Category: Features
E.K. Clark’s open letter to Olusegun Obasanjo
Your Excellency, Re: Your Mischievous and Malicious tirade against the Ijaws I received several calls from Nigeria recently while in London about a new book being presented by Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi former Special Advisor on…
Shell’s duplicitous Corporate Social Responsibility
By Sunny Awhefeada This article was provoked by a news item in the Independent newspaper of Tuesday 25th April, 2017 in which the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) claimed to have among other…
Incessant harassment, killings by Fulani herdsmen in Delta State – Open letter to Governor Okowa
By Okwumabua Francis Your Excellency, The Governor sir, I am compelled to write this open letter to the executive Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, on the yet to be controlled harassment…
4 burnt to death on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
4 burnt to death on Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Above an accident scene Four persons were burnt to death this morning on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway following an accident involving an IVECO Truck and a Toyota bus belonging…
Chibok and the mirror in our faces
By Muhammadu Sanusi II It is a great honor for me to have been invited to speak on this landmark occasion of the third year of the atrocious and barbaric attacks in Chibok that led…
The first sign of a beating heart
By Sonala Olumhense Next week, perhaps at the Federal Executive Council meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari will receive the report of a three-man panel headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo he asked to investigate two top officials.…
Isioma Osubor: Wunderkind with passion for a better world heads for MIT
Miss Isioma Osubor BY CHUKWUDI ABIANDU “Good people, Great Nation!” When late Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Akunyili, former NAFDAC sensation and later Nigeria’s information minister came up with the foregoing cute rebranding slogan for…
Jos carnival: Mother of 4 wins mountain climbing competition
By Martha Agas A 26-year-old mother of four, Anya Ashom has emerged winner in the female category of the maiden Jos Mountaineering Competition. Kaze Samuel, a 35-year-old security guard, who was the oldest participant, won…
CBN Anchor Borrowers Program-Delta Farmers Gets 60kg Rice Seedlings
From left Barr. Raymos Guanah input supplier, middle Mr. Mathew Badaiki CBN anchor Man and the chairman project Monitoring team, and others Kwale: Following the development of the CBN anchor borrowers program in the state,…