By Chidi Nkwopara – Owerri Palpable fear and confusion have enveloped residents of Imo State, following the unabating reign of terror visited on them by yet to be identified gunmen. Unknown gunmen, Monday night, attacked the Okigwe South Area Command Headquarters, Ehime Mbano, killing five policemen during the operation, while one police officer, at the […]

By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja Mariam Audu deals in cashew nut in Iyale, Dekina council area of Kogi State. Every year, she looks up to the month of February with hopes of better deals to no avail. The cashew nut business had helped her to support her family. Presently, Mariam is pregnant and cannot, for now, […]

By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja A shortage of teachers harms students, teachers and the public education system as a whole. It hampers students’ ability to learn, reduces teachers’ productivity, and consumes economic resources that could be better deployed elsewhere. The state of education in Kogi State at present is in a state of coma. One of […]

  By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri Confusion has trailed the story of a caretaker of Eziwanne lodge, Daniel Okufuwa, in Federal Polytechnic, Nekede in Owerri, Imo State, who allegedly beat his tenant into a coma and later died in the hospital, a first-year student of building technology, Anthony Chinweotito Emmanuel, as the relatives to Okufuwa, […]

THE year 2020 is gone, unsung! The year 2021 is here. But what will it bring? I mean, what will the new year mean for Nigeria? For the entire world, we already know, sadly, that COVID-19 is mutating and still ravaging.