• Fri. Feb 7th, 2025

JIMMY CARTER GOES HOME AT 100

Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to…

Edmond Albius : The African Child who invented Vanilla

Edmond Albius was just a 12-year-old boy, enslaved and without formal education, in 1841. However, he managed to develop an innovative technique to pollinate vanilla orchids quickly and profitably, solving…

Senator Akobundu Moves Motion for Speedy actions on the Long Neglected Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Federal Road

The peoples of Abia and Akwa Ibom states and indeed a lot of Nigerians have reacted with glee to a bold move by Senator Austin Akobundu of Abia Central Senatorial…

John Bellingham and the killing of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated.

Born: 1769, St Neots, United Kingdom Died: May 18, 1812 (age 43 years), London, United Kingdom Resting place: Dissected, skull preserved at Barts Pathology Museum The only assassination of a…

Emmanuel Endeley and the Making of Southern Cameroun. Mistake or Success?

Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley, OBE (1916–1988), was a Cameroonian politician who played a pivotal role in leading Southern Cameroonian representatives out of the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly in Enugu…

REMAKING SOUTH EAST AS ECONOMIC POWER HOUSE

South East Business and Investment Summit SEBIS 2024 11-13 December, 2024 A milestone event where vision meets opportunity. Prepare to be part of history at the inaugural South East Business…

QUINCY JONES – The Dude takes the final bow

Quincy Delight Jones Jr an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader, quits the stage in the way of all mortal as waves his final goodbye on November…

Hail the new POTUS

After a most entertaining and of course highly pubicised campaign, in which the Americans had to make a choice between a highly maligned ex president coming back for a likely…

Nigeria – Absurdity in Absurdity- Children in Court for Treason

I am an unrepentant patroit of my nation. Yet some times when I see the degree of absurdity to which that nation is detoriorating, I weep. Last week, the world…

Government College Umuahia – Countdown to 100 years, the Story so far

Up Umuahia loading It is now 94 years since this school which has been honoured as the Eton of the east has existed. Yes, it has had her ups and…