Itoro Eze-Anaba, an anti-rape activist, made history when she became the first Nigerian to receive the Commonwealth Point of Light Award from Queen Elizabeth 11 of England.

BEFORE now, the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (retd.) had managed to navigate the affairs of the amnesty programme in spite of the hurly-burly from some ex-agitators, but lately, the reverberations from the creeks against his leadership have become more alarming.

CHAIRMAN, Phase 2 Ex-Agitators, Delta State, Mr. Kingsley Muturu, said the present rumbling in the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, was largely because the Chairman, PAP, and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Brig Gen Paul Boroh (retd.), had failed to bring about a forum for him and ex-militant leaders to thrash out troubling issues.

SINCE the days of late Maryam Babangida and her epochal pet project of ‘better life for rural women‘, a First Lady at the national or state level has taken upon herself to float one pet programme or the other for the advancement of humanity. 

We have been very proud of Nigerian talents in the area of writing. The NLNG Award has certainly been like sunshine for writers both within and outside of Nigeria who are Nigerians. It has provided hope and something to strive for.

The nation’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG market has been threatened by many problems, including inadequate funding and policy issues. But in this interview with Udeme Akpan, Mr. Nuhu Yakubu, the President of the Nigeria Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (NLPGA), who comments on a wide range of issues, said the future of the sector is not bleak.

ANAP Jets aspires to provide the most appropriate financial arrangement that suits each client.

Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, merchant banking has not been fully tapped into. The most common is retail banking where every person is establishing branches and acquiring a lot of retail customers. So, we have decided that we are going to do merchant banking and do it the way it ought to be. Four merchant banks plus Nova, that is five, we believe is still very little for Nigeria.

I enjoyed being a mortuary attendant. I was using the salary to pay my house rent, tuition fees among other bills. America is not like Nigeria where you meet people for help. Mortuary is an interesting place because it is abode of the dead

 “When you tell people that you are a model, they view you as a prostitute. It should not be that way. There are models that do modelling for a living in South Africa and actually live and pay their rents through modelling full-time. They respect models there compared to Nigeria,” she said.