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One of the most prominent and beloved proponents of reggae music, Jimmy Cliff, has died. He passed away at the age of 81. A star since the 1960s, he helped to bring the sound of Jamaica to a global audience through hits such as Wonderful World, Beautiful People and You Can Get It If You […]
Continue ReadingBritish Government has rejected a request by Nigeria to deport the former three consecutive term Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is serving a prison term in the United Kingdom for organ trafficking, The Guardian UK reports on Monday. The lawyer cum politician was sentenced to nine years and eight months in 2023 after a […]
Continue ReadingIn the words of an anonymous author, “I love politics. It’s politicians I can’t stand.” Alas, there can’t be politics without politicians. I have watched, in horror, the conduct of Nigerian politicians in the last 26 years and I have been thoroughly appalled at the way they play dirty politics with everything under the sun. […]
Continue ReadingOut of the over 300 pupils and students abducted from St. Mary Private Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area, Niger State, Fifty pupils have reportedly escaped from their captors and reunited with their parents. This was confirmed on Sunday by the Niger State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), […]
Continue ReadingBritish-Nigerian two-time world champion Anthony Joshua has vowed to “break” Jake Paul’s face and body when they meet in their highly anticipated heavyweight bout on December 19 in Miami, Florida, United States. Former unified champion, who has not fought since his devastating knockout loss to Daniel Dubois in September last year, issued a fierce warning […]
Continue ReadingIn Nigeria, elite oppression and callousness are often mostly abstract. Most people at the lower end of the social scale think and feel that many people in positions of power, comfortably ensconced in their sinecures, are haughty, self-impressed, and possessed of ice-cold disdain for them. But it is FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, more than anyone […]
Continue ReadingUnited States President Donald Trump has voiced strong outrage over the alleged Christian genocide taking place in Nigeria. In his latest comments on the issue, Trump stated that thousands of Christians are being killed in the West African country. The US President spoke on a conservative radio program on Friday, as captured by Fox News. […]
Continue ReadingProphetess Victoria Olufunke Fayose, who says she is the mother of former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on Nigerians to pray for her family while alleging that one of her grandsons is threatening to forcibly eject her from a property reportedly given to her by his father. In a viral video sighted on […]
Continue ReadingNiger State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Chairman, Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, has confirmed that 227 people, including teachers and students, were abducted from St Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Niger State. Rev. Yohanna, who doubles as the Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese, made this known in a […]
Continue ReadingAn unlikely coincidence of elections in over a period of 45 days period from the middle of September to the end of October 2025 has cast a new light on the state of democratic governance in Africa and now threatens to unscramble the ritual hollowness that has become the fate of elections on the continent […]
Continue ReadingIt was chaotic in Niger State, Nigeria, after terrorists launched a midnight assault on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in the Papiri Community of Agwara Local Government Area, abducting over 50 students and staff five days after Kebbi attack. In the early hours of Friday, terrorists stormed St. Mary’s Papiri Private Catholic Secondary School, […]
Continue ReadingOlusegun Awolowo, grandson of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, has passed away. The former Executive Director (EO) of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), died at the age of 62. His family announced his passing in a statement on Thursday. The statement read: “With extremely heavy hearts, we announce the passing of our beloved […]
Continue ReadingUnlike Professor Wole Soyinka’s Idi Amin caricature, my image of President Donald Trump is very much like Robert Holt’s portrayal of Henry V111, “who started with everything and squandered it all, who had the physical and mental fortitude to endure a lifetime of gratified greed. We recognise in him an archetype, one of the champions […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment. Kanu was sentenced to life imprisonment for Counts 1, 4, 5 and 6 of the seven-count charge instead of a death penalty, while he was handed a 20-year jail term for Count […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected a correspondence signed by the acting chairman of the Samuel Anyanwu faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it failed to meet the requirements of the law. Reports say Abdulrahaman Mohammed and Senator Samuel Anyanwu had written to the commission seeking to postpone the Ekiti Governorship […]
Continue ReadingAmerican star singer, Nicki Minaj spoke at a United Nations event in New York, addressing reports of attacks on religious communities in Nigeria. She called for global attention and protection for all people to practice their faith safely, emphasizing unity and peace. Minaj who framed the Nigerian crisis as part of a global issue affecting […]
Continue Reading“You taught me language, and my profit on it / Is, I know how to curse” (William Shakespeare: ‘The Tempest’). The Nigerian government and the Nigerian Academy of Letters are fighting over which language to use in training our kids. In a recent decision, the government cancelled the language policy which said the first six […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District at the national assembly, Okey Ezea from the Labour Party (LP) has reportedly passed away. Senators Orji Uzor Kalu (APC – Abia North) and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP – Kogi Central) confirmed the report in separate statements in Abuja. Kalu in a condolence message to reporters said: “I […]
Continue ReadingA theatre of the absurd day for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday as Wadata Plaza, the party’s national secretariat, became a centre of chaos, factional power play, and intensified scheming by rival factions seeking control of the party and its head office. The crisis was sequel to the release of two separate […]
Continue ReadingA lot happens in Nigeria that, if you did not witness it yourself, you would swear it was impossible. Some events are so bizarre, so grotesque in their violation of common sense and morality, that even D.O. Fágúnwà’s magical adventures in Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbo Elegbeje pale beside them. Yet these are not tales from another […]
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