NIGERIA: How Elechi Became Ebonyi Oracle
With high wire intrigues, the Ebonyi State Governor, Martin Elechi, is now the issue in the state’s politics, writes Benjamin Nworie At the inception of the Chief Martin Elechi...
NIGERIA: South-west PDP Returns to Drawing Board
Last week, the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party in the Southwest held a stakeholders' meeting in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, where it commenced strategic plans ahead of the 2015 elections....
NIGERIA: The Rude Side of the Law
The tendency by public office holders, especially governors, to continue to live off the public purse long after office through the enactment of obnoxious laws has been institutionalised with the...
Understanding a Tribe Called Nigeria’s Governors
Those incensed by the recent actions of the Akwa Ibom state helmsman, Governor Godswill Apkabio do not understand the interesting and intricate tribe called “governors”. If they did, they would...
Bride straps baby to dress
A Tennessee bride gave a whole new meaning to wearing something new, as she walked down the aisle with her one-month-old daughter strapped to the train of her dress. The...
Story of Namugongo fire survivors
According Fr Faupel’s The African Holocaust, Kamyuka was an attendant to the Naalinya (Princess Royal) in Kabaka Mwanga’s palace at the time. Kamyuka’s life before the palace is a little...
10 REASONS WHY WE SHOULD SCRAP FEDERAL CHARACTER AND ZONING
1. They encourage people from the middle, and de-motivate those from the top, of the JAMB results list. In any economy - talk less of one in need of rapid...
WHY I HAVE LEFT THE APC – Femi Fani-Kayode
I declared for the APC in June last year in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state well before the party was registered by INEC. I formally joined the party, amidst great pomp,...
Army Court-Martials 10 Generals, 5 Others For Helping Boko Haram
Following the alarm raised by the Nigerian Army and the Defence headquarters, more than 15 senior military officers including 10 generals have been tried and found guilty of giving information...
Fibroids: A common problem few women talk about
Like most health conditions, there is no magic bullet for fibroids, and no “one size fits all” treatment. Fibroids (medically known as uterine leiomyomas) are benign growths in the muscular...