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Dear Hajiya, With gratitude to God for a vacation well spent, I, Babatunde Odesola, Esq., heartily rejoice on the safe return of the First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, to Nigeria after spending 4,380 hours in the cozy United Arab Emirates city called Dubai, away from the kisses and cuddles of her aged husband, Major General […]
Continue ReadingEmeritus Professor, Banji Akintoye’s led Yoruba Global Movement known as Yoruba World Congress (YWC) or Ilana Omo Oodua has berated the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, for rejecting the agitation for the creation of a Yoruba nation. At the swearing-in ceremony of Princess Oladunni Odu as the new Secretary to the State Government and […]
Continue ReadingFemi Gbajabiamila, current Speaker of Nigerian House of Representatives, has now accepted a petition filed by the Mutual Union of Tiv in America (MUTA). Standing in for Gbajabiamila about two weeks ago, the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, had prevented the lawmaker representing Gwer-East/Gwer-West Federal Constituency in Benue State, Mr. Mark Gbillah, from laying the petition […]
Continue ReadingI have written on this subject before now: the politics and drama of OPL 245 involving ENI, Royal Dutch Shell, Malabu Oil and Gas and the manner in which President Goodluck Jonathan’s officials were dragged into the matter, particularly Emeritus Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke. The big issue is that there were […]
Continue ReadingThis house is falling, so says many people about the Nigerian project. They point at many indices which signal the psychological dismemberment of the notion of nationhood from every direction of the Nigerian compass. Strife here, discord there, killings everywhere. Such situations propel men and women of goodwill to put heads together in an attempt […]
Continue ReadingEx-governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has said that Nigerians are interested in workable solutions to the country’s socio-economic challenges and not the several meetings of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, with “political wanderers” and “recycled politicians”. Fayose, who stated this via his verified Twitter handle on Monday evening, made an indirect reference to a […]
Continue ReadingAnytime Judiciary should be celebrating an accomplishment, something not too pleasant would just jump up to either dampen the rapturous moment or completely veil the good news, thereby weakening the hearts of those with breakable resolve, among the stakeholders seeking redemption for the much-maligned justice sector. Well, it may be argued that if sectorial joy […]
Continue ReadingBBNaija’s Reality show star, Ozo Chukwu, was in a celebratory mood as his mum turned 55 on Sunday March 21. He shared lovely new photos of her on his Instagram page on Sunday afternoon as he wished her a happy birthday. He wrote: “Happy 55th Mommy we could never have been blessed with a better […]
Continue ReadingA community leader in Doka, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna state, Alhaji Lawal Musa, popularly known as Alhaji Maijama’a has been assassinated by armed bandits. The State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed this in a statement on Monday March 21, said that late Musa was brutally killed by armed […]
Continue ReadingA Yoruba group, @OduduwaRepublic has published the sample of one currency note, a denomination for the proposed Oduduwa Republic. The image of the currency, known as “FADAKA, was posted on Twitter via the group’s handle, @OduduwaRepublic on Sunday. “Oduduwa National Currency shall be called ‘FADAKA’ Meaning ‘Silver’ or short as just ‘FAD’ Here is a […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has vowed to continue the probe of the administration of his predecessor and his estranged godfather, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole. The governor, while speaking at the victory party for Chief Dan Orbih, the PDP Vice-Chairman South-South, at the home of a former PDP BoT Chairman, Chief Anthony Anenih, in […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of the Lagos state Police Command have arrested a lady, Anita Harrison over the alleged mistreatment of the body of an accident victim, Nofiat Idowu. The police said, Harrison allegedly knocked the deceased with her Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on March 3 at Ikeja and eventually dumped her corpse along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway after she […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian Muslim man, Fahad Ibrahim Danladi who said he is living abroad (Texas), has stated that it is foolishness to grow old with only one woman and advised men to marry at least two wives. Besides what he wrote on his profile page that he lives in Texas, we don’t know whether he actually […]
Continue ReadingA female Nigerian media personality, Falilat has alleged that she was denied entry into a Lagos restaurant because of her colored hair. She tweeted: “Does it even make sense that the reason I am not allowed inside a restaurant is because I have a colored hair?????? “I saw this and I should have taken it […]
Continue ReadingYoruba Youth Leader (YYL) and activist, Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho’s mother’s residence was allegedly attacked by suspected Fulani men on Sunday March 21. Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki of Koiki Media disclosed this on Sunday night via his Twitter handle. Koiki wrote: “Chief Sunday Adeyemo’s mother’s house at Igboho was invaded by three Fulani men […]
Continue ReadingAnyone who takes the trouble to read this column knows that I gave up on the Muhammadu Buhari candle a long time ago. It flickered out the day after the Nigeria ruler took office in 2015. That was the day he decided that having won the election, he no longer needed to declare his assets publicly. […]
Continue ReadingSinger Patoranking surprised his sister and her hubby with a car at their wedding which held on Saturday, March 20. One of the high moments at the wedding was when the award-winning singer sang for his dad and sister during the father-daughter dance.
Continue ReadingRemains of Alhaji Abba Gidan Haki, a personal aide of former governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, who was abducted by some unknown gunmen on Thursday in Sokoto, has been found. His body was found on the road to Durbawa in the Kware local Government of Sokoto state. The remains of the 50-year-old Haki […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew and member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Fatuhu Muhammed, has shown off his newly completed mansion located in Gwarimpa area of Abuja, Nigeria. The lawmaker, who represents Daura/Maiadua/Sandamu Federal Constituency on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), said it took him four years to build the house. Sharing […]
Continue ReadingIn 1935, Duke Ellington — God rest his soul — gave the world ‘In a Sentimental Mood’, one of the greatest jazz pieces ever. He composed it impromptu at a party for a friend, reportedly to calm the nerves of two feuding ladies. They stood by either side of his piano as he did his […]
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