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Last Sunday, for the fourth time in a row, Manchester City Football Club won the English premiership title. And because of that, ‘enemies of progress’ have not allowed some of us to rest. Even more annoying is that many of the noisemakers actually supported teams of little consequence in the title race. But in Nigeria, […]
Continue ReadingThe Abdullahi Ganduje-dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II may have been reinstated as the Emir of Kano, reports say. This decision followed the Kano State House of Assembly’s resolution to dethrone the current Emir and also dismantle the four new Emirates in the State established under a controversial 2019 law. Although it has not been officially […]
Continue ReadingAmerican singer, Grammy Award winner, songwriter, actress and body-positivity advocate, Melissa Viviane Jefferson, known professionally as Lizzo has shared that she has been suffering from depression for some months and she’s just now coming out of it. The singer shared this on Instagram. She wrote: “I’m the happiest I’ve been in 10 months. The strange thing about depression […]
Continue ReadingA widower also shared his experience with me, recently. The major lesson that I learned from his story is that there are certain lines that a person who is emotionally stable is not supposed to cross (especially in marriage) but if you find yourself saddled with a spouse who is crossing those lines, please know […]
Continue ReadingNigerian woman, Margaret Oyibo Atayi, has allegedly committed suicide following her failed marriage. The mother of two from Ugbokolo Local Government Area of Benue State was found dead three days after she was declared missing by her family members. Margaret was last seen around City College Of Education, Abacha road, Mararaba, Nasarawa State at about […]
Continue ReadingFour young Igbo siblings said to have been raised overseas have gone online to show off their Igbo-speaking skills. The sisters visited their brother in Maryland, United States, to celebrate his graduation after he earned a Master’s degree in Robotics. The phone was passed to each of the siblings, who all have Igbo names, and […]
Continue ReadingMedia Vita In Morte Sumus (In the midst of life we are in death.) This is a Gregorian chant that I often recall whenever there is an accident, a sudden, shocking abbreviation of life in the midst of hope and promise, a most tragic reminder of man’s mortality. Life as either a chemical or biological […]
Continue ReadingDaughter of billionaire business mogul, Femi Otedola, and Nigerian disc jockey (DJ), Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, better known as DJ Cuppy, shared the prayer her mother, Nana Otedola, sent to her. The DJ shared a screenshot of her chat with her mother. In it, her mother prayed that she would meet a man on his best self-journey […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party’s (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, appeared to have endorsed the party’s embattled national chairman, Julius Abure following his visit to the LP’s national headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, May 21. Obi had earlier shunned the party’s controversial national convention, which was held in his home state, amid the leadership crisis that […]
Continue ReadingThe drama of political bad manners in Rivers State is about to enter the ‘last corner’. Incumbent governor Mr. Siminalayi Fubara has dealt a survival kick after being pushed to the wall for most of his one year tenure. In quick succession, he has turned the table on his chief adversary, FCT minister, Nyesom Wike. Mob support […]
Continue ReadingA female Nigerian lawyer, Stella Justice, has advised women to taste their men’s male organ before marriage to make sure erection is possible. “BEFORE you go into MARRIAGE with ANY MAN, please TASTE that MALE ORGAN to know if it’s STANDING UP/ if ERECTION is possible. DECEIT is a GROUND for DÌVORCE in law. THE […]
Continue ReadingNigerian pastor, Sam Odeg, has advised his fellow men not to be afraid of approaching any unmarried lady, even if she originally has a boyfriend. Odeg, under what he called open confession, gave the advice in a Facebook post on Sunday, May 19, while narrating how he ‘snatched’ his wife from her then boyfriend. See […]
Continue ReadingAn Abuja-based pastor, Stanley Ogbonna, has allegedly driven his estranged wife, Chioma, and six children out of their house in Abuja. The General Overseer (GO) of the God’s Spring Assembly, also known as Glass Church, Kubwa, Abuja, was said to be in an unsettling relationship with his wife, which led to their divorce. Ogbonna was […]
Continue ReadingWhen I get into a new environment, I study the way of life of the residents, in order to understand how and why they do things. Whatever I consider admirable, I copy it. Whatever I don’t consider special, I don’t copy. Even though I had spent two years in Ondo State as a child, it […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of Rivers State sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital, has on Tuesday, held that the tenure extension of the 23 local government chairmen of the state is null and void. Justice, D.G. Kio, in his judgment, found the Local Government Law No. 2 of 2024, which prolonged local government chairmen’s tenures […]
Continue ReadingAfrica’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, says he still faces difficulties travelling in Africa with his Nigerian passport. He spoke recently at the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. Dangote said: “I still complained to President Kagame. I told him that as an investor, I have to now apply for 35 different visas on […]
Continue ReadingA minister suffered severe abuse and reprimand from the elites of the North last week because she asked the North to choose mass education first before mass marriage. Sixty-four years after independence, we are still struggling to understand Nigeria’s Muslim North and its ways. A 1950 letter to the editor of Gaskiya, northern Nigeria’s preeminent […]
Continue ReadingIn a Facebook post on Saturday, Nigerian lawyer, Ebikebuna Augustine Aluzu has said that only “defeated and inferior” men pay bride price or marry women they didn’t disvirgin. He wrote: “Dear Kings, The moment you find yourself paying bride price or getting married to a woman you didn’t disvirgin, that is an admission of inferiority. […]
Continue ReadingNigerian couple, Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade aka Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade aka Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke, who allegedly run a cocaine cartel from India have been declared wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) following the arrest of four members of their syndicate in Lagos, Nigeria. A Sports Utility Vehicle was […]
Continue ReadingHave you noticed that in the last two weeks, Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State seems to have acquired an inexplicably large dose of boldness and courage? Conversely, you must have equally observed that, in the last couple of days, FCT Minister, the very loquacious Nyesom Wike, has taken an uncharacteristically large overdose of meekness and humility. […]
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