The spokesman of Nigeria’s secret police, Dr Peter Afunanya, late Tuesday night, raised the alarm over what he called planned orchestrated smear campaign against the Department of State Service, DSS, using some online newspapers and blogs. Afunanya, who made the claim in a terse statement issued in Abuja, did not however reveal the identities of those behind the alleged negative move that seeks to put the nation’s elite security body in a bad public light. Read More...
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, Desmond Akawor, has expressed optimism the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Rotimi Amaechi, would return to the PDP. Naija News reports that Akawor said this during an event on Saturday where he received scores of new PDP members in Ikwerre Local Government where Amaechi, the current Minister of Transportation, hails from in Rivers State.
While speaking, the PDP chairman said the current minister of transport has to return to the PDP which he said is Amaechi’s family. Read More...
While graphic novels have educated, entertained and provoked their audience over the course of their brief history, rarely have they inspired hope. Yet, that is exactly the effect of Carol Tyler's Late Bloomer (Fantagraphics Books; 136 pages; $29). Unlike the typical "inspirational" prose book (e.g., the Chicken Soup series), which proffers advice on how to overcome life's challenges, Tyler's book goes one better. Late Bloomer leads by example. Like many women, Tyler put off her personal ambitions for the sake of child rearing. Read More...
