Images of Ebiraland

By Ismail M. Kabir Idris Jimoh As the effect of unemployment bites harder on Nigerians, the hope of the common man is to subscribe to self-employment and shun the over-dependence on government jobs. While some Nigerian youths pray hard daily for ‘a good job’ others are looking inward to discover their in-born talents. Such is the case of Idris Jimoh. In 1981, Idris Jimoh was just a teenager who would ordinarily depend on his parents for his upkeep but he decided otherwise. Having supported his late   mother in her trade, young Idris inherited the Fried Chicken business. With a start up capital of less than five hundred naira (N500) only, Idris Jimoh began frying chicken for sale in Okene. For over thirty years, Idris has criss-crossed the entire nook and corners of Okene town, covering the entire distance on foot while hawking his fried chicken to shop owners, market women and passers-by. Idris buys live chicken from traders, slaughter them, cut them into sizeable p

Senator Nurudeen Abatemi The Kogi Central Senatorial candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman has described the call for the postponement of the general elections billed to hold on February 14 and 28, 2015 as completely unnecessary, warning that such action should not be contemplated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on media and publicity, Michael Jegede, the Senator who recently defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to PPA, said the consequence of any delay beyond the already stipulated dates for the polls will be too grave to imagine. The statement reads in part: “I wish to condemn in very strong term the call by some people for a postponement of the general election scheduled to hold on February 14 and 28, 2015. Rather than call for a postponement at this stage of our preparation for the election, on the ground that some electorate are yet to get thei