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FCT MInister Nyesom Wike and his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara. This past Friday, under the cover of night, two truckloads of police officers, reportedly dispatched from neighboring Abia State, stormed into Port Harcourt. Their mission…
The National Assembly has set in motion committees to further alter the 1999 Constitution. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on February 14, 2024, constituted a 45-member Committee on Constitution Review chaired by the Deputy President of the Senate, Jibrin…
Since the arrest of another Nigerian socialite, Pascal Okechukwu (aka Cubana Chef Priest), I have come across jejune assertions justifying the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s pursuit of those spraying naira at parties. While reading comments made by a random…
There is no doubt that the globe presently feels the accelerated impacts of climate change. Gradually, but steadily, shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels, ubiquitous flooding emergencies, and other extreme weather events, are evidence of a rapidly changing climate and…
If charisma was a commodity, Pope John Paul II would have been the producer of its purest form. It wasn’t for nothing that the Pope survived an assassination attempt in 1981 and forgave his assailant, Mehmet Ali Agca, an escaped…
When the dawn breaks and the sun rises from its 93 million miles abode tomorrow April 27, I will be celebrating another birthday milestone with my family, friends, and well-wishers dispersed around the world. I cherish every strand of divine privilege to…
There are different angles to the matter of loans called Ways and Means which Nigeria’s Federal Government takes from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Repayment of the loan carried out by the Federal Government recently also created its own. Against…
Anaemia occurs when there is a deficiency in red blood cells or haemoglobin, which is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. When a person is anaemic, their body…
“It was death that ended my first marriage. Although we were married for close to three years, we didn’t have any child because I miscarried twice. The last miscarriage happened exactly one month before my husband died in a ghastly…
Any relationship initiated out of love can progressively drift apart after the connection has been fully established, even when the individuals have become comfortable with each other, their emotional bond may not be fully developed if one person is less…
Dear Mummy Temilolu, Please tell girls to stop going into ungodly relationships even with Presidents/Excos of campus fellowships. A good number of them have a habit of breaking the hearts of so many girls. Ask anyone in the university, it’s…
Occurrences that make me turn to the former Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, and the company he keeps include what a commentator said recently. He alleged that as Anambra State governor, Obi didn’t construct a school. Then a…
This week, I crave your indulgence as I opt to add my voice to the fiery hullabaloo swirling around Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi State. I, however, promise not to bore you with familiar tales and travails…
Sleep is the next-door neighbour to good memory. This is the view of neurologist Andrew Budson and neuroscientist Elizabeth Kensinger in their book, “Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory,” published in 2023 by Oxford…
For years, Tope had battled with excruciating pain that came with her monthly cycle. It was a pain that went beyond the usual discomforts of menstruation, a pain so severe it often left her bedridden and gasping for relief. She…
The rainy season is here and it comes with a lot of goodies. You get to see fruits and lots of vegetables. Crassocephalum crepidioides (Ebolo), Crassocephalum Biafra (Worowo), Amaranthus viridis (tete abalaye), and Purslane are some of the vegetables that…
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