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Nigerian lady and a city employee identified as Damilola Matuluko, has died after she was hit by a metro bus in downtown Houston, Texas, on Friday morning, May 31. According to ABC News, the tragic incident happened near Rusk and Smith before 7:40 a.m. and was the bus driver’s fault. According to the METRO Police […]
Continue ReadingGood God, we are madly in love with yesterday, aren’t we? We are always looking forward to yesterday. You know, the good old days. The days when we had three regions and “true” federalism. The days when the regions “competed” with one another, when the Western Region would set up a TV station and the […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Acting Director of Corporate Communication Department, Sidi Ali, the CBN has revoked the banking operations licence of Heritage Bank Plc, effective immediately. This decision was made due to the bank’s failure to improve its financial performance, posing a threat to financial stability. According to the […]
Continue ReadingSeveral unions in Nigeria have shut their workplaces to comply with the directive of the two labour unions, Nigeria Labour Union (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the Labour union has shut down the national grid, resulting in […]
Continue ReadingA draft private Bill proposing Regional Governments in Nigeria has been trending online. The draft Bill which proposes a new governance model that would take off not later than October 1, 2024, states that Nigeria shall be a federation comprising regional territories and the Federal Capital territory. Every ethnic nationality and people in Nigeria will […]
Continue ReadingAmerican-based Nigerian woman, Ogechukwu Christine Kalu, is seeking a well educated and God fearing man for marriage. The educational consultant, in a post on Sunday, June 2, 2024, said the man should know how to cook, do laundry, enjoy other house chores, PDA and “perform.” “Now that my DM is clogged with “I love you” […]
Continue ReadingRights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has lambasted APC chieftain, Joe Igbokwe, after he attacked her for not standing up while the present national anthem, ‘Nigeria we hail thee’ was being recited at an event on Friday, May 31. Igbokwe, in a post shared on his Facebook page, described Aisha’s action as a ‘nonsensical behavior’, and that […]
Continue ReadingA carefully choreographed political diversion has just carried the day. In the absence of any tangible results for his first year in office, Mr. Tinubu’s fertile political imagination came up with a potent diversion. A quick ruse of reverting to the old national anthem was the hit score. It would reverberate with the popular audience. […]
Continue ReadingBorussia Dortmund has on Saturday, been beaten 2-0 by Real Madrid, to win the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League. The much-anticipated match was played at the Wembley Stadium. With this feat, Real Madrid has now won the UEFA Champions League a record 15 times, with their last victory in the 2021-2022 season. Meanwhile, […]
Continue ReadingMy first encounter with royalty and power politics is the stuff of family and Yoruba history. At the end of the Ekiti Parapo war, the architect and motivator of the Ekiti uprising, Prince Ishola Fabunmi and his main lieutenant Dada Akoja (my forefather) returned to Okemesi. The long serving Monarch of the town was Fabunmi’s […]
Continue ReadingDaniella Okocha has said being the daughter of the football legend, Jay Jay Okocha is her biggest privilege. The lawyer disclosed this in a question and answer session with her followers on Monday, May 27, 2024. “Being close to such greatness is inspiring,” she wrote. Her posts:
Continue ReadingVeteran Nollywood actor and singer, Zulu Adigwe who passed away in April, has been laid to rest. He was buried in Abuja, Nigeria, on Wednesday, May 29. President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Emeka Rollas, shared photos of the late veteran actor Zulu Adigwe’s funeral on his Instagram page on Thursday, May 30. […]
Continue ReadingIn an interview session with media personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, Nigerian comedienne Helen Paul has advised those with relocation plans to do it rightly and try to meet the ‘’right people” as it gets easier that way. The Nigerian comedienne narrated how she relocated from Nigeria to the United States with […]
Continue ReadingThis week last year, two things were enthroned in the Nigerian political space. One was the man, Bola Tinubu, who was sworn in as the president. The other was the myth of the man as a headhunter endowed with a unique instinct for sourcing the right talent and an astute administrator. So much was this […]
Continue ReadingNewly graduated young Nigerian lady identified as Gladys Jonathan Yemi, whose father was kidnapped and killed after payment of ransom, has herself passed away. A family member, Prince Bawa, who resides in Abuja, disclosed this in a Facebook post on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. “Sister, why do you choose to left us with such pains, […]
Continue ReadingRivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has revealed that his administration inherited a huge debt burden from the previous administration of Nyesom Wike. Fubara stated that under his watch, the Rivers State Government has awarded nine new road projects, valued at N534.332billion but he inherited 34 uncompleted projects, valued at over N225.279billion spread across 13 local […]
Continue ReadingIn my 1994 book, ‘Fortress on Quicksand’, which chronicled the presidential primaries of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC) and profiled the contenders during the aborted Third Republic of General Ibrahim Babangida, I wrote that it was glaring to the discerning that the experiment would not last. I had the same […]
Continue ReadingBauchi State Police Command has arrested suspects believed to be the masterminds of the 2011 post-election violence in the state. The crisis then led to the deaths of six National Youth Service Corps members and several police officers. According to the Daily Post, this was disclosed by the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Auwal Muhammad, […]
Continue ReadingA New York jury convicted Donald Trump on all charges in his hush-money case on Thursday in a seismic development barely five months ahead of the election where he seeks to recapture the White House. The verdict makes Trump the first criminally convicted former US president but does not prevent him from campaigning for another […]
Continue ReadingRivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, has issued an interlocutory injunction, barring factional Speaker, Martin Amaewhule and 24 other lawmakers from further sitting and parading themselves as members of the state House of Assembly. Justice C.N. Wali issued the order in a lawsuit filed by lawmakers loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, led […]
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