Category: Column

    (4)          Offer Free Lunch: A Nazereen once stood by the seashore telling a large crowd of about five thousand men how the kingdom of God has come to dwell among men. The laws, the man sermonized, were outdated and God has metamorphosed in him to rescue mankind from the intending doom.  Beyond the laws given by Moses to the Israelites, he made haste to add some more of his own laws or reverse the existing ones.  Soon the teachers of the laws and leaders in Israel launched an…

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My friend and Editor of Global Pilot Newspaper in apt relay of the State of the Nation wrote : ” -Northern Youths give three months quit notice to Igbos.-Militants give Northerners October 1st to quit Niger Delta.-South Africans give Nigerians June 16 to quit South Africa.” Gloss over these ultimatums as we may,  fact is,  there is something fundamentally flawed with our society. Albeit,  behind this worrisome dark cloud of claustrophobia and budding seed of genocide, Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State lit a flicker of light in the…

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  The oral polio vaccination exercise facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Health, with the support of the World Health Organization just commenced. It was important that the devastating polio meningitis, one of the six killer diseases be eradicated in Nigeria  and 100% coverage was targeted all over the states . Armed with the zeal of mission and rendering much needed social service, the health workers stormed two schools, one a private highbrow Nursery /Primary School and the other a Government Primary School, barged into their premises and started immunizing the…

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At a point the Akwa Ibom State government became seriously rattled by the press especially the print media. To a large extent a section of the press had discovered that exhuming skeletons of public officers to put on display in the public got the people’s fancy to no little measure. Since it spun out large dividends to the practitioners the business got sustained and vigorously too. Perhaps the incumbent governor, Deacon Udom Emmanuel had once taken notice of the irresistible rascality of the situation and must have confided in some…

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By Ubong Sampson- Uyo I envisage this to be one of the easiest of all jobs I have done so far in the writing business. Not that the content is expected to be any less than the lots, but merely that I have as a subject matter, a man whose story is to the people as familiar as the biblical story of Christ’s birth and crucifixion is to Christians. In essence, the foregoing will be discussing a man whose record is already known to all. The story of Late Justice…

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By Uwem Akpabio History written or oral, depicts background of a people, keeps their focus to shape their future, embolden in their reflects patriotism towards nation building and as recipe for development, but in Nigeria’s, such of these factors are easy deplete with history charred and too buffoon to be accepted, not been told or kept, and most of all, not been transferred to succeeding generations. The function of history to the younger Nigerian generation is the recluse built by the older generation to informally derail the mechanism of self…

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