GENERAL NEWS

South Africans protest attacks on women in mini-skirt 

South African in their hundreds on Friday marched in Johannesburg to protest attacks on two women for wearing mini-skirts.

COMMENTARY

Bill Clinton is wrong on Nigeria

By Musa Luka

 

Former American President Bill Clinton, who was in Nigeria, recently, was quoted to have said that poverty is the main reason fuelling the deadly activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria.

HUMAN INTEREST

Mystery pregnancy: UK-based Nigerians in a mess over baby delivered in Aba hospital...
By  Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye

Mrs. Okolie, baby Esther and Annabel

Mysteries appear to the dogging the lives of a Nigerian couple living in the United Kingdom. The woman had developed a protruding stomach, which grew to the size of full pregnancy. Doctors in the UK had confirmed they heard and felt the heartbeat of a baby. However, a scan, urine and blood tests showed non-existence of a pregnancy.

HUMAN INTEREST

We waited for 17 years to have baby 
By Bukola Adebayo 

The saying that “a patient dog eats the fattest bone,” could be used to describe the experience of a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Olayiwola, who on Thursday had a set of quadruplets at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, after 17 years of marriage without a child.

OPINION

The massacre Of Igbos: Okorocha’s statement unfortunate

By Uzoma Ahamefule

Okorocha

Fellow concerned Nigerians, whose pain I share with visa-versa, I address you all under compulsion as a patriotic citizen of the federal Republic of Nigeria with agony of helplessness and deep sense of responsibility. The aches from my tears of sorrow are uncontrollably wetting my lips to tremble because the answers to my many questions about Nigeria seem very far to reach.

OPINION

Princewill: Quintessence of service & philanthropy

 By Nwaorgu Faustinus

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia dictionary, Philanthropy is defined as "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good.

COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS

Reflections on the Libya Catastrophe 

Edwin Madunagu

ONE enduring and universal lesson of history, but one that is almost always forgotten or ignored by those in power – until it is too late – resides in that strongest of prime movers of social change called revolution. 

COMMENTARY

Highlight on traffic challenges in Rivers state

ByOdimegwu Onwumere

Governor Chibuike Amaechi topically said that his administration has achieved in building of roads in Rivers State. Customarily, this means that the Rivers State government said that it has put its head in curbing the man-hours’ stalemating traffic state-of-affairs in Port Harcourt, the capital of the state.

GENERAL NEWS

South Africa to issue Nelson Mandela banknotes 

The South African government has announced plans to issue a new set of banknotes displaying the image of former President Nelson Mandela.

GENERAL NEWS

Gaddafi’s son Saadi threatens to lead uprising from exile 

One of Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi has announced his intention to lead an uprising against Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC).

RELATIONSHIP & MARRIAGE

A woman should learn to trust her husband & just let him be

By Anna Okon 

Victor Famuyibo is the Director, Human Resources, Nigerian Breweries PLC. He has been married to Shade, a former senior manager at NITEL for the past 26 years and the family is blessed with two boys and two girls. Both of them share fond memories and ideals of love and relationship.

AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS

Zambia win African title

By Hakeem Babalola

 Underdog Zambia defeated highly rated Ivory Coast by 8-7 to win their first African Cup of Nations in a dramatic and tension soaked penalty shoot-out. 

COMMENTARY

Islamized & Christianized God: A rejoinder to Adamu's article on Soyinka

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

read Adamu's article here

Organized religionists in Nigeria are running into aggressive mentality causing a devastating approach to the unity of Nigeria. This people think that God is their personal acquisition because the constitution of Nigeria stipulated Christianity and Islam as the two official religions in Nigeria oblivious that this is the British imperialists’ hindsight. 

OPINION

Princewill’s landmark actions in retrospect
By Nwaorgu faustinus

Princewill

Often times, few personalities who are prudent have resolved not to
let their personal interest and ambition to supersede that which they
have for their village, community, local government, state or even
their country.