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Fellow Nigerians, I had a most unusual interview with a man I had always described in the last three decades as the ultimate Crown Prince, Abdul-Lateef Kolawole Abiola, the son of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. We’ve been friends ever since and I had written countless stories about him but this is our longest and […]
Continue ReadingThe Uganda government, on Tuesday, 17 November 2015, signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow $207 million at two per cent upon disbursement. The loan had a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period. It has now emerged that the deal signed with the Chinese lenders virtually […]
Continue ReadingJudge of Nigeria’s federal high court sitting in the federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, has in a ruling on Friday, declared the activities of the “Yan Bindiga Group” and the “Yan Ta’adda Group” and other similar groups in any part of the country, especially in the North-West and North-Central geopolitical zones, as […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man living in Italy, Vivian Olusola Omololu Wiwoloku has accused his estranged wife, Veronica Bolaji Wiwoloku of planning to kill him and take over all his properties in Italy and Nigeria. Olusola also alleged that his wife falsely wrote to the Italian government to deport him to Nigeria. Veronica had in an interview with a […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal High Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra state capital, Nigeria, presided by Justice Nicholas Oweibo, has discharged and acquitted nineteen persons accused of being members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and held in detention for 15 years. The nineteen persons shed tears of joy after […]
Continue ReadingI was one of seven professors who facilitated a leadership training in my university here in Georgia for local government chairmen from a major Nigerian southwestern state. In the course of the training, I adverted to a January 13, 2018 column I wrote about how power literally damages the brains of people who wield it […]
Continue ReadingActor Baaj Adebule says Nigerians are now more worried about police officers on the road than they are worried about armed robbers. Adebule said he was on his way home on Tuesday night and was only worried about police officers he might encounter on the road and not armed robbers. He shared this thought on […]
Continue ReadingPop Queen, Madonna left little to the imagination in her latest Instagram post which is commanding attention. The 63-year-old posted photos of her nipples and butt while striking several poses in a bedroom. In snaps, the singer lay in bed wearing fishnet stockings, thong underwear, and a very racy black bra. The post sparked criticism from her […]
Continue Reading“In recent years, many thousands of civilians have been killed in attacks led by Islamist Boko Haram and Fulani militias in northern and central-belt states. The underlying drivers of conflict are complex, yet targeted violence and the perpetration of atrocities against predominantly Christian communities suggest that religion and ideology play a key part” – The […]
Continue ReadingThe Delta State Police Command arraigned Chief Ayirimi Emami before a Magistrate court sitting in Warri over the alleged invasion of the Palace of the Olu of Warri. The dethroned Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom, Ayiri Emami, was on Wednesday, Nov. 24, arraigned by the police before a Warri South Chief Magistrates’ Court in Delta State […]
Continue ReadingAmerican rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, businessman, and fashion designer, Kanye West has pledged to restore his marriage and family with Kim Kardashian amid her new romance with Pete Davidson. The 44-year-old rapper spoke about his marriage to Kim Kardashian while attending the Los Angeles Mission’s Annual Thanksgiving event in Skid Row on Wednesday November 24. During his speech, Kanye expressed […]
Continue ReadingLagos is not just the place of the “indecency, lies and immoral acts of a typically rustic, countryside lady who went to Lagos and became sophisticated” as chronicled in Niyi Oniororo’s novel, Lagos Is A Wicked Place, the stuff of Onitsha Market Literature that Chinua Achebe described as “chronicles of social problems of a somewhat mixed-up, but […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Kano State Police Command, Nigeria, has commenced investigation into the death of a popular nightclub owner, Steven Ayika and one Chiamaka Emmanuel, said to be his mistress. Ayika, the CEO of Knight House and Chiamaka were found dead inside a Lexus car along Katsina Road in Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State in the […]
Continue ReadingNjideka Iheme, the daughter of former Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili and a justice of Nigerian Supreme Court, Justice Mary Odili, has just been sworn in as a Judge of the Federal High Court. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honourable Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, sworn in Mrs Iheme and 20 others as Judges of the […]
Continue ReadingOne of the more interesting short stories in the Bible can be found in 2 Samuel chapter 23. Bethlehem had fallen into the hands of Israel’s mortal enemies, the Philistines. King David had fled the city when he said in the presence of his loyal aides, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink […]
Continue ReadingApostle Peter Tom Udofia, the General Overseer of the Way of Salvation Church of Jesus Christ, in Calabar, has been called out after he got married to a much younger church member who is allegedly 18 years old. The 63-year-old clergyman married Sister Blessing Jeremiah Esu in Ikot Akpang Ikpong, Abak Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. The […]
Continue ReadingA woman believed to be the oldest person to ever walk the earth and also the last surviving woman who was born in the 19th century has sadly passed away. Francisca Susano, who was fondly called Lola Iska, died on Monday night, Nov. 22, at her home in the Philippines. She was reportedly 124 years old, making her the […]
Continue ReadingA man who was in jail for 43 years for a triple murder he says he didn’t commit has been exonerated and released. Kevin Strickland, 62, from Missouri in the United States, was wrongly convicted of the crimes in 1978, and was found guilty on all charges the following year. He has pleaded innocence ever since he […]
Continue ReadingWhatever angle you are sitting at, Lagos is without argument Nigeria’s most important state. Abuja may be the nation’s capital, politically, but Lagos, the economic capital, is the most vibrant measure of Nigeria’s political health. If the health of the political sector is poor, Lagos is often the first to know, or to express it. It […]
Continue ReadingNigerian beautiful and star actress, singer and entrepreneur, Uche Elendu has appealed to God not to allow hunger and starvation to ravage Nigeria. The actress made the prayer while reacting to the price of eggs. According to her, one egg now costs N90. See her post below:
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