Are we becoming a post-literate society?

“Human intelligence,” the cultural critic Neil Postman once wrote, “is among the most fragile things in nature. It doesn’t take much to distract it, suppress it, or even annihilate it.” The year was 1988, a former Hollywood actor was in…

Christmas Day fire destroys shops in Onitsha

An early morning fire on Wednesday gutted some shops near the General Post Office at Ibokwu Street by Old Market Road, Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inferno destroyed goods…