From Vision to Reality: Kwara garment factory creates 2,000 jobs, attracts private investment
The Kwara Garment Factory, one of the flagship industrial projects of the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq administration, has created employment for more than 2,000
Fares now 300% higher in Imo
The removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government on the first day of this year has continued to attract divergent comments from people across Imo State, even as the state has remained very quiet despite the palpable tension generated by the withdrawal of fuel subsidy.
From Awka, Umeoji says subsidy removal will pay off
A FORMER member of House of Representatives, Chief Chukwuma Umeoji has appealed to Nigerians to accept the removal of fuel subsidy in good fate, arguing that it is something that had to be done in the interest of the country’s economic growth.
Neighbouring countries hit by subsidy removal
The anti subsidy removal protests are not only hitting Nigeria, neighbouring countries such as Cameroon is also getting the heat. But all seems to be quiet on the the eastern and southern Nigerian fronts as protests rock the rest of Nigeria. But by Thursday night, messages on tweeter were still scanty but one of them on Facebook said there would be protest at Okpara Square, Enugu by 8 am. …
In Rivers, food prices sky-rocket, fares now 300 percent higher
PORT HARCOURT: Mrs Chigozie went to the popular Mile 1 market in Port Harcourt Wednesday evening to buy food items. As she was haggling with meat sellers, she did not know when she suddenly burst into tears. Later when she pulled herself together, she muttered to those around that she was forced to start weeping when she realised that the prices of things in the market had gone up by over a 100 percent.
Abians stranded as fares up by over 100 %
Many indigenes of the Abia State who returned for Christmas and New Year celebrations and were caught up by the sudden rise in price of fuel are now stranded in their villages as they cannot afford the astronomical increase in transport fare on account of the increase in pump price of petrol.
Counting the cost of a Greek gift
ISAIAH Danmaliki (not real name) works with one of the Federal Government parastatals in Lagos State. But for the recent increment of the national minimum wage he lived on a monthly salary of N18,000 before now.
Boko Haram is not the problem
GOVERNMENTS and newspapers around the world attributed the horrific Christmas Day bombings of churches in Nigeria to “Boko Haram” – a shadowy group that is routinely described as an extremist Islamist organization based in the northeast corner of Nigeria.
I started school to stop those who swindle my people, says 90-year-old Pa Tete Allen
Excerpts of the interview, conducted in his sitting room at Ologoama with over 50 villagers, overflowing his living room to the balcony, front and back of his compound as spectators.
Inspirational Man of the Year , 2011: Pa Allen
WHAT is on a man’s mind? The answer, over the years, tended to anchor on the phallocentric psychological theories of the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud) 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939; co-founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Libidinous as his tendencies were, the profundity of a man’s mind is doubtless.
‘There’s a revolution in Nembe’
It is indeed not only a surprise, but also an inspiration to all of us here in the local government and I believe by extension humanity, as a whole that at 90 Papa Allen is starting school. And that is why we decided to give him scholarship and N15, 000 monthly for his upkeep so that that can further motivate him to continue the programme.
Man of the year 2011: An Amazon from the skies (2nd runner up)
Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah was an unusual draft in the nominations for Vanguard’s Man of the year. Neither her entrepreneurial skills which earned her a huge fortune in the oil and gas industry nor her acclaimed role in mobilising finances for Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign mattered.
Pa Tete Allen, 90 year-old Primary One pupil
People that don’t have people to send them to school are helpless. President Jonathan should do everything to help the helpless; he should as the president of this country identify such people and provide the wherewithal for them to go to school” – Pa Tete Allen, (via an interpreter)
Tension over N-Delta ‘worst oil spill in a decade’
Two alleged separate and massive oil spills are threatening several communities in Delta and Bayelsa States. Although crude oil spills have been a recurring decimal in the blighted oil and gas rich Niger Delta, the spill of December 20, 2011 from the Bonga oil field, off the western Atlantic coast close to Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa State, has been described as the worst in more than a decade.
2012: A new year, new challenges, old problems
IN the next couple of hours, 2012, the year of multiple expectations will be ushered in and 2011 will be consigned to the dustbin of history. However, the same cannot be said of the avalanche of unresolved, partly resolved and yet to be articulated problems that 2011 left in its trail.
Jos: Witnesses’ accounts of a decade of killings
At around 4 p.m. on our way to a wedding in Mangu, two of the cars took a wrong turn in Barkin Ladi local government area. The first car, a small Mazda, contained eight people. I was driving the second car. We were all Hausa-Fulani from Jos. The other car was ahead of us. I stopped to ask for directions. …
