Photos: Meet soldiers who rescued Oyo kidnap victims
"These arrests completely disorganised the group, exerted overwhelming pressure on them and ultimately led to the unconditional release the pupils and teachers"
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.
