Curtail corruption, enhance discipline, Jonathan charges new HoS
... of Service at the state House Monday, President Jonathan said the expectation of his government and the people of Nigeria is for the new Head of Service to focus on those areas that are most...
View ArticleChinua Achebe, celebrated Nigerian novelist, dies
... died at age 82 in Boston on Thursday after a brief illness. He lived through and helped define traumatic change in Nigeria, from independence to dictatorship to the disastrous war between Nigeria...
View ArticlePenis-snatching fears grip Central African village
... like mass hysteria - often spurred by word of mouth and tabloid media - across African countries like Cameroon, Nigeria and Lagos since the 1980s. Anthropologists have linked the disorder to fear...
View ArticleBoko Haram have limited knowledge of Islam - Soyinka
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT: NOBLE laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has lashed at members of Boko Haram, saying they have limited knowledge of Islamic religion.
View ArticleTUC wants Jonathan to dialogue with Boko - Haram
... that was elected by Nigerians is the President; so, if we are going to take anybody serious, it is the President of Nigeria". "The president is consulting and if he gets an emphatic no and decided...
View ArticleAchebe's Legacy
... Achebe was born November 16, 1930, near Ogidi, a few miles east of Onitsha (a center of Igbo culture) in eastern Nigeria. In Things Fall Apart (1958), Ogidi has been transformed into Umuofia. The...
View ArticleAttract the best students? Canada won't even buy a glass of water
... the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade held a major Canadian education promotion event in Lagos, Nigeria, in January. In a venue where the air conditioning is hit and miss, it...
View ArticleChinua Achebe
... of Things Fall Apart , a work that in part led to his being called the "patriarch of the African novel." Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe attended the University of Ibadan. In 1958, his...
View ArticleWidows besiege Akpabio's office, demand welfare package
Hundreds of widows in Akwa Ibom on Monday trooped to the Government House, Uyo, urging Gov.
View ArticleAchebe's anti-colonial novels still relevant today
... arrogance that are still at work today in Iraq and Afghanistan. A man reads a newspaper featuring a headline on Nigeria's novelist Chinua Achebe's death, at a roadside in Calabar. (AFP) Achebe 's...
View ArticleLagos: Water, water everywhere; non to drink
... and State levels and the Private sector have been at the fore front of providing portable water for the populace. Nigeria Water and Sanitation Association, NIWASA, is the umbrella body for water...
View ArticleOgun police dismiss rumour on beheaded corpses
The Ogun Police Command on Monday dispelled the rumour that three beheaded corpses were dumped on the Ijebu-Ode-Ibadan expressway on Sunday.
View ArticleEaster: FG declares March 29, April 1 public holidays
The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 29, and Monday, April 1, as public holidays to mark Good Friday and Easter Monday celebrations.
View ArticleInsecurity, vaccine rejection may heighten epidemics outbreak
THERE is palpable fear of resurgence of epidemics of childhood killer diseases in the country due to continued rejection of vaccines and insecurity in most parts of northern Nigeria.
View ArticleBuffalo Soldiers to Get National Monument
... against Pancho Villa in Mexico (1916), and as a military attache to Monrovia, Liberia (1920). Young died in Lagos, Nigeria, on Jan. 8, 1922, at the age of 58. He was buried at Arlington National...
View ArticleSouth Africa jails Nigerian militant for 24 years
... any leadership role in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), moved to South Africa after Nigeria issued an amnesty for members of the guerrilla group in 2009, lifting charges...
View ArticleBuffalo Soldiers national monument to be created in Ohio
... against Pancho Villa in Mexico (1916), and as a military attache' to Monrovia, Liberia (1920). Young died in Lagos, Nigeria, on Jan. 8, 1922, at the age of 58. He was buried at Arlington National...
View ArticleThe ABC of 'set free by knowing the truth'
... me to share the truth made known to me with mankind of the glory of God." Danson Enogiomwan Ubebe was born in Nigeria in 1945. He obtained a teaching degree in 1970, and then his Well Engineering...
View ArticleNigerian police: Expatriate kidnapped in commercial centre of Lagos is a...
LAGOS, Nigeria - A British businessman was abducted Saturday in Lagos, a rare case of expatriate kidnapping in this West African nation's commercial centre, Nigerian police said Tuesday.
View ArticleNigeria Creating Toll Free Number Hotline to Report Child Abuse
Child abuse taking place in Nigeria was placed under the spotlight around the world in 2010 when CNN completed a special report on child witch hunts occurring in the country.
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