NIGERIA: A 30-year-old Petroleum Engineer Found Dead in Ifo, Ogun State
A week after oil engineer Akanbi Oluwatoyin was declared missing by his family, he has been found dead in Ifo Ogun State according to a family member. Akanbi and his...
Nigeria: Battle of governors: How Amaechi survived
But for last minute intervention by Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Fayemi, members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) would have elected their chairman last night. The meeting began with...
NIGERIA: NAFDAC tells court how citizen lost 14-month-old son
AN employee with National Agency for Food Drugs, Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Mrs Titilope Ogunrohunmu, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that one Mr. Chidi Njoku reported...
NIGERIA: 17 flood victim communities in Anambra receive N153m cash, food
Seventeen communities in Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State, yesterday, received N153 million cash and other food items as part of state government’s resettlement programme for the flood-ravaged...
Nigerian hospitals: Houses of health or homes of death?
ARE Nigerian hospitals houses of health or homes of death? Do the sick go to healthcare centres to cure or procure ailments. This is the big question on the lips...
Clinton lists Nigeria’s challenges
Former President of United States of America, Bill Clinton, said yesterday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, that the inability to manage the nation’s natural resources well was one of the...
NIGERIA: Keshi, foreign coach or European coach?
AS you were reading this column last week where I was deprecating the self-serving behaviour of members of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and their inability (or is it unwillingness)...
Continent’s eyes on African Utility Week as Eskom’s Brian Dames confirms welcome address
Continent’s eyes on African Utility Week as Eskom’s Brian Dames confirms welcome address: The only truly pan-African event Eskom Chief Executive Brian will once again deliver the keynote address...
Nollyood: Justus Esiri – Sudden Departure of a Nollywood Patriarch
WE hadn't seen for years. But news of Mr Justus Esiri recuperating in a London hospital troubled me to no end. For, we had a relationship - Justus Esiri, Gaby...
Nigeria: Over 700 Policemen Sacked Over Recruitment Scandal
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Abubakar, has said that no fewer than 700 police officers were dismissed from the force due to recruitment scandals in 2012. Abubakar...