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October, 2011
The Imafidons Rule The World
The Imafidons, a Nigerian family based in Britain, have in the last few years broken new grounds and set new world records with their academic achievements, thereby making Nigerians everywhere proud of the name
By Chukwudi OHIRI
In the recent past, when one heard of Nigeria or Nigerians on the cable news, it was usually in connection with one negative act or the other. Today, the story...
How You Can Become Rich
By Chinedu MADUKA
Every Christian and indeed everybody can become a millionaire provided they have learnt the eternal and biblical principles of success, wealth creation and the laws of money. Some people live with the mistake of thinking that millionaires are a special set of people with an exclusive knowledge of some uncommon secrets and principles of success. For from it, success belongs...
The Aviation Drama Continues
As the tide of change and transformation that recently shook the aviation industry in Nigeria seems to be settling, there is threat of legal battle by those negatively affected
By Margaret Nongo-OKOJOKWU
The drama that ensued over the past weeks which shook the aviation industry is anything far from over, or so it seems, as one of the senior management officers recently removed from office...
Sirius Petroleum Farms Into The Ororo Marginal Oil Field In OML 95
Sirius Petroleum, an investing company focused on oil and gas exploration and development opportunities in Nigeria, has entered into a Financial and Technical Services Agreement (FTSA) with Owena Oil and Gas and Guarantee Petroleum Company in relation to a proposed investment in the Ororo marginal oil field which is located in Oil Mining Lease 95...
Recovering Oil From The Sun
The hope of future solar energy revolution rises further as Chevron Technology Ventures, CTV’s, use of solar-thermal power plant in oil production marks another milestone in solar technology advancement
By Margaret Nongo-OKOJOKWU
When solar energy was discovered and introduced to the world as an alternative power source, it came to many as a relief. To us in Africa and, Nigeria...
Cancer: Care, Symptoms And Management
By Philip I. Anukwam
Body cells are constantly reproducing. More than 90 percent of the body’s cells are replaced every six months. Cells produce by dividing in two, each half taking its share of the nucleus. The dividing cells sometimes produce mutant (abnormal) cells which are not properly coded and multiply uncontrollably, developing into a cancer. Cancer therefore is the...
NLNG Prize 2011: How Mai Nasara Emerged Winner
After a long wait, the Nigerian, and indeed the world literary community has finally heaved a sigh of relief as a winner emerges for the 2011 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature. And the winner is…
By Okey EGBOLUCHE
On Monday, October 10, 2011 at a world press conference held at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos, Nigeria, Mai Nasara, a journalist and science communicator...
Eagles’ Poor Outing: Fans’ Verdict
As reactions continue to trail the Super Eagles’ abysmal performance at the crucial African Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea which cost the nation a place in the 2012 competition, Odinaka ANUDU captures the overall feelings of fans in this short drama sketch
GEORGE: Good...
Chaos Looms As Lagos Goes To The Polls
All is set for Lagosians to go to the polls to elect their councilors and chairmen of local government areas and local council development areas come October 22, 2011, but there are palpable fears that the elections may be marred by chaos
BY Chukwudi OHIRI
Indications are rife that if the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, does not take urgent steps to address...
Charge Of Incompetence
The recent Labour crisis in Imo State has been blamed on a lack of tact in negotiation on the part of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Prof. Anthony Anwuka, who is said to have entered the Governor’s black book on account of this
By Chinedu OPARA
When the rumour mill came alive in Imo State recently bearing tales of a worsening...