A first-time airline passenger in China caused a major flight delay after accidentally deploying the aircraft’s inflatable evacuation slide when she was looking for a restroom. According to Shanghaiist, the incident occurred on Friday afternoon […]
These days, it’s easy to be down on air travel — planes are packed, seats are shrinking, fees are frustrating, and delays are maddening. But cheer up, people, it’s not all bad news. Here are […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service on Sunday said it repatriated 25 illegal migrants from Rivers State. The Comptroller, Rivers command of the service, Ishaka Haliru, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt. […]
Wherever two or more Nigerians are gathered, you can be sure that they are talking about the Nigerian Condition – the crippling fuel crisis,the epileptic power supply, the Naira that fetches less and less even […]
For daring a bill to regulate religious practice in Kaduna State, Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s explosively intolerant opponents, reading religious chauvinism into it all, have tagged him “antichrist”. But from their hysteria, not the governor, but […]
Many Nigerians look up to foreigners, especially Westerners, to set standards for them. This habit makes many of us think that the average Westerner is in some way better than us. Not true. Not true […]
In writing this piece, I tried to search online for the character of the people one can genuinely call change agents and their ways or what makes them who they are. I found out that […]
Our once revered traditional institution seems to have since lost its awe. Needless to say that the reverence once accorded the monarchy not just in Yorubaland but the entire country has been so eroded that […]
State chauvinism seems to be going to the extreme. In my opinion, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is on the right track in his choice of Professor Wole Soyinka to chair a planning committee. There is the […]
Two weeks ago, Justice Yusuf Haliru of the FCT High Court, sitting in Jabi, Abuja, had this to say about the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC): “The EFCC is a creation of the law. […]
It was a sad end to the most horrifying legislative rerun elections ever witnessed in this democratic dispensation. When the announcement of results was suspended by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), tens of people, including […]
We can disregard the latest patriotic posturing of Asiwaji Bola Tinubu, who is berating the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, for saying he is no magician and that Nigerians ought to appreciate […]
Since the introduction of computer-based JAMB tests three years ago, the level of anxiety around admission into tertiary institutions in the country has increased enormously. While some see it as a demonstration that the country […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has asked a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt to commit the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonishakin, and […]
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has disclosed that he has secured the release of about 300,000 electricity meters which belonged to defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) but were […]
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) Joint Venture, has started producing more gas from Agbada field in the Eastern Niger Delta in support of government’s aspiration of increasing domestic gas production for […]
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday defended his statement that those coming to the state for the rerun election should “write their will.” Speaking in an interview with Channels Television monitored in Port Harcourt, he […]
SECOND Republic Politician, Dr Tunji Braithwaite is dead. He died yesterday, aged 82 after a brief illness. His son, Olumide, said the legal icon and activist politician fell ill in the early hours of yesterday […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regrets a “misunderstanding” over his use of the word “occupation” to describe Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara, which led to Morocco expelling dozens of US staff, his spokesman has said. A UN-Morocco […]
As Cubans debate the impact of President Barack Obama’s historic trip to the island last week, one prominent figure is lambasting the visit: Fidel Castro. In a full page column titled “Brother Obama,” published in […]
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