Analysis & Opinion: What Is New Or Happy About The New Year?

By Sunny Awhefeada Once upon a time the thought of the end of one year and the approach of another elicited joy and expectations. In between the outgoing and the incoming year is a moment of transition that was marked by stocktaking, conviviality, merriment, then sober reflections and resolutions. We truly felt the transition from an old year to a new one and we were all happy or so we thought as children? My earliest concrete memories of the old and New Year phenomenon were formed in Evwreni, then a…

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Oborevwori Condoles Anirah Over Mother’s Death

BY ANDREW DARAH    The Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and National Deputy Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of state legislatures of Nigeria, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori has Commiserated with the member representing Sapele State Constituency in the House, Hon Felix Anirah over the demise of his mother, Mrs Clara Anirah.   In a press statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Dennis Otu, the Speaker mourned the demise of the mother of the lawmaker, whom he described as a virtous and God-fearing mother who lived…

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