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The Police Command in Cross River State, Nigeria has confirmed the killing of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr Egbe Edum, by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar. The command`s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the death in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
Continue ReadingLady of blog, Linda Ikeji has taken delivery of her 2020 Range Rover Autobiography. Pure and simple. Recall that when she turned 40 in September, she mentioned she had ordered the wonder wheel as part of her gifts to herself. Posting photos of the pricey SUV, the mother of one wrote: “My baby is finally […]
Continue ReadingThe wanted ex-chairman of Pension Reform Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who jumped his bail at the Federal High Court, Abuja, was on Monday evening arrested in Niger Republic by the operatives of Niger Republic intelligence service in collaboration with Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. According to PR Nigeria, the […]
Continue ReadingFormer Senate President and ex-SGF, Anyim Pius Anyim has alleged that there is a plot to kill him for not defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Anyim who petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu and the Department of State Services (DSS) over the alleged […]
Continue ReadingThe Chinese say blessings rarely come in pairs; misfortunes never come singly. In one single day last week, a lot happened to our country: Nigeria was again named the third most terrorized country in the whole world; Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar said his north is the worst place to live in Nigeria; bandits left villages […]
Continue ReadingIn a press statement by his Special Adviser to the Governor (Media and Communication), Muyiwa Adekeye, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, says some people are scared that restructuring would affect their political viability. The statement was titled, ‘Restructuring is a national endeavour, let’s realise it together’, and shared by the governor on his […]
Continue ReadingAn instagram model known as Sheyla Fong thinks she can make the Guiness Book of World Records by posing in the “world’s smallest bikini” that measures just 3cm wide. In photos Sheyla posted on Instagram, the tiny bikini which she said she specifically measured, is so small that it becomes a struggle to conceal her […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, November 28, about 43 farmers who had gone to their farms during the current harvest season were attacked by Boko Haram terrorists. They were tied up; their hands behind their backs, one after the other their throats were slit. The United Nations puts the number of casualties at 110, not 43. Amnesty International […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has filed terrorism charge against the leader of Aswani International Market in Lagos State, Chief Taoreed Farounbi, alias Baba Alado, and six others. In the three-count charge filed before Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos, Farounbi and his co-defendants were accused of conspiring and participating in acts of terrorism, […]
Continue ReadingFor kidnapping three Reverend sisters in June 2016 and collection of N1million ransom before releasing them, an Akure High Court, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging. They were found guilty of kidnapping the Reverend sisters at Onipetesi area along the Ore-Sagamu Expressway and kept them for 11 days before they were released after […]
Continue ReadingThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has relaxed its rules on foreign remittances and domiciliary accounts. In a statement signed by the apex bank’s director of trade & exchange, O.S Nnaji, it was gathered that beneficiaries of diaspora remittances through the international monetary transfer operators (IMTO) shall now allow inflows in foreign currency (US Dollar) […]
Continue ReadingThe last few weeks have seen a curious resurgence of the preposterous conspiracy theory that Muhammadu Buhari has been dead and that it’s his body double that lives in Aso Rock. Readers of my column have invaded my email and social media inboxes with persistent requests for me to illuminate the ambiguities surrounding the existence—or […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress and award-winning producer, ex Big Brother Africa (BBA) housemate, entrepreneur, influencer and vlogger, Lilian Afegbai took to Instagram to encourage her followers after she bought a Birkin bag she said is worth $22k. The actress shared a photo of the bag and a screenshot of the transaction details and wrote: “There’s time for […]
Continue ReadingUnited States President-elect, Joe Biden, is set to announce a Nigerian-born lawyer, Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury secretary, website, Politico reported on Sunday November 29. According to the reports, Adeyemo’s appointment is one of many key cabinet positions Biden is expected to announce in the coming days as he prepares to start his White […]
Continue ReadingSinger KCee and Toke Makinwa had an interesting conversation about Bone straight hair on Twitter. Bone straight hair has been trending for weeks on social media and many celebrities have joined in the conversation. Kingsley Chinweike Okonkwo, better known as Kcee, had asked on his Twitter page between ‘true love’ and ‘straight bone hair’, what […]
Continue ReadingI have an ancient method of measuring the mood and state of the nation. And it has always worked for me. It is a casual greeting in normal Nigerian street parlance. Simply put, it is just a simple greeting cast in the mould of a universal non- committal question: “How Country?” You throw it around […]
Continue Reading19-year-old boy, Maduabuchi Okeke, has died during a sex romp at a hotel in the Surulere area of Lagos state. According to SaharaReporters, a police report claims that Okeke took the sex worker simply identified as Sandra to Exclusive Mansion Hotel on Ayilara Street in the area for the night and that while they were having […]
Continue ReadingWith the most recent tragic news of the slaughter of over 40 rice farmers by Boko Haram in Zabarmari, Jere local government of Borno State yesterday, virtually all Nigerians must have arrived at same juncture of opinion, something in the neighbourhood of what lawyers call unanimity of purpose, on how we horribly we fare at […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Media Personality, Entrepreneur, Journalist, Political Activist and Motivational Speaker and Chief Executive Officer of RED For Africa, Debola Williams, is engaged. Debola popped the question to his beautiful bride-to-be, Kehinde, while cruising on a boat around Lagos on Sunday evening, November 29 and the beautiful bride-to-be said YES. Congrats, beautiful people.
Continue ReadingOn November 24, 2019, this column made a debut. How time flies! I want to seize this opportunity to say a big thank you to you, my wonderful and esteemed readers for your support. Thank you for trusting this English language graduate who has a passion for Botany with your medical questions too, even when […]
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