IVA Valley is now a ghost town. The ghosts of 21 miners: fathers, husbands, sons, breadwinners, that fell to a hail of bullets on November 18, 1949 at the district’s troubled colliery, haunt Iva Valley even as you read. Sixty six years since their massacre, their chilling howls echo through six decades, like a falsetto […]
The international terminal of the Port Harcourt Airport would be completed in 2016, according to the Federal Aports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The FAAN Managing Director, Saleh Dunoma, disclosed this in Port Harcourt during a visit to the airport on Thursday. Dunoma said that the structure that houses the domestic wing was meant to be […]
I have been travelling around the country politicking these past three weeks. Even though I was on a political assignment, I had my reporter’s antennae out and I am able to say that our dear country never ceases to surprise. Here is my travelogue. I say nothing new when I report that the overall feeling […]
Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the new Onirisa of the Source, is a Pathfinder Entrepreneur Forty years ago in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, born into Ojaja Royal Compound of Agbedegbede, Giesi Ruling House in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Ogunwusi Adeyeye, the 5th direct descendant of the Giesi family was quietly delivered into the humble family of […]
A Nigerian medical doctor based in the United States of America, Godwin Maduka, has built no fewer than 100 bungalows for widows and other indigent persons in his Umuchukwu community in Orumba South Local Government Area of the state. Umuchukwu, a boundary community between Anambra and Abia State, is relatively rural. An excited native of […]
Commercial airlines, charter operators and privately owned jets spend about N250 billion annually on aircraft maintenance and simulator training of pilots, THISDAY investigation has revealed. Airlines, according the checks, pay a minimum of $500, 000 for engine overhaul and about the same amount of money for C-Check maintenance on a Boeing 737 aircraft. It was […]
Akuma-Kalu Njoku, Ph.D., a diligent and soft-spoken man, is a Professor of Folklore Studies and Anthropology. In many ways, Prof. Njoku’s intimate insights and unique knowledge of Igbo ethno-folkflores and tradition –especially the historical foundations and sites of the Arochukwu/Ohafia/Bende region of the Igbo nation, have set him part, in my view, as the major resource […]
In preparation for the full implementation date of November 12, 2015, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), has begun test running Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Contract/ Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (ADS-C/ CPDLC) from the Kano Area Control Centre (ACC) at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. The Agency said the running of the Kano pilot data […]
The President, Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigerian (FTAN), Mr Tomi Akingbogun, on Friday called on the Federal Government to strengthen its collaboration with the private sector, to boost tourism. Akingbogun made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. According to Akingbogun, the best way to boost tourism […]
The tempo of construction works on the Lagos - Ibadan express road is set to increase with the completion of the "new enhanced design" of the road and re-dedication of all stakeholders to its completion on schedule. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP and signed by the director of Motorways Asset Limited, Mr Hakeem […]
