Southern Nigeria leaders as stooges of hegemonists
By BEN OGU Every question tends to elicit an answer to a puzzle, and without presuming or presupposing, it anticipates a clarification, which it can establish or refute based on known and extant behaviors. From the 1914 amalgamation and the imposed name Nigeria on the numerous nationalities of former British colonies, to the incident of […]
‘I was a victim of Edo land grabbers’
Benin-City-based Rev.Leonard Aifesehi Ohenhen says the ban of Community Development Associations (CDAs) by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11, will bring to an end the activities of land grabbers in Edo State.
Battle rages over Obaseki’s EPZ
Since the Governor Godwin Obaseki administration commenced the plan to build a multi-billion naira Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Gelegele in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, there have been clashes between the Ijaw and the Bini people in the area. The people of the area suddenly forgot that development had eluded them over the years and, rather than embrace the government plan which will create thousands of jobs and open up the economy of the place to the world, they engaged in battle over ownership of the land earmarked for the project.
Maximizing Ogun’s potential as industrial hub
One is almost tempted to suggest to school heads to take secondary school students on a “formal” excursion to the various sites of construction across Ogun State for practical learning. These rising columns, which later shoulder some concrete slabs, altering the landscape of an area permanently within a short space of time, how do they come to be? How in operational terms do the heavy machines such asskid steers, mixer trucks, tracked asphalt pavers, waste handlers, drill rigs, blasthole drills, motor graders, asphalt mixing plants, road roller machines, crawler excavators, forklift trucks, wheel loaders and truck cranes contribute to the making of these picturesque structures that confirm a community or people on the path of modernisation and development?
Stem cell therapy ‘magic’ for stroke, eye ailments
In recently published papers in the New England Journal of Medicine about the use of Stem Cell Therapy for Macular Degeneration, one report showed that 3 partially blind women became blind after the treatment with stem cells and the other report showed that an inevitable loss of vision was halted by use of stem cells in another patient. The stem cells used in these two reports were from two different sources – fat and skin cells.
A United Nations Trophy for Okowa
The political class has come to be associated with negative tendencies like, deceit, exploitation, scandal, fraud, venality, treachery and corruption.
