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Recently, faced with escalating violence across Nigeria, the president, Bola Tinubu, reportedly agreed with state governors to establish state police. The news excited those calling for state police in Nigeria. But the agitation for state police is misguided; it is based on shallow reasoning, not on a rational, hard-nosed analysis of the potential consequences. To […]
Continue ReadingFuneral service of the late Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu was held at the St. Andrews Church, Imola Street, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria, on Friday February 23, 2024. The governor died on 27th December 2023 after a protracted illness. The funeral service was attended by Vice President Kashim Shettima, many state governors, APC National […]
Continue ReadingAmerican television personality, actress, and author, Porsha Dyanne Williams and Nigerian businessman, Simon Guobadia’s marriage is reportedly coming to an end 15 months after their grand wedding in Nigeria. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star actress, filed for divorce from Guobadia on Thursday, February 22 in Atlanta, according to court documents. According to People magazine, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it has published a comprehensive 526-page document on the 2023 general election. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, in a statement issued Friday, said the report showcases the election’s unparalleled diversity in party representation, demonstrating significant democratic progress. He said: […]
Continue ReadingAnglican Bishop of Ikwerre Diocese, in River State, Nigeria, Dr. Blessing Enyindah, has called on President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency address the increasing hunger and hardship currently facing Nigerians. Many Nigerians have been begging the government to find solutions to the continued increase in the prices of food in the country. […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, military authorities in Guinea dissolved the interim government it had put in place since June 2022. They pledged to appoint a new administration. We recall that Colonel Mamady Doumbouya toppled President Alpha Conde in September 2021, in a coup hailed by many Guineans. Conde invited it upon himself by forcing through a controversial […]
Continue ReadingGodswill Akpabio (then Akwa Ibom State Governor) once stated that only the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan could guarantee peace in Nigeria. At an interdenominational church service beamed live on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) network on 2 January 2015, he declared: “As a PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) chieftain, I have found the solution to the peace we […]
Continue ReadingImmediate past president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, has on Friday, won the Edo State Labour Party (LP) governorship primary election. The Returning Officer for the election and Deputy Governor of Abia State, Ikechukwu Emetu, declared Akpata as the winner after collating the results. Emetu said the lawyer polled 316 votes […]
Continue ReadingIt was all jubilation at the Onipanu Bus Stop along Ikorodu road in Lagos State after a pregnant woman was delivered of a baby boy by emergency responders. The mother of the new baby was said to be waiting for a bus when she unexpectedly went into labour on Monday morning, February 19, 2024. The […]
Continue Reading“Bros, how body? Have you seen what I have seen?” “No. How do you expect me to see what you have seen, when my eyes are different from yours? I use my own eyes. The evidence of my own ocular facility, not what other people see in a country where most people are either depressed, […]
Continue ReadingThere is heavy manipulation going on at the Binance P2P. And from my deductions, most of the big Binance P2P merchants are united in carrying out this manipulation. Some of them even have over $2 million worth of USDT in their wallet which begs the question of whether these people are truly Nigerians or probably […]
Continue ReadingNational Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Julius Abure, has been arrested by security operatives in Edo State. Abure was arrested on Wednesday, by operatives of the Zone 5 police headquarters in Benin, a few days before the party’s primary election in Edo State. It was gathered that his arrest was the result of […]
Continue ReadingFor close to 14 years, I have served Saturday Breakfast every Saturday morning without fail. I have written about my good times and my not so good times. I have celebrated love and happiness and have shared with you my moments of pain and sadness and even the deaths of colleagues, close friends and family […]
Continue ReadingAn Ibadan man accompanied his wife and daughter to the market in search of salt to add to their tasteless pot of soup. That was in March 1881, when the city was besieged by hunger and war. It was a season of famine. The man who accompanied his wife and daughter to the market lost […]
Continue ReadingGuinea’s military junta, which seized power through a coup in September 2021, has officially dissolved the government, as announced through a presidential decree read on state TV by the presidency’s Secretary General, Brig Gen Amara Camara. Very sketchy was the announcement, as it was not followed by details regarding the rationale of this dissolution, or […]
Continue ReadingFinal word is not here yet about the allegation of fraud rocking the Ministry of Humanitarian and Social Inclusion as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating the issue have uncovered a fresh fraud of N17bn linked to the ministry. Sunday Tribune confirmed on Saturday in Abuja that the EFCC officials, who were […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, President Bola Tinubu has nominated Ms. Hafsat Abubakar Bakari as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). The statement was released on X (Twitter) handle on Tuesday, by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser Information and Strategy to President Tinubu. It reads: “President Bola Tinubu has nominated […]
Continue ReadingA colleague yesterday shared a 1992 campaign video of Chief M.K.O. Abiola promising to demystify governance in Nigeria and stop “people’s heads” from being “shaved in their absence.” A professor friend (political scientist) commented that “that’s partly why he never became president.” Becoming president or king comes with a price. When ‘The Price of Kings’, […]
Continue ReadingOhanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the socio-political group of Nigerians of southeast extraction on Monday in Enugu directed that Nigerians from the geopolitical zone should not partake in a planned national protest. There had been plans by some groups that Nigerians at home and in the diaspora should embark on protests over their declared economic hardships in […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has lambasted the Tinubu-led government for consistently attributing Nigeria’s economic challenges to ex-President, Muhammad Buhari. Taking to his X handle in a series of posts on Monday, Dalung argued that if Tinubu’s administration devoted the same resources and effort used during elections and tribunals to tackle […]
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