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A helicopter carrying Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has been involved in an incident while he was visiting neighbouring Azerbaijan, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency (TNA) reported on X on Sunday according to CNN. “Some of the president’s companions on this helicopter were able to communicate with Central Headquarters, raising hopes that the incident could have […]
Continue ReadingYou remember how Portable, the Wahala musician, described government a few days ago? He said, “after God, na government.” Great writers are beautiful snakes. The snakes become something else, something more lethal, if they are journalists. The state is a snake hunter, its weapon is the law. So, if you wrote yesterday and today and […]
Continue ReadingNigerian students loan application portal will open on May 24, 2024, the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) said on Thursday, May 16. NELFUND spokesman Nasir Ayitogo said: “The management of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) led by its Managing Director, Mr Akintunde Sawyerr are thrilled to announce the 24th of May, 2024 as the official […]
Continue ReadingNigerian woman and TikTok user, @khadija_0315, who had travelled to Canada without her fiance shared her story of returning to bring him along, a narrative that quickly went viral. In the video, she explained that she had spent just five days in Canada without her fiance before realising she needed to be with him abroad. […]
Continue ReadingWhether you are a runs-girl or a serious-ready-to-mingle single looking to settle down, you need an extra pair of eyes to ‘see’ the man on your case. Pastors call it a discerning spirit. It’s the ability to deeply and spiritually see beyond the fine face and six packs the man toasting you presents. Women, these […]
Continue ReadingBurial ceremony of Nollywood actor, Johnpaul Obumneme Odonwodo, popularly known as Junior Pope, held at his hometown Ukehe, in Nsukka, Igboetiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. The actor died alongside four other crew members in a boat mishap in Anam river on April 10, while filming a movie titled, ‘Other Side of Life’. […]
Continue ReadingElsie Okpocha, the estranged wife of Nigerian comedian Bright Okpocha, popularly called Basketmouth, has criticized people poke-nosing in the matter of her crashed marriage. Basketmouth, who was married to Elsie for 12 years, broke the news of their separation in an Instagram post in December 2022. In a video posted on her Instagram page on […]
Continue ReadingThirty-six years ago, in Providence, Rhode Island, I met Tito, a scrawny Italian with a scraggly beard and a resolute spirit. Working together in an automobile battery factory, Tito taught me the power of cooperative collaboration. He shared an Italian saying: “The world is so hard, a man must have two fathers to look after […]
Continue ReadingA teen who started her university education at the age of 10 has earned her doctorate degree at the age of 17. Dorothy Jean Tillman II participated in Arizona State University’s commencement on May 6. It was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first university course […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed that unknown to young cryptocurrency traders in Nigeria, terrorists are using their trade to fund terrorism in the country. Olukoyede said some of the people who receive money to trade in cryptocurrencies do not know that their financiers are sponsors of terrorism. […]
Continue ReadingA Mega Millions jackpot winner is facing a lawsuit from his family for allegedly refusing to share his whopping $1.35billion fortune. The lucky man, known only as John Doe in court documents, beat the staggering odds of 1 in 302.6 million to bag the $1.35billion jackpot, making it the second-largest Mega Millions win ever and […]
Continue ReadingNigerian doctors on social media are mourning their colleague, Dr. Saghir Mahmoud, who passed away on Tuesday, May 14. According to the doctors, late Saghir got married in December 2023 and took ill afterwards. Sadly, he lost his fight to the ailment and passed away on Tuesday. Mourning him on X (formerly Twitter), a friend […]
Continue ReadingThe much-awaited public presentation of the book, “Leading From The Streets: Media Interventions By A Public Intellectual, 1999-2019,” authored by myself, took place at the prestigious Alliance Française/Mike Adenuga, Ikoyi, Lagos, with aplomb on Wednesday, 8th May 2024. It was a three-in-one event that featured the unveiling of the book, a panel discussion on the […]
Continue Reading26-year-old lady, Xoliswa Radebe, was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend in South Africa a week after her graduation from the university. An NGO, ‘Women For Change’ disclosed this in a Facebook post on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. According to the statement, Xoliswa’s decomposed body was found in her apartment in Pretoria on May 7, 2024. […]
Continue ReadingThree-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, Gayle King made her Sports Illustrated debut in this year’s SI Swimsuit 2024 issue. Gayle was photographed in Mexico for the 2024 SI Swimsuit Issue and was also one of the magazine’s cover stars. The morning show host, 69, sat down on “CBS Mornings” Tuesday, May 14, with fellow Sports Illustrated […]
Continue ReadingLast week, Nigeria was faced with what Yoruba call “egbinrin ote.” When afflictions come in multiples, they become a plague. A plague is almost synonymous with the Yoruba’s egbinrin ote. Literally, egbinrin ote are leaves of conspiracy. When you pluck a single leaf out of the branch of a tree of conspiracy, another leaf sprouts […]
Continue ReadingThe man who has described himself as a General in journalism, Dr. Reuben Abati and his wife, Kikelomo simply called Kiki, are celebrating their fourth wedding anniversary today, May 15. An excited Abati showered encomiums on his wife in a post he shared on his Instagram page on Wednesday morning. He wrote: “Officially 4 years […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, May 15, arraigned the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele for allegedly approving the printing of N684.5m at the rate of N18.96bn. When the four-count charge was read to him, at the FCT High Court, Abuja, the embattled former CBN […]
Continue Reading“Fools at the top would cause damage to any system not to talk of the fragile institutions of a fledgling democracy.” – Charles Archibong, A Stranger in Their Midst: A Memoir, 97 (2021) In the last week of April, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Olukayode Ariwoola co-convened and chaired a “National Summit on Justice” in Abuja, Nigeria’s […]
Continue ReadingRestless and controversial Nigerian singer, rapper and songwriter, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable or Dr. Zazu Zeh, in an attempt to evade arrest by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday, jumped a gate. The singer was taken into custody following a complaint filed by a car dealer to whom he owed money. […]
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