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In my teenage years, there was a song I loved very much: On the Inside, by the Mary Jane Girls, the American R&B group mentored by the mercurial Rick James. To be exact, the reggae version by Sammy Levi was part of my daily diet. I must have listened to Levi’s version a million times […]

In an audio interview with the suspects arrested over the Offa, Kwara state bank robbery which led to the death of 33 persons, the suspects in their confessions mentioned Nigerian Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Governor Ahmed Abdullahi as their thuggery sponsors. Listen below: 36ng

A prison officer, a motorcyclist killed and 200 inmates escaped from Minna Medium Security Prison, Niger State, when some armed criminals attacked the facility on Sunday, the prison and police authorities in the state said. The command’s Spokesman, DSP Rabiu Shuaibu, made the confirmation in a statement on Monday. “On Sunday, June 3, 2018, at […]

With friends and family still in shock over the brutal stabbing of 19-year-old Chidebere Confidence Nwanma, by her 24-year-old boyfriend, Saliu Ladayo, her parents are insisting he must marry her corpse. One year after they met and fell in love, the tragic end of the affair – a stabbing to death over suspicion of cheating […]

Nigerian woman has lost her job a week after criticising Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, on Twitter. In the July 5, 2017 tweet, Bolouere Opukiri allegedly described then-Acting President Osinbajo as ‘a novice’ for travelling out of the country at a time President Muhammadu Buhari was receiving medical treatment in […]

Don’t allow failures to diminish you or curtail your chances of success in life. The story of Chioma Omeruah as she told it at TEDxEuston is refreshing. Watch. Chioma Omeruah, TEDxEuston, Youtube, Punch

Nigeria Police Force added 3 new photos — with Francis Christopher and 37 others. 6 hrs · Date: 3rd June, 2018 PRESS BRIEFING UPDATE OF POLICE INVESTIGATION INTO THE OFFA BANKS ROBBERY AND GRUESOME MURDER OF MORE THAN THIRTY THREE (33) INNOCENT PERSONS INCLUDING PREGNANT WOMEN AND NINE (9) POLICE OFFICERS ON 5th APRIL, 2018, IN OFFA, KWARA STATE. • Twenty Two […]

Then couples must appreciate the fact that setting a mood with joyful interest is the backbone of being intimately romantic and creating exciting and stimulating variety in couple’s love life. So therefore, couples have to get ready mentally; this refers to the importance of using your mind and will to fantasise about sex, many times […]

Former Director General of Nigeria’s Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Dr. Joe Abah, has stumbled on the N5bn worth of stoves bought by the Jonathan administration, abandoned at the National Stadium, Abuja. Abah, during his visit to the National stadium, found that the stadium, although deserted because many say it had been overtaken by herdsmen who […]

An indictment was unsealed Saturday charging three pharmacists, one doctor and two other individuals with conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced Saturday. Charged in the indictment are: Nigerian pharmacists Enitan Sodiya-Ogundipe, 42; and Abiodun Fabode, 56; Pharmacist Amir Rafi, 49; Dr. Vasan Deshikachar, 50; Niesheia Tibu, 44; and Andrei Tibu, […]

Chidiogo looked every second a happy bride at her traditional wedding to her Canadian lover, Andrew Parr. Their white wedding took place in Agulu, Anambra state Saturday and was attended by the state governor, Willie Obiano. LIB

I return from a three-week sojourn in Kenya to general election season in Ontario. I return to the chromatic effervescence of electoral flyers, posters, and sundry campaign materials. Campaign ads become oxygen – inescapable, unavoidable. Ontario politicians, like their peers all over the world, are doing their do. My voter information card, I am told, […]

Permit me to say that I eavesdropped on some group of friends while in deep conversation about sex. Ideally, it is improper and unaccepted to eavesdrop on people’s conversation at whatever level, but I was tempted because the topic these people were deliberating upon happens to be my area of deep interest and also my […]

General Overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo, has warned the Muhammadu Buhari led administration not to Islamise Nigeria. Oyedepo stated this in Ota during his prophetic ministration in reaction to inclusion of Arabic Studies in Police recruitment examinations. He said: ”The inclusion of Arabic studies in the recent Nigeria […]

Nigerian Police Force appear not done with the President of Nigerian Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki as it has again invited him for questioning. This time, even though it is difficult to believe, he is to be grilled over his alleged involvement in the Offa Bank robbery attack in Kwara State. This was disclosed by the […]

National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Shettima Yerima, has told President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerian youths will not listen to his plea to wait till 2023 before contesting for the number one position in the country. Buhari, while signing the ‘Not Too Young to Run’ bill, had jokingly made the remark that youths […]

Nigerian Table Tennis national player, Seun Ajetunmobi has died at the age of 33. The Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) confirmed the death, saying it occurred at the early hours of Friday June 1 after a domestic accident at his Lagos home. Ajetunmobi died at the hospital where he was receiving treatment. His last international […]

Fellow Nigerians, as we count down to the next general elections in 2019, we should begin to take stock of what has gone wrong with the current government in the past three years. We must do this in the hope that a few issues can still be addressed, and that the lessons learnt can be […]

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Adebo Ogundoyin, as the winner of the bye-election to fill the vacant seat of Ibarapa East State constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly. The seat became vacant as a result of the death of the Speaker […]

From the judgement of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos which orders President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct security and anti-corruption agencies to forward to him reports of their investigations into allegations of padding and stealing of some N481 billion from the 2016 budget by some principal officers of the National Assembly” to damaging […]