Abia top UTME scorer to get N.5m scholarship in memory of late Ukpabi
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Doctors told me to abort my baby as she would die at birth
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Forever in fighting form
N30m lifeline for widows of soldiers, policemen, others
Why global sex trade continues to thrive
Search for university degree nearly took my life
When the Church identifies with the Mosque
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Subscribe‘How we prepared physically challenged girl for marriage’
“Omije oju mi beere aanu re baba, fi aso ojurere wo mi Olorun mi, araye n reti ohun ti mo mubo lodo re baba mimo, Odun yi nlo, odun yi nlo, Omije oju mi n beere aanu ree”, meaning:
Abuja satellite towns where pregnancy is death sentence
First time visitors to Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT,are usually impressed by the well paved roads and other top quality infrastructure. And to meet the health needs of the residents of the only planned city in Nigeria, the authorities made provisions for the setting up of hospitals in all the districts of Abuja. Although the increase in the population of the capital city means that the facilities there are stretched beyond their limits, they still offer services that, by Nigerian standards, are better that what is obtainable in many states of the f
Beggars: There is huge money to make in Abuja
Gradually but steadily, beggars have been returning to Abuja after they were hounded out of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by a former Minister of the Federal Capital Terriroty, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. The return of the beggars, sometimes accompanied by family members, have been a source of concern to Abuja residents because of the security and other implications for the city’s infrastructure.
Refinery construction work gave me ‘university education’ – Ikpea
Chief Leemon Agbonjagwe Ikpea, the founder of Lee Group of Companies, has just been conferred with the title of the Odolagbon of Warri Kingdom by the Olu of Warri, HRM Ogiame Ikenwoli.
G-O-D-O-G-O-D-O: Survivors’ pathetic stories of a massacre foretold
40 murdered natives, scores of injured persons, charred remains of buildings. That is the picture the world would remember Godogodo town for.
Last Thursday, as survivors of the Godogodo massacre led this reporter through what remained of a once lively town, the ruins and ashes of children and women burnt beyond recognition made one feel as if the ghosts of the victims were hanging in the air, each trying to tell his or her s
I abandoned my degree in mass communication for welding – Alice, 53-yr-old graduate from LASU
The adverse socio-economic situation in the country has driven 53-year-old Alice Madumere Chikezie, a mass communication graduate from Lagos State University,LASU, into welding.
‘I built house selling items I picked from dumpsites’
At the mention of scavenger, the thing that readily comes to mind is an animal such as a vulture or any other creative that feeds on dead organic matters or wastes. Well, you are wrong.
Chief Dennis Okwu: Restive youths kidnapped and killed his father but now he engages them in his philanthropic gestures
Many who know Chief Dennis Okwu agree that he has without doubt made a big name in the freight forwarding business as Managing Director of Sweet Apple Group and an influential member of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ANLCA
Boko Haram wives speak from ‘safe house”: Life in Sambisa was not all about jihad!
The women had lived with their husbands in Walasa, a town near the Nigeria-Cameroon border. But in May, Nigerian soldiers reclaimed the area
Poor quintuplets’ horrors: One dead at birth, four detained for unpaid hospital bill …
WHEN Mrs. Chiamaka Ezedienyi, a full time housewife, from the sleepy community of Nnobi in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State, gave birth to five babies two years ago, her home became a Mecca of sort as many people travelled from far and near to catch a glimpse of the babies who God brought into the poor home of Mr. Ezedienyi and his wife. One of the babies, however, died shortly after the woman was delivered of them, leaving four who eventually survived.
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