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Sniper: Useful, yet deadly
In order to rid the home or crops of pests, people could inadvertently be harming themselves, TADE MAKINDE reports on the good and bad sides of pesticides.
SPECIAL REPORT: Osun’s out-of-school children: Tales of poverty, pains, struggle
Staying out of school has become normal for 13-year-old Adepoju Ibrahim. He considers learning vulcanizing as the best option having dropped out of school. Whenever kids in Ede town area of Osun State are going to school, Ibrahim moves to…
The business of Christmas
The season is always a time of celebrations. The business side of it is also interesting as lots of purchases are made. TADE MAKINDE reports that traders are complaining that they are not making enough sales, but not everybody is…
Buhari’s certificate and the eligibility question
THE publication of names and credentials of candidates for the presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has re-awakened the issue of eligibility for the Office of the President that became a sore point…
Watch that ‘pure water’
Safe and readily available water is important for public health and the journey to achieving safe drinking water for all may be difficult due to proliferation of unsafe packaged water. ADETOLA BADEMOSI writes on the poor hygienic state of…
Radiologists told her she was carrying four babies in her womb but doctors brought out five
LOOKING at the quintuplets, so full of life and fingering their mobile phones, one will hardly believe that they were the tiny tots of yesteryears who took turns to suck at their mother’s breast. Like the legendary gold fish without a…
Cinemas: Return of the silver screen
KINGSLEY ALUMONA reports that the cinema industry in the country has come full circle having resurrected from years of being in a limbo, noting that the new cinemas are a great departure from the past and could achieve unparalleled success…
Why Nigerians still don’t have light in their homes
The power sector is a very crucial one as it determines the socio-economic vibrancy of any society. However, the country has continued to grapple with epileptic electricity supply in spite of the privatisation of the sector in 2013. …
Cholera in the college: Students blame govt for refusing to repair faulty borehole
MUHAMMAD SABIU reports on the cholera outbreak at a government school, which claimed one life with several others hospitalised, tracing the cause of the epidemic and the resulting death.IT may not share the same…
School feeding programme: Where is the promised free food?
With much hype, the Federal Government announced its plan to embark on providing free meals for primary school pupils nationwide. Few years into this regime, Muhammad Sabiu, Isaac Shobayo, Wole Ige and Johnson Babajide, report the successes…