Flight attendants and King Wasiu Ayinde’s curse, By Lasisi Olagunju

My literature teacher told me that situational irony is a fire station burning down, or a Babaláwo dying of Mágùn. Some 40 years ago, Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, cursed his enemies in a song that they would challenge a moving vehicle, stand arrogantly in its front and then lose their limbs to the fury of […]

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Man receives $1.5m compensation after 34 years of wrongful imprisonment

Sidney Holmes, a Florida, United States man, is set to receive $1.7 million in compensation after being wrongfully imprisoned for 34 years. Holmes was initially convicted of armed robbery in 1989 and sentenced to 400 years in prison. However, his conviction was overturned in 2023 after a thorough review of his case by the Broward […]

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NCAA bars Fuji star Wasiu Ayinde KWAM1 from flying for six months

Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said popular Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, also known as KWAM1 or K1 de Ultimate, will be blacklisted from flying within Nigeria for six months over alleged misconduct at the domestic terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection (PACP) at the NCAA, […]

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The Selectorate: When the people vote but the judges choose, By Abdul Mahmud

One month ago, in Abuja, a small circle of friends, literary enthusiasts, human rights activists, politicians, public intellectuals and thinkers gathered to listen to Chidi Odinkalu read from his latest offering, The Selectorate: When Judges Topple the People. It was a private reading, but the ideas Chidi graciously espoused belong in the public domain. They […]

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Nigeria’s Super Falcons goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie among 2025 Ballon d’Or Yachine Trophy nominees

Nigeria’s Super Falcons goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie, has been named among the top female goalkeepers in the world as a nominee for the 2025 Ballon d’Or Yachine Trophy. The Falcons star, on Thursday, was listed alongside Cata Coll (Barcelona), Ann-Katrin Berger (Germany), Hannah Hampton (England), and Daphne van Domselaar (Netherlands). Nnadozie’s commanding presence in goal during […]

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$100,000 prizes: When too much is inadequate, By Abimbola Adelakun

When the Super Falcons, the Nigerian women’s national football team, won their tenth WAFCON title in Morocco recently, the President splashed them with a $100,000 prize, conferred the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger on all 24 players, and then gifted each of them a three-bedroom apartment. Staff of the team’s […]

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Plenty suitors in my DM but no husband ―Otedola’s daughter, DJ Cuppy

Nigerian disc jockey (DJ) and billionaire Femi Otedola’s daughter, Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has said no husband, and mocked suitors in her DM for their inability to spell properly. She shared this in a post she made on her X handle. “Making it big… but mother of Dúdú and FünFün, no […]

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Socialite Sophia Egbueje acquires 2025 Range Rover Autobiography (Video)

Popular socialite, model, and entrepreneur, Sophia Chinwe Egbueje, simply called Sophia Egbueje, has taken delivery of a 2025 Range Rover SV Autobiography. This comes months after she also acquired a Lamborghini. Sophia shared a video showing the moment she took delivery of the Range Rover. Watch the video below: View this post on Instagram A post […]

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Admired TV show host, Morayo Afolabi-Brown, resigns from TVC

Morayo Afolabi-Brown, host of the popular TV show, ‘Your View’, has resigned from TVC Communications after 12 years with the network. Her resignation was made public in a statement released by Edward Akintara, TVC Manager, PR, Corporate Communications & Marketing, on Monday, August 5. Going by the statement, her decision to resign is to enable […]

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Nigeria may break up before 2027, if… ―Nwodo, ex-Ohanaeze President-General

Former Minister of Information and erstwhile President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has cautioned that Nigeria risks disintegration before the 2027 general elections unless urgent steps are taken to restructure the country. Delivering a keynote lecture titled ‘How Did We Get Here?’ at the public presentation of two books by veteran journalist Ike […]

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Criminals and touts now in charge of politics in Nigeria ―Femi Falana

Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has lamented that politics in Nigeria is now in the hands of criminals and touts, who care little about investing in the country’s economic prosperity and the well-being of its citizens. He equally decried what he described as bad governance and sheer infrastructural decay in the Southwest, […]

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Igbophobia revisited, By Donu Kogbara

In a newspaper interview last Sunday, Shehu Sani, a former senator from Kaduna State, said that if Peter Obi is given the ADC’s presidential ticket, most Northerners will (for “regional and cultural reasons”) set aside their differences and re-elect Tinubu in 2027. What Sani REALLY means is that most Northerners would rather tolerate another four years of […]

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Meta shuts seven million WhatsApp Accounts allegedly linked to scammers

Meta on Tuesday, August 5, said it shut nearly seven million WhatsApp accounts linked to scammers in the first half of this year and is ramping up safeguards against such schemes. “Our team identified the accounts and disabled them before the criminal organisations that created them could use them,” WhatsApp external affairs director Clair Deevy […]

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Seven Nigerian govs may lose their second term bid ―Primate Ayodele

Leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church (IESC), Primate Elijah Ayodele, has cautioned seven Nigerian governors about their second-term ambitions, stating that their return to office isn’t guaranteed. Those governors being warned include that of Akwa Ibom, Delta, Enugu, Cross River, Ondo, Kaduna, and Zamfara. In a statement signed by Osho Oluwatosin, his media aide, […]

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David Mark, Dele Giwa, Abiola and other stories, By Lasisi Olagunju

Who killed Dele Giwa? Who was Gloria Okon and where is she today? How did David Mark accurately predict in 1994 that Sani Abacha would spend five years in power and would attempt to contest a multi-party presidential election with only himself as candidate? Why did M. K.O. Abiola contest the 1993 election even after […]

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Media legend, MKO’s wife, Doyin Abiola is dead

Dr. Doyin Aboaba-Abiola, wife of Concord Publisher and winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, is dead. She died at the age of 82 at exactly 9.15 pm yesterday after illness, according to sources. The former managing director and publisher of National Concord was the first Nigerian woman to be an […]

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Nigeria’s D’Tigress rewarded with national honours, $100,000, houses

Following their record fifth consecutive FIBA Women’s AfroBasket win, President Bola Tinubu has conferred national honours, financial gifts, and housing rewards on Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress. At a presidential reception in their honour at the State House Banquet Hall on Monday, Vice President Kashim Shettima announced that each player will receive $100,000 and […]

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