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…
An aide of the Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Benjamin Uwajumogu, has threatened to deal with Kenneth Uwadi, the President of Youths for Human Rights Protection and Transparency Initiative, YARPTI, who is also the Coordinator of YAHVCP. Uwadi’s offence was a petition he sent to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, informing him to reject…
By Obinna Akukwe Those who looted the over $142 billion oil revenue in the last five years of Jonathan’s regime cannot be working for Jesus Christ, even if some of them bear Christian names, preach in their churches and give fat tithes and offerings. Those who looted state and local government treasuries under any of…
Those who are planning to rig tomorrow’s presidential election and subsequent ones in Nigeria, whether agents of Change or Transformation, whether PDP or APC should note that it is a sin against Jesus Christ, and my fellow Christians among the lot should not work for the devil. Muslim clerics should educate their members already enlisted…
Prominent Nigerian financial institution, Heritage Banking, has thrown its full weight behind the recently launched NYSC Hope Alive Initiative, a public private partnership (PPP) scheme that is designed to bring succour to corps members who suffer disabling injuries during their service to their fatherland. The Bank, as a demonstration of its support for the programme,…
Chairman of House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee and the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial candidate for Lagos West, Hon Solomon Adeola, has debunked media reports that he’s dead. The APC lawmaker was mistaken for a Labour Party candidate in Ogun State, who died this week. In a statement issued on Wednesday by his Media…
According to City Rovers, a traditional ruler in Lagos State has allegedly stabbed his wife, who later went into coma and was quickly rushed to a hospital by sympathisers. Here is how the it was reported on the platform; Despite the huge campaign against domestic violence and most especially spousal abuse, it seems the practice…
If there is one issue that is causing investors and depositors of Skye Bank sleepless nights, then it is certainly the donation recently made by the financial institution’s Chairman, Tunde Ayeni, to the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in February 2015. It would be recalled that last December, a fund raising ceremony was held…
President Jonathan has come again for Igbo votes ahead of the emergence of successful All Progressive Congress (APC) primaries which picked General Muhammadu Buhari as flagbearer. With the emergence of Buhari as APC candidate, it is obvious that it is no more tea a party for the PDP, and one of the places they are…
Popular Anioma Prince, Hon. Ned Munir Nwoko has been appointed the Delta State coordinator of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, the independent campaign organisation for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 presidential poll. In a release signed by the Chief of Staff of TAN, Ben Etiaba, dated 10th of December 2014,…