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“The day that turned out to be my husband’s last day in this world started like any other day in our home. I was busy getting the children ready for school while he prepared for work. Right from when we became a part of each other’s life, we had the habit of saying goodbye with […]
Continue ReadingThe Police Command in Enugu state has said that an Abuja-based online publisher, Mr Madu Onuorah, was arrested over alleged defamatory publication against a US-based Reverend Sister. This is contained in a statement issued by the Command’s Spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Thursday in Enugu. Ndukwe said: “The Enugu State Police Command is in receipt […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, has on Friday, formally reappointed Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano, and gave him his reinstatement letter at the Government House in Kano. While giving the letter, the governor said: “By the powers conferred on me by the Kano Emirate Council Law of 1984 and 2024, […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, on Friday, promised to report Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court for allegedly giving an order stopping the reinstatement of Sanusi Lamido as the 16th Emir of Kano from the United States. Governor Yusuf said he would report the judge to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Justice Liman […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Kano and presided over by Justice Mohammed Liman, has issued an order preventing the Kano State Government and security agencies from enforcing the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Law. Justice Liman granted the order in an application by Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba of the […]
Continue ReadingKano, a city steeped in history and tradition, has witnessed a turbulent past marked by the frequent depositions and removals of its traditional rulers, the Emirs. On Thursday, the Kano State House of Assembly repealed the law establishing additional emirates. The Assembly dissolved all the four newly created emirate councils in the state. The dissolution […]
Continue ReadingScheduled Thursday’s proceeding in the trial of the detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, at the Federal High Court Abuja quickly took a dramatic turn following the defendant’s collapse. Shortly after the matter was called upon by the court registrar for continuation of trial, the defendant did not step forward to the dock. He remained seated […]
Continue ReadingThere is a problem about the institutional framework in which the Nigerian state as presently constituted is based. To have democracy, good governance and credible elections, there must be institutional reforms and great accountability in government. The three are interwoven, only that we tend to think that democracy is all about elections. In any case, […]
Continue ReadingControversial Nigerian singer, Darlington Okoye popularly known as Speed Darlington, has advised men to avoid marrying Igbo women. The comic rapper recently announced that he is looking for a wife and stated that one of the criteria must be fluency in Igbo language. However, apparently making a U-turn on his preference for Igbo ladies, the […]
Continue ReadingJustice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the suspended Commander of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, permission to go home and conclude his mother’s burial rites. Kyari has been in custody of the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, since 2022, […]
Continue ReadingNorway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state, a historic but largely symbolic move that further deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel immediately denounced the decisions and recalled its ambassadors to the three countries. Palestinians welcomed the announcements as an affirmation […]
Continue ReadingLast Sunday, for the fourth time in a row, Manchester City Football Club won the English premiership title. And because of that, ‘enemies of progress’ have not allowed some of us to rest. Even more annoying is that many of the noisemakers actually supported teams of little consequence in the title race. But in Nigeria, […]
Continue ReadingThe Abdullahi Ganduje-dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II may have been reinstated as the Emir of Kano, reports say. This decision followed the Kano State House of Assembly’s resolution to dethrone the current Emir and also dismantle the four new Emirates in the State established under a controversial 2019 law. Although it has not been officially […]
Continue ReadingAmerican singer, Grammy Award winner, songwriter, actress and body-positivity advocate, Melissa Viviane Jefferson, known professionally as Lizzo has shared that she has been suffering from depression for some months and she’s just now coming out of it. The singer shared this on Instagram. She wrote: “I’m the happiest I’ve been in 10 months. The strange thing about depression […]
Continue ReadingA widower also shared his experience with me, recently. The major lesson that I learned from his story is that there are certain lines that a person who is emotionally stable is not supposed to cross (especially in marriage) but if you find yourself saddled with a spouse who is crossing those lines, please know […]
Continue ReadingNigerian woman, Margaret Oyibo Atayi, has allegedly committed suicide following her failed marriage. The mother of two from Ugbokolo Local Government Area of Benue State was found dead three days after she was declared missing by her family members. Margaret was last seen around City College Of Education, Abacha road, Mararaba, Nasarawa State at about […]
Continue ReadingFour young Igbo siblings said to have been raised overseas have gone online to show off their Igbo-speaking skills. The sisters visited their brother in Maryland, United States, to celebrate his graduation after he earned a Master’s degree in Robotics. The phone was passed to each of the siblings, who all have Igbo names, and […]
Continue ReadingMedia Vita In Morte Sumus (In the midst of life we are in death.) This is a Gregorian chant that I often recall whenever there is an accident, a sudden, shocking abbreviation of life in the midst of hope and promise, a most tragic reminder of man’s mortality. Life as either a chemical or biological […]
Continue ReadingDaughter of billionaire business mogul, Femi Otedola, and Nigerian disc jockey (DJ), Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, better known as DJ Cuppy, shared the prayer her mother, Nana Otedola, sent to her. The DJ shared a screenshot of her chat with her mother. In it, her mother prayed that she would meet a man on his best self-journey […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party’s (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, appeared to have endorsed the party’s embattled national chairman, Julius Abure following his visit to the LP’s national headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, May 21. Obi had earlier shunned the party’s controversial national convention, which was held in his home state, amid the leadership crisis that […]
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