WHAT does Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) really want? Whose interest is it championing at the moment?

A minute in that environment was killing. The odour oozing out of the place could be dangerous to one’s health.
Interestingly, the inmates rendered some choruses to welcome their guests. Dressed in a uniform orange colour clothes, they exhibited different manners of their usual acts. The co-ordinator was up and doing checking their acts employing insane measures to deal with them at different times.

I think the best thing to do in this situation is to wear a new look and submerge yourself with the feeling of celebration. It may be very difficult especially when you remember how you have been celebrating the previous Christmas with your family and loved ones, but then since you cannot control the situation, you don’t have to make it worse. I suppress my pain with colorful wrappings and special smiles.

THE origin of Christmas differs as the precise date of the birth and historicity of Jesus are much debated. Christmas, literally meaning the Mass of Christ, is a traditional holiday in the Christian calendar.

The Commonwealth Business Council,CBC was established by the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 1997 with the mandate to involve the private sector in the promotion of trade and investment within the Commonwealth. CBC has set out its vision as “sharing global prosperity by making globalisation work for all with the mission of promoting global trade and investment with an enhanced role for the private sector in commonwealth countries.

REPRIEVE finally came the way of Charles Chukuma Soludo, the once-embattled governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Anambra State gubernatorial elections slated for February 6, 2010, by way of a Supreme Court pronouncement

I was shocked at the blackmail and the bashing that I received from people. Even some went to the extent of saying that they had gone to put curses in different shrines against me

An encounter with one of the elders in Ijebu-Imusin revealed some other issues surrounding the crisis. Some people were still shocked and reluctant to talk but a middle-aged man said it was unreasonable to hide anything. He opened up: “If people refused to talk, how would they expect others to know what is happening here?

Take for example, the state Cultural Centre. It was built in the central part of Port Harcourt . When he demolished it I thought he was going to replace it with something more beautiful. Instead he gave the site to Silverbird Cinemas! Who goes to cinemas these days? It does not make any sense. It is not even Rivers State cinema but a private man from Bayelsa.

Anybody who has any structure on the land without lawful government certification is an illegal squatter. What the state government offered to pay was technically not compensation but simply a commercial bonus to encourage the squatters to go and live a normal human life among normal human beings.