The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed June 2, for its governorship primary in Edo State, ahead of the September 19 poll. Southsouth Bureau Chief, Bisi Olaniyi writes on the intrigues and power play. The people of Edo State are politically conscious. The September 19 governorship election will be a battle between the candidates […]
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The fear of lack of bed space for coronavirus patients at isolation centres has gripped the government, now seeking the possibility of home treatment. Government now making appeal to owners of uncompleted buildings or empty property to donate to the government for use when government has many edifices and structures abandoned at different locations in […]
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Government unusual” was somewhat patented by former Osun Governor, Rauf Aregbesola (now Interior minister), to capture a willy-nilly push for development, of a state, stagnant for far too long. Somewhat, that phrase captured it all: the high and the low; the whoop of victory and the moo of defeat; the abuse and the praise; the […]
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The litigation involving All Progresives Congres (APC) Senator Smart Adeyemi and Senator Dino Melaye has been full of drama at the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja. The people of Kogi West District anxiously await the judgment. Where will the pendulum of victory swing? Deputy Editor Emmanuel Oladesu examines the power struggle between the two […]
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Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi and political appointees are making an unprecedented sacrifice of 50 per cent salary cut to keep the wheel of governance moving, amid fiscal challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic. Odunayo Ogunmola examines the issues surrounding the salary reduction. It was not an easy decision to take but it had to be […]
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The dust is yet to settle over the 1,800 bags of rice which the Oyo State government received from the Federal Government and attempted to return without success. While the state described the rice as weevil-infested and unfit for human consumption, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) which supplied the rice insisted that the rice supplied […]
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By Abdu Rafiu A crowded bank after the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos There is nothing like freedom. Last Monday proved to everyone how irrepressible the longing for freedom is. The longing was breathless, the desire to walk the street was pressing—to breathe in fresh air from outside, away from the stuffy room into which you […]
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By Gbemiga Ogunleye Two events made the distinguished lawyer, Chief Richard Akinjide, who has just passed on, stuck in my memory. As the legal adviser to the defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN, in the Second Republic, Akinjide it was, who argued his party’s case up to the Supreme Court that 2/3 of 19 states was […]
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Pineapple, pawpaw have anticancer effects on bile duct, prostate cancer cells Exercise retards development of liver condition independent of weight control Regular intake of foods rich in fibre associated with lower breast tumour risk Natural product derived from sponge blocks growth of malignant cervical cells Pancreatic disease ‘cured’ by targeting pH balance as therapeutic approach […]
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By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…Could we say that the Almighty Creator created us human beings without a purpose? Can purposelessness arise from Perfection which everyone who believes in God attributes to Him? Can we say the pursuit of material endowment and raising of families is the whole purport of our existence on earth? […]
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