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Nigerian actress, Toyin Abraham, pulled a surprise on her husband on Monday morning as he turns a year older today, January 17. The actress shared a heartwarming video of singer Timi Dakolo, giving a private performance to her husband in the early hours of today. According to the actress, Timi Dakolo is one of her […]
Continue ReadingFormer Military leader, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, (rtd) has said that the massive corruption going on in Nigeria now would make him and others who served in the military look like saints. Babangida said this in an interview with Trust TV. He said: “I sacked a governor for misappropriating N300,000. Now there are people, we […]
Continue ReadingPardon me: I used the title of this article as a bait. Sensationalism is not in my character, pardon me again, but discussing who should be the next president always excites us in Nigeria. We were created for elections and permutations. I decided to trick you by making it look like I wanted to appraise […]
Continue ReadingWhen you look at Nigeria today you see a replay of the ‘Wild, Wild West’ of America in the 1800s when anarchy, lawlessness and the near non-existence of a central government existed: cowboys and Indians were killing each other; slaves were worked to death on plantations and the few rich were getting fatter – and […]
Continue ReadingA party leader or an incumbent vice-president need not be elected a president. And an incumbent president need not be re-elected as president. In Nigeria, apart from Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, a vice president who became a president, by default, and made a mess of it, Alex Ekwueme, Atiku Abubakar and Namadi Sambo didn’t transit to […]
Continue ReadingThe Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared a sit-at-home on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, in the Southeast, ahead of a court judgement expected to be delivered on their leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s human rights case instituted against the Nigerian government. IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful, said the order became necessary as Kanu is billed to appear […]
Continue Reading“If everything is for sale, including the courts and the police, trust evaporates, credit vanishes and business withers” – Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, p 257 (2016) It is no longer news that Nigeria’s courts have normalised corruption and abuse of power. They have also put the corruption of courts […]
Continue ReadingLagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) on Friday, Jan. 14, estimated that Nigerian businesses lost N10.72 trillion ($26.1billion) within 222 days President Muhammadu Buhari shut down Twitter operations across Nigeria. The director-general of LCCI, Chinyere Almona, said in a statement: “In business terms, the cost of the seven-month shutdown of Twitter operations in Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingWe always knew the day would come when former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, would declare his interest in running for president. In a country where politics is about seizing power, his presidential ambition has been especially obsessive. After leaving government in 2007, he has been calculatedly amassing the resources that will land him in […]
Continue ReadingIslamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has released video of its fighters attacking Tukur Yusufu Buratai Institute for War and Peace (TBI), a research Institute of the Nigerian Army University, located in Buratai Village, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday January 10. The army institute is located in the hometown of […]
Continue ReadingA female and a male secondary school students were captured on video engaging in seductive dance moves. In the video shared online, the girl, dressed in her uniform, is seen twerking against her male colleague, who is also in school uniform. As she twerks, the boy grinds his crotch against her backside. At some point, the boy […]
Continue Reading“Ours is a tragic case. We are the most unscientific people on earth” –Bunmi Fatoye-Matory A ton of thanks to Bunmi Fatoye-Matory and Omowumi Ayodele for their insightful, provocative observations on the Ekitipanupo Internet Forum of January 10, 2022. Like these two compatriots, I too have been both saddened and bewildered by the way our people so characteristically throw science and rationality out of the window in their daily lives as well as their deliberations on matters of grave national importance. In all things domestic […]
Continue ReadingSouthern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum met in Abuja on Thursday and declared that political parties that field northern presidential candidates won’t enjoy their support in the 2023 general elections. Delegations from the four regional socio-cultural organisations: Afenifere (South West), Ohanaeze Ndigbo (South-East), Pan Niger Delta Forum (South-South) and the Middle Belt Forum (Middle Belt) […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star actress, Nse Ikpe-Etim, has reacted to federal government of Nigeria lifting suspension of Twitter operations in the country. The federal government said it lifted the suspension of the social media giant’s operations in the country after reaching an agreement which include legal registration of operations, taxation, and managing prohibited publications in line with […]
Continue ReadingA police officer was arrested in Kwara State for selling his Station Officer’s pistol to suspected cult members less than 24 hours after report of the Auditor General of the Federation, Adolphus Aghughu, revealed that approximately 178,459 different types of arms and ammunition had gone missing from the Police armoury in 2019 without explanation. Unaccounted […]
Continue ReadingVideo of a female secondary school student getting proposed to by her boyfriend who is also a student of her school and both were in uniform, has gone viral after it was shared online. In a video shared online, a teenage boy on school uniform was seen proposing to his teenage girlfriend who was overly excited. […]
Continue ReadingThe General Overseer (GO) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has advised men of God not to fight women, but run when women threaten to deal with them. Vanguard reports that Adeboye, who will turn 80 years old in March, gave the advice at a special online service on […]
Continue ReadingVery few Nigerians remember any quotable utterances by former President Goodluck Jonathan. A self confessed introvert, the man was more preoccupied with finding enough confidence to fill a job whose scope clearly overwhelmed him. A man who hardly found shoes to wear till rather suddenly found himself struggling to fit into the oversized shoes of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of Oyo State, Nigeria, Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, has passed away. It was gathered that the chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) died on Wednesday at the age of 71. The cause of his death is still unknown because information regarding that is still very sketchy at the time of filing this report. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) housemate, Tochi Okechukwu, popularly called Tochi, has deleted his engagement video from his Instagram page as his girlfriend, Chioma, shared a cryptic message on her Instagram story. The reality TV show star had on Sunday night, shared a video of his proposal to his girlfriend, where he went on one […]
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