Browsing Category
Features
Features
ANALYSIS: Will Nigeria ever recapture all escaped prison inmates?
Aside from incessant killings, abductions, and massive corruption that marred the administration of ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, one common and repeated breach witnessed during the administration was repeated prison break.
While this!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
From South to North: How Nigerian traditional rulers are losing their mystical powers to kidnappers
Peter Aremu, the Olukoro of Koro in Kwara State, was sleeping in his palace on February 1, when unsuspecting kidnappers breached protocol, killing the monarch. They also kidnapped his wife and two others.
Two days earlier, a group of!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
How Senator Boroffice shuns community after campaigning with Ikakumo cashew factory
By Alaba Adeyemi
In 2011, Professor Robert Ajayi Boroffice launched his campaign for election as Senator representing Ondo North Senatorial District. He promised to facilitate a cashew processing factory for the district to take!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Nigerians resort to deadly herbal concoctions as cost of drugs chokes
As the retail prices of drugs commonly used by Nigerians continue to increase lately, many Nigerians have resorted to praying to deadly herbal concoctions for healing of diabetes, hypertension and other illnesses.
Many patients said the!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
OBITUARY: Herbert Wigwe, An Undisputed Leader In The Economic Transformation Of Nigeria
The news of Herbert Wigwe's death shook the press on Saturday, Feb. 10, after losing his life in a tragic helicopter accident that occurred near the California-Nevada border in the United States of America (USA). Apart from Mr Wigwe, his!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Baobab for Women’s Rights and CITAD join forces in Combating SGBV in Kano
By Mariya Shuaibu Suleiman
Despite the establishment of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPP) on May 25, 2015, in Nigeria to prevent and criminalize various forms of violence against persons including rape, sexual abuse,!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Divorce: How a foundation’s initiative in Katsina State is creating peace and harmony among couples
By Zubairu Idris
Certainly, patience is an ingredient that sustains and stabilizes the marriage institution. However, when there is an irreconcilable difference between couples, the issue of management or outright separation comes in.
!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
PHOTOS: Abandoned community PHC in Jigawa wears new look after SOLACEBASE report
By Moses Akoji
While the need for a quality health care system remains the key drive of the Jigawa State government, the deplorable state of PHCs across the state has weakened the pride of the state over the years, but the constant call!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
PROFILE: Over 500 civilians killed in military miscalculated air strikes across Northern Nigeria in…
By Elijah Akoji
Over the last decade, there have been repeated occurrences of civilians becoming collateral damage as Nigeria's security forces (Army and Airforce) try to track down armed groups, especially in the North.
SOLACEBASE!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
How N6bn failed streetlight project worsens insecurity, cripples businesses in Kwara
It was exactly 10:13 p.m. on the night of Wednesday, September 20. Lukman Raji, a resident of Ile Mofalakun at Ita Amodu junction, along Ibrahim Taiwo road in Ilorin, Kwara State, sat by the roadside with a bread seller. She was already!-->…
Read More...
Read More...