A FIRE outbreak which occurred on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at Mgbalukwu community in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State led to the horrific death of four children of a well known school teacher in the locality, Mr. Godwin Nwodom. The midnight inferno also led to the destruction of properties estimated at several millions of Naira.

By Bose Adelaja “I was busy washing my clothes in front of the house while my husband was taking his siesta in one of the rooms. We could not go out because of the nationwide strike/protest called by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union congress, TUC and civil society groups. Before we knew […]

Persons living with disability were supportive of the just concluded nationwide strike/protest called by the Nigeria Labour congress, NLC the Trade Union Congress, TUC and civil societies .

The year 2011 was a challenging one for people of the Niger Delta region as executive members of the board of an interventionist agency, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC established by the Federal government solely to tackle challenges of underdevelopment in the region were locked in personality clash and power play.

Barely two weeks after the removal of subsidy on petroleum products was announced and the accompanying Labour-induced nation-wide strikes and protests, prices of goods and services have galloped beyond the reach of most Nigerians.

A significant improvement was recorded in transactions last week, on the secondary segment of the capital market, as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, defied the ongoing protest over the removal of subsidy on fuel prices.

The Christmas and New Year are periods of dining and winning in many homes all over the world. While some Nigerians visited relaxation and tourist centres and fast food joints, others spent a lot of money on shopping for the season…

For how long will this hardship continue? This is certainly not what we bargained for when we defied that April deluge and came out en masse to cast our vote for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the last presidential election with the belief that he has the magic wand to transform our ailing economy.

THE people of Ezza-Ezillo communities in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State woke on Saturday, December 31, 2011 without the slightest premonition that death was lurking at different locations in the area.

ALmost every community in the traditional African society is identified by a unique feature which makes it different from others. Such unique features include the type of music, dance, cultural festival, sports and sacred rituals.

AN ongoing short-term skill acquisition programmes organised by the Lagos State government through the Ministry of Women and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA empowerment programme, has become the toast of not only the youths but septuagenarians and widows who are yearning to engage in innovative ventures such as manufacturing new and existing products in the country.

THE joy of the people of Lagos Central Senatorial district knew no bounds when their representative in the Senate, Senator Oluremi Tinubu empowered rural women and awarded scholarship to many of her constituents.

As the new law prohibiting motorcyclists popularly called Okada from plying major roads in Lagos State took off yesterday, both the operators and those who patronise them are already counting their losses. The government had given Saturday, December 31, 2011 as the deadline for Okada operators to take their bikes off the highways.

IT’S ten years since the late civilian governor of Ondo State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, inaugurated the intervention agency – Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, OSOPADEC – to alleviate poverty in the oil-rich communities of the state. From all indications, the agency has brought succour to the hitherto neglected communities.

Ogale is an oil-rich community in Eleme, the Local Government Area of Rivers State where oil was first discovered in the country. Ogale people are mainly farmers but oil spillage due to pipeline vandalism, especially the one that occurred in 2009, and the attendant water pollution, has robbed them of their source of livelihood.