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As cliché as it may be, many believe that money makes the world go round. Upon second thought, this notion really doesn’t seem to be too farfetched at all. In general, some of the most powerful people in the world tend to be the richest ones, and some of the richest people in the world […]

Mr. Joachim Chinakwe, the Ogun State-based trader, who made news headlines when he was arrested last month by the police and charged to court for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari’, has outdone himself, this time, he named his newly-born daughter after the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in […]

According to CNN Mark Zuckerberg has just made his first visit to ‘Sub-Sahara-Africa’ to witness the impact of his Facebook social media enterprise and to promote his Express WIFI internet service. One should point it out to the CNN journalists and researchers, probably graduates from fourth-grade American universities, that there really isn’t a place called […]

A United Nations, UN report released on Nigeria’s Common Country Analysis (CCA) has revealed a deeply alienated society based on the plurality of ethnic, religious and regional identities that had tended to label the country’s political existence. The report, which was read during a consultative meeting on the formulation of the UN Development Assistance Framework IV […]

The Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) on Sunday said that it has completed the translation of the Bible into 24 different Nigerian languages. Among the 24 different languages the Holy book was translated are Isoko, Igala, Igede, Ebira, Yoruba, Efik, Igbo, Hausa, Nupe, Khana, Urhobo, Fulfude, Jju, Bokyi, Edo, Arabic, Tiv, Itsekiri and Kanuri. In a statement […]

A $458 million loot by the late former Head of State, Gen. Sanni Abacha, and which the United States government planned to return to the Federal Government will not come now. According to the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), the money is being held back because a lawyer is insisting he […]

These tweets have gone dirty and convoluted! Nigerians and Kenyans first started the war when Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg visited both countries but the war continued yesterday with the hashtag KenyanVsNigeria. A lot of Nigerians got involved in the war, lol. See the very many tweets below: LIB

The dust raised by the death of son of Nigeria’s former Aviation minister and presently the Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District in the red chambers of the National Assembly,Senator Princess Stella Oduah, has finally settled as the remains of 28 year old, Maxwell,Chinedu Oduah-Etoromi  was at exactly 2:15 pm Saturday, interred at the Oduah […]

I am usually optimistic, a strong believer in the uniqueness of Nigeria’s ability to dance away from the edge of the precipice. I still believe even this present gloomy weather will pass… just that I am so scared, unhappy and my faith is shaky. Yeah, I haven’t seen anything like this since I became an […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has reacted to today’s visit of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying it was a coming together of collaborators in the total annihilation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor said it was on record that both Obasanjo and Sheriff collaborated to destroy […]

When our public officials fall asleep while attending a meeting, or an official function, the standard Nigerian reaction is to have a hearty laugh at their expense. Harmless laughter. You’d remember many photographs of our lawmakers turning the National Assembly into an extension of their bedrooms, sometimes snoring loudly in the middle of a heated […]

Hear Femi Fani-Kayode on the Twitter rivalry between Kenya and Nigeria which was geared by a Kenyan. Hear him especially @Kenya leaders swinging from trees eating one another while Nigerians were already in Oxford or Cambridge University. (FFK, Twitter)

Detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra,(IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has said that he will destroy Nigeria completely not with explosives, but with truth. A statement from Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman, shows that Kanu has decided to bomb Nigeria out of existence by dispensing stack truths about Nigeria to the whole world. The statement stated […]

Mother Teresa, the nun whose work with the dying and destitute of Kolkata made her a global icon of Christian charity, was made a saint on Sunday. Her elevation to Roman Catholicism’s celestial pantheon came in a canonisation mass in St Peter’s square in the Vatican that was presided over by Pope Francis in the […]

The federal government has promised to restructure the embattled Aero Contractor airline, which on Wednesday announced that it had stopped schedule flights and suspended the services of its 1,100 workers, due to lack of funds. The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika made this known when he addressed workers of the airline who […]

Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rotimi Akeredolu, has emerged winner of the hotly contested APC governorship primary of ONDO State. He defeated Olusegun Abraham, who is the favoured candidate of a national leader of the party and former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu. Akeredolu polled a total of 669 votes to defeat Abraham […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s two-day visit to Nigeria has done a lot for the country; it is a pity no government official or agency has tried to tap into the gains of that visit. He arrived at a time there was much talk about economic recession, concerns about companies folding up or retrenching staff, or international investors […]

This is the trending story of an hilarious moment when a new bride reportedly took to her heels from the venue of her wedding after realising that the man she was about saying ‘Yes, I do’ to was not who he claim to be. The incident which was said have happened in Eket Local Government […]

The Lagos state command is currently investigating the general overseer of ‘Tongue of Fire Restoration Ministry’ for a case of abduction, defilement and abortion. On 30/6/2016, the command received a report that the suspect, a pastor with a church situated on Jacob Taiwo Street, Oshodi, Lagos was harbouring some young girls and freely having unlawful […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of social networking website, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, for his simplicity and willingness to share knowledge and wealth with the less privileged. The president stated this on Friday while receiving Mr. Zuckerberg at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. Buhari said the various meetings […]