I still cook for my husband because I don’t want anybody to steal him for me...
Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, who was the former Lagos State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, has been the state Deputy Governor since 2011, although she still oversees the...
View ArticleEmirates upgrades Abuja capacity
Barely two months after launching its operations to Abuja, Emirates has announced it will upgrade the route’s operating aircraft to a Boeing 777-200ER, starting from October 1st 2014. Emirates launched...
View ArticleStudents return from tour to Singapore
Students of Grace High School, Lagos, who went on a two-week educational tour of Singapore are back to the country. Speaking of the trip, the School Administrator, Mrs. Tokunbo Edun, said education has...
View ArticleFrom our mail box: Reactions to ‘She abandoned me as a baby. Now it’s payback...
The response to Nora’s story from readers was overwhelming with over 1000 sms and emails received so far and counting. Unfortunately, due to space constraints, we cannot publish all but a select few....
View ArticleLove: Different strokes…
EX- NTA girl Rose Peter-Graham speaks on her first pregnancy Wow! It all started like a joke, then days rolled into weeks and weeks into months and months into years. My column, the once famous ‘For...
View ArticleI was lured into robbery to raise N25,000 school fees, says undergraduate...
THE Delta Police have arrested an undergraduate of the state-owned university and his lover for their alleged role in armed robbery. Raphael Ekarebe, 22, is a 300 level student of the Department of...
View ArticleHunger pushed us into oil theft
PERHAPS, Julius Fredie, a 24-year-old man from Ahoada West, Rivers State, had thought that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Bayelsa State chapter, would listen to his pathetic...
View ArticleRivers immigration boss, stakeholders parley on crime fighting
To maintain a proactive strategy in curbing trans-border crime, the Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Rivers State, Barr Mike Longe, has held a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt....
View ArticleAmazing world of Nigeria’s graduates doing menial jobs
TIME was 1pm and the weather was as hot as it could ever be. The putrid smell of rotten materials rent the air. But not minding the unpleasant smell, the young men and women went about their business...
View ArticleFaced with eviction threats, residents of Lagos community cry for help
THERE can be no argument as to the fact that Lagos city has witnessed tremendous transformation under the Governor Babatunde Fashola administration even if it has not completely become the mega city...
View ArticleWhy Open University students can’t be lawyers— Law School D-G Adesola Onadeko
Olanrewaju Adesola Onadeko, a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of the Republic of Gambia, was Secretary, Council of Legal Education and later, Deputy Director-General of the Nigerian Law...
View ArticleI get passes from men but my status scares them – Anambra Speaker Chinwe...
Rt. Hon. Chinwe Nwaebili is the first female Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly. Before now, she had served as the chair of four different committees in the House. She spoke with NWANOSIKE...
View ArticleAt the mercy of vandals
Sometime in 1992, Olojede Mukaila was an apprentice electronics repairer in his native Eruwa in Oyo State. Alongside his fellow apprentices, Mukaila looked forward to becoming an established master of...
View ArticleHow I was brutalised by NDDC’s security men –Contractor
A contractor with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Henry Wilcox Yobana, has alleged that he was brutalised following his alleged refusal to part with a ‘tip’ for some security men...
View Article35-yr-old arrested for sexually assaulting boy, 13
A 35-year-old man, one Ilesanmi, has been taken into custody after he was alleged to have sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy, last Monday at 12 Kajola Street, Iju/Taogbolu area of Akure North Local...
View ArticleCurfew: Ekiti residents grumble over security agents’ alleged harassment
THE imposition of the dusk-to-dawn curfew in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, by the state government two weeks ago was primarily meant to curtail the excesses of hoodlums who had gone on the rampage,...
View ArticleSallah tragedy: 27-yr-old man stabbed to death
THE Eid-el-Kabir celebration in the Odoshiwola area of Epe, Lagos State, last Saturday ended abruptly on a tragic note when a 27-year-old man, Segun Alatishe Boccos, was allegedly stabbed to death by...
View ArticleBurglars on the rampage in Ogun community
SINCE a recent clampdown on robbery gangs by the Ogun State Police Command, the dare devil robbers, who had been terrorising innocent citizens in the state, are believed to have resorted to burgling...
View ArticleHow Pastor lost entire family in one fell swoop
September 25, 2014 was a very dark day in the life of Pastor John Kayoda, a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) preacher in Warri, Delta State. It was the day he lost his entire family: wife and four...
View ArticleUNESCO rates ABUAD high
WHEN Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) came forward with his dream and vision to reform functional education in this clime by providing and leading others in quality education, service, industry and character as...
View Article