Author: Oliver Uja

It is my habit getting the day’s news headlines first every morning on radio and this I took from my father. Radio has special appeal. Take some time to listen to a standard live radio broadcast or podcast and visit the same station’s online pages to read the same story and you can tell the difference. This uniqueness drives from a combination of many factors – programming, production and delivery. The personal touches of individual distinctive talents have a way of breaking the sticky grip of monotony and making every presentation take a life of its own. My father was…

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Natural Species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don’t make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.  –  Thomas E. Lovejoy                                              Recently a Director of Finance in the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Mr. Tony Okecheme was reportedly swept away by flood at the Galadimawa area of Abuja and as the tragic incident was sinking in, four students of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, was also lost to flood while returning to their hostels. Floods have continued to batter different parts of the world from U.S.A to China and the Bahamas.  All over the world…

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It is sad to see the media replete with stories of violent crimes and the seeming helplessness of the people in tackling this malaise.  Armed robbery, banditry, rape and kidnapping have become so widespread. There are chilling stories of pedophiles that prey on minors and in some cases even their own children.  Rape is such a despicable crime which all right thinking people has to condemn in its totality. It is, therefore, not surprising the level of reactions and coverage Bukola Dakolo’s allegation against Pastor Abiodun Fatoyinbo of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) has generated.  Various people commenting on this…

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