Youths Against Disasters
On rains and recent upsurge in malaria
Written by Adetola Ojo One of the many disadvantages of the rainy season is the upsurge in Malaria. It is like a time of the year when dead mosquitoes arise to take revenge on the humans that killed them. I did not feel the need to write this article until the disease caught up with […]
N27BN SCAM: EFCC rearrests jailed police pension boss, slams fresh criminal charges on him •As NLC demands retrial
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arrested a former deputy director of the Police Pension Office, Mr John Yakubu Yusuf, who was jailed by an Abuja High Court on Monday. Commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed his arrest. It was gathered that Yusuf was picked up by the operatives of the commission from his […]
Abuja court sentences police pension boss to 2yrs in prison for embezzling N23bn
Corruption has eaten deep into the system that the Judiciary is now affected. An Abuja High Court has sentenced a former head of the Police Pension Board, Yakubu Yusuf, to two years in prison. He pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of N23.3 billion and is to forfeit property valued at N325 million. He was given […]
LASSA FEVER
It is one of the basic requirements for healthy living for a man to exercise adequate and timely protection toward the environment he lives in and what he eats; failure to observe this may result to unwanted diseases such as Lassa fever. Lassa fever is an extremely fatal, viral hemorrhagic illness named after the Lassa […]
US school massacre victims identified
• Pope saddened by ‘senseless’ attack The head teacher at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Dawn Hochsprung, is listed among the dead, along with adults Rachel DaVino, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Russo, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto. Eight boys and 12 girls were killed – all but four of them were aged six. The youngest, […]
Gunmen abduct Nkiru Sylvanus, demand N100m ransom
‘A Cry For Help’ actress, Nkiru Sylvanus, who is also the Senior Special Adviser to the Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha on Public Affairs, was on Saturday night abducted by gunmen. The Nollywood actress was kidnapped by armed men numbering about eight at a location in Owerri, Imo State capital. It was gathered that the […]
Originally posted on Girllivinglife's Blog:
Have you ever felt so much pain in your heart that you feel your throat closing and even tears would defy you? This is the Christmas season, my favorite time of the year and I would have never guessed in a long time that my love would be lost…
‘We won’t cover corruption in oil industry’
JOE EFFIONG President Goodluck Jonathan has said his administration has no reason and intention to cover up any ascertained misdeeds uncovered by various fact finding groups in the extractive industries, especially in the oil and gas industry. In his address at the Board Retreat for members of the National Stakeholders’ Working Group of the Nigeria […]
Jonathan vows to keep Nigeria one
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigeria will remain a single entity, noting that his government would not succumb to the pressure of overseeing the disintegration of the country. The president made this remark at the emir’s palace in Hadejia, Jigawa State, when he paid the emir a courtesy visit on the first day of […]
Truck Driver, Ph.D
PEOPLE shocked that doctorate degree holders are applying for jobs as truck drivers may not appreciate the extent of the unemployment situation. Statistics are unreliable, but revelations that six Ph.D holders and 704 others with Master’s degree applied to Dangote Group as truck drivers raise questions about our education and our uses of the educated. […]
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