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Nigeria’s Naira, on Friday, depreciated marginally to N927.19 per dollar at the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM), the country’s official exchange rate window. The rate represents a fall by 11.40 percent from the N832.32 recorded on Thursday. According to data from FMDQ Securities Exchange, a platform that oversees foreign exchange (FX) trading in Nigeria, the […]
Continue ReadingI was leaving the venue of a function when I spotted him and made a beeline for his table to pay my respects. He is one of the few politicians, retired or active, still worthy of my respect-everyday now unmasks our politicians including those who have supposedly retired from active politics. A smile lit up his face […]
Continue ReadingNollywood actress, Anne Njemanze, fondly called Domitilla by her fans and colleagues, has taken a deep breath from life challenges, and has every reason to be grateful to her maker for helping her to pull through despite her shortcomings. In her Instagram posts these days, the beautiful and star actress who was most notable for […]
Continue ReadingPastor Abiodun Sunday Oluwadare, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, Tosin Oluwadare in Ido-Ile in Ekiti West LGA of Ekiti State. Spokesman of the State Police Command (PPRO), DSP Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the arrest, said that investigation was ongoing. It was gathered that the pastor popularly known as […]
Continue ReadingExasperated at a slew of successive military take over of governance in the African coup belt states of Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger and Gabon, President Olusegun Obasanjo came to the conclusion that liberal democracy has failed post colonial African states. Reinforcing this Afro pessimism was the recently concluded sham general elections that has produced […]
Continue ReadingGambian-born but Ghana-based curvy actress and producer, Princess Shyngle has taken a swipe at women who claim they are proud of their natural body while bashing women who underwent plastic surgery. In an Instastory post she shared, Princess Shyngle asked why such women will photoshop their waist to look smaller and their bum to look bigger in photos. […]
Continue ReadingA family has been left fuming after a 90-year-old grandmother was declared dead by doctors and was placed in the hospital morgue only for a shocked crematorium worker to discover she was still alive. Norma Silveira da Silva, 90, was pronounced dead on Saturday, November 25, at about 11.40pm local time at Sao Jose Regional […]
Continue ReadingRyan Taylor, the former lover of the daughter of billionaire business mogul, Femi Otedola, and Nigerian disc jockey (DJ), Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has finally disclosed why he left his exes, which included DJ Cuppy. The revelation came after Ryan Taylor made a random post on Instagram, asking people to tell […]
Continue ReadingA divorce-seeking Nigerian man, Kazeem Yekini told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan on Thursday, November 30, that his wife bullies and intimidates him NAN reports He pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage between him and his estranged wife, Opeyemi, saying the marriage had ruined his life. He said Ms. Opeyemi […]
Continue ReadingThe argument that democracy is not working for Africa due to our historical and cultural factors is not new. Critics after critics have posited that Africans must evolve indigenous methods of democracy suitable for their temperament. The latest advocate to recuperate this old debate is ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. At a forum last Monday, he shared […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star singer, Oluwatobiloba Daniel Anidugbe, popularly known as Kizz Daniel, is celebrating his tenth year as an entertainer. In a post shared on his Instagram page on Thursday, November 30 evening, the father of a set of twin boys disclosed that he just bought a Rolls-Royce Cullinan to celebrate the milestone. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0RzECFtznk/?img_index=1 Watch […]
Continue ReadingFormer United States (US) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, has died at the age of 100. Kissinger served as America’s top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations. In spite of leaving office in the mid-1970s, […]
Continue Reading70-year-old Ugandan woman, Safina Namukwaya, has delivered a set of twins – a boy and a girl, after becoming pregnant through an In vitro fertilisation treatment, BBC reports on Thursday. Namukwaya went through a successful caesarean delivery on Wednesday at the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre (WHIFC) in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The hospital […]
Continue ReadingCiting widespread irregularities, Malawi’s Constitutional Court in February 2020 annulled the result of the May 2019 presidential election which returned then incumbent President Peter Mutharika to power. In the court-ordered re-run election held four months later, the main opposition candidate who previously came second, Lazarus Chakwera, was declared elected in what remains unprecedented on the continent. While Kenya’s Supreme Court in 2017 became […]
Continue ReadingA woman has been detained in Moscow after allegedly forcibly giving oral sex to a male stranger sitting next to her on a tourist flight from Antalya, Turkey. Passengers and crew clapped and cheered when police came on board and detained the woman, named Valeria, 29, at Vnukovo airport in the Russian capital. The alleged […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says the promised automation of the passport application process will begin “in the next one week”. Tunji-Ojo first gave the assurance to Nigerians in an October 4 interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, saying citizens would be able to use the feature from December. The Minister made an appearance […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Representatives Committee on Health on Tuesday raised concerns over the decline in the country’s health manpower. The committee disclosed that due to the relocation of doctors and nurses from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) to various parts of the world, five wards comprising 150 beds have been shut down. LUTH is Nigeria’s […]
Continue Reading“Every government is run by liars; and nothing they say should be believed” – I F Stone, US journalist, 1907-1989. Stone was one of about a dozen columnists I read religiously when I was in the USA. He cured me of the virulent disease of columnists sending their CVs to governments in search of jobs. […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, presented the N27.5 trillion 2024 budget proposal to a joint session of the 10th National Assembly in Abuja. See the full speech below: 1. In furtherance of my sacred duties and obligations as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is my honour to be here today to present […]
Continue ReadingNigerians desperate to travel abroad have been warned by travel agency expert, Ruth Joseph-Audu, to desist from the marriage contract scheme, as many men are trapped by it. Ruth Joseph-Audu, who issued the warning in an interview with Daily Trust in Lagos, admitted that Nigerians are moving in numbers to seek greener pastures in foreign countries, but […]
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