Article of Faith: God is the troublemaker (1), By Femi Aribisala

Armed robbers broke into a man’s house. They cornered him in his bedroom. In desperation, he pleaded to be allowed to say his last prayer. His assailants were amused. They told him to go ahead but make it brief. The man went down on his knees. “Father,” he cried silently, “I need you to deliver […]

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Buhari presents 2022 budget to NASS (His full speech)

Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja Thursday, October 7, 2021 PROTOCOLS 1. It is my great pleasure to be here once again to present the 2022 Federal Budget Proposals to this distinguished Joint Session […]

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Remains of Captain Hosa Okunbo arrive Benin (Photos)

Remains of Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo arrived on Wednesday in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, from London, where he transitioned to glory on Sunday, August 8 2021, at the age of 63. The iconic philanthropist is survived by a prosperous family, wife, and twelve children. His memory has been honoured by family, close friends and […]

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Four months after her death, Mama Taraba’s younger brother dies

Barely four months after the death of Hajiya Aisha Jummai Alhassan, aka Mama Taraba, a former Nigerian Minister of Women Affairs, her younger brother, a former Nigerian senator, Abubakar Abdulazeez Ibrahim has also died. He died on Tuesday in his house in Jalingo after a brief illness, aged 64. Abubakar was elected twice into the […]

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Female high school teacher reportedly commits suicide in Nigeria

A woman identified as Mrs Yusuf Bosede Khadija, has reportedly committed suicide in Kogi State, Nigeria. According to reports, the incident happened  a few days ago at Okuhapa in Obangede, Okehi Local Government Area of the state. The woman, said to be a secondary school teacher, took her own life by jumping into a well. […]

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Beyond Zoning, the President Nigeria Needs, By Onikepo Braithwaite

Happy belated 61st Independence Day Nigerians – well, whatever that means; or should it be Sad Independence Day instead, since majority of Nigerians are mostly unhappy, and feel that there isn’t much to celebrate, unless we want to engage in self-delusion. My question to every successive Nigerian Government, be it our Founding Fathers, the Military, […]

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South-East violence: It’s too late to cry, By Azuka Onwuka

When police stations, police and military checkpoints, offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission, and prisons in the South-East were being attacked by an unidentified group later named “unknown gunmen,” many people from the region, especially those with sympathies for the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, applauded them. Their argument was that the police […]

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Nigeria breaks my heart, but in my next life, I still prefer to be a Nigerian ―Mary Remmy Njoku writes

Nigerian actress and film producer, Mary Remmy Njoku has said that she will still prefer to be a Nigerian in her next life. The Director General of the award-winning Lagos-based film house, ROK Studios in Nigeria, said that though Nigeria breaks her heart, however she would still prefer to be from this country in another […]

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Sanwo-Olu signs Bill prohibiting media parade of suspect by police in Lagos State

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday, October 5, signed the Lagos State’s Administration of Criminal Justice (Amendment) Law (ACJL) 2021. The ACJL was first passed in Lagos State in 2007 and amended in 2011 to ensure the fundamental rights of suspects and persons that come into contact with the justice system, as enshrined in […]

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I was happier when I was poor ―Akon insists

Senegalese-born American singer, Akon has defended himself after he received backlash for suggesting that poor people have much easier lives than the rich and famous. After the death of his friend, Michael K Wiliams, Akon told TMZ that, that actor’s death proves the rich and famous struggle more than the poor. In a more recent interview with TMZ, he […]

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Smartest people, mediocre nation, By Obadiah Mailafia

British Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of chemical crystallography. Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world class computer centre in Africa. The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in nuclear physics. Our premier […]

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I prefer dating older men, 15 years gap up to those on life support machine ―Socialite, Shorn Arwa says

Shorn Arwa, a Kenyan socialite, has disclosed that she prefers dating men who are 15 years older, up to those on life support machine. Arwa who revealed this in an interview with a local radio station, stated that she made the decision because she believes she is too much to handle and dating someone of the same age […]

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Nigeria’s DSS operative shot dead in Imo State

Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) operative identified as Prince Nwachinaemere Ezemuonye Ozuzu has been shot dead in Owerri, the Imo state capital. According to Daily Trust, the officer, from Umuoyo, Irete in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state was murdered on Owerri-Onitsha Road. The incident occurred less than 48 hours after […]

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What Weed Did Buhari’s Speech Writers Smoke?, By Farooq A. Kperogi

I’ve stopped bothering to listen to or read Muhammadu Buhari’s speeches for quite a while now not only because I’ve given up on the regime he leads but also because he has some of the most inept speech writers Nigeria has ever had, particularly in the last two years. But a portion of the speech […]

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