It is the unlikeliest place you would imagine a foetus to grow. We know of ectopic pregnancy but what can we call this? Foetus in the brain, not of its expectant mother, but of its twin sister! For Yamini Karanam, the nightmare began in September 2014. Worried that she was getting lost in conversations, and…
Nigerians Discredit Amnesty’s Report
Since Amnesty International accused the Nigerian Army of crimes against humanity and the subsequent submission of its finding to President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, 3 June 2015, the issue has continued to generate controversies among Nigerians. The latest is coming from a group of 100 legal experts and members of Nollywood at a press conference…
Baptist Church Building Collapses During Convention
Members of the Nigerian Baptist Church may have learnt how to praise and worship God in a new way. About four hours after it declared its 102nd annual national convention opened in Obinze, Port Harcourt Road, in Imo State, on Saturday, April 18, one of the church’s buildings still under construction suddenly collapsed. No casualty…
‘The World Hasn’t Seen the Best of Nigeria Yet’
For Emem Ema, the apple never falls far from the tree. Born into “a family of highly creative people,” as she puts it, with music featuring high on the like list, her affinity for music is understandable. A member of the K.U.S.H band that sang ”Let’s Live Together” which recently was chosen as the offical theme song of…
Amaechi Votes in Ikwere
At 2pm Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State cast his vote at Ward 8, Unit 14, Ubima at Ikwere LGA. He expressed disgust at the spate of insecurity in Rivers State. Amaechi said he personally saw a decapitated man in one centre and also commented on the attack on a TELL journalist and another reporter…
All Set For Governorship Election in Rivers State
All is now set for the April 11 governorship election in Rivers State. Election materials were moved from INEC headquarters on Aba Road to various centres yesterday, where they will be further taken to the polling centres this morning, April 11, 2015. Although sporadic gunshots shattered the quite of the night leading to the polls,…
Why APC Wants Rivers, Akwa Ibom RECs Changed
One immediate fallout of the March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections in the sister states of Rivers and Akwa Ibom is the growing call for the removal of the resident electoral commissioners in both states. Amadu Atai, chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom State, has demanded the redeployment of Austin Okogie, the state…
Mounting Tension in Port Harcourt
There is mounting security presence at INEC headquarters on Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Sunday morning. A team of heavily armed police officers have come to replace the one just mobilized and deployed to quell reported protests in Port Harcourt over the outcome of yesterday’s polls which the state ruling party, APC, has…
Voting Continues in Rivers on Sunday
Voting continues today in some parts of Rivers State where the exercise did not take take place at all on Saturday or where it was disrupted due to violence. The APC in the state has called for the outright cancellation of the election. APC Governorship candidate Dakuku Peterside, state APC chairman and many of the…
Inconclusive Accreditation in Eleme
Accreditation was incomplete in Eleme Local Government Area, LGA, and voting did not take place in most of the polling units due to disruption by some party agents who insisted that voting will take place unless they see the result sheets. It was for this same reason that Rotimi Amaechi, governor of Rivers State, did…
