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Barbados is about to cut ties with the British monarchy to become the world’s newest republic. Barbados will this week replace its head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, with her current representative, Governor-General Sandra Mason. The swearing ceremony will take place on Monday evening into Tuesday. It will include military parades and celebrations as Mason is inaugurated […]
Continue ReadingMrs. Charity Maduka, the wife of businessman and chairman of the Coscharis Group, Cosmas Maduka, has died. According to family sources, Mrs Maduka died after suffering a stroke in Nnewi, Anambra state on Sunday afternoon, November 28. Until her death, she was the Vice-president of the Coscharis Group since its inception and the co-owner of the company. May […]
Continue ReadingNigerian rapper and finest female dancehall star, Cynthia Morgan who is now known as Madrina, has dismissed claims that she is depressed. The rapper who is currently working to come back to mainstream music has had a few outbursts on social media that made some persons think she is depressed. Cynthia had a question and […]
Continue ReadingA member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon. Barr. Henry Soembis Longs, has passed away. Longs, who represented Pankshin South Constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) died in Jos on Sunday, November 28, shortly after undergoing a surgery. The Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Philip Dasun, confirmed Longs’ death […]
Continue ReadingSigmund Freud remains one of the most creative, dramatic and significant contributor to the field of modern psychiatry especially through his famous theory of psychoanalysis in explaining varied forms of abnormal behavior. Of particular relevance to this discourse is the dual – drive theory in relationship to human sexuality. He described sexual drive as the […]
Continue ReadingA lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria, identified as Ayatu Momoh, on Sunday evening reportedly died while attending a community meeting. Momoh, a lecturer in the institution’s Department of Mass Communication, hailed from Kogi State and was the secretary of Igala Local Community in Offa. He was attending the community’s meeting when […]
Continue ReadingA 400-level female student of the Faculty of Education, Bayero University, Kano, Binta Isa, was found dead in her hostel on Friday, November 26. Confirming the incident, the Deputy Registrar, Public Public Affairs of the University, Lamara Garba, said the deceased, who hailed from Kogi State, died around 7.00pm after complaining of acute chest pain. […]
Continue ReadingI salute the courage of Joke Silva, wife of legendary actor Olu Jacobs, for publicly revealing that her husband is battling what she called “dementia with Lewy Body.” “It is a degenerative disease that affects the brain, and is almost like Parkinson’s disease,” she said. “It affects the brain and affects the person.” My heart goes out […]
Continue ReadingThe beautiful and Nollywood star actress, Destiny Etiko shared this hot bikini photo on her Instagram page to turn their heads and send them rioting in hook competition!
Continue ReadingThe popularity and credibility of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration seemed to have started to wane almost from its inception; and six and a half years later, one and a half years to the end of the administration, it may almost be an impossibility to redeem its image – its ratings and that of the APC […]
Continue ReadingThe Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Fugar Division in Etsako Central local government area of Edo state, identified as Ibrahim Ishaq has been reported kidnapped near Ise river along the Auchi – Ekperi-Agenebode road. According to reports, Ishaq was travelling with his orderly on Friday evening, November 26, when they were attacked by the kidnappers. A source close […]
Continue ReadingThe wedding of the Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin, to his heartthrob, Olamidun Majekodunmi, took place in Ibadan, Oyo state on Saturday November 27 and was well attended by prominent Nigerians including the state governor, Seyi Makinde, his Ondo and Ogun state counterparts, Rotimi Akeredolu and Dapo Abiodun. Olamidun […]
Continue ReadingThe Ekiti State Police Command has arrested members of a notorious kidnap gang including a dismissed policeman, Ayo Samuel and one Johnson Apotire, who impersonates herdsmen due to his physical resemblance to Fulani men. Briefing newsmen on Wednesday, spokesperson of the command (PPRO), ASP Sunday Abutu, who represented the State Commissioner of Police, Tunde Mobayo, […]
Continue ReadingFellow 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 […]
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