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MEET NIGERIA’S FIRST INDIGENOUS FEMALE NEUROSURGEON

  Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu (b. 1980) is the first indigenously trained female neurosurgeon in Nigeria and also the first female to be certified as a neurosurgeon in West Africa.…

Remembering Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther ●The Greatest Yorùbá Linguist

  This month marks the 129th year since the greatest Yorùbá linguist – Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther departed to join his ancestors. He died on the 31st of December 1891…

DOMKAT BALI, THE GENERAL WHO BROKE TABOO IN NIGERIA’s MILITARY By Bayo Onanuga

General Domkat Yah Bali, the Langtang, Plateau state-born soldier, who spent 29 years in the military, died today. He was 80 years old. His last duty was as traditional ruler…

INSIDE THE WORLD OF FIRST-CLASS MATHEMATICIAN LANGUISHING ON EBONYI FARM

In some countries, Emmanuel Nworie, a first-class mathematics graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, would have used his knowledge to advance the prospects of his country, either in an…

BENUE COMMUNITY WHERE CHILDREN ARE TRICKED FOR MONEY, SEX

Child trafficking appears to be one of the most lucrative businesses in Igede community of Benue State as the crime is said to be prevalent in the area. While the…

DEMYSTIFYING MITCHELL ELEGBE : THE MAN BEHIND ‘THE SWITCH’

  Someone once said that ‘Families are like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one’. For Mitchell Olusegun Elegbe, family has been,…

FLASHBACK: HOW ABIOLA DIED By Susan Rice

  In early July 1998, I traveled to Nigeria with Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Tom Pickering, who was then among the most senior career Foreign Service Officers. As…

UNDERSTANDING LOOTED CACOVID PALLIATIVES

The looters claimed they only took what belonged to them. But state governments and the donor of the items looted in warehouses across the country, Coalition Against COVID (CACOVID), insist…

NIGERIAN MIGRANTS’ SOJOURN IN MIDDLE-EAST ENDS IN WOES

The quest for greener pastures in the Middle East countries has left many Nigerian migrants, mostly females, worse off than they were before they left the country. Many of them…

NO FOOD, NO SHELTER: THE AGONY OF EBONYI RESIDENTS FORCED TO GIVE UP THEIR LANDS FOR AIRPORT PROJECT

Nwugo Nwankwo never knew that a day would come when she would be hungry and homeless at Onuachi Umuezeoka village in Ezza north local government area of Ebonyi state where…

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