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The police in Delta investigating the remote cause of the death of a secondary school Physic teacher, Mr. Sunday Ufuah, at Alihame Mixed Secondary School in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, has said the deceased was not flogged by the suspect, but that Ufuah collapsed while attempting to mediate when Nweke was flogging the teacher that punished his son, Emmanuel. Ufuah was said to have collapsed during school hours when an aggrieved parent stormed the school to avenge the punishment meted to his errant son for allegedly scaling the fence to steal palm wine. He was…

…Her Reasons Will Shock You One  Oluchukwu Nwosu, a native of Nnewi Town in Anambra state, has sold her three-month old grandson, stating she committed the act as a result of poverty and hardship. Oluchukwu sold the baby boy for a paltry sum of N50, 000. When she was apprehended by officials of the Anambra State Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Children’s Welfare last weekend, and brought before the Commissioner, Hon Mrs. Ify Obinabo, she confessed to selling her grandson. In a video watched by this medium, the woman wept profusely, saying she was pushed to sell the baby because…

By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye It is another sad Sunday for Catholics in Nigeria as one of her priests, Very Rev. Fr. Thaddeus Tarhembe, of the Catholic Diocese of Wukari, in Taraba State was abducted from his parish rectory in the early hours of Sunday, October 29, 2023. According to a release signed by Rev. Fr. John Jerome Laikei, Director of Communications in the Diocese and posted in the Facebook page of Rev. Fr. Moses Idris, reads; ” I am directed by the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wukari, Most Rev. Mark Nzukwein to inform the general public of the…

Nigeria Inspector General of Police IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun, has directed all medical personnel across the country to treat gunshot victims with or without police report whenever the situation arises.  IGP Egbetokun issued the directive while urging health workers to sensitize Nigerians about the issue. The IGP’s directive, based on the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017, was contained in a Police internal memo dated October 25, 2023, and signed by the Force Principal Staff Officer, Olatunji Disu. The memo was addressed to all Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, Commissioners of Police and the…

Parishioners from Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza are praying fervently for an end to the war and peace for all. In a video recorded on Saturday, bombs can be heard exploding in the background. The Parish compound has turned into a refuge for many seeking shelter. “Thank God everyone is alright,” says Holy Family parish priest Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, who is currently in Bethlehem and unable to reach Gaza. He has remained constantly updated by his assistant parish priest, Fr. Iusuf Asad. Sound of bombs: In the Strip and confirmed by some managing to get through the communications blackout,…

. By Yusuf Salihu Sansani, Jalingo One person has reportedly been killed by Herders and fourteen others injured in a renewed crisis between farmers and herdsmen in Yelwa Abbare community of Ardo Kola Local Government Area, Taraba State. The crisis was said to have started after a herder took his cattles into a rice farms belonging to the people of the community and was asked to bring them out, but he refused which led to huge damage by the cattles. Narrating his ordeals, one of the victims of the crisis, Haruna Yusuf said, they were harvesting rice when a…

…Send SoS To Relevant Authorities By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The unlawful and illegal sand dredging activities all over Delta state, no doubt poses a life-threatening situation and envisages man-made environmental disaster in the nearest future if not properly checked and guided by relevant authorities and agencies of governments. It was such situation of unlawful dredging activities that trigger residents of 2nd Amekpa of Ekiugbo-Ughelli community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta state, on Saturday, October 28, to protest against the siting of a dredger just few metres away from residential buildings, calling on both the Federal and State Government to…

By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Mrs. Mabel Sule, a survivor of the Gelegele boat accident and her one and half year baby, has appealed to the Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki and other well meaning Nigerians to come to her aid as she lost all she had to run her family during the boat accident.   Narrating what happened, Mabel Sule said contrary to the one person claimed to have been drowned by the Edo State Police Command, a total of eight persons were drowned in the accident. Mabel and 26 other traders and children were traveling last week Thursday, when their boat capsizes…

Comrade Agbubi Ejovwoke Emmanuel a frontline aspirant for the Chief Whip position of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Youth Wing election has expressed confidence in restoring the Urhobo greatest through a well coordinated business meetings. In his statement, he noted that it is almost a culture in every youth gatherings for an uproar to arise but it takes a well skill interpersonal communicator to pacify every warring personnel and courageous to discipline any erring member to restore peace and orderliness for a fruitful business meeting which is the responsibility of the Chief Whip of the house. “As the Chief…

By Sunny Awhefeada Taken from William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming”, the Nigerian sage and writer, Chinua Achebe deemed the thematic concern of the poem and the imagery of chaos it evoked as fit for the African experience which colonialism bequeathed. Yeats’ poem was birthed by the dysfunctional world that the modern period turned out to be. Yeats wasn’t alone in the depiction of the crisis that befell the world at the turn of the twentieth century. Thomas Stearns Elliot, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, among others captured in poetry, prose and drama, the essence of that era which…