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Fellow Nigerians, please, take note of the title of my column this week. I did not say Nigerians are dying. That is stale news, as well as an understatement. My focus is that the country called Nigeria is dying. I do not know what sort of security briefing President Muhammadu Buhari, regularly or periodically, receives […]
Continue ReadingThe northern group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has warned against the ongoing attacks on Fulani communities in the Southwest states of the country which they see as a recipe for another civil war if not tackled by the governors of the region and the federal government. The National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Emmanuel Yawe, […]
Continue ReadingBeautiful, ageless and veteran Nollywood actress, Mrs Idowu Phillips aka Mama Rainbow, took to her Instagram page on Friday afternoon, to remember her husband who passed away 37 years ago. In a post she shared, the veteran actress said she misses him every second. Her post reads: “37 YEARS AGO JUST STILL LIKE YESTERDAY MY […]
Continue ReadingHead of the now disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, was on Friday arraigned alongside two others before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja, Nigeria, over allegations bordering on fraud. Obono-Obla, who was also accused of forging his academic credentials, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man, Mr. Happyman has been arrested over the murder of his girlfriend, Orie Evusi who was declared missing four days ago. A police investigation was launched after the deceased who left her home on Sunday January 17, 2021 never returned. OgharaVoice reported that Orie’s boyfriend who is a commercial motorcyclist (Okada rider) was the prime […]
Continue ReadingThe death sentence passed on Yahya Sharif Aminu, a Kano-based singer who was convicted for blasphemy has been overturned by a court. In a judgement delivered on Thursday January 21 by the state’s chief judge Nuraddeen Sagir, it was stated that the trial was full of irregularities as the appellant was not given legal representation. Sagir also said […]
Continue ReadingA number of recent events, at home and abroad, raise issues about the nation’s unending quest for a transformational leader, more so, as the politicians have started traversing the country, even if covertly, in preparation for an election that is still, at least, two years away. Abroad, the most conspicuous of these events is the […]
Continue ReadingFormer inspector-general of police (IGP), Gambo Jimeta, is dead. Jimeta who served as IGP between 1986 and 1990, also served as national security adviser (NSA) to former head of state Ibrahim Babangida and was also the representative of Adamawa state to the national conference held in 2014. Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu who confirmed the death of the former IGP […]
Continue ReadingThe Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested four police officers who allegedly harassed and extorted N70,000 from a 16-year-old student on Wednesday at NGAB Junction, Isheri Area of Lagos State. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, stated this in a statement signed on Friday by the Command’s spokesman, CSP […]
Continue ReadingAbout 24 hours after Joe Biden’s inauguration as US President, a Republican Congress woman, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, alleging abuse of power by Biden from his time as vice president. The newly sworn-in Rep. from Georgia, who has supported QANON conspiracy theories and criticized the 25,000 […]
Continue ReadingA High Court, sitting in Akure, Ondo State, has on Thursday sentenced a pastor, John Abiodun, to two years’ imprisonment for false allegation against a church founder. The convict was arrested in 2019 for lying against the founder of Promiseland Prophetic Ministry, Akure, Pastor Gbenga Akinbiyi, that seven placentas were planted on the church’s altar. […]
Continue ReadingCritics of the 1999 transition to civil democratic rule programme make the pertinent point that it amounted to walking blindfolded into the fourth republic because the rules of engagement (constitution) were not made manifest prior to the swearing in of elected officers. This non sequitur, putting the cart before the horse, stemmed from the choice […]
Continue ReadingBlack is beautiful. Social media users have reacted to former American first lady, Michelle Obama’s attire that she wore to the ongoing inauguration of Joe Biden as the United States president. Michelle wore a burgundy colored coat and matching pants as she and husband, Barack arrived at the Capitol to witness Biden’s swearing in ceremony […]
Continue ReadingNewly sworn-in United States President, Joe Biden has put a call through to a Nigerian family to thank them for their support and even invited them to the White House. Josephine, 12, and her father, who said they live in Illinois in US and are from Ibadan, in Oyo state, Nigeria, spoke to President Joe […]
Continue ReadingCoach and blogger, Sonai LaReina posed naked from the waist up in a photo shared to Instagram to mark her birthday. She also shared some other photos the same day the Colombia beauty marked her birthday where she wrote: “Divine Grace & The Goddess #January19th Thank You for Life.” The mother-of-one, who used to be […]
Continue ReadingFormer Green Eagles (Super Eagles) goalkeeper, Joe Erico, has passed on. He died on Thursday at the age of 72. The Nigeria Football Federation’s (NFF) spokesperson, Ademola Olajire, confirmed Erico’s death on Thursday. In a released statement, the NFF quoted Erico’s family members as saying that the former assistant coach of Super Eagles complained of […]
Continue ReadingShortly after his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States around noon on January 20, 2020, President Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders, according to a CNN report. Nine of the executive orders reversed some controversial policies introduced by his immediate predecessor, Donald Trump, while the remaining ones border on the new policies […]
Continue ReadingA group of Nigerian-Irish teens has developed an App which uses music to comfort those living with dementia. Rachel, Margaret and Joy were worried about how people with dementia were coping during lockdown, so they decided to design and code Memory Haven. The App has already won a prize at the prestigious technology competition, Technovation, […]
Continue ReadingA Magistrate court sitting in Makurdi, Benue state has remanded 17-year-old Esther Alex, who burnt her boyfriend, in Correctional Centre, Makurdi. Recall that Chidinma Ikechukwu Omah, a patent medicine dealer, died after he was set ablaze by the accused in Wadata suburb of Makurdi. The case which came for mention, on Tuesday, January 19, has […]
Continue ReadingWe are back in punctuation marks class today. We shall discuss semi colons (;) from what I will call another perspective. Based on my observations of how some confuse it with others like the full stop, comma and colon, I want to establish how NOT to use the semi colon, with the hope that it […]
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