Does packing for your trip especially short travels come easy to you or does it give you sleepless nights like me? I am that person who never leaves anything I consider essential on a journey because I don’t want to wish I had taken it. I could pack two bags for a weekend; Too much … [Read more…]
It is the holidays and Christmas is my favorite holiday of each year. Christmas is usually the time to spend time with family, both nuclear and the extended family. The Igbos for instance, travel to their villages to be with their extended family. People also use the opportunity to visit people that they have not … [Read more…]
It’s no news of how so many Nigerians have been flooding the shores of Europe and America for better livelihood. With the current insecurity in the country seemingly getting worse, unemployment and underemployment at an all time high, increasing cost of things due to inflation, all making it harder to live in an already fragile … [Read more…]
In the sweet tastes of my days at Nsude, the freshman year didn’t really count, merely because the freshman year was a kind of puzzle. You really can’t tell what’s happening next until it starts happening. Information was gathered from all sources, and the brain did the work of retaining these information and producing it … [Read more…]
By M.O Ene Every decent person wants peace, but permanent peace is for the dead! The dead rest in peace, eternally in silence of the cemetery. The living is in constant struggle to survive, live, and thrive in a perceived peaceful and enabling environment that is secure and sustaining. (“A Piece on Peace,” 7.14.21) In … [Read more…]
Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent his final years at the … [Read more…]
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has challenged those threatening to expel him from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to go ahead and try it if they can. Governor Wike gave the challenge at the Eneka Road Roundabout, venue of the flag-off ceremony for the construction of Eneka-Igbo Etche Road dualisation project on Friday. Governor Wike, … [Read more…]
…Says implementation of appropriation law commences 1st January next year Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Friday, assented to the 2023 appropriation bill of One hundred and sixty six billion, six hundred and two million, four hundred and sixteen thousand, seven hundred and seventy naira (N166,602,4I6,770.00) passed by the State House of Assembly. Signing … [Read more…]
The Lagos State Government has said the proposed construction of the Fourth Mainland Bridge project is scheduled to be completed within four years while the official kick-off for the construction of the project, the turning of the surd, will be done by the Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu in the first quarter of 2023. The … [Read more…]
Hundreds of Nigerians are now exploring other destinations after Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) slammed a total visa ban on them in October. Accordingrto the eports, before the ban on Nigerian businessmen, Dubai had first tightened visa requirements to applicants from Nigeria. For now, only Nigerians with diplomatic passports and few others have … [Read more…]
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu apparently holds the aces in the deal being worked out with the Governor Nyesom Wike-led G-5 Peoples Democratic Party Governors ahead of the 2023 general elections. However, opinion remains divided over whether or not a concrete agreement has been reached. Indication emerged on Thursday … [Read more…]
Prof. Frank Ifeanyi Asogwa is a Professor of Law and the current Dean, Faculty of Law, Enugu State University of Science & Technology, ESUT. He was previously the Head, Department of Public and Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, UNEC. From 2007-2011, he was the Enugu state Commissioner for Local Government … [Read more…]