Archives for November, 2014 - Page 5
BILL TO END UNIVERSITY DEGREE/HND DICHOTOMY – A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
Zik Gbemre
When it was reported recently that, with the second reading of a bill seeking to put Nigerian polytechnics at par with the Universities, the Nigerian Senate has intensified moves to address the age-long clamour to bridge the dichotomy between the two higher institutions, we could not help but wonder on what bases is the ...
OIL PIRACY AND HEGEMONISTIC COMPLICITY
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground. It will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through. It will blow up everything in its way”.
Emile Zola (1840-1902)J’accuse
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
Some Ijaw / Urhobo / Itsekiri adages runs thus, “the worm that eats the kola-nut is ...
BEATIFICATION OF NATURE AND GOD AT ALFA BEACH
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
Cicero (106-43BC) De Natura Deorum
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
The monomaniacal obsession and instinctual attachment which naturalists, environmentalists and ecologists etc. have for cosmological immaculacy, has been rubbished by a monstrous civilization. The industrial revolution has unleashed it’s destructive and horrendous brigandage on nature, precipitating a ...
TOWARDS THE DEMYTHOLOGIZATION OF AFRICAN HISTORY:
History is witness of the times, the torch of truth,
the life of memory, the teacher of life and the messenger of antiquity
CICERO (106-43BC) De oratore.
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
In his magnum opus and literary tour de force entitled “ Heauton Timoroumentos” the philosopher and essayist Publius Terentius Afer said, “Humo sum ; humani nihil ame alienum puto” ...
Kogi Jail Break: Gunmen Attack Prison, Free 145 Inmates
Suspected terrorists on Sunday night attacked the Koto-Karffi Federal Medium Security Prisons in Kogi State.
Governo Idris Wada
In the attack that started at 10pm, the gunmen broke through the prison walls to set free all 145 inmates, vandalised the record office and threw the prison doors ajar.
Twelve of the prisoners were later returned while one ...
Boko Haram’s Takeover Of Mubi: Nigeria Suffering Leadership Crisis – Atiku
By Chris Odamah
Apparently angry over Boko Haram's recent territorial expansion and taking over of Mubi in Adamawa State, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted, saying the insurgency ‘is a crisis of leadership’ by the federal government.
Atiku Abubakar
Addressing a world press conference in Abuja, Atiku emotionally described the situation in the northeast as pathetic and brought on by ...
We must not fail our people, Edema Tells Vice, Councilors
By Tejiri Ebikeme
Re-elected Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Hon. Matthew Mofe Edema has charged his Vice Chairman, Hon. Charlie Etseaghara and the newly elected nineteen councilors in the local government to brace up for the challenges ahead.
Hon. Mofe Edema addressing the newly elected councilors at the Warri South Secretariat, Warri, Delta State
Edema ...
Wada Charges Fed Govt on Provision of More IVF Centers in Nigeria… As LiLy Hospital Throws Party for Its IVF Children
Tejiri Ebikeme/Francis Sadhere
The Federal Government of Nigerian has been charged on the need to provide more In Vitro Fertilization, IVF, centers in the country so as to help cushion the high cost of IVF procedure.
Staff of Lily Hospital, Warri led by Dr. Louis Alekwe, Consultant Gynaecologist, Lily Fertility Center (m), cutting the 1st IVF ...
Why I Want To Represent My Constituency In House of Rep – Emudia
Emudia Akpoyoma is a graduate of Sociology and a Petroleum Marketer. He is a staunch member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) since 1999. In this interview with Francis Sadhere, Emudia talked about his reasons for running for the Federal House Of Representative to represent Ughelli South/North and Udu Federal Constituency. He also talked about ...
Nigerian Local Content: FENOG Boss Wants Jonathan, Others To Prevail On SPDC On Award Of Trans Niger Pipeline Looplines Project …As FENOG Commissions 70 Million Dollars Equipment
THE Executive Director, FENOG Nigeria Limited (FNL), Mr. Matthew Tonlagha has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to urgently go ahead and award its multi-billion Dollars Trans Niger Pipeline Looplines Project (TNPL).
He said FENOG was being weighed down by low patronage by the multinationals on its huge investments ...
2015: NATOMORAS Pledges Support For Jonathan
By Francis Sadhere
National Commercial Tricycles and Motor Cycles Owners and Riders Association (NATOMORAS), an umbrella body of all commercial tricycles popularly known as Keke NAPEP and motorcycles also known as Okada, has recently pledged to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition in 2015.
President Goodluck Jonathan
The group made this pledge recently when its 18 ...
EVENT PHOTOS: Solemnization of Holy Matrimony between Faith Wilson Ochiyabo and Boniface Godfrey
Solemnization of Holy Matrimony between Faith Wilson Ochiyabo and Boniface Godfrey at St. Francis Catholic Church, New Barracks Jaji, Kaduna State on Saturday, October 11, 2014.