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Saturday, 9 March 2013

INTERVIEW

My wife arrested me with her beauty 
By ROMANUS UGWU, Abuja

Love him or hate him, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi is an oracle in Nigerian football administration. Since he made inroad into soccer administration in the country, he has always been there, deciding the tempo and direction the management of the game in Nigeria would go.

OPINION


Brother
By Odimegwu Onwumere

It does not take a male child to come from the same parents or parent with you to be your brother. Some persons who have brothers are crying that they do not have, while others who do not have are always crying, asking questions upon questions, why they do not have.

NEWS

FORMER President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana stressed the need for African countries to make efforts to eliminate corruption on Friday, saying it has eroded African values.

Friday, 8 March 2013

ENTERTAINMENT


Inspiring story of prostitute-turned gospel singer

By Wole Adepoju


The story of Caroline Sam, the gospel singer popularly known as Maheeda, is pathetic but inspiring. She was raised as an orphan who hit the street at a tender age of 13 to fend for herself during which time she became a prostitute. In fact, Maheeda could not ascertain her real names because she was raised by foster parents whose name she adopted.

NEWS BRIEF

Uhuru Kenyatta wins Kenya presidential election




THE final pages of the knife-edge elections in Kenya were written Friday when Uhuru Kenyatta was announce as the winner of the country’s presidential election with a slim margin of 50.03 percent of votes cast, just enough to avoid a run-off.

OPINION


Princewill’s political seriousness
 By Odimegwu Onwumere

In Igbo, we would say that a child erroneously calls a male friend of his or her mother the concubine, forgetting that not all male friends to a woman are her concubine, and not all female friends to a man are his mistress. This is to say that what somebody does not understand is far bigger and mystery to the person.

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

INTERVIEW


If your driver is Jesus, you will get to your destination
Mr Arisekola Akande lives in the United Kingdom, having previously worked in Nigeria for 19 years before starting his own business six years ago. In this interview with Ruth Olurounbi, he speaks on what motivated him to start his Immigration Law Consultation business.

OPINION

Nigeria civil service & salary fraudsters
 By Nwaorgu Faustinus

The issue of ghost workers has become the bane and a recurring decimal of the Nigerian civil service, and it appears that there is no concrete mechanism in place to put it to an end. Over the past years, cases of ghost workers or what some have come to describe as salary scams has continued to embrace front page of newspapers, journals, internet based news (media) / blog sites with no end in sight.

Monday, 4 March 2013

OPINION


 Orji:s screwy quest for Kalu's degree
By Odimegwu Onwumere

In Igbo, we would proverbially say that when a lazy child is not fit for a job, he will be looking for a fight to engage in, at all corners. This is what came to mind a fortnight when reports had it that the Abia State Governor Theodore Orji wants to invalidate the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu’s degree, which he gained about eleven years ago, from Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, Abia State.

PRESS RELEASE

King Princewill not dethroned 

The news that the former Chairman of the Rivers State Traditional Council, Amachree XI, Amanyanabo of Kalabari Kingdom and Commander of the Federal Republic His Majesty, king Prof Theophilous J T Princewill CFR has been dethroned by the Supreme Court as the Amanayabo of Kalabari has been described as false and Malicious.

PERSPECTIVE


Saheela Ibraheem is a pride to  Nigeria   
15 year old Nigerian girl, Saheela Ibraheem who secured admission into the influential  Harvard   University  in Boston with the plan to become a research scientist and study the brain as reported last year, is a pride to  Nigeria .

OPINION


 How to attain peace & security in Nigeria
By Uzoma Ahamefule
When evil tends to become a culture in a society like it seems in  Nigeria over the years, or is seen to be glorified and worshiped by people youths look up to as idols or moral builders, futuristically speaking, the soul of that society is dangerously destroyed. 

OPINION


Kalu's Degree & Orji's comedian political campaign
By Odimegwu Onwumere

It is good for someone to be in the news, but not always in the bad direction. The later is the position that Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State and his desperate boys have taken. They are always in the news, but in the wrong direction.