The O. B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation began 2024 with a grand New Year party for senior citizens under its ‘Care for Life Programme’. Held in Abonnema, Rivers State, on 1st January, the event was a vibrant mix of praise, worship, and dance. In a significant gesture of appreciation and recognition, the Foundation awarded a centenarian and six nonagenarians cash prize of …

I was pleasantly surprised when I met her a year ago in Accra, Ghana because she wasn’t what I had imagined she would be. The relentless smear campaign against her had left me with a false image. I had expected a young woman in her 40s, a ‘gold digger’ so to say, who had married Kalabari High chief and statesman, …