Europe by desert: Tears of African migrants By MAURICE ARCHIBONG Monday, May 31, 2010 Agadex, in Niger It is a long-distance suicide, yet most travelers realize it only when it is too late. Just as they say in eastern Nigeria, the road to hell is hardly narrow. It was difficult to say how many times [...]

I’m Victorious ! …That’s the meaning of Jalingo By TOPE ADEBOBOYE Sunday, May 02, 2010 Roadblock roundabout The city of Jalingo is a mixed bag. Here, modern edifices mix-match with thatched huts. Cattle and human traffic coalesce and flow in rhythmic harmony. The original dwellers of this city in north west of the country are [...]

Yenagoa: Just a matter of time… By TOPE ADEBOBOYE Sunday, April 25, 2010 Yenagoa is a town arrayed in an artificial garb. It stares you right in the face as you savour the glitter of the government buildings and the freshness of the parks. You notice it on the town’s well-built major road, a sigh-evoking [...]

Pay up your debts, airline operators tell members By Friday Nwosu Monday, April 19, 2010 Domestic airline operators in the country, under the umbrella of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), has directed its members operating international routes to pay up debts owed by them to the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and other agencies in [...]

DUTSE: Dusting off a poor past By Jossy Ida Sunday, April 04, 2010 Dutse There are now highrise buildings in Dutse, Jigawa State capital. They rose in bits, brick by brick until they began touching and nudging the navel of low lying clouds. Before Dutse dropped its garb as a local government headquarters on May [...]