By: Law Mefor The Igbo term for apprenticeship is ‘Igba Boi.’ It involves learning a trade or craft under someone who is already well-established in the field and is now a master in his own right aka ‘Oga’ in local parlance. Though Igbo apprenticeship had been around for a while before the Biafra war, its…
Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has alleged a plot by the Federal government of Nigeria to eliminate him in the Benin Republic. Recall that Igboho, 49, was arrested by operatives of Brigade Criminelle (Criminal Brigade) on July 19 in Cotonou. Despite efforts to get him released, he has spent over…
There has been several reactions in the comment section of Nasir El-Rufai’s tweet, the Kaduna State Governor made a tweet on Twitter, for the first time after the Telecommunication companies in Nigeria blocked access to Twitter. It can be recalled that few days ago, the Federal Government of Nigeria announced the suspension of the use…
Traditional rulers in Anambra have expressed displeasure with the way the government of Charles Soludo is treating the traditional institution. In a letter signed by Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, the chairman of Anambra State Traditional Rulers Council (ASTRC), the traditional rulers said the way and manner the government maltreated and suspended members were…
PRELUDEDESIRE is the most powerful force in the world. It is the difference between failure and success and the one thing that separates heroes from cowards. Bait a downtrodden with the right object of his DESIRE and watch him rise as high as the highest heavens. Entice a coward with his heart’s throb and open…
Written by Clement Kubau Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar (GCFR), is a democratic model that should be celebrated not only in Nigeria and Africa but globally, and the United Nations should honour such an individual with an ambassadorial title using them as a model for other countries to learn their approach to…
President Muhammadu Buhari is in the process of declaring a state of emergency across the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Peoples Gazette can report based on a secret memo and official accounts, as the administration scrambles to waggle its way out of acute insecurity and the encumbrances of constitutional provisions. Attorney-General Abubakar Malami has already written…
Believe it or not, Nigeria Police is one of the anti-corruption institutions in Nigeria. With enormous constitutional powers to investigate, arrest and prosecute, the law enforcement agency is administratively and legally backed to curb corrupt practices. Indeed, there is a Special Fraud Unit in the police that handles corruption-related issues. Several police personnel are also…
On May 29, 2015 history was made not only in Enugu State but also in Nigeria when the Governor-elect, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, took his oath of office in the glare of millions of Ndi-Enugu who would not stop cheering and clapping in jubilation at the Michael Okpara Square, Independence Layout, Enugu. Never in the…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike may have been absent at grand rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State due to his current foreign trip. A source close to Government House, Port Harcourt, told LEADERSHIP that Wike was yet to return to the country after attending his son’s graduation in the United…
