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by Adeniyi Abdul Is Nigeria ready for a female president? Ambassador Ebun Oyagbola, who happens to be Nigeria’s first female minister, certainly thinks it’s time. Speaking yesterday in Abuja at a workshop on “Effective Leadership Through Attitudinal Healing” organized by the Centre for Attitudinal Healing, Oyagbola pointed to herself as an example of how women... Read More
by Isi Esene The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has recently released the 2011 unemployment data which reveals a wide dichotomy between states in the North and those in the southern part of the country. According to the released data, the bottom ten in the jobless list are; Zamfara  State with 42.6%; Bauchi, 41.4%; Niger,... Read More
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS has said about 215,000 persons die from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome annually. The agency also identified stigmatisation and discrimination as factors discouraging access to drugs by carriers of Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The Director-General, NACA, Prof. John Idoko, in an interview with our correspondent, said the last survey... Read More
by Mayowa Salami The vehicle conveying the state security details attached to the office of the Deputy Governor of Yobe State, Engr. Abubakar Aliyu, was yesterday accidentally shot at by an officer stationed at a police checkpoint. The incident happened around midday when the deputy governor was on his way back from a farm he... Read More
by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu (I wrote the article below and it was first published four years ago in ThisDay Newspapers on August 24th, 2008) The games of the 29th Olympiad ending today in Beijing have been more of a painful confirmation that Nigerian sports, is dead! When the Beijing Olympics were about to commence, a lot... Read More
by Buzz Bissinger Call me Ishmael, but I don’t care about the synchronized-diving competition the Chinese won yesterday, except trying to figure out how exactly one decides to go into synchronized diving. I am in confusion about the London Games. Perhaps not as confused as the queen during the opiated opening ceremonies in witnessing a... Read More
by Isi Esene A High Court Judge, Justice Ogbogo Ejembi, has dragged four commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada to court for alleged criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass and serious assault. He was said to have been beaten to a pulp on Wednesday morning while on his way to the High Court Complex in Oturkpo, Benue... Read More
  by Isi Esene The missing body of the INEC staff who was involved in a boat mishap while on the way to performing his official duties during last  month’s Edo Sate gubernatorial elections have been found. His body was found after intense search conducted to locate it. The man, identified as Mr. Ekhator Iziegbe,... Read More
by Mayowa Salami Church leaders are beginning to voice out their discontent over the shortfall in attendance in church services attributed to the challenges of insecurity faced in the country. The Diocesan Bishop, Most Rev. Josiah Fearon, expressed this much at the First Session of the 19th Synod of the Anglican Communion Friday in Kaduna.... Read More
On Thursday, Florida prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin murder trial accidentally released a picture of a dead Trayvon Martin as well as school records for George Zimmerman. Circuit Judge Kenneth R. Lester Jr. had ruled that photographs of Martin’s body after the February 26 shooting would not be released to the public. The prosecutor violated... Read More
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