Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

3 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Lasisi Olagunju |Charles Dickson

The Vatican shocked the world when it issued the statement that Pope Francis had died, aged 88, at 7:35AM on Easter Monday. Pope Francis, a native of Argentina, was the first Latin American to serve as the head of the Catholic Church. The ailing Pope had he made a surprise visit on Holy Thursday to Regina Coeli Prison in Rome, where he greeted inmates. On Easter Saturday, he stopped unannounced to pray and greet some of the faithful at St Peter’s Basilica.

1 month ago | thisage.com.ng | Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Charles Dickson

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s most cherished national anthem, which he eagerly signed into law on May 29, 2024, has a profound message in the second stanza. It reads: “Our flag shall be a symbol that truth and justice reign… To hand on to our children; A banner without stain.”The President always emphasised the last line -to hand to our children a banner without stain. He likes those lines.

1 month ago | thisage.com.ng | Ayo Kehinde |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

By Ayo KehindeVice Admiral (Rtd) Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas has approved the appointments of Administrators for the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Ibibia Worika, said the administrator also approved the reconstitution of some earlier suspended Boards of Agencies, Commissions, and Parastatals. Worika said all the appointments take effect from Monday, the 7th of April 2025.

1 month ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Charles Dickson |Promise Adiele

Writing on what passes for Nigerian politics today is a pathetic attempt at making meaning out of wretched absurdity. To lift the spirit, one has to take a recourse to literature where there is a measure of elevation in the undertaking of Nigeria’s creative writers across the decades. One cannot be too wrong in starting the discourse with the offering of Nigeria’s arguably most influential poet, Christopher Okigbo. The lived life of Okigbo was short, but the poetry he wrote remains deathless.

1 month ago | globalpatriotnews.com | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Governor Umo Eno has said that the Akwa Ibom State Executive Council retreat currently taking place in Lagos, is meant to further instill the culture of deliverables and deepen respect for boundaries as his administration works to relentlessly drive its vision of economic growth and wellbeing, peace and prosperity for the people of the State.