Tinubu as "Sobia" in need of Oluganbe leaf

 

Festus Adedayo 

Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost totally dependent on PMS, the unbearable pains of the people reached ear-shattering decibel. Cars disappeared from the roads. Costs of transportation are tearing the roof, with rife social dislocations. Rates of crime have since been on the increase, with rising matrimonial disorder figures. Local political party panegyrists and their hirelings, in response to the harrowing pains that accompanied the policies, lapped up the time-worn cliché of “Rome was not built in a day” as requests for national patience. Why not allow a window into the counterpoise of that cliché, to wit that Rome was not destroyed in a day? With my eyes of metaphor, I see an unfolding disaster of Sobia that is afflicting villagers and townsmen.

Breakfast with Yebo Gogo, Kole Omotoso

 

Festus Adedayo 

In 2018 when news sieved in that that constellation of emeriti, Prof Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, had crept into Akure, Ondo State, our association, Ooye Development Initiative, (ODI) bated him like mousetrap does mice. Was Akure big enough to contain that hippopotamus-statured literary giant? I wondered. I, perhaps, was the most excited of the lot. I had read Omotoso’s works with doting wonder and imagined if he wasn’t a gnome or some genie. So, this day in September, as we drove towards the then pot-holes ridden Oda road to honour an appointment given us by the professor, I fantasized that I would meet a hippo. We waddled through a forest-like jungle into his home. We were later shocked to see that it lacked electricity but Omotoso didn’t mind.

APGA Government Shutdown School without investigation.

 

By Karen James 

As the report of an alleged incident at Blessed Wisdom Model School Onitsha, claiming that the school flogged a child one miss Ifechkwu Egnuniwe of 2 years has come to light, we the Pechilly Investigative Channel team conducted an investigation to examine the veracity of these claims. That leads to the shutting down of the school. 

Sexualising Minor: Ibadan prankster, TrinityGuy released on Bail

 

Popular Ibadan-based prankster Abdullahi Mahruf, also known as Trinityguy has been released on bail from detention at the Agodi correctional centre in Ibadan.  

One of his colleagues Abdul Gafar Ahmad Oluwatoyin, popularly known as Cute Abiola confirmed this on through a Facebook post on Friday.

Ending sit-at-home: CP charges police personnel to maintain tempo of commitment

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Ammani, has charged police officers and men to maintain the current tempo of commitment in order to end illegal sit-at-home in the state.

CP seeks support of judiciary in implementing effective criminal administration system

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Ammani, has called for the support of the judiciary in implementing an effective criminal administration system within the state.

Ammani made the call when he paid a familiarisation visit to the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Raymond Ozoemena, in his office at the Enugu State High Court Complex, Enugu.

11 Members Of NULGE Arraigned In Awka

11 members of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) were last Wednesday, arraigned before the Magistrate Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State capital.

The NULGE members were arraigned on a 6-count charge by the Anambra State Police in a matter between them and the Commissioner of Police in the state. 

Nelson Mandela Day: Foundation tasks African leaders on people-oriented, positive leadership

 Nelson Mandela Day: Foundation tasks African leaders on people-oriented, positive leadership

 

The Daniel Ukwu Leadership Foundation, an Enugu-based NGO, has urged African leaders to provide people-oriented and positive leadership to fasttrack development and reduce poverty in the continent.

The Executive Director of the foundation, Mr Daniel Ukwu, made the call on Wednesday, while speaking on the importance of the Nelson Mandela International Day in an interview with newsmen in Enugu.

Enugu Custodial Study Centre undergraduate population grew from 12 to 318 - Education officer

 

The Deputy Controller of Corrections (DCC), Mr Kelvin Iloafonsi, says  Enugu Custodial Special Study Centre undergraduate population has grown from 12 to 318 within the past 12 years.

Iloafonsi, who is the Education Desk Officer of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) at the Centre, disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday.

Former Anambra Lawmaker, Hon Ejiofor Faults FG Proposed 8000 Naira Monthly Stipend to Families

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    By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu

 The Immediate past member representing Anaocha I State Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Honourable Ejiofor Ebele Leonard, has faulted the Federal Government of Nigeria proposed 8000 Naira Monthly palliative measure geared towards cushioning the effects of Subsidy removal on Nigerians, describing it as corruption as well as an insult to the masses.