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Published 14 March 2021
Some few weeks ago, the management of the University of Ibadan announced the sad news of the death of Mr. Nigel Henry, the longest serving member of the Classics Department, and indeed of the entire Faculty of the Humanities. Henry spent over four decades, tutoring students in the fine art of classical studies. Classics is concerned with the critical investigation of the cultural and civilisational antiquity of the Greek culture and its massive influence on the development of the West. Students are not only taken through the linguistic complexities and sublime beauty of Greek and Latin, they are also taught to come to terms with the literary, historical and the philosophical essence of what Greece bestowed on the world.
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Published 14 March 2021
Elder Canaan Lucky, 66, is one of the shop owners at Bishop Okoye Street market, in the Mile 3 area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which went up in flames on Friday, February 19. In this interview with
DENNIS NAKU
Tell
us your name and what you are into?
I am Elder Canaan Lucky and I deal majorly in rice; I sell bags of rice. I also sell beans, salt, oil and other items.
You are one of the victims of the recent fire outbreak at Bishop Okoye Street Market. How did it happen?
We were already in our houses when they called around past eight in the evening that the market was on fire. So, we had to rush down to find out what was happening. By the time we got here, the fire was raging, so we were not able to recover anything.
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Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki
Published 14 March 2021
Two aides of Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, have resigned their appointments with the state government.
The duo, Mr Amaechi Oken, a Senior Technical Assistant to the Governor and Apostle Benjamin Obaji, a Technical Assistant, resigned their appointments this month (March).
In their resignation letters dated March 1 and March 8, 2021, respectively, the Governor’s aides cited non-payment of their salaries for some months as the reason for quitting their jobs.
Magnificent 400-guest floating hotel whets appetite for space tourism
Tobi Aworinde
• Nigerian travel firms see opportunities, physicists disagree
The sky’s the limit no more. Indeed, the marvel that comes with gazing out of an aeroplane window as clouds slowly roll by might soon fade into obscurity – eclipsed by the novelty of space travel.
Space tourism is becoming an increasingly hot topic, and there are several companies trying to make it happen – from Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Musk, SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer, who is now the richest person in the world, has made normalising space travel and colonising Mars his company’s top priority.