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I had just arrived Abuja from Beijing, China on Monday when news broke that Nigeria won its case against Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited, which had been seeking enforcement of a controversial $11 billion judgement debt in its favour. The Commercial Courts of England and Wales upheld Nigeria’s prayer that the said gas processing […]
Continue ReadingUN refugee agency says no fewer than 114 million people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes by the end of September, due to conflict, persecution, and human rights violations. War in Ukraine and conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Myanmar, drought, floods, and insecurity in Somalia, as well as […]
Continue ReadingFormer Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo has lamented over President Bola Tinubu’s recent appointments. Asari said this while reacting to controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Gumi’s call for Nyesom Wike to be removed as FCT Minister. Addressing this in a video which has gone viral, the former militant leader stated that Abuja was built with […]
Continue ReadingUS House of Representatives elected Mike Johnson, a conservative with little leadership experience, as its Speaker on Wednesday October 25, after a turbulent three weeks that left the chamber unable to carry out any of its basic duties. Johnson, 51, was elected after getting 220 to 209 votes to move to the Speaker’s chair that […]
Continue ReadingLoneliness In The UK When I moved to the UK a few years back, the ‘relationship market’ appeared confusing. Many people presented as available, but at the same time, they were very unavailable. It was the feeling of being lonely in a densely populated space. The single African men were eager to mingle and date […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Department of State Service (DSS) has freed embattled former EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, after spending over 134 days in custody. Reports say the ex-anti graft boss was released on Wednesday night. Bawa was arrested by the Department of State Service (DSS) on June 14, 2023, hours after his suspension from office as EFCC Chairman […]
Continue ReadingOyo State High Court sitting in Ogbomoso, on Wednesday, upturned the appointment of the new Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi Olaoye. The stool had become vacant since the demise of HRM, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, in December 2021, at the age of 95 years after he reigned for 48 years. On September 8, 2023, […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the coming elections in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa States, the White Witches and Wizards of Nigeria have predicted the outcome of the gubernatorial polls slated for November 11 in three States. Speaking with journalists at the weekend in Lagos, Okhue Iboi, the spokesperson of the group, warned Imo Governor, Hope Uzodinma of the All […]
Continue ReadingAbout 30 years ago, I slept at the Murtala Muhammed Airport for four days. No, I was not a homeless vagabond. I had bought the Nigeria Airways ticket to fly to the United States for a one-year sabbatical leave. But when I arrived at the airport, I realized that my ticket was not honored, though I […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has fixed Thursday for the judgment in the appeals filed by the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and Obi are praying the Supreme court to set aside the judgment by the presidential election petition tribunal […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most common sites of pain anywhere in the body is chest pain, and ironically it is one of the problems we have never discussed on this page. Chest pain is the reason for some of the most frequent visits to the emergency room in many countries around the world and it is […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday sentenced the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation (OCCF), Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, to life imprisonment for the defilement of his wife’s niece. Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced him after he found him guilty of the offence of defilement and sexual penetration of a […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian government has reacted to claims by a Nigerian investigative journalist, Mr. David Hundeyin, that the Nigerian government was putting pressure on Ghanaian authorities to extradite him to Nigeria. The Nigerian journalist, Mr. Hundeyin who fled Nigeria in 2020 and following his application in 2021, is currently a refugee in Ghana, where he fled for […]
Continue ReadingA woman from Anambra State, Nigeria is going viral after welcoming nonuplets (nine babies) at a single birth, according to LIB. Obianuju Anthonia Ibeanu, from Neni in Anambra state, Nigeria, welcomed the babies back in August 2023, but she is just now going viral after she edited her Facebook bio. Her bio reads: “Mum of […]
Continue ReadingThe ailing Nigerian comic actor, John Okafor popularly known as Mr Ibu has undergone two surgeries. The plumpy actor who had cried out on social media for financial assistance was said to have had successful surgeries. Jazmine Okafor, the actor’s adopted daughter, confirmed this as she shared an update on Ibu’s health via Instagram on […]
Continue ReadingExchange rate between the naira and dollar opened the week at N1,200 per $1 on P2P platforms on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Effect of this is that the naira is 3.41 percent weaker than on Friday, Oct. 20, when it closed at N1,170 on the same market. This week, on the black market where the […]
Continue ReadingFather of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently cleared Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede in mind. While propounding the theory of what is now known as Freudian slips in his 1901 book he entitled The Psychopathology of Everyday […]
Continue ReadingA businessman, Mallam Umar Tasiu, was allegedly flogged to death by his former in-laws in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Daily Trust reports that a neighbour told City & Crime on condition of anonymity that the Al Azhar University, Egypt graduate had gone to see his children who live with his ex-wife at her father’s house. “He […]
Continue ReadingNigerian woman identified as Annie Nwozuzu Chinyere, has been reportedly arrested in Malawi in connection with the murder of a female banker, Agnes Katengeza who was found dead in her car a day after she was reported missing. The deceased, an employee of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, left home on September 23, 2023, to […]
Continue ReadingBusiness and Property Court in London on Monday halted the enforcement of the $11bn arbitration award in favour of P&ID against Nigeria in a case marked CL-2019-000752, according to Punch. In a judgment delivered by Justice Robert Knowles, it was held that the process through which P&ID secured a 2010 contract to build a gas […]
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