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By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou Africa has endured several stages of cultural and commercial transformation; such transformation has occurred in different forms: slave trade, colonization, decolonization, independence and neocolonialism. Albeit a form of change has occurred, it’s probably safe to say there has been no real evolution. The nation still lives...

By Feyi Adewale The appointment of Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko as acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on May 21, 2021 set the tone for the series of reforms that he initiated immediately he stepped in the saddle. The programmes and projects that...

The Holy Father has erected the new Diocese of Katsina (Nigeria) by dismembering the Diocese of Sokoto, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Kaduna. At the same time he appointed, as the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese, the Rev. Gerald Mamman Musa, of the clergy...

Story written Balogun Omeiza David and Oluwakemi Samuel. Picture Credits: Stephen Ogirima. Public Relations Unit, CUSTECH, Osara. The Vice Chancellor of the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara Engr. Prof. Salawu Sadiku together with the Management Staff Registrar, Ms. Olufunke Hudson, Bursar, Mr. John Alaji and the University...

Recently, there has been an increase in the incidence of manhood disappearing. This is an old street format that criminals use to rob and extort people.Those being accused are actually the victims and those claiming their manhood disappeared are criminals.I have seen this first hand and this is how it...

By Faith Awa Maji, Katsina Katsina, the Katsina State capital, once reputed to be among the cleanest cities in Nigeria’s North-West, is currently “at war” with heaps of refuse, competing for space with some of the metropolitan roads. Reports indicate that government agencies in charge of evacuating the garbage dumps...

It was in 1959. Mammy Ode, a young girl from Jericho-Ugboju in the present Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State was married to Anthony Aboki Ochefu, a young Non-Commissioned military officer who had just been posted to Enugu from Abeokuta. They were quartered at the Army Barracks, Abakpa, Enugu....

By Fatima Oluwakemi Saka On the August 23, 2023 a two story building collapsed, at exactly 11:45mp on Wednesday night, at the street popularly called Lagos Street in Garki, a local government area under Abuja Municipal Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), had 3 person’s death, many injured and some...

The Man On IT Is Emmanuel Ifeajuna From Africa’s First Commonwealth Gold medalist To Facing A Firing Squad On 25 September In 1967. Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna (1935-1967) was a Nigerian military officer and one of the key figures in the January 1966 military coup in Nigeria. He was born on...

Professor Aminu Mohammed Dorayi is a renowned educationist and adventurer that drove from London to Kano with his car. The elder statesman is a Record-breaker, who broke a world record by driving his Peugeot 504 over a distance of about 4,000miles, in 24 days. Prof Dorayi is a distinguished Abusite...