Full List: Names of 37 miners who died in NSCDC custody
Names of 37 miners, who died in the custody of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Niger State, have been released
Tension brews in Ebonyi community over alleged marginalisation by salt company
The ISHIAGU Enyigba community in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has raised an alarm over an alleged undue exploitation of its natural resources by companies and individuals who are operating in the area.
The community which is blessed with diverse natural deposits such as lead, zinc, salt and limestone had made the area an investment haven for companies desirous of exploiting these God-given resources
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.
