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Immediate past president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, has on Friday, won the Edo State Labour Party (LP) governorship primary election. The Returning Officer for the election and Deputy Governor of Abia State, Ikechukwu Emetu, declared Akpata as the winner after collating the results. Emetu said the lawyer polled 316 votes […]
Continue ReadingIt was all jubilation at the Onipanu Bus Stop along Ikorodu road in Lagos State after a pregnant woman was delivered of a baby boy by emergency responders. The mother of the new baby was said to be waiting for a bus when she unexpectedly went into labour on Monday morning, February 19, 2024. The […]
Continue Reading“Bros, how body? Have you seen what I have seen?” “No. How do you expect me to see what you have seen, when my eyes are different from yours? I use my own eyes. The evidence of my own ocular facility, not what other people see in a country where most people are either depressed, […]
Continue ReadingThere is heavy manipulation going on at the Binance P2P. And from my deductions, most of the big Binance P2P merchants are united in carrying out this manipulation. Some of them even have over $2 million worth of USDT in their wallet which begs the question of whether these people are truly Nigerians or probably […]
Continue ReadingNational Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Julius Abure, has been arrested by security operatives in Edo State. Abure was arrested on Wednesday, by operatives of the Zone 5 police headquarters in Benin, a few days before the party’s primary election in Edo State. It was gathered that his arrest was the result of […]
Continue ReadingFor close to 14 years, I have served Saturday Breakfast every Saturday morning without fail. I have written about my good times and my not so good times. I have celebrated love and happiness and have shared with you my moments of pain and sadness and even the deaths of colleagues, close friends and family […]
Continue ReadingAn Ibadan man accompanied his wife and daughter to the market in search of salt to add to their tasteless pot of soup. That was in March 1881, when the city was besieged by hunger and war. It was a season of famine. The man who accompanied his wife and daughter to the market lost […]
Continue ReadingGuinea’s military junta, which seized power through a coup in September 2021, has officially dissolved the government, as announced through a presidential decree read on state TV by the presidency’s Secretary General, Brig Gen Amara Camara. Very sketchy was the announcement, as it was not followed by details regarding the rationale of this dissolution, or […]
Continue ReadingFinal word is not here yet about the allegation of fraud rocking the Ministry of Humanitarian and Social Inclusion as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating the issue have uncovered a fresh fraud of N17bn linked to the ministry. Sunday Tribune confirmed on Saturday in Abuja that the EFCC officials, who were […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, President Bola Tinubu has nominated Ms. Hafsat Abubakar Bakari as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). The statement was released on X (Twitter) handle on Tuesday, by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser Information and Strategy to President Tinubu. It reads: “President Bola Tinubu has nominated […]
Continue ReadingA colleague yesterday shared a 1992 campaign video of Chief M.K.O. Abiola promising to demystify governance in Nigeria and stop “people’s heads” from being “shaved in their absence.” A professor friend (political scientist) commented that “that’s partly why he never became president.” Becoming president or king comes with a price. When ‘The Price of Kings’, […]
Continue ReadingOhanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the socio-political group of Nigerians of southeast extraction on Monday in Enugu directed that Nigerians from the geopolitical zone should not partake in a planned national protest. There had been plans by some groups that Nigerians at home and in the diaspora should embark on protests over their declared economic hardships in […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has lambasted the Tinubu-led government for consistently attributing Nigeria’s economic challenges to ex-President, Muhammad Buhari. Taking to his X handle in a series of posts on Monday, Dalung argued that if Tinubu’s administration devoted the same resources and effort used during elections and tribunals to tackle […]
Continue ReadingThe relationship between Nigeria and Ghana or Nigeria and South Africa can be embarrassingly petty. Forget the usual rivalry that exists among nations when it comes to sports, as exemplified in the recently concluded Africa Cup of Nations, which was hosted and won by Ivory Coast. Nigeria does not share borders with Ghana or South […]
Continue ReadingA male lion, has on Monday killed a zookeeper as he was feeding the wild cats in their den at the Zoological garden of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. The victim, identified as Mr Olabode Olawuyi, who was a Veterinary Technologist, was said to have been in charge of the Zoological garden for over […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, dancer, television personality, and philanthropist, Anita Joseph, has said that her marriage to a hype man, Fisayo Michael Olagunju better known as MC Fish, has made her a better person. Expressing herself in an interview with Saturday Beats, the actress, who celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary during the week, said, “Marriage has influenced […]
Continue ReadingOn May 29, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, arrived at the Abuja venue of his second term inauguration in luxury and style: a customised 2019 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class S 560. Value: over N61m. President Buhari, in his decades-long self-advertisement, was not a corrupt man. Which was probably why a car, which inflicted such an egregious […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu of Nigeria has been sighted sleeping during the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) earlier on Saturday. During the 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a photograph surfaced capturing Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu who apparently slept off. The image, […]
Continue ReadingGambian-born Nigerian actress and film producer, Rosaline Ufuoma Meurer popularly called Rosy Meurer has released new photos to celebrate her birthday. Actress Rosy Meurer was a year older on Thursday, February 15. And she released beautiful new photos of herself to the delight of her fans on her Instagram page. Captioning the photos, she wrote: “God […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s litany of troubles has finally anchored on two basic existential matters. Insecurity and hunger. We are all very unsafe and now the vast majority of our people are very hungry and angry. Of the two urgencies, the rise of mass hunger is indeed a novel addition to our familiar tale of serial calamities. Mass […]
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