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My first meeting with M.K.O. Abiola came early in my career as a reporter with the Newswatch magazine. I had come early to the office, and assistant editor Dare Babarinsa asked me to accompany him to the chief’s house for an interview. I was a society reporter covering the popular celebrity column Newsliners, and my […]
Continue ReadingThere was a drama in Uganda when a married woman allegedly got stuck to another man after having sex together. The incident was said to have occurred in Gulu city, in the Northern Region of Uganda on Wednesday morning, June 16. According to an eyewitness, Pai Robins OgwengAkiiki, after engaging in sexual intercourse, their organs could […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the dates that the coming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states will be conducted. Chairman of the commission, Mr. Mahmood Yakubu, who made the announcement in Abuja on Wednesday June 16, said the governorship election in Ekiti state will hold on June 18, 2022, while that […]
Continue ReadingUK-born Nigerian actress and presenter, Dorcas Shola Fapson has reacted to allegation of sleeping with actor Timini Egbuson after they were both spotted in bed together. The allegation stemmed from a video of the entertainers lying on a bed, which went viral. Reacting to the allegation, Dorcas stated that people who think that a man […]
Continue ReadingThe Twitter Saga When I saw the front page headline of This Day Newspaper last Wednesday, I realised that this administration neither cares about the welfare or happiness of Nigerians, nor has it got the wherewithal to fulfil either the primary purpose of Government, nor the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy, that […]
Continue ReadingAgitators of Biafra and Oduduwa republics have merged forces to train their operatives in a joint session in a bid to continue defending their territories against aggressive raids and wanton killings of innocent people by suspected Fulani herders and other criminals. In a statement titled, ‘Press Release from the Joint Training of Biafra and Oduduwa […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man with the name Echezonachukwu O. Obianefo, 23, has been arrested by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly stealing a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, which is valued at around $300,000. Obianefo, of Houston, Texas, United States, is being held in the Harris County Jail in Houston and his bail was set at $50,000. Obianefo is […]
Continue ReadingChairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has said that he’s been receiving death threats since he was appointed chairman of the anti-graft agency. The EFCC Chairman disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily. He recalled how someone who isn’t investigated by the agency, threatened to […]
Continue ReadingMade Kuti, grandson of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo kuti and son of Afrobeat singer, Femi Kuti, shared these lovely photos of himself and his woman, Inedoye, who turned a year older on Monday, June 14. See more photos below:
Continue ReadingNollywood actress and film producer, Ani Amatosero is against those who still ask their parents for money, especially people in their 30s, describing it as a “shame.” She wrote in a post: “At 30 and above it’s a shame if you ask your parents for money. Look at covid, at 19 the mumu has travelled round […]
Continue ReadingWas it better that President Muhammadu Buhari remained unapologetically deaf to all entreaties to address Nigerians or open a window into his mind and reveal a cesspit of foul-smelling hate? Peradventure there were still nationalistic remnants among his coterie of admirers, after last Thursday’s interview the president granted Arise TV, they would be at the […]
Continue ReadingI have been privileged to interview quite a number of world leaders in the course of my journalism career. These include President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Ketumile Masire of Botswana, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Commonwealth Secretary General Shridath Ramphal, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan etc..not to talk of holding the microphone across the world in the […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement titled, ‘Cardinal Okogie: Life at 85′, the former Catholic Archbishop of the Lagos Diocese, Nigeria and ex-president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie noted that the regime met some of the crises while taking over power in 2015, adding that the country seemed to have “worsened economically […]
Continue ReadingKenyan model, former Big Brother Africa (BBA) housemate, socialite cum entrepreneur, Huddah Monroe took to Instagram to reveal that she has dated “almost all races in the world”. The Big Brother Africa star went on to rate the men. She warned people to stay away from Nigerian men “unless you wanna die young.” She added […]
Continue ReadingA final year female student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Nigeria, Omotoke Suliyat is dead. The HND2 student of Marketing Department reportedly slumped In the bathroom and was immediately rushed to Hope Hospital at Adigbe where she was confirmed dead on Sunday, June 13. Speaker of Students’ Representative Council (SRC), Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Rt. Hon. […]
Continue ReadingAs I pointed out in my Facebook and Twitter status updates in the aftermath of Muhammadu Buhari’s June 10 interview with Arise TV, Buhari’s thought-processes, whenever they’re publicly expressed, are often so devoid of basic rhyme and reason that to even try to make sense of them is a painfully senseless waste of one’s senses. […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in an interview with Arise News on Monday, has said another Democracy Day may not be celebrated in Nigeria if the system of government is not decentralised. The octogenarian lamented and likened the tempo for disintegration in recent time in Nigeria to that witnessed prior to the civil […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government says Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, are vicariously liable for the losses the country suffered during the EndSARS protest. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Tuesday when he featured on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria in […]
Continue ReadingOur president “seems to act speedily only when there is a political enemy to be punished.” That is the conclusion of about 40 diaspora Nigerian intellectuals in a statement they issued on the state of our nation on Friday. Our president is known for their easy life – and he enjoys ‘eating’ it. But, something […]
Continue ReadingDear Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Jideofor Onyeama, We chose to write you instead of President Muhammadu Buhari because it is apparent from the president’s two most recent media outings that his cognitive impairment has greatly deteriorated, even though that is no justification for his murderous and genocidal rhetoric. From his utterances, the […]
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