Navy Primary School 50th Anniversary: ‘Mum flogged me in front of my class teacher and mates’
“I started my nursery school at NNPS Apapa and I feel so good being part of these events. I attended all the weeklong activities and I am so glad I did”
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.
