Being born into life of comfort and affluence means nothing to Rotimi Odutola but striving to attain success and fame is the ultimate because these are traits that run in the family. In this piece, OLAOLU OLADIPO looks at the life of a never- say- die ...
Recently, about 15 shops in the informal sector of Garki market were reduced to ashes in a fire outbreak. CHIKA OKEKE who visited the market reports her findings. For Mrs. Josephine Nwafor, a mother of eight children, the food stuff business she engage...
The ‘Katsina abattoir’, located opposite the Katsina central market along the popular Dutsinma road provides the meat needs of thousands of people in the state but regrettably, the abattoir is not hygienic as animals are butchered on the ba...
Who becomes the 9th national chairman of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)? Is there any likelihood of the emergence of a consensus candidate? Why is the party’s top apparatchik reluctant in accepting election for its offices? What...
The Comptroller-General, Federal Fire Service, Mr Olusegun Okebiorun, in this interview with GABRIEL EWEPU and CHIBUNMA UKWU, speaks on the challenges facing the fire-fighting agency and the efforts it is making to deliver on its mandate. Sir, we...
What do you do when you are no longer in love with what you fell in love with? This is the question one walks away asking after watching Tyrone E. Terrence’s A Husband’s Wife. The play, which was staged in Abuja on Saturday, March 18 at the...
Over the years, police checkpoints have become a nightmare for motorists and travelers as policemen turn checkpoints into money making venture and point of human rights abuse. The recent order by the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, f...
Motor Park, in Nigeria parlance, is a place where passengers board vehicles to their various destinations. But a situation where such a place turns into an arena with so many goings-on, one may be forced to find another name for such a set up, just lik...
Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, on assumption of office promised to make air travel the preferred mode of transportation in Nigeria. In this exclusive interview with Nkechi Isaac, she speaks on measures put in place to sanitize the i...
Thirty-three years after its inauguration, the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, Ajaokuta, Kogi State, has succeeded only in running itself aground, in the process dashed the dream to industrialise Nigeria. However, the moribund state of affairs of the c...
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inactions –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In this piece Chizoba Ogbeche, examines the benefits of the National Retreat On Women Development, Peace and National Transform...
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a commodity to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect-Aldo Leopold The monthly environmental sanitation exercise aimed at keeping the surround...
Following the deportation of 125 Nigerians by South African authorities some days ago, the diplomatic relations between the two countries was headed for the rocks. The ambassadors of both countries were summoned by their parent countries for consultati...
Najeem Usman Yasin mounted the saddle as the National President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW) in August 2011. Barely eight months in office, Yasin says he has provided a clear direction for the union, which was hitherto dispa...
Nasarawa State Governor, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, whose election was confirmed by the Supreme Court last Tuesday, is now certain of his four-year mandate and has consequently mapped out strategies to take his state to a new level. In this intervie...