Abia top UTME scorer to get N.5m scholarship in memory of late Ukpabi
Highest scorer in Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam, UMTE, from Abia State, is to receive N500,000 scholarship, courtesy of the late Uche J. Ukpabi Legacy Foundation.
The Sapele blast and life in the Timber city
An unusual morning indeed it was on that faithfully day in the port city of Sapele. It was December11. The resident were still visually read to the world in their various beds dreaming pleasantly and disinclined as a result of the pervasive December cold, to rouse and shine.
Victims of Yola massacre recount their ordeal
To members of the headquarters of Christ Apostolic Church, Yola District Church Council, Friday 6th January 2012 was a dark day. The glorious hand of death took away 10 of its principal members, including a pastor, a wife of a pastor and choir master.
Sapele crisis is a Muslim-Muslim affair – Delta SSG
SECRETARY to the State Government, SSG, Delta State, Comrade Ovuuzourie Macaulay spoke to Saturday Vanguard, in his office at Asaba on the security situation in the state. Excerpt:
‘Our miserable lives as widows’
…Apart from the untold hardship inflicted upon widows by the society in which they belong, their husbands’ relatives also stand as hindrances on their ways
Quintuplets: Three discharged, two still under intensive care
On Friday 23, 2011, the news of the Nigerian born quintuplets (five babies) who were born at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, spread across the country. The news was not just for broadcast only but for people to know that such a wonder also takes in this part of the world.
Lagos Toll: The biting effects of tolling on Lekki road – Residents speak
Juliana, a resident of Epe area of Lagos like any other trader who stuttles from a far distance to the Lagos Island for the daily business will have to pay more moving for the daily activities.
Miracle birth woman, ‘Mummy P’ set for baby no 10
The striking story of Precious Donatus Ogbonna, the miracle birth woman who is yet holding to her claim of delivering eight babies without undergoing the normal gestation period in child bearing is becoming very endless. The newest of the tale is that she said she is ready to deliver another baby making the number 9 in 18 months.
A Pregnant Virgin? Raped and pregnant, test says lady is still a virgin
A teenage lady whose virginity was said to be intact after being tested positive of pregnancy is in a dilemma. Her story though far from the Biblical narrative of the Virgin Mary, strikes the mind on the possibility of remaining a virgin after she was raped by her own cousin, leaving her hymen intact but resulted in a pregnancy.
Xmas attacks: Residents desert Damaturu as New Year approaches
Damaturu, capital of Yobe State is about 125kms away from Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, has served as a refugee camp for most of the people that ran away from Maiduguri because of the Boko Haram upsurge. But observers knew and have expressed their feelings regarding Damaturu being a time bomb due to the mass exodus of people.
MFM: The church that has refused to be destroyed
Thrice, attempts were made to destroy the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church located along Jengre Road in Jos by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, thrice, the bombs did not detonate. Read on…
After 21 years of bitter divorce, they became man and wife again
The story you’re about to read is about 54 years old Ezekiel Olufemi Asogba who married in 1983 at 26 but separated from his wife in 1990 after having three boys. The couple’s marriage crumbled because of constant parental interferences. Twenty-one years after that painful separation and after both parties had had other relationships, the couple is back together as husband and wife. Enjoy…
Jos killings: ‘How my son and his family were killed’
The joy of escaping from the bullets and machetes of hoodlums who stormed their household at Wereng village in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State on Tuesday night was short-lived for 64-year old Mrs. Mary Pam, who had upon discovering that the residence where she resides with her husband, her son, Philip and his family, was under attack…
Lagos Toll: How we have been marginalised – residents in Lekki
Juliana is a resident of Epe area of Lagos. Her business is located at Balogun, Lagos Island where she specialises in baby wears. For the past 10 years, she has been having a good time doing this business until she is faced with the issue of paying extra money as transportation contrary to what she was used to in the previous years.
Patients languish in hospital because of huge debt burden, need help
For majority of Nigerians, the yuletide season is a time to once again plan holiday trips as well as set out time for family visits and fiestas, all in the spirit of the Christmas season. But for some, particularly the sick and those bed ridden by one form of ailments, if wishes were horses, they just want to leave their hospital beds and celebrate Christmas in the company of their loved ones too.
Escape from `slave camps’
THE Benin Zonal Office of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) has received the first batch of 47 girls who are indigenes of Edo and Delta States evacuated from Mali `slave camps’.
