
