AFTER all, I was now a full-fledged SBB. Unknown to either Granduncle or Aunt, I gradually moved my belongings whatever they were to Aunt’s apartment around Decima Road. My next move was to go sleep at Aunt’s place without her knowledge.

IT is best to start at the beginning. I was born in October 1939 in Ugborodo, DeltaState of Nigeria, the first child of my father and only male child of my parents.

THIS is a personal story. As I write, I am going through something known as the ‘tenure and promotion’ process in the lexicon of the US university system.

THE 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based and Intimate Partner Violence, beginning on November 25 and ending on December 10, International Human Rights day, offers an opportunity to renew the global commitment to free women and girls from violence.

It may as well be taken as pardon without benefits. That is the case with Adenike, the widow of Lt. Col O.O. Akiyode, aide to the former minister of communications, Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju, who was convicted for the 1997 ‘phantom’ coup under the Abacha administration. Akiyode died while still serving his prison term and before all those also jailed for the controversial coup plot, including Lt. General Oladipo Diya, Olanrewaju and the late Major General AbdulKarim Adisa, were released courtesy of an amnesty proclamation in 1999 under the Abdulsalami administration. They received presidential pardon on March 12, 2013 after the National Council of State (NCS) approved a list presented to it by President Goodluck Jonathan. The implication of the pardon is that the former convicts are to receive all their benefits from the military authorities.

Once upon a time, millions of children all over the world were afflicted by a crippling, incurable and fatal infectious disease known as poliomyelitis (polio). Today, the world is heaving a sigh of relief because polio is on the verge of eradication. While experts note that ending polio will be an historic feat for humanity, and also a huge part of efforts to reach every child with a range of life-saving vaccines, one organization that has relentlessly pursued the dream of global polio eradication is Rotary International.

Administrator of Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority, Dame Aleruchi Cookey-Gams, in this interview, dismisses the claim that the agency is stagnated on its quest to restore and consolidate on the lost beauty of Rivers State capital city…

A prominent leader and the incumbent President of Niger Delta Oil and Gas Communities Consultative Forum, NDOGCCF, High Chief Ebikpolade Mark Bou, speaking on behalf of the group, in this interview, maintains that the proposed National Conference will reshape the country and that Nigerians will re-elect President Goodluck Jonathan come 2015, no matter the opposition even within the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

Do people shape society or does society shape people? This is the question of the century and my answer is as follows. The sheer power of vision, creativity and strength that the human mind harbours and is capable of harnessing is truly remarkable. If properly channeled and developed it does not only have the potential of shaping sociey but it can also change it and alter destinies.

THE Health sector among other key sectors in the State had nonetheless received the attention of the present administration of Governor Martin Elechi since it came on board on May 29, 2007.

A woman, maybe in her 20s, dressed in hijab, was helped by two others more elderly ones into a decrepit, match box size room that had only a rickety bed and worn out mattress at the Hunkuyi Primary Health Care Centre, in Hunkuyi Local Area (LGA) of Kaduna state.

The FederalCapitalTerritory, Abuja has 13 government hospitals, spread across the 6 area councils, namely, General hospitals, Abuja Area Municipal Council(AMAC) located in Nyanya, Abaji, Gwagwalada, Kwali, Kuje and Bwari, including those located in the federal capital city.

Currently, Lagosians enjoy the best of both worlds in terms of government and private health institutions. Government health institutions have strong presence at Federal and State levels and leading the pack is the 52-year-old Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba, widely acknowleged as one of the nation’s “Centres of Medical Excellence”.

WE are once again gathered in this magnificent edifice for yet another Ojude Oba Festival. Ojude Oba Festival as you are all aware, is an important event in our community as a people, being the only festival of its type celebrated in South-West, Nigeria by all and sundry without religious barrier and bequeathed to us by our forefathers centuries ago.

The name Festus Iyayi symbolizes struggle for academic freedom, democratization of our educational system, national development and socialism. He was the President of Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) in the 1980s and in 1987, under his leadership, the Babangida administration banned ASUU, terminated the employment of Prof. Iyayi from University of Benin and subsequently arrested, detained and tortured him.