A Community Pharmacist, Chidinma Okafor says there is an alarming widespread of infectious diseases like Hypertension, Diabetes and loss of eye sights in Opobo town because of lack of access to proper medical care. Okafor, who is the Medical Team Leader at a medical outreach organized by the Rotary Club […]
Day: February 13, 2022
FCT Decides 2022 Results Show PDP,APC winning 3 each in Chairmanship Seats
By King Richard. The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has officially announced results in the February 12 Chairmanship and Councillorship elections held in the Federal Capital Territory in its Six area councils namely;Abaji, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kuje, Kwali and Abuja Municipal (AMAC) The results revealed the emergence of Six Chairpersons – […]
Police arrest teacher who flogged 19 -month- old -pupil to death.
…. victim,an only child whose father is on national assignment in North East fighting insurgents Emeka Nwogbo,teacher of Arise and Shine Nursery and Primary School,a private school in Asaba, the Delta State capital has been arrested by the police in connection with the death of a 19- month- old pre- […]
Feature : One Year in Remembrance of Tony Momoh, The Pen, The Statesman
By Godknows Igali, Adapted by Goodluck Ikiebe. In the course of the past one year, the Nigerian nation grieved under the burden of the oddly toll of deaths and the ensuing torrent of sorrow and heartaches. As once illustrated by William Shakespeare in his classic, Julius Caesar – “the heavens […]
Nigeria’s First Lady Gives Reasons For Taking Train Trip From Kaduna to Abuja
By King Richard. The wife of Nigeria’s President, Hajia Aisha Buhari, has given reasons why she decided to travel to Abuja on Thursday by train rather than following the routine flight back. Pictures of the First Lady sitting in one of the cabins of the Kaduna to Abuja rail line, […]
Area Council Polls : People’s Democratic Party Leads in Results Declared by INEC
By Goodluck Ikiebe. From Gwagwalada area council of the FCT, our Correspondent reports that the APC candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Jibrin Giri, was announced as the winner of the election. In Bwari, the Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, Mr John Gabaya, has been declared winner of the Chairmanship election […]
Port Harcourt Waterfronts : Peterside Condemnation, hypocritical, Says Rivers Government
By Blessing Ogah. The Rivers state Government has described the condemnation of recent clearance of waterfront communities in Portharcourt by an APC chieftain, and erstwhile Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside , as hypocritical. Rivers Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr. Paulinus Nsirim , […]
46 years after: Day Murtala Muhammed became history
By Gabriel Akinadewo,13, February,2022. Some said he gave himself away to the conspirators by opening his flanks in an unnecessary show of patriotism. Others are of the opinion that his style of governance was a practical demonstration of how leaders should be close to the people. GABRIEL AKINADEWO writes on […]
Collapsed Lagos Building: Owner in Police custody as death toll rises to three.
Lagos State Government has arrested the developer of the three-storey building under construction that collapsed at No. 16 Akanbi Crescent, Onike Area, Lagos, on Saturday afternoon. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, in a statement, said, “the government moved in swiftly to minimize impact at the […]
NIRSAL and the poor farmers of Kano and Jigawa
Iliyasu Gadu 08035355706 (sms only) Alongside the rice pyramids recently exhibited by the Buhari administration to underscore the success of its agricultural policies, there should have been a wheat pyramid as well. Just as the government has spent so much to raise the level of rice production in the country, […]