Available records show that the first public electricity generation took place at Pearl Street Station in New York in 1882 and that electricity generation in Nigeria began in Lagos in 1886. Therefore, one can safely say that this year marks…
FROM the track records of Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, his appointment into the hitherto moribund National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) as its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) is well deserved. Given his pedigree, experience and previous positions, expectations are high that…
THE ongoing quest for the creation of Anioma State, championed by Senator Ned Nwoko and supported by the Anioma people, is not merely a political ambition but a profound aspiration rooted in decades of historical, socio-cultural, and political consciousness. This…
By Ismail Abdulazeez Mantu The Edo State All Progressive Congress, APC, is trying to see it does everything humanly possible, both legal and illegal, to avoid the September gubernatorial election in Edo State. The ailing party with an obvious incompetent…
INTRODUCTION In the last two parts of this treatise, we started by taking a look at the meaning of vanity of life and the ephemerality of power taking a leap from historical sketches and nuggets. Later we explored power generally…
I saw the movie “Olufinmilayo which is a depiction of the admirable life of Mrs. Olufunmilayp Ransome-Kuti, the mother of Fela Anikpolakpo Kuti , who was the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria and the…
Purchasing land in Nigeria could be a thing of joy or a great nightmare. Circumspection is required for you not to be a victim of fraud. The following are safeguards gleaned from true life cases , when purchasing a land…
Apostle Victor Sorokwu (Ugo-Anioma) The continued fiddling and meddling politics that have greeted the bold and visionary advocacy of Senator Ned Nwoko to resuscitate the creation of Anioma State as the sixth state of the South East region of Nigeria,…
Introduction THE judiciary is popularly referred to as the last hope of the common man. Yet, to maintain the attributes that qualify it for this populist appellation, the independence and integrity of the judiciary must be jealously guarded and sustained…
WHEN one views the atrocities of the unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenuous People of Biafra, IPOB, led by Nnamdi Kanu, one comes to the bitter elastic conclusion that this defiant acts of murder and bestiality…
