NEWS

$27m Vanishes from Nigerian embassy in the U.S.
From Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Abuja

Transform Nigeria Movement also noted that the content of a correspondence between the bank and the embassy which was made public, made it clear that the accounts of the embassy with the bank, including the one containing the proceeds of the sale of the embassy property had been drawn down to barely $400,000. 

OPINION

Policies hampering Nigeria from eradicating malaria

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Little did many Nigerians know about the country’s malaria policies till Sunday, May 26 2012, when the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON), called for an increase in policies that would see to the eradication of the deadly-disease known as malaria, across the country. 

JUSTICE

How our brother was killed in Irish prison
By Okey Ndiribe & Emman Ovuakporie

ABUJA-Brother to the late Godswill Udechukwu, Mr Kennedy Monye, yesterday, told the House Committee on Diaspora of how his brother was allegedly murdered by 30 inmates in a Dublin prison in April. 

NEWS

Nigerian govt rejects proposed British visa bond policy, UK reacts

Ashiru, Foreign Affairs minister

WARNING of the danger a proposed visa policy by United Kingdom (UK) poses to the stability of the Commonwealth, Nigeria on Tuesday stressed the need to review the move. The proposed policy would compel visitors from some countries, including Nigeria, to deposit £3,000 bond before being allowed entry. 

OPINION

Perils of operating Palliative Care in Nigeria

By Odimegwu Onwumere

A country of about 160 million people, 36 States and 774 Local Government Areas (LGA), palliative care in Nigeria is disheartening, given-that in 1996, a-small-amount-of Nigerians initiated a crusade for palliative care. 

IMMIGRATION & TRAVEL

Ghanaians & Nigerians to pay £3,000 to enter Britain
 

British PM, David Cameron

BRITAIN is planning to force visitors from India, Pakistan, Nigeria and other countries whose nationals are deemed to pose a "high risk" of immigration abuse to provide a cash bond before they can enter the country, a report said Sunday. 

OPINION

A governor without clothes
By Maxwell Nwadike
 
Has Gov.T.A.Orji heard about the tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes?” If he has not I hope he read this. 

OPINION

Abia State: Governor & extortion

 By Ola Tunde

 It is the highest degree, the extortion of the Gov. T.A Orji-led government of Abia State. The saddening aspect of it is that whenever his government is caught in this act, he navigates that he would verify.

OPINION

Abia & the fools’ paradise

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

What have Gov. T.A Orji and his media aides not circulated in their make-belief and short-changed media platforms against me? They write their diatribes against me with fake names, which is a practice only known of cowards. They have written that I’m an ex-convict, a rapist of a 10yr old girl, an extortionist nabbed by the police in Port Harcourt where I reside; they say that I’m a chief blackmailer, chronic liar... Oh! The list is endless.