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By Okon Nna-etuk I discovered lately that there are still many things I don’t know how to do but which I ought to know as a man. I realise the environment is key to helping us acquire skills and knowledge. For example, because of where I was born and bred, I could use palm fronds to make baskets, but to date I don’t know how to make cane chairs like some of my friends from Itu can do. I can use raffia palm fronds and ferns to prepare thatches/mats (nkanya). I can set traps for animals and rodents but I…

The Cameroon Football Federation has sacked coach Clarence Seedorf and assistant Patrick Kluivert on Tuesday, the pair paying the price for the defending champions’ last 16 exit at the Africa Cup of Nations. Cameroon crashed out 3-2 to Nigeria last Saturday, an exit the federation described as “premature” in its statement. Former Dutch international Seedorf won just three of nine competitive games after taking over the Indomitable Lions alongside Kluivert last August. The federation are now hunting for a manager to prepare the national side for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations which they are hosting. With a haul of…

By Akanimo Sampson With Europe and Asia alone needing an extra 1.6 million barrels of crude oil daily, the global refining runs is projected to rise by over three million b/d in this third quarter of 2019, the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) monthly report has indicated. But, with production cuts in place, where will this crude come from? Some of the additional demand is likely to be met out of stocks. Refineries will mostly need to rely on increases in crude production/imports. However, the previous week saw the latest reports from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Energy…

Wife to Big Brother Naija Housemate, Mike, on Sunday described her husband’s decision to partake in the reality show as ‘funny.’ She had, Sunday, broken her silence when she spoke about her husband who is currently in the house of Big Brother, partaking in reality show despite being married. Recall that Mike had on Sunday told the housemates that he is married. However, one of the housemates, the evicted Ella wanted to get closer to him despite his marital status. In a video that has gone viral, the woman, however, appealed to Nigerians to support her husband who is a…

By Akanimo Sampson The African Action Congress (AAC), a budding opposition party in Cross River State, appears to be bent on literally making the absentee Governor Ben Ayade dance naked in the market square. Piqued by the festering communal crises in the state under the very nose of Governor Ayade, AAC which is fast emerging as the tormentor-in-chief of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration, is wondering what the governor has been doing with his beefy N7 billion security vote. The rage of the party is coming on the heels of a gory report of how a mother, Aliza, was…

Esther has rewritten history at the Big Brother Naija reality show, as she has earned herself the first female `pepper dem’ Head of House (HoH) in the reality TV show. Before she won, the position had been occupied by two male housemates, Jeff and Nelson. Esther won the position when she won a ”Memory Challenge” where housemates were expected to memorize the numbers of cards found in the house for 20 minutes. When the 20 minutes were over, the housemates moved to the Arena but Big Brother, who felt they were uptight, made a twist to the game and asked…

By Akanimo Sampson The killing rings in Nigeria, a seeming failed African giant, appeared to be celebrating the new security measures being put in place by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to contain the worsening security situation with more heartless killings. Agency report says at least 13 civilians were killed in an air raid as the military repulsed a jihadist assault in Borno State, residents and a security source said on Sunday. Multiple inhabitants of Gajiganna village, 50km from state capital Maiduguri, told AFP a military jet on Tuesday targeted jihadists from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) after…

By Akakan Umoh Mr. Udo Ituen retired from Akwa Ibom State Civil Service in January 2016. In his line of work, he was a confidential secretary for the state government for 35 years. After retirement, he received an alert that same month showing that he had been paid his monthly salary. “This is not right. I am not supposed to be paid since I had retired from service. This is too sudden now.” With this, he made a decision and reported to the then accountant in Government House, Uyo. When he got there, he was told to write a letter…

By Akanimo Sampson The international community is currently under intense heat from some agencies of the United Nations to consider the protection of the human rights of migrants and refugees a core element of its engagement. This is coming after more than 50 migrants and refugees lost their lives in an airstrike on the Tajoura Detention Centre in the east of Tripoli, the Libyan capital on July 3. Last week, Antonio Vitorino, the Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, were busy appealing to the European Union and African Union to prevent…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has on Monday, addressed an open letter to President Mauhammadu Buhari in which he lamented the current situation in the country. Obasanjo also called for urgent steps in curbing the negative happenings ravaging the country, while calling on all stakeholders to work together in the interest of the country. The statement, dated July 15, 2019 was released by Obasanjo’s media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi. Read the full text below: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT, GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue…