Opinion: Nigeria's Economic Issues: The Etisalat Example...

By: Dr. Kazeem Bello

The Abu Dhabi Government that owned Etisalat pulled the company out of Nigeria last week and gave the Nigerian ex-partners 7 days to change its name and drop its trade name. That has been complied with. Etisalat Nigeria changed the name this past week. The news information about this, I monitored on my travel to Dubai on the local news which indicated that the Nigeria Etisalat claimed it invested over $20 billion in equipment and facilities in Nigeria. The news Analyst from Dubai Business New Network TV insisted that it is not possible.

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Opinion: Runs Girls University (Olosho)

For Adult Reader.

Runs Girl University Logo

This should not be seen as a tacit approval of such societal behavior or practice but as an informed educational entertainment. Run girls or Olosho are mostly young ladies who engage in sexual relations with men in exchange for money. It is an eye opener for the innocents and the “gullibles” to the methodology of Runs Girl.

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Outstanding Women Award set for July 29

By Ola Pat

The Award

All is now set for the first edition of Outstanding Women Award, OWA. According to the organizer’s website, the award is organized to recognize and celebrate “women that are making tremendous strides in their career/businesses and contribute in no small measure to the society.” The event, which will take place on July 29^th, 2017 on Wemco Road, Ogba will not only have dignities as guests but will also honour women from different walks of life.

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The Soda War

THE SODA WAR - A WAR FOR OUR STOMACH SHARE

By: Louisa A. Chinedu-Okeke

Can you recall a single birthday celebration, party or gathering of some sort where a Soda was not served? I can't. This shows how integral Sodas have become in our life. Some individuals cannot even go through a day without a bottle or more of Soda. In case you are wondering, Sodas are sugar sweetened beverages that are mostly carbonated. Examples of Sodas include Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, Seven Up, Dr. Pepper etc. Fancy drinking slightly over 3 gallons of Coke in one month! Well, actually, in 2011, consumption of Sodas hit 32 gallons a year per person.

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Internet is the new beer parlour

                                                                       By Ola Pat

Do not believe everything you read in the media, this popular maxim is truer now than ever before. It used to be: do not believe everything you read in the newspapers but now it has grown into a juggernaut of gossip. And it is more truisms in this online era, where national issues are first broadcast on the social media, Facebook, Whatsapp, twitter, google+, Instagram, BBM etc. I was jostled out of my slumber by a simple event. That single event makes me realized that we were already in George Orwell, 1984. Before you seek the consult of your calendar, in other to bombard my ignorance, allow me to expatiate.

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How to write a statement for the police

It has long been concluded that hospital, court and police station are places Nigerians feared most yet they will have a reason to visit these place at least once in lifetime time for positive reasons. These places do have positive reasons of visiting them – hospital is to birth, court is to affidavit while police state is to return found property.

Anyway, if by providence you, your neigbour or community member ever need to write a statement. An NGO, Prisons Rehabilitation and Law Abiding Organization, Pralarg gives you tip on how to write a statement for the police.

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