Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Monday invaded Aleibiri community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and kidnapped the aged father of the state deputy governor, Chief Simeon Ebebi. The incident,...
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FG cancels Obasanjo’s healthcare
The National Economic Council, yesterday, cancelled the contract awarded by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo for the construction of Primary Health Care Centres in the 774 local governments in...
Soyinka demands independent probe on murders
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has advised the Federal Government not to leave the planned reopening of all unresolved political murder cases in the country in the hands of the police alone. Instead, he said an...
Is Nigeria A True Story Any More Or Fiction?
By Prince Charles DicksonJust as the year ends many thing comes to my mind but top of the list is the question of Nigeria, a nation so blessed yet in too much peril, that one begins to wonder what really is the...
Constitution And Continuity
By Wole SoyinkaLet us begin by demystifying constitutionalism. Even the so-called brutes have a constitution; it is unwritten, but it is very clearly understood among the species. Yet, even the earlier part of that...
Wole Soyinka And The Nigerian Youth
By Uche NworahI attended Okechi Precious Osuala and his lovely bride Cordelia Ogbu’s wedding in Abuja recently. The groom, a childhood friend and fellow student at the University of Uyo (Uniuyo) also invited some...
The Nigerian Dream Called 202020 And Prophet Jeroboam Trials
By Prince Charles DicksonThere is this African Riddle and I think it is most appropriate today and for the few words I have. The riddle asks, if you are in a dream and you encounter a Lion about to attack you, what do...
The Emerging Trends of Politics, Cultism and Gangs in Nigeria
By Roy ChikwemSince the introduction of democracy in Nigeria, Nigerians have experienced first-hand massive election rigging, hooliganism and violence. The introduction of democracy in Nigeria has also produced the...
Yar’Adua ends honeymoon
Six months ago, on a sweltering parade ground in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, Umaru Yar'Adua was sworn in as the president of Africa's most populous nation - the first time one civilian leader had taken over...
Reps move to review EFCC Act
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, is advocating a review of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act for better performance by the commission. He has, therefore, directed...
Oceanic Bank wins 2007 Bank of the Year Award
Oceanic Bank International Plc has won the 2007 Nigerian Bank of the Year Award. At the award ceremony organised by The Banker magazine, a subsidiary of the Financial Times of London in London on Wednesday, Oceanic...
No going back on Bakassi handover
The Chairman of the Nigeria-Cameroun Mixed Commission, Prince Bola Ajibola, on Thursday said it was too late to reverse the handover of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun. He reminded those criticising the action that the...