TRIUMPH OF THE 'YAHOO-YAHOO' GOVERNORS

Azu Ishiekwene

In the midst of our current misery, the Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu thought we needed something to cheer last week, so he offered a joke, which was telling and disturbing.

TRUMP'S AMERICA, STILL AMERICA, THEIR AMERICA

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

America, as most of us call the United States of America, USA, is a big country with confusions that match its size. The latest is the presidency of Donald Trump, whose face knots delightfully when he issues another threat - it could be to the unborn.

TRUMP, AGAIN...

By Azu Ishiekwene

On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the U.S., on January 19, 2017, I wrote an article I could easily write now. It was entitled “A Memory of America on Obama’s Last Day.” With minor edits, it’s worth repeating as Trump happens again as the 47th President of the U.S.

TStv RETURNS TO BUSINESS ON OCTOBER 1ST

• Promises To Give Viewers Value For Money

By Chinua Okafor (Infotech Reporter)

After over two years in business limbo due to operational shut down, Telecom Satellite Television (TStv) Africa, will finally return to full business activities with its official re-launch on Thursday October 1st.

TSUBEB INAUGURATES NEW OFFICIALS, SAYS NUT NOT RELEVANT IN TARABA STATE

By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)

The leadership of the Taraba State Universal Basic Education Board (TSUBEB) has disassociated itself from the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), an umbrella body that pilots the affairs of Primary School Teachers across the Country.

TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK FOR WILL SMITH

By Azu Ishiekwene

One week before Hollywood, Nigeria hosted a different kind of Oscar moment. At the swearing-in ceremony of Charles Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank and new governor of the most commercially significant southeast states, the wife of the outgoing governor, Ebele Obiano, staged an unusual drama.

TV JOURNALIST, EHIEDU ANIAGWU, APPOINTED ATIKU/OKOWA'S CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN

• * As Atiku Disowns Support Group Soliciting For Funds

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has appointed the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Ehiedu Aniagwu, as one of his spokesmen for the 2023 presidential campaign.

TWITTER IS PAYING HACKERS TO UNCOVER ISSUES WITH ITS AUTOMATIC IMAGE CROPPING FEATURE

• Twitter hopes to find and patch ways in which its algorithm can be exploited

By Chinua Okafor @The_RoboRai

A contest is being held by Twitter to see if hackers and researchers can find flaws in its image cropping algorithms, and prizes are to be given out to winning teams (see Engadget). Teams will have access to Twitter's image cropping code and model, which will allow them to find out if the algorithm is harmful (for instance, if it removes the image's subject).

TWO YPP HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY MEMBERS DECAMP TO LABOUR, VISIT GOV OTTI

By Nnanna Kalu (Abia State Correspondent, in Umuahia)

Two members of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the Abia State House of Assembly have decamped to the ruling Labour Party (LP) in the State.

UBEC RAISES ALARM OVER LAND ENCROACHMENT IN TARABA STATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)

The Chairman of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in Taraba state, Mr. Yakubu Agbaizo, has raised the alarm over community residents' encroaching on government primary schools lands.

UFUOMAEE DROPS ANOTHER CHART-BUSTER, RELEASES 29TH BOOK, THE ACCUSED

• * Book Is Her Fourth In A Small World Seasonal Series

By Shola Oshunkeye

Lovers of books, especially life molding-Christian fiction, are in for a swell time. This is because renowned author, and Nigeria’s undisputed Queen of Christian fiction, Ufuomaee, is set to release another chart-buster to the global market tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31, 2023.

UK NAMES 42 YEAR-OLD RISHI SUNAK AS NEW PRIME MINISTER

• * Promises To Fix British Economy, Deliver Britain, Unite Party

Just seven short weeks ago, it looked as if it might be all over for Rishi Sunak. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer – the UK’s title for its chief finance minister – made a high-stakes gamble. He launched an attack that helped to end Boris Johnson’s premiership, put himself forward as his replacement, but ultimately lost to Liz Truss. Admitting defeat, he retreated to the parliamentary back benches.

UK Polls: ENUGU INDIGENE, MELANIE ONOVO, WINS COUNCILLORSHIP ELECTION IN ENGLAND

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Ozalla Community, a gateway town to Nkanuland in Enugu State, South East, Nigeria, was thrown into a celebration mood on Monday, as one of the United Kingdom-based daughter of the community, Melanie Nneka Onovo, won a Councillirship seat for Maryland Local Council Government in England in the just concluded July 4, 2024 elections.

UK PRIME MINISTER, BORIS JOHNSON, RESIGNS TODAY AMIDST PRESSURE

• * As Former Minister Pushes For An Interim Leader
• Embattled Premier Described As "Always Unfit For Office"

By Bertrand Finecountry (Foreign Affairs Editor)

Head of the British Government, Boris Johnson, has agreed to resign his job today as Prime Minister, bowing to pressure to quit amidst flurry of allegations against him which has led to the resignation of most key government officials.

UK TO PARTNER NASARAWA GOVT ON AGRICULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

By David Wuya, (Nassarawa State Correspondent)

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, on Wednesday, expressed the British Government's readiness to partner Nasarawa State Government on Agriculture and Infrastructure development to improve the economic growth of the State.

UK VARSITY APPOINTS EKWEREMADU VISITING PROFESSOR

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, has appointed former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance and International Linkages.

Ukraine: IS THIRD WORLD WAR LOADING (1)

By Bolanle Bolawole

First, let us consider the cause or causes of the first two world wars that our world has witnessed. The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary but historians are agreed that there are at least five remote causes of the war.

Ukraine: IS THIRD WORLD WAR LOADING? (2)

By Bolanle Bolawole

As we said here last week, both the 1st and 2nd world wars had remote and immediate causes, and the epicentre of the wars was Europe before other parts of the world gradually got sucked into the vortex. The causes of the wars were European in nature - so also the dramatis personae.

UMAR EMERGES WINNER OF 3RD EDITION OF AFRIGROWTH READING COMPETITION

By Cecilia Ogezi

A pupil of the Local Education Authority(LEA) Primary School Estate in Gwagwalada Area Council, Mansur Umar, has won the 3rd edition of the AfriGrowth Reading Competition held in Abuja.

UN DONATES OVER 18,000 PPEs, LIFE SAVING COMMODITIES TO BORNO GOVT

By Uchenna Okolie (Borno State Correspondent)

The United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) has donated 18,646 personal protective pieces of equipment ( PPEs ) and life-saving commodities to the Borno state government as part of safety measures against the COVID-19 pandemic to the various health sectors in the state.