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The most eminent international school in Lagos Nigeria, Charterhouse Lagos, Tuesday, announced the appointment of Natalie Parker as the Head of Sixth Form, effective January I, 2026. The British Independent Schooling takes this strategic hire as a pivotal step in the school’s expansion, as it prepares to launch its purpose-built secondary school and boarding house […]
Continue ReadingA kind of drama arose at the entrance of Nigeria’s National Assembly complex in Abuja on Tuesday as security operatives prevented suspended Kogi Central lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, from gaining access to the premises. Natasha arrived at the gate accompanied by activist Aisha Yesufu, rights advocate Mama P, activist Randy, and a crowd of supporters, […]
Continue ReadingOn December 31, 1983, I was but a tiny secondary school kid when Brig Sani Abacha announced the overthrow of President Shehu Shagari. The economy was in a complete mess, measured by the skyrocketing cost of living. Oil prices had dropped below $10 per barrel and foreign reserves had fallen to $1 billion — compared to a fairly healthy $10 billion in 1980. Prices of basic commodities doubled in […]
Continue ReadingThe camp of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has distanced itself from Monday’s reconciliation meeting between his former running mate, Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, and the Julius Abure-led leadership. Labour Party has been engulfed in a leadership crisis, which intensified in April after three members insisted they were the rightful […]
Continue ReadingThe dictum, of the dead, speak no evil (de mortuis nil nisi bonum), speaks to the courtesy expected in interpersonal social relationships and hardly applies to public leaders. If we do not speak ill of brutal dead leaders, history will be written against us. Sometimes it takes the death of an influential figure for us […]
Continue ReadingIn the midst of the ongoing leadership crisis within the Labour Party (LP), the Julius Abure-led faction on Monday, July 21, held a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, with several key leaders and stakeholders in attendance. Present were the factional National Chairman, Julius Abure; National Secretary, Alhaji Umar […]
Continue ReadingOkuku town in present Osun State has a well-recorded history of cultural promotion and preservation. Ulli Beier’s ‘Yoruba Beaded Crowns’ (1982) and Karin Barber’s ‘I Could Speak until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women and the Past in a Yoruba Town’ (1991) are two of the contributions of Okuku to Yoruba cultural history. The late Yoruba playwright and […]
Continue ReadingOndo State Police Command on Saturday confirmed the death of a murder suspect, Femi Oladele, also known as Tallex, during a brief illness. Oladele was arrested for his alleged role in the abduction and death of Andrel Okah and John Abba, two students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko. The two students, who were […]
Continue ReadingPrince Abubakar Audu University (PAAU), Ayingba, has said that it is still investigating the circumstances that led to the death of a lecturer in the Department of Social Science Education of the institution, Mr Olabode Ibikunle. The lecturer reportedly died last Thursday while in company of one Miss Glory Ojochegbe of the same department. PAAU […]
Continue ReadingI am aware of three marriages that recently packed up. None of them is less than 15 years, and even longer if you include the number of years the couples courted. What I found common in their stories is economic challenges, although the women involved are insinuating that it’s not the economic hardship that is […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has resigned from the party. The former Nigerian vice president disclosed this in a letter obtained on Wednesday. This paper also confirmed the letter from Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to Atiku Abubaka. The letter reads: “I am writing to […]
Continue ReadingFormer President Muhammadu Buhari has been laid to rest. He was laid to rest at his private residence in Daura, Katsina State, on Tuesday evening, after Islamic funeral rites. The solemn burial, which took place after the Jana’iza (funeral prayer), marked the final farewell for the revered statesman who passed away in a London hospital […]
Continue ReadingWhen I read the response of the Federal Government to last week’s International Monetary Fund report warning Nigeria over the implications of a high inflation rate and the slow impact of the economic reforms, it became clear that the people in government are not in touch with happenings in the economy. They live in a […]
Continue ReadingNigerian naira extended its recent gains on Monday, strengthening to a four-month high against the US dollar to close at 1518 per $1 on the official market, the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed that the naira gained 0.74 per cent to close at 1518 per $1 on […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has shown her discontentment over the appeal filed by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, seeking to overturn a Federal High Court ruling that ordered her reinstatement to the Senate. Akpabio, through his legal team, approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the July 4 judgment delivered by […]
Continue ReadingSometime in the early 2000s, at the cusp of Tafa Balogun’s glory as the Inspector General of Police, an oil magnate from a Southwest riverine area was arrested. He was travelling into the state capital from his riverine part of the country. It was at nocturne. The oil magnate, who moved like an Oba, was […]
Continue ReadingA mother of four, Zainab Buhari, has dragged her husband, Babangida Ibrahim before a Sharia Court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria, for subjecting her to dehumanising treatment. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Zainab told the court that her husband always beat her and leave her and their children with no […]
Continue ReadingShe spoke with so much authority on the sleaze and dirt that make our lawmakers so fat like the well-fed pigs in Animal Farm. The headline above is from a trending, obviously leaked, video of a committee clerk at the National Assembly levelling unimaginable allegations against politicians in both chambers. I have received that video […]
Continue ReadingA grief-stricken Nigerian woman, Lydia Imie Ogbejiele, has narrated how she narrowly escaped death in the hands of her husband, Lucky, after he allegedly killed her 63-year-old mother on July 1, 2025 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. According to the Greater Sudbury Police, the suspect, Lucky Ogbejiele, stabbed his mother-in-law to death and attacked his wife, […]
Continue ReadingAfrobeats diva, Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, captivated a global audience with a breathtaking performance during the halftime show at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup final held at MetLife Stadium, New Jersey, United States. In making history as the first African artist to headline a Club […]
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