THERE comes a time in the history of a people when God blesses them with a leader with a particular mandate. For the people of Abia, aptly called God’s Own State, there is every indication that the supplication of the people unto their Maker for a divine lifting of afflicted yoke caused by long period of political and economic slavery has attracted divine intervention.

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has initiated a drive aimed at attacking network service providers and shutting down base stations deemed to have been erected in contravention of its standards as it regards environmental safety.

Every literature that exists does so because there is in existence a language in which it is created or expressed. In other words, if there is no literature and there never can be literature in the absence of language. And so long as there are native speakers of any language, the language will thrive and live with or without the existence of creative or imaginative or realistic literature.

Little could General Andrew Owoye Azazi (rtd) have known when he let loose a stereotypically military missive in Asaba last month that he was opening the floodgates on deep running waters, with subterranean undercurrents.

SOCCER, also known as football is certainly the most popular sport in the world as more than 60 percent of the world’s population tune in (both radio and television) during major World Cup competitions.