Prestige Friendly: Eagles set to battle Mexico
Chicharito, Dos Santos to lead El-Tri African champions, Nigeria are battle-ready to confront CONCACAF champions Mexico in a prestigious high-profile international friendly match at the Reliant...
View ArticleCurbing inflammatory political utterances
Like they exist in other African countries, Nigerian politicians must belong to the strangest tribes ever created on planet earth. They hardly care what happens to the nation while they hazardously...
View ArticleANA celebrates as “Whispering Trees” makes Caine Prize list
The Association of Nigerian Author, ANA, Abuja chapter, is fine tuning plans for a grand celebration in honour of one of Nigeria’s promising writers, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, author of Whispering Trees...
View ArticleAraba: It’s really time to go
Come June 3, 2013 few days from today the Federal Capital Territory administration will be embarking on the phase out of minibuses aka araba buses from the capital city. But when it will do the same to...
View ArticleHouse of Reps: The journey so far
More than any other government, the Nigerian federal legislature has been both a product and a victim of political engineering by the successive military governments that ruled the country in its first...
View ArticleFostering creativity, national development via poetry
Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in...
View ArticlePoor structure bane of creative writing in Nigeria –Don
The President of the Abuja Writers Forum, AWF, Dr Emman Shehu has identified poor structure in the book sector as militating against creative writing in Nigeria. He disclosed this during the AWF guest...
View ArticleNational Library blames book extinction on non-adherence to rules
Donates 500 books to promote reading culture The National Library of Nigeria, NLN, has blamed the extinction of books in the country on book publishers’ non-adherence to requirements. Malam Habib Jato,...
View ArticleExpressing love through poetry
Appraising K. K. Iloduba Jnr’s Damnation Today, many are of the view that poetry is a dead genre of literature. It is against this background that I applaud those of this generation who venture into...
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NAFDAC destroys expired goods at Onne Port
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has confiscated 10 container loads of packs of spoilt bread improver (Edlen Dough Conditioner) at Onne Port in Rivers State...
View ArticleChildren’s theatre rocks stage with dance, drama
In what can best be described as history in the theatre, ‘Our Village Square’, children theatre troop presented a dramatic display of Nigeria’s history at the Centre for Arts and Culture in Abuja. The...
View ArticleTRAGEDY IN UMUAHIA: Four perish in collapsed building
Incidents of collapse of structures in Nigeria as in other parts of the world, continue to rear their ugly heads particularly in these days of high demand, despite warnings by the regulatory...
View ArticleChildren’s theatre rocks stage with dance, drama
In what can best be described as history in the theatre, ‘Our Village Square’, children theatre troop presented a dramatic display of Nigeria’s history at the Centre for Arts and Culture in Abuja. The...
View ArticleKUDURU COMMUNITY: Failure of Bwari leadership
The swearing in of the six newly elected council chairmen by the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Sen. Bala Muhammed, may have come and gone but the electorate who voted them into power...
View ArticleMunachi Abii in hot romance with 18-yr old rapper
Beauty queen turned rapper, Munachi Abii has been romantically linked with Briss a member of Pop group, L.O.S. Olade Brisbe better known as Briss we are told has been said to be in a hot romance with...
View ArticleAl-Makura to blacklist violent communities
GOVERNOR Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has warned that his administration’s developmental programmes would henceforth not be extended to communities that engage in violence of all kinds in...
View ArticleFamily at war over sale of land in Delta
The alleged sale and encroachment of land by members of same family in Ovwian Community, in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, has caused a serious disagreement among the family members. Some...
View ArticleLG spends N45m on Almajiri schools – Chairman
The chairman, Wurno Local Government in Sokoto State, Alhaji Shehu Chacho said that his administration spent N45 million to construct Almajiri schools in different parts of the state. Chacho told...
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N5m fraud: EFCC arrests suspect
A fraudster who impersonated a former Plateau State governor, Fidelis Tapgun and allegedly duped a serving senator of N5m was yesterday arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC....
View ArticleMay 29: Working the promises
“As we celebrate this year’s Democracy Day, let us remember that democracy thrives amidst the greatest disagreements; spurring dialogues and, eventually, galvanizing consensus and a common focus.” –...
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