Felix Duru Mbah

By Felix Durumbah, Editor A huge dilemma over who to pick as running mate for the crucial 2027 presidential poll has cropped up for President Bola Tinubu, two years to the election. The election will determine if he kicks off a second term --should he win --or,like President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, have his presidential career screech to a halt at the poll in a bid to get re-elected. Though Tinubu has not specifically stated that he will seek re-election, his body language and remarks by his close allies indicate that he will run. But, a massive roadblock has been…

*Coal City Bubbling By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu, the capital of the old Eastern Region, is a beehive of activities as former President Olusegun Obasanjo, firebrand South African politician, Julius Malema, and over 20,000 lawyers converge in the Coal City for the 2025 Annual General Conference (AGC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), which formally opens tomorrow (Sunday, August, 24). Earlier today, NBA President, Mazi Afam Osigwe, led thousands of lawyers in a health walk across major roads in the Enugu state capital city, as more lawyers and guests continued to pour into the historic city. Secretary to the State…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Scientists in the country have described research, particularly at the instance of laboratory technologists, as a leg of the university tripod that cannot be overestimated. They are unanimous in the call to governments at all levels to prioritise better funding of research in Nigerian universities. The calls were made during the Fifth Biennial Conference/Workshop of the Association of Science Laboratory Technologists of Nigeria (ASLTON), University of Ibadan chapter, held at the Faculty of Pharmacy Auditorium, University of Ibadan (UI). The three-day conference, held between Tuesday, 19 August and Thursday, 21 August, 2025, had 'The Tripod Stand…

*Extols Late Premier Dr Okpara's Foresight *'Hotel Presidential, Enabler Of Enugu's Growth Plan' *After Enugu Air, Other Feats, Hotel To Move State Into Top-tier Business Destination, He Says By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has unveiled the reconstructed iconic Hotel Presidential established by the administration of former Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, the now-late Dr. Michael Okpara, describing the revival of the 62-year old edifice as “a homecoming for history.” Mbah, who performed the unveiling in Enugu on Thursday, August 21, extolled the foresightedness of the former Premier, but regretted that the monument of…