Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State on Thursday disclosed that the federal government, in collaboration with the state government, has established a fact-finding committee to investigate the recent killing of hunters in Uromi, Edo State. Mr Okpebholo made the announcement while receiving a delegation from Kano State, led by Deputy Governor Aminu Gwarzo in Benin….
Taiwan prosecutors on Friday for the first time charged a Chinese ship captain with intentionally damaging undersea cables off the island in February, after a rise in sea cable malfunctions alarmed Taiwan officials amid tensions with China. Prosecutors say the man was captain of the Chinese-crewed Hong Tai 58, registered in Togo, which Taiwanese authorities…
The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), has firmly refuted reports circulating on social media regarding the purported approval of 10,000 new personnel into the state’s civil service. In a statement released on Thursday in Port Harcourt, Dr. Inyingi Brown, the acting Head of the Rivers State Civil Service, dismissed the…
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina said youths in Nigeria and other 51 countries in Africa don’t need freebies under the guise of empowerment schemes but capital to fund their ideas and translate same into enduring wealth. “In the case of young people and the japa syndrome, it’s a big loss…
Sabertooth tiger skull and Bay Bridge, San Francisco waterfront. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult…Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for…
