The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) recently commenced enforcement of a park and pay policy which makes it mandatory for motorists to pay a minimum of N50 for 30 minutes to park in marked parking spaces on major streets in the city. In ...
The January 2012 report of Webometrics, a world tertiary education ranking institutions organisation, has shown that only three institutions in Nigeria made the list of first 100 best universities in Africa and none in the first 1,600 in the world. Mic...
There is no denying the fact that the Yoruba race has produced many flamboyant and charismatic politicians who have made their impacts felt on the nation’s political scene. However, many of the politicians who currently call the shot in the area ...
Some people die while they live but others, though they are no more, live in the hearts of those who they touched writes PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID. Dantata & Sawoe has lost a visionary and passionate chair, and the world has lost an amazing human being....
The world last week, once again, stood up against the dangerous traditional practice of: Female Genital Mutilation, FGM. The United Nations Organisation UNO, set aside every February 6th as the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genita...
For many years now, fishing, particularly in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, has suffered a terrible setback because of the hostile activities of the oil companies in the area. GABRIEL EWEPU writes on this development. It was common sight to behol...
Vincent Mama got into a scuffle with VIO officers only to end up in a hospital, after which he was imprisoned, charged to court for public incitement and is now longing for his freedom. JAMES UWEM writes. Some officers of the Vehicle Inspection Office ...
This man has been fixing broken limbs using traditional methods that defy orthodox medical values. Bernard Tolani, reports on the bone ‘god’ of Uyo who has been in practice for over 30 years and leading in a way others have never done. This...
The question has always arisen whether “good people”, to put it in that simple way, should serve under “bad governments”. The latest of such occasions in Nigeria is the appointment of Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the founding Chairman of ...
Senator Abdullahi Adamu is a first-time member of the National Assembly. He was, however, a two-term governor of Nasarawa State. He spoke to ABDULMUMIN BALOGUN on the salaries of legislators, Boko Haram, and his relationship with his successors, ...
With a trade in hand, local chicken cage weavers cater for their families and help to keep the mother hen and her chicks away from preys. PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID writes. When in late February 1991, Alhassan Audu, a 46-year old local chicken cage weav...
Hafsat Al-Mustapha is the wife of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha sentenced to death recently, after a marathon 14-year trial, by a Lagos High Court over his involvement in the killing of Kudirat Abiola, wife of late Moshood Abiola. In this interview with SALI...
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, recently introduced a new driver license and vehicle number plate as part of measures to reduce death on the highways. But the House of Representatives ordered the suspension of the projects citing the need to ...
Like a psychopath on a rampage, Umar Baba Wowo, a.k.a Copper, has been on the prowl of his victims. Some of them have had a bitter taste of the sharp blade of his knife. Like the perfect sadist from a thriller movie, he does not think twice befor...
Penultimate Monday, an orphanage owned by the Missionary Alliance for Africa, MAFA , known as Bethany Home, was completely razed down by a broad daylight fire outbreak. Thankfully, all the occupants were ferried to safety, averting a major disaster. Th...