A recently re-elected Senator from Borno State, Khalifa Ahmed Zanna, has passed on. The politician kicked the bucket on Saturday afternoon at his residence in Abuja. He breathed his last after returning from Germany on Thursday, where he visited a hospital in the European country for treatment. He was elected into the upper chamber of…
Day: May 16, 2015
Oronto Douglas: A Reflection On Stomach Cancer, By Abia Nzelu
The recent premature demise of Nigeria’s highly cerebral and accomplished Barr. Oronto Douglas to stomach cancer at the age of 48 calls for a reflection on the cancer scourge in Nigeria. Over 100,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year in Nigeria and about 240 Nigerians die of cancer every day. This implies that…
You Can’t Move $500m Oil Project To Bayelsa—Court Tells Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has been directed to halt his decision to relocate a $500 million oil project from Lagos to Bayelsa. This order was handed over to him by a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos via an injunction restraining him from carrying out the act. Jonathan was reported to have concluded plans to transfer…