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In the book titled the ‘protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism’ the German sociologist, Max Weber attributed the development of capitalism to the protestant ethic (protestantism is a form of christianity that originated with the 16th-century reformation, a movement against what its followers perceived to be errors in the Catholic Church). What then is […]
Continue ReadingThere was chaos on Thursday, July 7, at a petrol station in Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria, when a naked woman hijacked a fuel pump and began spraying petrol on customers and on the ground. In a video shared online, the naked woman is seen spraying people and cars with petrol. Customers are seen running […]
Continue Reading“The committee invited editors of THISDAY newspaper because of the prominence which they have given to the publication of the allegations. The editors of THISDAY visited us informally, refusing to oblige our invitation and informing us that they would rely on their publications.” The excerpted quote is from the ‘Report of the ad-hoc committee set up on […]
Continue ReadingFormer Lagos State governor and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has announced Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate. He announced this while addressing journalists in Katsina State on Sunday, according to a presidential aide, Buhari Sallau. This is coming hours after Tinubu met with the Nigerian President, Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingPresident Buhari’s daughter, Nana Hadiza and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, got married on Friday, July 8, 2022, at the Aso Rock Villa. The couple tied the knot in an intimate Nikkai ceremony attended by close family members and some top government officials. Hadiza was married to Abdulrahman […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari joined other Muslim faithful at the Kofor Arewa Eid praying ground in Daura, Katsina state, Nigeria, to offer their prayers on Saturday July 9, in commemoration of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir. The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruq Umar, in his remarks at the praying ground, urged Nigerians not to relent in their […]
Continue ReadingA twenty-two-year-old suspected female kidnapper, Adeola Omoniyi, (pictured right), has disclosed that she specializes in kidnapping toddlers for the past two years, selling each child for N30,000 to her father. Omoniyi made the shocking revelation while being paraded at the Ondo state police headquarters in Akure, the state capital. She told the police that her father, […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has unveiled Datti Baba-Ahmed as his running mate in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. Obi announced Baba-Ahmed at a press conference and also on Twitter. 46-year-old Ahmed who is the founder of Baze University, Abuja, and also a former lawmaker who represented Kaduna North Senatorial district, was unveiled on Friday July […]
Continue ReadingAt this stage in his campaign, Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, should be laying out the policy ideas and ideology that will define his government and building a team of competent managers who can run with his vision. For a man who has accumulated a growing band of self-motivated and organic following in a […]
Continue ReadingFollowing mounting pressure from lawmakers in his own party to stand down, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), Boris Johnson, has finally resigned from his position. His resignation will pave the way for a successor to replace him as British prime minister after dozens of his ministers quit his scandal-hit government.
Continue ReadingA couple, Gidado Abubakar Auta and Amina Ahmad, both medical doctors, have died in a fire that gutted their home in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. It was gathered that the couple sustained severe burns in the fire which occurred three days ago and were rushed to a hospital where Dr. Gidado died on Tuesday, July […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari’s advance team convoy, was attacked by terrorists on Tuesday July 5, near Dutsinma, Katsina State, Nigeria. The terrorists reportedly attacked a “convoy of cars carrying the Advance Team of security guards, protocol and media officers ahead of the President, Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Daura for the Sallah celebration.” Mr. Garba Shehu, […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement on Wednesday, Nigeria Prisons National Public Relations Officer (Service spokesperson), Umar Abubakar, said the terrorists who attacked Kuje prison facility, used explosives on the center’s fence and its main entrance to gain access to the facility. One Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel and four inmates have been confirmed dead during […]
Continue ReadingThe outgoing Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. He died at about 11pm on Tuesday July 5. He was aged 63. His death was announced in the early hours of of Wednesday July 6, by NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari, who described his departure as a great loss […]
Continue ReadingBy the way there is historical evidence, from a well-placed non-Nigerian source, that the Igbo-Yoruba Cold War was needlessly unleashed by Zik in 1948, and not, as Igbo mythology has it, by Awo through the Carpet crossing in 1951. Here is the story of how Zik declared war on the Yoruba in 1948 It was […]
Continue ReadingOne Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Aminu Umar Dayi, in charge of Dutsinma Area Command in Katsina State, Nigeria, was ambushed and killed by bandits in a fierce gun duel on Tuesday, July 5. According to reports, the late Aminu led a police team to Kurfi where they killed one of the bandits’ commanders. Angered […]
Continue ReadingKuje Medium Prison came under heavy bombing and gun attack by unknown terrorists on Tuesday night, July 5, manifestly to free jailed criminals. The terrorists were said to have fired gunshots and threw high-capacity bombs in the area in order to achieve their aim. Reports say a source from the prison stated that the State […]
Continue ReadingA professor friend who works abroad is home-sick. He recently asked me: “I want to visit home. I am scared. What do you think? Will I be safe?” I didn’t know what to tell him. Those of us at home carefully select where to go in Nigeria and when to go there. Our country is […]
Continue ReadingLagos State government has said it has fired a customary court judge, Mr Ishola Razaki Adeyemi, who allegedly dissolved a marriage and snatched the wife of a complainant, Mr. Olayemi Ayeni. In a video, Ayeni was seen narrating how Adeyemi, who allegedly had interest in his wife, dissolved their marriage and denied him access to […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State government said on Monday that the community leader, Alhaji Abashe Adamu, arrested by the police in the state for alleged kidnapping was never an appointee of Kayode Fayemi administration. Ekiti State Police Command said on Sunday that its personnel arrested Adamu and one Toyin Ibrahim on June 29 for allegedly coordinating numerous high-profile […]
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