Elderly women displaced from Benue community during attacks launched by killer herdsmen By Chinweizu ([email protected]) Any ethnic nationality in Nigeria’s New South which does not get itself admitted into the United Nations as a new nation by Christmas 2019 is a goner. It would have committed auto-genocide, with gleeful assistance from the Jihadist army and […]
Members of President Buhari pay him a visit on a recent return to Nigeria from a sick leave in London By David Ajikobi & Stanley Oronsaye/AfricaCheck Nigeria’s 2017 Democracy Day – celebrated every year on 29 May – marked the 2nd anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressive Congress government. In the run-up to the election, Buhari promised Nigerians change […]
Still unsure how to enhance your education? Fret no more, as hundreds of universities around the world no offer their courses online for free (or at-least partially free) in a process collectively called MOOCS, or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, close to 800 universities have created more than 8,000 […]
By Godknows Boladei Igali If not for man’s ineluctable duel with mortality, the Old GRA, Port-Harcourt residence of Opu Alabo (High Chief) Olu Benson Lulu-Brigg simply known as “OB” by peers or “Opuda” (patriarch) by family and younger associates would have been the epicenter of diverse religious, cultural, political, social and familial happenings, during this […]
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Scented, heady verse from gifted poet
A review of Samuel Osaze’s Aroma of a Burning Bush by REGINALD CHIEDU OFODILE Aroma of a Burning Bush roused, then doused, a certain suspicion of mine. It is my distrust of free verse! I bow to the masters: in the last two centuries, such luminaries as Walt Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and Langston […]
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Schools to now resume, Sept 22
The Federal Government has fixed Monday, September 22, 2014 as new resumption date for the 2014/2015 academic session. The government had, after the council meeting on August 26, postponed resumption of private and public primary as well as and secondary schools to October 13, 2014, as a precautionary step against the spread of the Ebola […]
The Akran of Badagry, Aholu Menu-Toyi 1, on Tuesday said the postponement of the general elections was in the best interest of the country. The Akran, who made the remark during interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Badagry, urged residents of the area to remain peaceful and shun violence. INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru […]
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Suicide bombers hit Jos, Biu
Two suicide bombers have killed at least 15 people at a bus station in north-eastern Nigeria, witnesses say. Only one of the bomber’s explosives detonated properly, the other bomber died at the scene in Biu, witnesses told the BBC. A second bombing has hit a crowded bus station in the town of Jos, in north-central […]
The winner of the just concluded Diamond Bank #youneedanewbank theme song remix competition, Solitude, has signed a record deal with Major Bangz, producer of the hit tracks ‘Alobam’ and ‘Shoki’ as part of his reward for winning the competition. #youneedanewbank is a brand campaign by Diamond Bank PLC aimed at promoting the bank as the […]
Comedy Central has announced 31-year-old South African comedian, Trevor Noah as the host of its flagship The Daily Show to replace the iconic Jon Stewart. Noah has been slowly working his way up the ladder of US comedy over the last few years, with appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late […]