DELE MOMODU: In Search of A Refreshing Nigerian

The Pendulum By Dele Momodu, Email: Dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com

Fellow Nigerians, I’m happy to send you this letter from Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, where I’m attending the wedding of a young Nigerian journalist, Jide Agbeniyi and his Zimbabwean colleague and partner, Miss Josey Mahachi, the beautiful presenter of the popular Click Africa Show on Africa Magic. This piece was inspired by the manner of greetings I discovered here: “A refreshing noon or a refreshing evening to you”, are the commonest ways of salutation in this tranquil country. It is almost a mantra as everyone I met greeted me thus and it sounded so sonorous and genuinely welcoming that it then occurred to me that what human beings require in essence to enjoy life to the fullest is a refreshing existence. This is what has eluded most societies that are in deep turmoil such as ours.

SIMON KOLAWOLE: What Does Obasanjo Really Want?

Simon Kolawole Live!: By Simon Kolawole, Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com

With former President Olusegun Obasanjo, you buy one and get one free. Problem is: you never know what you are getting. You could be getting a peacemaker and a troublemaker in one bundle. I am always conflicted trying to decode Obasanjo’s personality. One moment, I find myself describing him as the best president Nigeria has ever had. The next moment, I am cursing him as the worst thing that has ever happened to us. The best of humans live with their own contradictions and underbellies, but Obasanjo easily stands out, perhaps because of the prominent role he has played in our nationhood - and, more so, the way he keeps intruding into our lives.

Riot in Adamawa Prisons over Killing of Inmate

Nigerian Prisons Service

There  was riot Monday in  Numan Prisons, Adamawa   State,  following the  alleged  killing of an inmate by warders who moved to check an escape attempt. Eyewitness account said    that   the inmates went wild when the prison warders allegedly beat one of the them to coma which   resulted to his death.

Woman Gives Birth on Board Arik Flight to London

Arik Plane

An Arik Air flight with over 100 passengers en route to London Sunday was forced to make an emergency landing in Palmas, Spain, as a woman went into labour and gave birth while the aircraft was airborne.

We Have Decimated, Dislodged Terrorists, Says SSS DG

Director General of the service, Mr. Ita Ekpenyong 

By Chiemelie Ezeobi

The State Security Service (SSS) has said the continuous executed strategies of security agencies  have decimated terrorists thereby dislodging its stronghold. This is just as the federal government disclosed that it had spent at total sum of N800 million in training and re-training personnel of the service in order to position it to tackle terrorism in the country.

The Director General of the service, Mr. Ita Ekpenyong, made this disclosure at the weekend during the passing out parade and commissioning of 385 members of the Cadet Officers Basic Course 27 (COBC27), in Lagos.