Author: styvn Obodoekwe

On Wednesday, January 17. 2024, a Pipeline which, belongs to Nigerian AGIP Oil Company exploded and went up in flames, at Obagi in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, ONELGA of Rivers State, distributing fire into community farmlands and bushes. The magnitude of the fire and the noise associated with it, caused great panic and pandemonium in the community and forced residents to desert Obagi. Community members said they noticed the fire around 8 pm on that fateful day. The fire was accompanied by a great noise and houses were vibrating as if there was an earth tremor. “The thing was so…

Twenty eight years after the gruesome murder, by hanging of Ken Saro- Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni leaders by the military junta headed by Sani Abacha, the people of Ogoni in particular and the Niger Delta in general, are still waiting and yearning for justice. Abacha died on June 8, 1998 in mysterious circumstances. The injustices that led to the struggle championed by Saro- Wiwa, then President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP and his eventual murder still fester. The injustices manifest in form of environmental degradation, marginalization, benign neglect, deprivation, poverty in the midst…

An anti-bullying expert, Mrs Maesha Nwanne has expressed worries over high incidents at work place bullying informal sector, which mostly go unreported and unnoticed. Speaking at a training and awareness forum organized recently at Apo mini stadium, Apo resettlement centre, Abuja, by an anti-bullying organization known as Equality Development and Research Centre (EDR Centre), Mrs Nwanne, founder of the organization, lamented that employers in the informal sector often subject their workers and apprentices to all forms of subhuman conditions, which even affect their productivity, psychological wellbeing and self confidence. she noted that there is need for healthy working environment for…